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Sometimes There’s No Choice But To Be Out With the Old and In With the New

Peekytoe Provisions About to Start Months’ Long Quest to Rebuild Itself CARRIE JONES AUG 26, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—Peekytoe Provisions, a squat rectangular restaurant and fish market, hovers above Main Street with a sort of stepped-back authority. Customers climb wooden steps to a hostess stand or through the door into the fish shop and restaurant. “Hello!” Cyndi Bridges beams toward arrivals. “How are you? How … Continue reading Sometimes There’s No Choice But To Be Out With the Old and In With the New

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Feature: Bringing Food (and Housing) to Bar Harbor

Brasserie Le Brun Earns Raves in Its First Weeks CARRIE JONES AUG 1, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—Food changes you. You eat the ingredients and they nourish you (or not) and become a part of not just your energy, but your body. And the people who serve you the food, who prepare it, who blanche the pearl onions, who roast each carrot, who pound out the … Continue reading Feature: Bringing Food (and Housing) to Bar Harbor

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It’s No Cold, Dark Night When Crooked Road Plays

Local Band Debuted at Finnback This Weekend BAR HARBOR—On a cold, dark Maine Saturday January night, a new Bar Harbor band full of familiar faces made its debut in the history of the Bar Harbor music scene. With all the members well past their twenties, Crooked Road is not giving up the dream or love of good music, guitars, and singing in places where the … Continue reading It’s No Cold, Dark Night When Crooked Road Plays

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Smokey’s BBQ and Lobster is the Most Beautiful Place

A lot of people claim that the coast of Maine is one of the most beautiful places in the world, and they might be right. Beauty is subjective. We all get to decide what our own personal “Most Beautiful Place in the World is.”   For some of us the winner might be Smokey’s BBQ and Lobster, a small no-frills place right across from the … Continue reading Smokey’s BBQ and Lobster is the Most Beautiful Place

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Connections at the Upper Deck

He’s a pretty hip-looking server and he leads us to our outside table, but despite all his confidence and charisma, he trips a bit. His red Converse scuff against each other.   “Are you okay?” I reach out my arm to steady him even though he’s in front of me and obviously completely fine.   “I am having such a hard time picking up my … Continue reading Connections at the Upper Deck

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