Things to do in Bar Harbor
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Bar Harbor Brewing Company
This tiny award-winning brewery is one of North America’s smallest, producing just 260 barrels a year. Rich-roasted ales and dark creamy stouts are brewed, bottled and delivered by a husband-and-wife team. Free tours and tastings take place during the summer (3:30-5pm Tuesday to Friday). For the kids, the brewery makes root beer and 100% natural blueberry soda. It’s located along ME 3, about 3 miles south of town.
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Mâche Bistro
Bar Harbor’s premier restaurant, Mâche Bistro, serves eclectic New England fare in a stylish setting. The changing menu highlights the local riches, with seafood stew, braised lamb shanks and pan-fried tempeh among recent offerings. The chef’s signature dish is a luscious breast of duck glazed with orange and ginger. Specialty cocktails add to the appeal.
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Reel Pizza Cinerama
This place caters to the indulgent among us who like munching on good pizza, drinking local microbrews and lounging on couches while watching a nightly flick ($6) on the big screen. Films range from indie and foreign films to the latest Hollywood fodder, with two screenings most nights (usually around 6pm and 8pm).
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Abbe Museum
Abbe Museum has fascinating presentations on the four Native American tribes that hail from this region. The thousands of artifacts range from pottery and fishing implements dating back more than a millennium to contemporary woodcarvings and birch-bark containers.
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Cafe This Way
At the place in Bar Harbor for breakfast, the feather-light blueberry pancakes topped with real maple syrup melt in your mouth. Vegans will love the scrambled tofu chock-full of veggies, old-schoolers the eggs Benedict with smoked salmon. Solid seafood menu at dinner.
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Bar Harbor Whale Watch
Bar Harbor Whale Watchoffers a wide variety of sightseeing cruises, including whale-watching and puffin trips. It also offers a ranger-led tour to Baker Island, a 130-acre island that's part of Acadia National Park but reachable only by boat.
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2 Cats
A splendid café with a heart of gold, 2 Cats serves delicious breakfasts (try a smoked trout omelet), smoothies and homemade muffins as well as heartier fare – vegetarian, seafood and grilled meats for lunch. You can also stay here.
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Café Bluefish
This intimate storefront bistro offers the fresh catch of the day served in inventive ways such as pistachio-crusted salmon, lobster strudel and Cajun-style tilapia. The café also serves roasted duck and two vegetarian dishes.
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Lompoc Café
This homey restaurant and bar hosts a variety of performers playing bluegrass, indie rock, jazz and folk on the patio. Step up to the bar and order a glass of Bar Harbor Real Ale. Blueberry ale may satisfy the intrepid.
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Havana
Maine goes Latin at this elegant dinner restaurant featuring the likes of lobster paella, coconut curried scallops and mojito cheesecake. The wine list is one of the finest in the state, the service superb.
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Poor Boy’s
This locally owned favorite spreads an enormous menu of lobster, grilled fish and chicken dishes, roast meats, pastas, salads and a dozen desserts. It’s good value, and the quality is generally high.
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McKays
One of Maine's buy-local and organic-when-possible restaurants, this pub-style eatery is a perfect choice for Maine crab cakes, farm-raised chicken and good ol' beer-battered fish and chips.
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Downeast Windjammer Cruises
For a cruise in style, hop aboard the four-mast schooner Margaret Todd operated by Downeast Windjammer Cruises, which sets sail three times a day.
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Island Artisans
One of Bar Harbor’s biggest galleries, this place features the works of over 100 Maine artisans, with works in paper, glass, jewelry, metalwork and ceramics.
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Thirsty Whale
Head here to mingle with locals and lobstermen over a pint and some hearty, inexpensive seafood. There’s often live music Wednesday through Saturday nights.
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Rupununi
Enjoy an all-American menu of burgers, steaks and barbecued chicken. Rupununi also pours an amazing variety of Maine beers and has live music in the summer.
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Argosy Gallery
This colorful gallery displays the landscapes and still lifes of more than 36 artists, many of whom are native to the area.
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Coastal Kayaking Tours
Coastal Kayaking Tours offers personalized tours, taking out a maximum of six kayaks at a time.
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