On Saturday March 28, a former food truck business opened a restaurant at 680 Gray Road and is now open daily. The business was previously operating in Portland but now resides where Sweets and Eats Ice Cream Shop was located.

Curbside Comforts, a vegetarian/ vegan restaurant, officially opened at 11 a.m. on Saturday morning closing at 9 p.m. First customers Denise and Megan Brown say they had ordered online earlier in the day for their family. Ordering online is a great convenience option.

The restaurant offers not only plant-based foods but corn-hole, hand sanitizer at every table, fun outdoor seating including a kids table and water dishes for pets. For opening day, they offered plant-based donuts from Lovebirds Donuts located in Kittery, Maine. These donut flavors included Boston cream, raspberry jam, monkey muffin, ganache dipped, etc.

Employees were very happy with the turnout and the cashier, Suzanne, was friendly and welcoming. The menu includes mac & cheese, burgers, salads, fries, etc. When your order is ready your pager will buzz to let you know, then a store worker will meet you at the window with your order.

Opening day was the weekend before Memorial Day. The cashier offered special Memorial Day stickers to all the children coming in that weekend. Curbside Comforts is veteran-owned and always offers 20 percent off every order to military families.

The former food truck business has expanded their menu for their official building to include ice cream. Unfortunately, the ice cream machine was not ready for the opening weekend, but the restaurant will soon be serving their new soft ice cream.

Just a few days after opening day many positive comments could be found online including, “The mac and cheese was ‘so dope,’ and the kids grilled cheese surprised me with how good it was! Can’t wait to try the rest of the menu,” and “It made me sooo happy eating your buffalo mac & cheese again! I’m so happy for you with this new permanent space.”