390 Congress St
Portland, ME 04103
USA
National Honey Month (September 1 – 30, 2024) is a time to celebrate honey and the people who produce it, as well as to recognize the importance of bees as pollinators. To celebrate, UNION restaurant is putting their resident rooftop bees and honey in the spotlight with a Honey Week Menu from September 20 – September 27, 2024.
Honey Week Menu at UNION Restaurant in The Press Hotel
Friday, September 20 – Friday, September 27th
Running along with the regular UNION dinner menu will be a special 3-course prix fixe menu in which all three dishes incorporate the rooftop honey harvest from The Press Hotel beehive. For more than 7 years, The Press Hotel and UNION have been the home to bees on the top of the roof, in partnership with The Honey Exchange in Portland who helps care for the bees and hive and ultimately helps harvest the honey and honeycomb for the restaurant.
(Fun fact: the bees get their water source from the Portland Fire Station hoses next door to the hotel and you can watch them going up/down like a little bee highway up there 🙂
Prix Fixe menu, $85pp
Crisps | grapes | green tea-infused rooftop honey
Whole Spanish Sea Bass
honey brine| seaweed-honey caviar | fregola| kelp
Lavender-Honey Panna Cotta
smoked hot honey |rooftop honeycomb | stone fruit compote