Dining Out

• Spaghetti supper fundraiser Oct. 19 at WCC

  Tue, 10/15/2019 - 10:00am

  Maine Chapter 4 Red Knights Motorcycle Club, made up of active or past firefighters and their friends and families who like to ride motorcycles and raise funds for those in need, plans a spaghetti supper fundraiser from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19 at Wiscasset Community Center, 242 Gardiner Road. Raffles will be drawn following the supper. Items include a 2019 Polaris HO 4-Wheeler and a wooden American flag. Tickets will be available at the supper. Supper will consist of spaghetti,...

• Dine For Hope Oct. 24

  Tue, 10/01/2019 - 7:45am

  

  New Hope for Women is hosting a dinner, Dine for Hope, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24 at Penobscot Language School, 28 Gay Street in Rockland. The dinner is part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) and will include a brief talk by Kelly O’Connor, New Hope for Women’s Education and Outreach Director, followed by a dinner of chicken Marsala (or vegetarian option), salad and dessert. In her talk, Ms. O’Connor will provide an overview of New Hope for Women's services, primarily focusing on...

• Baked bean supper

  Tue, 09/10/2019 - 10:45am

  Saturday, Sept. 14 Sheepscott Community Church will host a free public supper 5-7 p.m. at the Sheepscot Clubhouse, 619 Sheepscot Rd., Newcastle. Dine inside or outside (weather permitting). Homemade baked beans and franks, breads, salads and sides, delicious pies, hot and cold beverages. Goodwill donations accepted, a portion of which goes directly to a local not-for-profit.

• Dinner at Wiscasset Senior Center

  Tue, 09/10/2019 - 10:30am

  Wednesday, Sept. 18 A public dinner will be held at 5 p.m. at the Wiscasset Senior Center. The menu: chicken Parmesan, pasta with veggie sauce, bread, soup, salad, and dessert. Make your reservations by Monday, Sept. 16 by calling 882-8230. The cost for the dinner is $8/members and $10/ non-members.

• Taste of Local Flavor kicks off Harbor Fest

  Sat, 08/31/2019 - 8:45am

  

  Taste of Local Flavor kicked off Harbor Fest Aug. 30 with Taka Mediterranean Bar and Grill, Pier 1 Pizza and Mine Oyster, all of Boothbay Harbor. Each submitted a tasting and cocktail for the first Harbor Fest guests and provided music by Ben Betts, Sean McNear and The Crown Vics, respectively. Closing out the month of August, Saturday was the big day for a Taste of Local Flavor with nine local restaurants joining the competition for Best Bite and Best Cocktail: Fisherman’s Wharf Inn, Tugboat,...

• Boothbay House of Pizza reopens

  Thu, 08/29/2019 - 10:00am

  

  Boothbay Harbor House of Pizza quietly opened at 11 a.m. Aug. 19. Relying on social media and word of mouth to get the news out, the restaurant was bustling when the Boothbay Register arrived. The newspaper agreed to wait on the story while the Rigas family business got back into the swing of things. The long anticipated opening came after some devastating times, starting with a fire last October that shuttered the business. Then beloved owner Giannoula “Mama” Rigas fell into poor health while...

• American Legion breakfast buffet

  Mon, 08/19/2019 - 10:15am

  Sunday, Aug. 25 American Legion Post #36 is serving up another delicious, all-you-can-eat buffet breakfast from 7-9 a.m. at Sherman Hall. On the menu: hash, baked beans, blueberry and plain pancakes, bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs - and any style ordered, French toast, home fries, Belgian waffles, toast, cereals, milk, coffee, orange juice. Suggested donations: $8/adults, $3/all school-aged young people. Children under 5 are free. 25 Industrial Park Rd., Boothbay.

• Dinner at the Wiscasset Senior Center

  Tue, 08/13/2019 - 11:30am

  Wednesday, Aug. 21 A dinner will be held at the Wiscasset Senior Center at 5 p.m. We will be serving beef stroganoff, pasta, vegetables, soup, salad and dessert. Chicken may be ordered as a substitute and reservations made by calling 882-8230 before Aug. 19. The cost for the dinner is $8 for members and $10 for non-members.
• The Lincoln Home

  Exhibit at Lobster and More features 20 artists

  Fri, 08/09/2019 - 8:00am

  

  Join us on Saturday, Aug. 17, 4 p.m. for the fourth annual Lobster and More event! Peruse the “Art Under the Tent” while enjoying fresh oysters from the Damariscotta River, delicious hors d’ oeuvres, and a locally brewed beer or cold drink. Twenty talented Maine artists will exhibit work in a variety of mediums for sale in the Art Tent. Professional artists and photographers include: Valerie Borgal, Marcia Brandwein, Sandy Crabtree, Sandra Leonin Dunn, Steve Dunn, Virginia Forrest, Douglas...

• Miss Wiscasset Diner closes

  Tue, 07/30/2019 - 4:00pm

  

  Miss Wiscasset Diner has closed, according to a Facebook post a representative of the 762 Bath Road business made Sunday. “I would like to thank all of our customers and friends we’ve made. It is after a very hard decision we are closing the Miss Wiscasset Diner,” Kelley Coady wrote. According to the latest annual report on file with Maine’s Bureau of Corporations, Coady is the business’s treasurer, and John Suarez, president. The Wiscasset Newspaper is seeking their comments following Sunday’s...

• The Thistle Inn and Footbridge Brewery Beer Dinner

  Tue, 07/30/2019 - 8:45am

  Thursday, Aug. 8 At The Squire Tarbox, 1181 Main Road, Wiscasset. Cocktail hour: 5:30 p.m. The collaborative beer dinner in the barn at the Squire Tarbox, 6-9 p.m. The Menu. One: Local charcuterie - Riverside Butcher Co. Sausage, Sharp Cheddar, House Pickled Veg, Grain Mustard Aioli. Paired w/ Footbridge Brewery’s Super Hoppy Monster IPA. Two: All the meats - Local Brisket, St. Louis Pork Ribs, & Smoked Chicken Drum w/ Ruby Slaw, Cipollini Onion Baked Beans, & German potato salad...

• Wiscasset’s Water Street Kitchen & Bar ‘great new chapter’ at former Le Garage

  Fri, 07/26/2019 - 7:30pm

  

  The last time Southport summer resident Ginny Colburn saw son Ed Colburn get a ribbon was in his school years, in soccer. Then at 15 Water St., Wiscasset July 25, he used Wiscasset Area Chamber of Commerce’s big scissors to cut a red ribbon in front of his new business, Water Street Kitchen & Bar. She’s just 20 minutes from him by boat over the Sheepscot River, his mother said, smiling, minutes after the ceremony. During it, her son, the owner-chef, said he was “incredibly appreciative” of...
• Damariscotta River Grill

  Essence of summer the theme of new exhibit

  Wed, 07/24/2019 - 1:15pm

  

  The walls at the Damariscotta River Grill transform to summer colors and images, exploring a number of themes and capturing the light and beauty of Maine. Three artists capture the essence of summer and life in Maine in three distinct styles and viewpoints, through pastel, oil, acrylics, tempera and watercolor. Meet artists Sandra Leinonen Dunn, Susan Tilton Pecora, and Kimberly Skillin Traina at the “Art at the Grill” opening reception, Wednesday, July 24, from 4 to 5:30pm. Stop in and enjoy...
• Linekin Bay Resort

  Third annual Brews & BBQ Pig Roast part of 100th anniversary celebration

  Tue, 07/23/2019 - 4:30pm

  

  For Boothbay Harbor locals and beyond! Come celebrate the 100th anniversary of Linekin Bay Resort July 26-28 with live music, fireworks, and our third annual Brews & BBQ event. It’s a full weekend of live music, fireworks, games, a pig roast, and more! All events are open to the public. Join LBR staff and guests in looking back over 100 years of memorable guest service, from the early days as a girls’ summer camp to a community favorite that welcomes back generations of families year after...

• Water Street Kitchen and Bar opens at former Le Garage

  Tue, 06/25/2019 - 12:00pm

  

  After months of preparation, the Water Street Kitchen and Bar, formerly Le Garage, in Wiscasset, is set to debut Thursday, June 27. After a couple of days of soft openings with family members, friends and neighbors invited, is Thursday’s grand opening. The bar area is done, there are new table tops, and the menus have just been printed. The menu features seafood, steak and some pasta dishes, at least initially, owner Ed Colburn said. He expects to have a bar menu and a lunch menu soon, and once...

• LePages working at McSeagulls this summer

  Tue, 06/25/2019 - 8:30am

  

  After six months out of work, former Gov. Paul LePage is back among the state’s working class. LePage has joined wife Ann working at McSeagulls in Boothbay Harbor this summer. Ann LePage has worked at the restaurant the past four years, but this will her husband’s first time behind the bar in over four decades. As a college student in Bangor and Orono, he worked as a bartender. After his gubernatorial terms ended, the LePages lived in their winter home in Florida and discussed their summer...

• Footbridge Brewery: a toast to good beer, good friends

  Sun, 06/23/2019 - 9:45am

  

  When it comes to Footbridge Brewery, a newcomer to the waterfront in Boothbay Harbor, co-owners Dan Pangburn and Nick Ullo have stuck to a tried-and-true business approach: They’ve taken something they love and brought it to the marketplace. The brewery at 25 Granary Way opened the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. A noon opening was planned, but timing is everything. “We had people with their noses pressed against the door at 11:58,” Ullo said. “So we opened two minutes early.” The idea, the...

• Cozy’s Dockside now open

  Tue, 06/18/2019 - 10:00am

  

  Gus Pratt's restaurant, the "Alley," now in the hands of Linekin Bay Holdings, will rise again like a phoenix to become Cozy's Dockside, a Southport Island restaurant with a sensational view. As before, the restaurant perched on the shore of Cozy Harbor promises to be a draw for people to meet and while away the time with some good food and conversation, surrounded by a few remnants of the "Alley" as reminders of times gone by. According to Selectman Mary Lou Koskela, when Pratt’s place was put...

• It’s a mixed media show for Art at the Grill

  Thu, 06/06/2019 - 8:30am

  

  Art at the Grill’s summer season opens with a mixed media show, Monday, June 10. Damariscotta River Grill hosts Lonie Ellis, Douglas Houle and Rebecca Shorb, who share their experience of Maine with three distinctly different styles and viewpoints, through pastel, oil, encaustic and works in clay. Meet the artists and savor summer hors d’oeuvres at the “Art at the Grill” opening reception, Thursday, June 13, from 4-5:30 p.m. Stop in for a delicious meal and enjoy this show June 10 through July...

• East meets west ...Taka Mediterranean Bar & Grill opens on Pier One in Boothbay Harbor

  Thu, 05/30/2019 - 9:15am

  

  Three enterprising young men have opened a new restaurant on Pier One in Boothbay Harbor called Taka Mediterranean Bar & Grill and they mean business! A thousand tiny lights on the ceiling lead you down the entrance hall to a bright interior decorated in colors reminiscent of the Mediterranean Sea. The exotic smell of delicious cuisine fills the air. Huge windows on all three walls give a sensation of being extended over the harbor. Vases of beautiful flowers abound. There is also seating...

• American Legion breakfast

  Tue, 05/28/2019 - 10:00am

  Sunday, June 2 American Legion Post #36 is serving up another of its delish buffet breakfasts from 7-9 a.m. this week. On the menu: Belgian waffles, French toast, blueberry and plain pancakes, hash, bacon, sausage, baked beans, scrambled eggs and any style requested, cereal, toast, orange juice, coffee, tea, milk. All you can eat! Suggested donations: $8/adults and $3/school aged young people. Kids 5 and under - free. 25 Industrial Park Rd., Boothbay. Come and get it!
• Newagen Seaside Inn

  Nathaniel Adam new executive chef at The Pub

  Mon, 04/29/2019 - 11:30am

  

  Newagan Seaside Inn is excited to announce Nathaniel Adam as the Executive Chef at their onsite restaurant and bar, The Pub. Born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Bonita Springs, Florida, Chef Nathaniel Adam found his passion for food at an early age. With over a decade of experience in mostly country clubs, Nathaniel is a modern American chef executing global cuisine with classical French technique. His recent achievements include 2017 Claw Down Judges’ Choice and People’s Choice and 2017...