Staff Recommendations
Welcome to the Staff Recommendations page. Living on and around Mount Desert Island, MDIBL's year-round staff has the opportunity to sample all of the area's restaurants and activities. Here are their favorites!
• Restaurants
• Activities
Restaurants
Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner | Pizza | Lobster | Beer/Cocktails | Coffee | Farmer's Market
Breakfast
2 Cats, 130 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor, 288-2808
Bar Harbor Inn, 1 Newport Drive, Bar Harbor, 288-3351
Café This Way, 14½ Mount Desert Street, Bar Harbor, 288-4483
Morning Glory, 39 Rodick Street, Bar Harbor, 288-3041
The Riverside Café, Main Street, Ellsworth, 667-7220
Lunch
Gringos, Rodick Street, Bar Harbor, 288-2326
The Lompoc Café & Brew Pub, 36 Rodick Street, Bar Harbor, 288-9392
Manos Market, US Route 1, Hancock, 422-6500
Mother’s Kitchen, Route 102, Bar Harbor, 288-4403
Not Quite the Corner Deli, 65 Main Street, Bar Harbor, 288-1006
Town Hill Market, Town Hill, 288-5136
Dinner
The Bangkok, 321 High Street, Ellsworth, 667-1324
The Burning Tree, 71 Otter Creek Drive (Rt. 3), Otter Creek, 288-9331
Café This Way, 14½ Mount Desert Street, Bar Harbor, 288-4483
Cleonice Mediterranean Bistro, Main Street, Ellsworth, 667-7554
Geddys, Bar Harbor, 288-5077
Havana, 318 Main Street, Bar Harbor, 288-2822
The Lompoc Café & Brew Pub, 36 Rodick Street, Bar Harbor, 288-9392
McKay’s, 231 Main Street, Bar Harbor, 288-2002
The Thirsty Whale, 40 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor, 288-9335
Jordan's Restaurant, 80 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor, 288-3586
Isleford Dock Restuarant, Little Cranberry Island (take the ferry from Northeast Harbor), 244-7494
Poor Boy's Gourmet, 300 Main Street, Bar Harbor, 288-4148
Pizza
Gott’s Store, Bass Harbor, 244-3431
Reel Pizza, 33 Kennebec Place, Bar Harbor, 288-3828
Rosalie’s Pizza, 46 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor, 288-5666
Lobster
Thirsty Whale, 40 Cottage Street, Bar Harbor, 288-9335
The Fish Net, Main Street, Blue Hill, 374-5240
Thurston’s Lobster Pound, Steamboat Wharf Road, Bernard, 244-7600
Trenton Bridge Lobster Pound, Route 3, Trenton, 667-2977
Tidal Falls Restaurant, Tidal Falls Road, Hancock, 422-6457
Beer/Cocktails
Dogfish Head Ale is available at Bayside Liquors (53 Main Street, Bar Harbor, 288-2772) and at the Southwest Harbor Liquor Locker (244-3788). Since May 2005 a percentage of Dogfish’s yearly proceeds have been donated to MDIBL!
Jack Russell’s Brew Pub, 102 Eden Street, Bar Harbor, 288-5214
The Atlantic Brewing Company, Knox Road, Town Hill, 207-288-2337
Coffee
Town Hill Market, Town Hill, 288-5136
Benbows, 8 Access Alley, Bar Harbor, 288-2552
Café Milagro, 37 Cottage St., Bar Harbor, 288-9592
Farmer's Market
Bar Harbor Farmer's Market, Sunday Mornings, YMCA Parking Lot, 21 Park Steet, Bar Harbor
Activities
Intensive | Less-intensive | Music and Theatre | Activities for Kids
Intensive
Rock climbing with Atlantic Climbing School, 67 Main Street, Bar Harbor, 288-8028
Hiking and bicycling in Acadia National Park. Don't have a bike? Rent one from Bar Harbor Bicycle Shop or Acadia Bike.
Less-intensive
Abbe Museum, 26 Mount Desert Street (Rte. 3), Bar Harbor, 288-3519
Ranger-led programs at Acadia National Park, find a schedule in The Beaver Log (the ANP Newspaper) or on the web.
Port in a Storm bookstore, 1112 Main Street, Somesville, 244-4114
All Fired Up, 288-3130, pottery painting
Island Cruises of Bass Harbor, 244-5785
Thuya Gardens and the Azalea Gardens tour, across from the Asticou Inn, 276-3699
Bocce at The Lompoc Café & Brew Pub, 36 Rodick Street, Bar Harbor, 288-9392
A sunset trip on the schooner Margaret Todd (Bar Harbor, 288-4585) is a great way to end the day!
Gardening, with help from Islandscaping Garden Center, Southwest Harbor
Music and Theatre
Acadia Repertory Theatre in Somesville, 244-7260
Mount Desert Island Summer Chorale, 288-4121
Grand Auditorium, Main Street, Ellsworth, 667-9500
Summer Activites for Children
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