Watch David Levi Introduce Vinland, His Hyper-Regional Maine Restaurant

New York native David Levi has been planning to open a restaurant that champions very small-scale food systems in Portland, Maine, for some time. He trained everywhere you might expect, first cutting meat with Dario Cecchini in Italy, then staging at Fäviken in Sweden and Noma in Copenhagen. Vinland will follow guidelines similar to the ones made popular by Sean Brock at Husk, which means everything on the plate -- from the meat to the fish, from the mushrooms to the blueberries to the sumac --...