Now, that’s amore.

By Colin W. Sargent

Via Sophia by the Sea has opened in Kennebunk’s Lower Village. Its sister restaurant in Washington, D.C. just won Wine Spectator’s Award of Excellence. But why have the swells landed here?  

Its northernmost location at 27 Western Avenue is as beautiful and tragic as an Italian opera. The ghosts of Café Topher, Grissini Trattoria & Panificio, Abbondante Trattoria and Bar, and Rebecca Charles’s Pearl Kennebunk & Spat Oyster Cellar still whisper their lost menus to us.  

Read the full story in the digital magazine above.