Friends Family - Cliff Island

Great wine bar! Intimate setting with interesting but delicious rotating wines. Great tinned fish selection as well. Will absolutely be back!

Great pizza and service as well as a great selection of wines. I do wish there was more seating but the staff were extremely helpful! We will be back!

Always very interesting (but delicious) wines by the glass to offer, and the service is outstanding. The little market has some lovely essentials. The space is very cool and the concept is perfect. Tempted stop in any time I walk by.

Mmmmm Monday night pizza night is the best time to go here. We already know that Monday's suck, meeting your friends/family here after work to eat their special pizza is actually fantastic. Pizza always changes each Monday and I will definitely be going here again!

If you're needing a good bottle of wine to-go in this area of town (or a specific pantry item), this is probably your best bet. If you only have a very small amount of time and want a quick glass of wine before going to a show or meeting friends somewhere else, F F is also a good bet because you order the wine at the counter, cafe-style, so as soon as you're finished, you're free to go, no waiting on table service.Those are the only reasons I would see myself going back here. As mentioned, even if sitting at a table, you go repeatedly to the counter to order your $15/glass of wine or food like you're at a brewery. We were not here on the one day of the week they serve pizza, so the food menu was primarily spreads and cold sandwiches concoctions. There was a cold pizza on the counter that I assume they would reheat for you, but I'd probably rather grab a slab and a bottle at Micucci's and do that at home. Lorne in Biddeford pulls this model off because it's almost all bar, no tables, and for the few tables they have, they will go talk to the customers when they sit down. We had similar, welcoming experiences at the same kind of shop-bars in Austin and Charleston. Here it just felt bizarre and awkward, and for whatever its worth, it was not busy. We left after one glass and sat at the bar at Leeward, paid about the same prices, and had some nice conversations with the staff in a more date-night atmosphere. To each their own.