Restaurants in Camden, ME

The best place for a date night in these parts (and I have dated in most of them), 18 Central is in a stately 1891 Romanesque Revival building, a romantic dining room with high tin ceilings and lots of rich wood and a big raw bar in the middle of it. But the best seats in the house,…

In neighboring Rockport, this deli/market/bakery/sandwich shop has long been the place that locals and summer people duck into for locally roasted coffee and to-die-for pastries in the morning, a bottle of wine and a baguette for an afternoon picnic, some prosciutto and fancy…

Chef Jack Neal and his wife, Jennifer, opened Franny’s in late 2018 in a space that had long been occupied by the slightly chefier Francine’s Bistro (see what they did there?). Though it bills itself as a neighborhood place more than a destination, Franny’s is a worthy successor and…

If you’d have told me WASPy little Camden had some of the county’s best Thai food, I wouldn’t have believed you, but here’s Long Grain. The glossy food mags have all sung its praises (the restaurant’s Chicken Khao Soi soup was even a Bon Appétit cover girl in 2013), and the…

It’s not the most glamorous place to dine in greater Camden, but that might be why locals like to lunch here so much. That and the view. The wide deck out back is maybe the best al fresco dining on the midcoast, with the waves lapping at pilings right beneath you and the green hump…