Primo Menu
Primo is a Mediterranean-Italian restaurant located at 2 Main St Rockland, ME 04841. This upscale eatery offers a variety of vegan and limited vegetarian options, making it suitable for all dietary preferences. With amenities like outdoor seating, full bar service, and gender-neutral restrooms, Primo caters to a diverse clientele. Customers rave about the exceptional service and delicious food, with unique dishes like burrata and poached peach garnering high praise. The ambiance is described as warm and inviting, with soul music adding to the relaxed atmosphere. Whether you're celebrating a special occasion or simply enjoying a night out, Primo promises a memorable dining experience. Don't forget to make reservations, especially on weekends, to secure a table at this highly recommended establishment.
Appetizers
Pizza Al Forno
Red pie with roasted & marinated sweet peppers, pepperoni & fresh oregano
Hudson Valley Foie Gras "Waldorf ̈
With muscat grapes, celery and oat-walnut crumble grape must mustard, lovage and spicy cress
Carpaccio Of Cold Spring Ranch Grass Fed Beef
Onion charcoal, tomato jam, potato gaufrette & arugula
Bread And Fish Soup
Leeks, local halibut, saffron infused broth swirled with rouille
Farmer Salad
Frisée, romaine and radicchio lettuces tossed with a lemon-parmesan vinaigrette olive oil fried croutons, house-made bacon and a backyard poached egg
Wood Roasted John's River Oysters
Nola style garlic scape butter and asiago
Maplebrook Farm Burratini
Castelfranco radicchio, endive, basil, mint and pinenuts. year aged balsamic
Baby Red Russian Kale Salad
, Shaved radish, pecorino and creamy garlic cashew dressing
Tamarind Marinated Pork Belly
-Julienne vegetable salad, chile lime vinaigrette, cilantro & mint
Charcuterie
Liverwurst, scrapple, ciccioli, coppa and rillette with pickles, radish, crostini and house apricot mustard
House Made Rigatoni With Springdale Farm Veal Ragu
Sweet and spicy peppers, rapini and smoked provolone
Arugula Noodles With Lobster
Blistered tiny tomatoes, fava beans & sugar peas in a light herbed cream sauce
Green Garlic Shrimp Scampi Linguine
Garden arugula, last seasons preserved tiny tomatoes and lemon
Hand Rolled Candele "Cacio E Pepe"
Garden rapini, pecorino cracked black pepper and primo lardo
Spaghetti Nero With Fresh Calamari All' Arrabbiata
Sweet and spicy tomato sauce with shishito peppers and fresh basil
Pasta Fatta En Casa
Mains
Pan Roasted King Salmon With Leek, Razor Clam And Pancetta Carbonara
Parsnip frites and petite kale
Grilled Backyard Chicken A La Cacciatore With Raviolini
Lil' sweetie peppers, sliced mushrooms and wild dandelion greens
Pan Roasted Local Halibut
With fines herbs, sunchokes and radishes, li ren choi...sun sprouts & seeds
Cold Spring Ranch Grass Fed Sirloin Steak
Porcini rub potato pave, grilled asparagus and turnip greens, wild leek soubise
Pork Saltimbocca
Roast garlic mash, garden spinach, prosciutto & mushroom madera jus
Vermont Quail With A Truffled Veal Stuffing
Spinach and ricotta gnudi, sweet peas and morels in brodo
Moulard Duck Breast From The Grill With A Sherried Wild Rice Sauce
Fiddlehead ferns sautéed with ramps, nebrodini bianco and button mushrooms, peach chutney
Carolina Swordfish Piccata
Fava bean risotto, yellow tomato sugo with tiny clams
Grilled Leg Of Lamb With Tiny Spicy Lamb Meatballs
Garam masala marinated grilled local carrots
The Primo Martini
Primo gin! Dolin dry vermouth, orange bitters, pickled watermelon rind ...Up
Piccante Paloma
Mezcal, lime, grapefruit, fresno chili simple & an aleppo, sugar, salt rim...Rocks
Purple Rain
Blue barren harbor gin, lemon, sugar, primo egg white, & blueberry gastrique
Spanish Gin Tonic
Bimini gin, fevertree tonic, citrus, rotating primo botanicals & pink peppercorn
Suzie Q
Hardshore gin, suze, house dandelion honey & a dash of lemon... Up
Refreshed
Temperance Drinks N/A
Mork & Minty
Mint & oregano syrup, lemon sherbet, soda ...Rocks
Such A Tease
Black tea, honey syrup, house grenadine, lemon, egg white... Up
Strawberry Fields
House strawberry shrub, elderflower tonic, peppercorn ... Rocks
Pizza Al Fomo
Wild nettles, local mushrooms & truffled york hill farm goat cheese
Butterhead Lettuce
With "lucifero gorgonzola dressing, honey chile crack pine nuts, primo culatello
Wood Roasted Pemaquid Oysters
Smoked butter, charred fiddleheads, preserved lemon relish...onion charcoal
Charcuterie
Flocco, country pate, juniper coppa, ciccioli and nduja with pickles, radish, crostini and house mustard
Bread And Fish Soup
With halibut, garden leeks, grilled levain...swirled with rouille
Soft Shell Crab
Apple blossom honey, charred asparagus and ramps, baby lettuces and ramp aioli
Harissa Spiced Fried Local Calamari
With a shaved vegetable slaw, fresh mint & cilantro
Maine Grains Farro Bowl
Turmeric carrot puree, roasted baby carrots, dukkah & feta
Petite Mustard Greens With House Cured Duck Ham
Black mission figs, lucifero cheese, smoked almonds... Pedro ximenez sherry caramel
Farmer Salad
Frisée, romaine and radicchio lettuces tossed with a lemon-parmesan vinaigrette olive oil fried croutons, house-made bacon and a backyard poached egg
Seared Hudson Valley Foie Gras
Toasted brioche bun, poached rhubarb, mache and strawberry salad with citrus hyssop vinaigrette
Antipasti
Pasta
Ricotta Ravioli
Spring pesto, fava, shaved asparagus, ramp butter and claytonia
Fennel Rigatoni
Hot italian sausage, roasted tomatoes, rapini and basil, silky ricotta
House Made Cavatelli
With grilled sherry marinated chicken, wild mushrooms and sweet peas with their tendrils
Saffron Bucatini
Pemaquid mussels, chorizo iberico, paprika tomato brodo, tatsoi
Cedar Planked Wild Salmon
English peas, pickled carrots, salsa verde, coriander yogurt crisp ceci fries
Pan Roasted Local Halibut
Flageolet, fava beans, green garlic & carciofi alla giudia, grilled chickweed
Skate Alla Milanese
Trecolore greens, green olive vinaigrette and a lemon pan sauce, fiddlehead ferns
Pesce
Carne
Pork Saltimbocca
Roast garlic mash, garden spinach, prosciutto & mushroom-madeira jus
Moulard Duck
Grilled breast with a sunchoke, mushroom hash, lovage-asparagus puree,salad of sunsprouts with york hill farm goat cheese, and kumquats
Primo Half Baby Chicken Al Mattone
Creamy spinach risotto, marinated trumpet mushroom and baby artichokes, sunflower sprouts and black garlic jus
Grilled New York Strip Steak
Creamed spring onion & burgundy spinach, with crisp prosciutto, hasselback potato, charred fiddlehead ferns, crisp onion
Farmer Salad
Frisée, romaine and radicchio lettuces tossed with lemon-parmesan vinaigrette, olive oil croutons, house-made bacon and a backyard poached egg
Garden Arugula Salad
With red anjou pears, endive, primo honey and thistle hill farm "tarentaise" cheese... Dijon vinaigrette
Baby Kale Salad
With shaved radish, creamy cashew dressing, herbed croutons and parmesan
Oysters Ways
Aphrodite roasted in the wood, primo hot sauce butter and celery pemaquid with a kale rockefeller
Insalata
Formaggi Di Primo
Bells Of Rymney
Hahn's end cow milk from phippsburg, maine
York Hill Farm Fresh Goat
Goat milk from new sharon, maine
Camdenbert
Goat milk from appleton creamery, maine
Tarentaise
Thistle hill farm, vermont
Holden Trail
Grafton, seep milk
Coomersdale
Bonnieview farm, raw sheep milk, albany, vermont
Cloth Bound Cheddar
Grafton village cow milk, vermont
Gorgonzola Dop
Piedmonte, italy, cow milk "mountain" piccante
Lucifero
Gorgonzola dolce with peperoncini, cow milk, lombardy, italy
Manchego
Pasamontes sheep, castilla la mancha, spain
Comté
Raw cow milk, france
Rocket's Robiola
Goat milk form boxcarr, north carolina
Warre's Reserve
Quinta De Crasto "Lbv"
Fonseca Bin
Taylor Fladgate Lbv
Ruby Ports
Cognac & Armagnac
Remy Martin Vsop
Courvoisier Vsop
Hennessy Vsop
Grand Marnier
Boulard Calvados
Sassiciaia Grappa
Digestifs & Afterthoughts
Tawny Ports
Hardy's Whiskers Blake
Warre's "Otima" yr
Taylor Fladgate yr
Fonseca yr
Knob Creek
Woodford Reserve
Basil Hayden's
Black Bush
Blanton's
Bookers
Mt. Gay "Extra Old"
Barbancourt Rhum yr
Bourbon, Whiskey & Sipping Rums
Tequila
Sauza "Tres Generaciones'
Patrón "Silver"
Patrón "Añejo"
Don Julio "Blanco"
Scorpion Mezcal
El Tesoro "Paradiso
Mezcal Joven
Gonzales Byass "Tio Pepe" Palomino Fino
Bodega Hidalgo
Oloroso Seco
Jerez-Xeres-Sherry Fino Jarana
Pedro Ximenez Dulce
Christina Palomino, Pedro Ximenez
Barbieto Madeira Special Reserve "Savannah Verdelho"
Broadbent Reserve Madeira yr
Sherry & Madeira
Single Malt Scotch
Glenfiddich Yr
Glenlivet yr
Glenmorangie yr
Dalwhinnie yr
Maccallan yr
Cragganmore yr
Talisker Year
Laphroaig yr
Lagavulin yr
Oban yr
"Affogato" Espresso Float
Vanilla & chocolate gelato and crisp fried cinnamon zeppole
House-Made "Cannoli"
Fresh ricotta, crushed pistachios & amarena cherries
Zeppole
Made-to-order donuts tossed in cinnamon and sugar
House-Made Gelato
With biscotti
Sorbetto
With biscotti