Maine
- Chesuncook Village (1)
- Freeport and Central Coast (10)
- Greenville (1)
- Greenwood (1)
- Hallowell (1)
- Kennebunkport and Southern Coast (14)
- Rangeley (2)
- The Mount Desert Island Area (4)
- The Portland Area (13)
- The Rockport and Penobscot Bay Area (15)
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”...grab a beer and veggie dog at Acme...” MORE>> |
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”Chefs Clark Frasier and Mark Gaier take advantage of their vegetable, fruit and herb gardens in New American dishes like...” MORE>> |
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”...I sampled fried clams at the Bagaduce Lunch in Brooksville, a trailer-sized shack with picnic tables overlooking reversing falls...” MORE>> |
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”Co-chefs Josh Potocki, Christian Kryger and Guy Hernandez serve everything small plate-style, from warm bread salad to Maine shrimp on...” MORE>> |
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”I grew up on the chowder served at Barnacle Billy's down the street...” MORE>> |
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”Around Blue Hill, everyone's got a favorite crab joint—Crosby's in Bucksport or Jordan's over in Ellsworth—but you can find a...” MORE>> |
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”'It overlooks a very active piece of water full of all kinds of boats,' Linda Greenlaw says....” MORE>> |
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”20 terrific getaways—one “Save” and one “Splurge” idea for 10 U.S. cities...” MORE>> |
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”Chef Abby Harmon of Caiola’s is obsessed with grains, and I had an addictive dish of grano (pastalike pearled wheat)...” MORE>> |
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”This 1898 harbor-town inn is central-casting Maine: rugged and ravishing, with a wraparound porch. Less expected is a chef of...” MORE>> |
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”As a solo traveler, I ended up preferring my my less self-conscious lunch experience the next day: a lobster roll...” MORE>> |
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”The all-day restaurant and bakery fills up with an eclectic crowd: farmers, Feldenkrais practitioners, meter maids on coffee breaks. Three...” MORE>> |
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”There's nothing fancy about this restaurant on a Chauncey Creek dock, but the clam chowder is creamy and the lobster...” MORE>> |
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”It's been said by every food writer who ever passed through here, but the Clam Shack's lobster roll really is...” MORE>> |
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”A wharfside restaurant and market. 'Tenants Harbor isn't a place tourists find; it's more of a quiet, working harbor.'...” MORE>> |
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”'Boats sell their lobsters right at the dock.'...” MORE>> |
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”The 'fisherman's lunch'— a cup of clam chowder with a lobster roll—is as good as it gets. ...” MORE>> |
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”The kitchen is staffed by friendly dudes in cargo shorts who crank My Morning Jacket while assembling the city's best...” MORE>> |
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”Over at Five Fifty-Five, chef Steve Corry has spent the last four years perfecting dishes that emphasize local ingredients, like...” MORE>> |
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”Fresh and succulent steamers from Five Islands Lobster Co....” MORE>> |
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”Chef Sam Hayward’s 11-year-old Fore Street is one of the Northeast’s great restaurants...” MORE>> |
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”Portland's Fore Street sticks to local ingredients, so you can enjoy a fresh catch at the end of your long...” MORE>> |
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”The night we stopped in, there was an hour wait for a table; James Rockefeller Jr. was ahead of us...” MORE>> |
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”Order a warm chocolate lava cake at this family-owned Oquossoc institution. ...” MORE>> |
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”At Hugo’s, chef Rob Evans (an F&W Best New Chef 2004) prepares a truly avant-garde menu....” MORE>> |
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”Chef Joshua Mather grew up on his family's farm up the road; mom Barbara is the hostess, and father Mort...” MORE>> |
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”...decked out with antique lobster buoys, hurricane lamps, and nautical paraphernalia...” MORE>> |
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”Both are generously filled (Red's claims to use an entire one-pound lobster per sandwich)....” MORE>> |
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”I hit Route 1 and found myself at the Maine Diner. I had eaten here before, but I was hankering...” MORE>> |
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”Service is assured and unforced. And the kitchen works magic with coastal classics: luscious crab cakes, steamed mussels, plank-roasted cod...” MORE>> |
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”Perched oasislike atop a hill on Route 1 in Waldoboro, Moody's opened in 1927 and, despite a few expansions and...” MORE>> |
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”Open just three years, 555 has quietly become one of Portland's most assured restaurants, hewing to the greenmarket school of...” MORE>> |
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”For no-fuss dining and unbelievable lobster stew, make a beeline for Norm's East End Grill....” MORE>> |
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”The original space has become a restaurant, where owners Allison Reid, Josh Potoki and Guy Hernandez serve dishes like 'forever-roasted'...” MORE>> |
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”Off the beaten track, pint-size Pectic Seafood sells everything to go...” MORE>> |
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”My faves: the Pemaquid Co-op, overlooking a fort and the sea....” MORE>> |
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”The lobster rolls and ice cream at the Pine Tree Frosty, where you can feed the ducks....” MORE>> |
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”But tucked within were powerful herbs from Primo's own garden—verbena, basil, mint, fennel, cinnamon basil—so that each forkful was like...” MORE>> |
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”Leave room for toasted gingerbread with house-made caramel sauce and apple brandy-spiked whipped cream....” MORE>> |
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”My faves: Round Pond, up the driveway from the Granite Hall Store....” MORE>> |
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”My faves: and Shaw's Lobster Wharf, with its views of New Harbor....” MORE>> |
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”Maine's best bakery is housed in an atmospheric old brick warehouse, where there's always a queue for baguettes, sourdough boules...” MORE>> |
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”Known for its outstanding preserves and sauces, the company expanded its pioneer store last summer to include furniture and a...” MORE>> |
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”With its stainless steel tables and its view of the Kennebunk River, Stripers is one of the best places in...” MORE>> |
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”For lunch, friends had recommended Thurston's Lobster Pound, in the tiny fishing hamlet of Bernard, but all the tables were...” MORE>> |
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”And service is impeccably formal: our waiter said things like, 'I'll give you a moment to explore the menu,' then...” MORE>> |
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”I backtracked again, for lobster in the rough at Young's, a big, red no-frills barn in Belfast....” MORE>> |
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