Restaurants in Harpswell Peninsula

If a steamed lobster is what you want (and you do), several sprawling establishments specialize in delivering the crustaceans fresh from the sea. On the Bailey Island side of the Harpswell Peninsula, Cook’s Lobster & Ale House (tel. 207/833-2818) has been serving a choice of shore dinners since 1955 and is open year-round—no mean feat in a Maine winter—daily from 11:30am until 9pm in the summer, with a limited pub menu until 11pm, and Wed–Sun 11:30am until 8pm the rest of the year. The restaurant’s deck is unbeatable on nice days. On the eastern tine of Harpswell’s “trident,” in the village of Cundy’s Harbor, the popular, new-ish Holbrook’s Lobster Wharf Grille (tel. 207/729-9050) serves various lobster plates and fried seafood right there on the pier (BYOB, closed from mid-Oct to mid-April).