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Home > Dining Out > Restaurant Guide > Little Lad's Bakery
Little Lad's Bakery
58 Exchange St.
Portland, ME
207-871-1636
128 Main St.
Bangor, ME
207-942-5482
Little Lad’s: future food for those who want one!
If you have any preconceptions about what a vegan restaurant is supposed
to look like and what the food is supposed to taste like, prepare to change
them. Little Lad’s Bakery is like dozens of similarly styled downtown
eateries; primarily a lunchtime feedlot for hungry office workers, the food
is familiar to all (mac ’n’ cheese, steak sandwiches, soups,
etc.) and offered à la carte or, more popularly, as a buffet. Most
people come in to Little Lad’s for a good inexpensive meal (an astounding
$3.99 for as much as you can eat). There are no signs that this is a vegan
establishment, and many of the diners are unaware that not only is the bread
and dressing freshly made by the bakery, so are the “cheese”
and the “meat.” Take your meat-eating friends; they may not
be able to tell that they’re eating vegan fare, and they may very
well comment that they just ate “the best steak sandwich I’ve
ever had”—then you can let them in on your little secret!
Philosophy
Just as Chinese restaurants target other diners besides the Chinese, and
Indian restaurants target others besides Indians, Little Lad’s targets
nonvegetarians. The Portland Press Herald commented that “Little Lad’s
might make you a vegetarian.” Our target is the nonvegetarians who
say, “I know it is good for me, but I can’t stand it”—we
try to serve something that they can relate to.
At Little Lad’s, we have simplified our original Country Life (worldwide
chain of vegan restaurants) concept by preparing all food in one location
and delivering it to all of our restaurants in Maine in order to make it
easier for people to operate animal product-free restaurants. At this time,
we have people trained at our factory in Maine already operating in Nigeria
and nearly ready to open in Cairo, Egypt, and we are planning to train others
throughout the Middle East.
Rather than scolding people for the things that they are eating, we try
to provide many options of quality, hygienic food to replace those undesirable
options. We are working to make it a reality that there will be an animal
product-free option in every city of the world.
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