Awarded "Best Mexi-Cali-Maine restaurant" by Cinco Season
- 8th ANNUAL CINCO* DE MAYO FIESTA: Well, we’ll go with Quatro de Mayo this time. That’s right, our big annual Fiesta will take place on Sunday, May the 4th from 3-8pm. We are pulling out all the stops, with a Burrito Paradise theme, a piñata filled with interesting and delicious treats, and a visit from The Travel Channel who will be here to film a episode of their hit foodie show Food Paradise in the midst of all the madness. If you are a fan of chaos, enjoy a good party and have a special place in your heart for a really good hot fudge sundae, you should put us on your calendar. We’ll start with the burritos (including our famous Carnitas, Spicy Lobster and a few Extra Special selections) at 3:00pm, the kids will slay the piñata at the appropriate time, maybe we’ll touch-off the bonfire a little later, we’ll be serving the aforementioned sundaes all night and we’ll wrap up by about 8pm. You’ll need to bring an appetite, your favorite Fiesta beverage and be sure to dress in your Fiesta best for the TV people! If you have questions, give us a call.
- 2013/2014 SUPPER CLUB season draws to a close: We have to extend yet another huge Thank You to all of our Supper Club participants for making this season our best ever! It’s really been a hoot creating these menus, and we are very fortunate to have the opportunity to put together such innovative and entertaining meals, and to have such a great response from y’all when you share them with us. It was a lot of fun, and we look forward to seeing you next year.
- 2014 SEASON: On Wednesday May the 21st we will open the Taqueria for our 8th season! Hard to believe, but it really has been 8 years since our crazy idea to bring this cuisine to Downeast Maine was realized. It was a little rocky at first, to be honest, but we have a slightly better grasp now of what is required to keep y’all fed properly, and even if we do occasionally run out of carnitas or suffer a bendy straw shortage, rest assured you should have access to high-quality, delicious, innovative Mexican-inspired cuisine all summer long. We can’t wait to see you here!
El El Frijoles, The Movie!
The absolute best part about what we do is that we get to meet the most amazing, incredible, talented people who come to Sargentville to check us out and eat our food.
One of our favorite folks is Princeton, NJ, filmmaker and photographer Jon Roemer. An amazingly talented guy, he knows his way around an image and he really has that uncanny ability to tell stories with pictures. He’s got that “gift of the Narrative” we are always talkin’ about around here . . . in spades.
In any case, last summer Jon asked us if we’d mind (?!?!?) if he spent some time with us here at the Taqueria. He was interested in working the bugs out of some new equipment, had a few vacation days and was thinking about maybe making a little film about EL EL FRIJOLES. We were thrilled to have him here (and for those of you in need of a good photo/videographer, he worked as hard as any of the folks I worked with in my 20+ years as a photo assistant, but on his vacation!). We offered him access to anything he wanted, which included some painful interview sessions with Michele and I, and he took a lot of pictures of our food. The result is this amazing look at what we do here at EL EL FRIJOLES, in a barn, in the woods in Maine.
We hope you enjoy watching this as much as we do. He really captured the spirit and feeling of this place, and does he ever make our food look good!
If you like what he’s put together here, feel free to share this with anyone you think might like to see it. And by all means, visit his website, look at his films on Vimeo and YouTube, and give him a shout out when you see him.
