According to the Portland Food Map, Portland is blessed with 13 Thai restaurants. You'd think this would be enough for a small city. But it's not. (Personally, I could eat Thai food morning, noon and night and never get sick of it.) It looks like we're soon to gain another one, Thai Chef Buffet. It's located on Congress Street in the spot previously occupied by a chain sandwich shop and near the Maine International Trade Center.

I'm notoriously afraid of buffets, but even I might be persuaded to give this one a try.

I spotted the "opening soon" sign while strolling through yesterday's Sidewalk Art Festival. The street was packed with 300 artists and hundreds of art lovers. And the weather couldn't have been better.