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Restaurants in Boothbay Harbor
We have reviews on this website for some of the fun comfort food eateries in the area. More refined dining can be found at Whiteclover, the dining room of the Spruce Point Inn.
- Seafood
Harborside 1901 Bar & Grill
Consistently a top-ranked restaurant by customers and on-line reviewers, Harborside offers good brunch, lunch and dinner options served in a no-frills dining room with views of the Boothbay harbor. Start with the attention-getting shellfish tower before moving on to mains like…$$Boothbay Harbor - Seafood
Jolie Rogers Raw Bar
Ryan Jolie and Andy Rogers grow oysters in nearby Edgecomb (though they serve varieties from throughout the region) and are (literal, competitive) oyster-shucking champions. The wine and (all Maine) draft list is great, and there are some lovely salads and snacks to complement the…$$Wiscasset - Lobster
Lobsterman's Wharf
A local stalwart in the quieter village of East Boothbay, this place had been built around the pilothouse of an old naval vessel, but crumbling pilings on the wharf necessitated a rebuild. The restaurant reopened in 2020 with food served out of a truck, a bar made out of an old…$$East Boothbay - Comfort Food
Panacea
There aren’t a lot of charming coastal spots that can reliably satisfy an entire family, but Panacea is definitely one of them. Billed as a “chowder house and comfort food,” Panacea offers fancy grilled cheese that range for traditional standbys to innovative ingredients including…$Wiscasset - Seafood
Red's Eats
Red’s is a tiny red shack next to Route 1 smack in downtown Wiscasset—right where the traffic maddeningly backs up at the bridge—that’s received more than its fair share of national ink and TV attention for its famous lobster rolls. And they are good, mostly judging by volume—so many…$$Wiscasset - Lobster
The Lobster Dock
Across the harbor footbridge from downtown Boothbay Harbor, this place offers no-frills lobster and seafood; it’s the best pick from a cluster of lobster-in-the-rough places lining the waterfront nearby. Lobsters are priced to market, and there are the usual fried-food baskets and…$$Boothbay Harbor - Bakery
Treats
The long dine-in table in this cool, rustic space is as likely to be occupied by gossiping locals as by vacationing folks just passing throug, all of them munching outstanding pastries and perfect savory, well, treats. Don’t miss the luscious cinnamon rolls or the croissants (and…$Wiscasset



