Matt and I acquired again on Monday from a very enjoyable journey: an anniversary journey as much as Maine to take pleasure in some fall climbing in Acadia Nationwide Park! It was attractive up there and a a lot wanted break to reset.
I’ve a ton of images from all of the cool hikes we did, so keep tuned for some recaps from these subsequent week, however here’s a sneak preview. The views up there have been superb – can’t beat the attractive fall colours + ocean combo!
I’ll share all of the climbing particulars in upcoming posts, however first up by way of recaps as we speak is the meals!
Learn on to see what and the place we ate whereas in Maine.
Meals Highlights from Maine
Matt and I stayed on the stunning Claremont Resort in Southwest Harbor, which is a small city about 20 minutes from Bar Harbor, and about an hour and a half from Bangor, Maine, the place we flew in.
It was an attention-grabbing time to be on this a part of Maine, as every part was about to close down for the season (or in some instances, already had – sadly Beal’s Lobster Pier which many advisable to us had JUST closed for the season the weekend prior).
Meals at The Claremont Southwest Harbor
Resort meals might be completely hit and miss, however fortunately for us (particularly since most of Southwest Harbor was already shut down), I’m joyful to report that the meals at our resort was completely scrumptious – tremendous recent and artistic, too. We had breakfast there on daily basis, and dinner there twice.
For breakfast, I had their avocado toast 3 occasions – it was THAT good – and two of the occasions I had it topped with lobster as a result of… when in Maine, eat all of the lobster, proper?!
Isn’t that attractive? It was so recent and scrumptious – the topping was balsamic and a few peppers and tomato diced actually small. It was so so good! Matt had their frittata that day and stated it was additionally good, and fairly hearty because it had potatoes in it.
The opposite two mornings I had the omelette, which was additionally actually scrumptious – it had goat cheese, spinach, basil, and tomato. I acquired a facet of walnut raisin toast, plus some fruit!
Moreover some actually superior hikes, sleeping in and having leisurely breakfasts was one in every of our favourite components of the journey – it was soooo good to have sluggish, stress-free mornings slightly than the same old tremendous early mad rush and shoveling meals in our faces earlier than getting the children out the door, beginning work, and so on.
It was too chilly to eat outdoors a lot of the days, however the first morning it was excellent out on the patio.
As for the 2 dinners we had on the resort, they have been actually scrumptious as properly! Each nights we began in “Harry’s Bar,” somewhat bar proper on the property, and had some appetizers and drinks (all the time Prosecco, my fave, for me!) whereas taking part in board video games and ready for dinner.
The resort was actually cozy and we had later dinner reservations every of the nights so it was enjoyable to begin the evenings there off like this!
As for dinner in the principle restaurant (The Little Fern), each nights I began with their beet salad which was scrumptious – nice dressing.
The primary evening for my entree I had the salmon with carrot curry, yellow cut up peas, bee pollen, maple mustard seed, and a “vegetable nest.” The salmon was tender and properly cooked, had nice taste, and was very distinctive!
The second evening I had the filet mignon with baked candy potatoes, confit native onion, and a neighborhood blueberry BBQ sauce, which was additionally glorious, however I forgot to get a photograph of it!
Dinner at Candy Pea’s Cafe on Candy Pea’s Farm
This was one in every of our favourite meals of the journey!
We stopped at Candy Pea’s Cafe, and lovable out of doors restaurant on website at Candy Pea’s Farm outdoors of Bar Harbor, on the way in which from the airport to our resort the primary evening on the suggestion of an Instagram follower, Grace, and we have been so pleasantly shocked by each the ambiance and the meals!
We began with beers (we love the “Lunch” beer from Maine Brewing Co.) by their cozy hearth, which was good as a result of it was getting fairly chilly out!
As soon as we have been seated (at an extended desk with one other couple, who we had enjoyable chatting with a bit), I loved some oysters that have been in all probability the perfect oysters I’ve ever had – they have been so massive and flavorful and the vinegar and shallot sauce they got here with was tremendous good, too.
Plus an enormous farm recent salad that we shared, and a few olives (that we acquired on the bar, therefore the takeaway container).
We acquired two massive wooden fired pizzas for dinner – a spicy one for Matt, and their roasted veggie pizza for me plus added pepperoni. 🙂
We figured we’d need the leftovers for a climbing lunch the following day, and we have been proper – it hit the spot out on the paths!
Dinner at Salt & Metal in Bar Harbor
One of many days after an enormous day of climbing in Acadia we determined to move to close by Bar Harbor for dinner. The city was nonetheless bustling, though we heard in a pair weeks it’ll even be a lot slower with plenty of the eating places closed!
We selected Salt & Metal, which was advisable to us by the couple we chatted with the earlier evening at Candy Pea’s Cafe. We didn’t have a reservation, however we arrived proper after they opened at 5 and have been capable of snag a seat at their bar desk, which labored properly! We acquired in simply in time – our waiter informed us they have been closing up for the season the next week, and by 5:30, the entire place was packed!
We began with the tuna tartare and the truffled kale caesar salad. The tuna tartare was form of bland, however the kale caesar was good – liked the truffle taste.
For my entree, I had the lobster bolognese, which was simply okay – the sauce wasn’t tremendous advanced or attention-grabbing and it was SO MUCH pasta and solely tiny items of lobster. Meh.
Matt had the ramen which was yummier – the broth was actually wealthy and distinctive and tremendous savory. Ought to’ve gotten that, too!
The ambiance at Salt & Metal was enjoyable and the service was nice, however the meals was our least favourite of the journey. Particularly contemplating how costly that meal was, it was a bummer. Oh properly! Can’t win ’em all.
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Dinner at Blaze Brewing in Camden, Maine
On our final day in Maine, we drove a pair hours south to Camden, Maine, to fulfill Lu, one in every of my greatest pals from school, and her husband, Connor!
They reside close to Portland so we figured assembly within the center made sense – plus, there was really a marathon occurring that day in our space (Bar Harbor/Acadia) that may have made assembly there and attempting to hike round form of a ache.
Camden is a very cute city proper on the water, and we did an awesome hike within the state park there and even took a sundown boat trip – extra on that in a later publish! However in spite of everything that enjoyable we had dinner collectively at a spot on the water known as Blaze Brewing. I began with some oysters, as a result of I’m obsessed:
After which I had an awesome lobster roll – couldn’t depart Maine with out a kind of, proper?! It was superior, and the fries have been scrumptious, too. 🙂
It was a good way to cap off our journey!
Thanks for all of the deliciousness, Maine. 🙂 And subsequent up, keep tuned for some recaps from all of the climbing we did!
