Raye’s Mustard Mill
Foodies will be delighted to discover Raye’s artisanal mustard shop in downtown Eastport. The Raye family has been cold-grinding mustard seeds and bottling various mustard concoctions here since 1903, when J. W. “Wes” Raye built what’s now one of the country’s last stone mills to create mustards for a booming local sardine-canning trade. Now the Rayes supplies sardine plants as far away as Norway and have attracted die-hard mustard fans—MDI summer resident Martha Stewart is among them.
The mill itself, a few blocks away, once offered tours, but the pandemic and some structural issues with the factory nixed them indefinitely; the company is fundraising to restore the stone-mill museum.
The new downtown shop has shelves of mustards and other Maine-made treats and snacks.
Foodies will be delighted to discover Raye’s artisanal mustard shop in downtown Eastport. The Raye family has been cold-grinding mustard seeds and bottling various mustard concoctions here since 1903, when J. W. “Wes” Raye built what’s now one of the country’s last stone mills to create mustards for a booming local sardine-canning trade. Now the Rayes supplies sardine plants as far away as Norway and have attracted die-hard mustard fans—MDI summer resident Martha Stewart is among them.
The mill itself, a few blocks away, once offered tours, but the pandemic and some structural issues with the factory nixed them indefinitely; the company is fundraising to restore the stone-mill museum.
The new downtown shop has shelves of mustards and other Maine-made treats and snacks.
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