Congdon's After Dark Food Truck Park sets opening and the countdown to summer fun begins

We got the long-awaited news this week that Congdon's After Dark food truck park will be fully open this season just as it was pre-pandemic and with a few new features including Pizza Park, a pizza kitchen. The food truck park will open the Thursday before Memorial Day weekend, May 26, so we really can begin counting down the days.

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And in more food truck news, Liz Beebe and her husband, Brahm Bourque, owners of Tacocat, have bought the Kittery Food Truck Pod from Beebe’s stepmother and father, Barbara Jenny and Matt Beebe, who launched the pod in the spring of 2019 in their parking lot off bustling Route 1 in Kittery. The new owners talk about their vision and hope for the food truck pod.

Riverworks, the longtime local favorite at the crossroads in the center of Newmarket,  has changed hands. It's a story of a restaurant where the employees love it as much as or maybe more than the customers do as longtime employee Marcy Curtis and her fiance Scott Moreau bought the restaurant from owner Jennifer Jarvis. Learn about their mutual admiration and respect after years of working together in a tough business in reporter Aqeel Hisham's story.

Get a peek at the new eats opening at York and Ogunquit beaches this summer, and what's in store for Jonathan's Ogunquit, which has been a mecca for music and food for more than 40 years.

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