Riverside Inn
This far downeast, it isn’t easy to find a frilly place, but the four-room Riverside Inn outside of Machias offers more than the usual motel in these parts does. The second-floor Mrs. Chase Room, named for the former captain’s wife, has a claw-foot tub and skylight. The two-bedroom Lower Coach Suite features a wraparound deck overlooking the river and the inn’s garden, while the popular Upper Coach Suite has even better views—from a private balcony—plus a small kitchen. Rooms are uniformly attractive and clean. The restaurant serves surprisingly fancy dinner entrees such as lobster and scallops in champagne sauce, almond-crusted fish filets, beef Wellington, pistachio-crusted pork medallions with a cranberry-plum chutney, and the like. (The restaurant is only open in summer, though the inn remains open year-round.)
This far downeast, it isn’t easy to find a frilly place, but the four-room Riverside Inn outside of Machias offers more than the usual motel in these parts does. The second-floor Mrs. Chase Room, named for the former captain’s wife, has a claw-foot tub and skylight. The two-bedroom Lower Coach Suite features a wraparound deck overlooking the river and the inn’s garden, while the popular Upper Coach Suite has even better views—from a private balcony—plus a small kitchen. Rooms are uniformly attractive and clean. The restaurant serves surprisingly fancy dinner entrees such as lobster and scallops in champagne sauce, almond-crusted fish filets, beef Wellington, pistachio-crusted pork medallions with a cranberry-plum chutney, and the like. (The restaurant is only open in summer, though the inn remains open year-round.)
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