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Havana and Balance Rock Receive Wine Spectator Awards.
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Havana and Balance Rock Receive Wine Spectator Awards.

Carrie Jones Jun 26, 2025 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Acadia Shops. BAR HARBOR—Two local restaurants received awards from Wine Spectator. With the announcement, Havana Restaurant in Bar Harbor continues to rack up the awards. Havana was once again named to Wine Spectator’s 2025 Restaurant Awards list. It had received the award last year as well. Havana received the Best of Award of Excellence … Continue reading Havana and Balance Rock Receive Wine Spectator Awards.

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Can You Tame the Kraken? Trenton’s Currents Hosts Pirate Strongman Contest With Seafood, Steel, and Swagger
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Can You Tame the Kraken?

Trenton’s Currents Hosts Pirate Strongman Contest With Seafood, Steel, and Swagger Shaun Farrar May 24, 2025 Share TRENTON—Are you the strongest pirate in Hancock County? Are you beastly like a Kraken but better looking? If you are and you want the world to know it, now is your chance! Currents, a new seafood-based restaurant, bar, and place to be entertained on the Bar Harbor Road in … Continue reading Can You Tame the Kraken?

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New Chapter at a Historic Clubhouse: The Links Pub Carries On a Kebo Tradition At Kebo Valley, a New Team at The Links Pub Picks Up a Storied Torch
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New Chapter at a Historic Clubhouse: The Links Pub Carries On a Kebo Tradition

At Kebo Valley, a New Team at The Links Pub Picks Up a Storied Torch Carrie Jones May 03, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—A fresh team is behind the bar at The Links Pub, but the spirit of the place remains the same—welcoming, community-centered, and deeply rooted in tradition. SSC Hospitality has taken over operations at the restaurant inside Kebo Valley Golf Club, and early days … Continue reading New Chapter at a Historic Clubhouse: The Links Pub Carries On a Kebo Tradition

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Wine, Whiskey, Chocolate, Great Food and Great Community For the Bockmans, starting Bar Harbor businesses is about coming home
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Wine, Whiskey, Chocolate, Great Food and Great Community

For the Bockmans, starting Bar Harbor businesses is about coming home Carrie Jones Mar 12, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—Angelica Bockman’s eyes grew both wistful and excited when she explained the last few whirlwind months that saw her family uprooting themselves from their lives and businesses in Nashville to Bar Harbor, months that saw her moving twice in town and renovating a giant restaurant space with … Continue reading Wine, Whiskey, Chocolate, Great Food and Great Community

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James Beard's Outstanding Restaurant Award Names Havana as a Semi-Finalist Award singles out best restaurants in the U.S.A.
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James Beard’s Outstanding Restaurant Award Names Havana as a Semi-Finalist

Award singles out best restaurants in the U.S.A. Carrie Jones Jan 22, 2025 Share BAR HARBOR—For Michael Boland, the news arrived via text after text from friend after friend. One of his restaurants, they said, congratulating him, was up for one of the country’s biggest honors in the restaurant world: The James Beard Award for Outstanding Restaurant. Finalists will be declared publicly on April 2. According … Continue reading James Beard’s Outstanding Restaurant Award Names Havana as a Semi-Finalist

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Getting a Kick Out of It: Restaurant Workers Create Community One Game at a Time
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Getting a Kick Out of It: Restaurant Workers Create Community One Game at a Time

Carrie Jones Oct 03, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by First National Bank. BAR HARBOR—That Sunday morning, Emily Wagg paced all around the wet grass of the Park Street soccer field, clipboard in hand, pausing her forward movement only to talk to fellow restaurant workers under the bright Maine sky. Some gathered wore cleats. Some had no shoes on at all. Some … Continue reading Getting a Kick Out of It: Restaurant Workers Create Community One Game at a Time

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The Perfect Sweet Escape

Side Treats Brings Fro-Yo, Yo Way to Bar Harbor CARRIE JONES JUN 20, 2024 Share BAR HARBOR—Sometimes a business is built by an entire family. That family might be blood or it might be chosen, but it’s there. And sometimes? Sometimes, the youngest family members are the key players. That’s the way it’s going for Side Treats, a self-serve frozen yogurt toppings bar on Rodick … Continue reading The Perfect Sweet Escape

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