There's a new restaurant in town: the Wok 'n Grill, located in the former Hot Tamale at 28 Union Street.

Wok 'n Grill is a pan Asian restaurant, which means they have a mix of food from many…

Savory Maine of Damariscotta announces its November music series featuring local musicians. Every Thursday and Saturday, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., musicians from around the Midcoast will entertain…

“Hot Beer. Lousy food. Bad Service,” reads a sign nailed to the side of Dunton's Doghouse in Boothbay Harbor.

If people didn't know…

How far would you go for the delicious peach shortcake served at the Ebb Tide restaurant? Five miles? 20 miles? 100 miles?

James D. Lippincott traveled 1,782 miles.

Lippincott is a…

Who makes the best hamburger in Boothbay and the best pancakes in Wiscasset? Those are two of the ten questions Boothbay Register and Wiscasset Newspaper readers answered in recent online contests…

Haven’s Candies, a Maine-based chocolatier and fine candy maker has announced an exciting new partnership with Gelato Fiasco and will now be offering Gelato Fiasco products at its Scarborough…

The aromas of chili and chowder and the voices of visitors filled the Boothbay Harbor Shipyard during the second annual…

It was lobster heaven. Everywhere you looked there was lobster.

Lobster claws resting on corn fritters, lobster and shrimp on buttery rounds of puff pastry drizzled with creamy sauces,…

There were 18 local chefs competing for the best “lobster bite” at the second annual Claw Down, which took place at the Ocean Point Marina in East Boothbay last night.

The event was hosted…

For the second straight year, the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce has issued a Claw Down for local chefs, challenging them to come up with the best lobster bite for the title of the…

If you have been raving about Boothbay’s best burger, lobster roll, pizza, fish and chips or ice cream, this is your chance to nominate each one to receive a Best Fun Time Food contest award.

Savory Maine's September music series featuring local musicians will be held every Tuesday and Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Musicians from around the midcoast will entertain and charm diners at…

Don't miss the last weekend of the season at the Chowder House!

A quaint little spot right by the footbridge…

Lobster rolls are the main attraction at Red's Eats in Wiscasset, but owner/manager Debbie Gagnon is the other reason people keep coming back.

St. Philip’s Church on Hodge Street in Wiscasset continues to dish up rich, delicious haddock chowder for two more Mondays: August 12 and August 19.  It’s hard to believe that the…

Visitors from both away and the throughout the region enjoyed the recent reception for “Painting Maine IV” at Damariscotta River Grill. Running through September 15, the show highlights the unique…

Every Tuesday and Thursday, from 6 to 8 p.m., musicians from around the midcoast will entertain diners at Savory Maine in Damariscotta. All of the musicians in the following August lineup have…

Pop quiz: It's 10 p.m. on a Saturday night and you're just coming into Boothbay after a long drive. You're hungry and want to grab a bite. Where do you go? Everything's closed, right?…

A slimy sea creature sliding down your esophagus is what food snobs may call high-class cuisine.

But beyond the fancy white tablecloths and silly…

Great beers are the stuff of which legends are made, and an essential factor in creating beers that stand apart from the crowd is the plants used in brewing them.

Take a walk back in time through the doors of the Carousel Music Theater in Boothbay Harbor for a dinner theater with cabaret experience.

The venue: a red…

Latte lovers and cappuccino cravers, rejoice. Healthy eaters and gelato junkies, you, too. There's a new place to check out in Wiscasset Village, just in time for the Fourth of…

The Tugboat Inn & Restaurant, Commercial Street, Boothbay Harbor is pleased to announce that the Darling’s Ice Cream for a Cause ice cream truck will be at the restaurant on…

For 17 years, John Reed led the team in the Fisherman’s Wharf kitchen. Two years ago, he left to open his own restaurant, Chives, in Damariscotta. This year, he decided to return…

Until May 31, there was little to draw the eye to an empty lot across from Birch Point Road on Route 1 in Wiscasset. Now passing motorists beep their support day and night for a…

Wannawaf will be serving up its decadent ice cream confections wrapped in warm waffles in Portland when a second store opens at 15 Monument Square.

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When Bet Finocchiaro started Bet's Famous Fish Fry in 1993, the average price for a gallon of gasoline was $1.07, Jurassic Park broke box office records and the New England…

Ports of Italy restaurant was featured as a top 50 places to eat in Maine by Maine Magazine in its March 2013 issue.

The restaurants were rated by Joe…

On May 18, if all goes well, the Hot Tamale in Boothbay Harbor will reopen for lunch after being closed for six years. They will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. six days a week,…

What better way to celebrate the beginning of the season than at the Boothbay Harbor Region Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards Dinner on Wednesday May 22 at the Fisherman’s Wharf…

Another pot luck supper will be held Wednesday, May 15, at the community hall on West Side Road at 6 p.m. We’re hoping to see many of our Barter’s Island snowbirds returning.…

Local lobstermen are invited to attend an informational meeting on the proposed Maine Lobstering Union at the Dockside Grill restaurant at Cap'n Fish's Motel, Atlantic Avenue,…

Final touches are being placed on what promises to be a whole new way to eat, drink and be merry in town. The revolutionary style Watershed Tavern will feature organic wood fired…

Over a hundred people gathered at the Congregational Church of Boothbay Harbor at 5 p.m. for the traditional Fishermen’s Festival supper. This year the menu featured crab cakes,…

Eventide Epicurean Specialties’ expansion into bread and cheese will get its start Saturday, April 27 during Fishermen’s Festival weekend.

The painting…

You may want to abstain from eating for a few days if you plan to take on “Mr. C's 3lb. Challenge.”

Chef Chris Gistis, owner of Mr. C's Restaurant on…

The 17th Annual Rotary-Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts Bowl Supper on March 28 drew 180 people to the Legion Hall in Boothbay. The crowd had two hundred bowls to choose from.…

Who’s up for a Friday night haddock fish fry? Friday, March 22, Ebb Tide will again open its doors to the public for their grand reopening.

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Approximately a month after Southport voters tussled with beer and wine in Cozy Harbor, the same voters approved the measure March 4 during the Southport Town Meeting.

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Roll up the cuffs and don the poodle skirts, because the rug will get cut Saturday night, March 2, for the annual winter dance. The festivties kick off at 7 p.m. at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens…

When people come in to Treats specialty foods store in Wiscasset around Valentine's Day, they have a little different look about them, owner Stacy Linehan of Westport Island said…

Come join us at the Boothbay Harbor United Methodist Church for our Valentine Supper. It will be held on Friday, February 8 at 5:30 p.m. We will have some great…

Ship’s Chow Hall is more than just a business to Tina Fitzsimmons.

“It is my life,” she said. “This is where my heart is, my customers are part of my…

“There are some things that need doing that we cannot do overnight,” owners Peter and Nancy Gilchrist said of the renovations now underway at Ebb Tide. The…

Following two years of gathering permits, work is underway to expand a well-known local restaurant.

McSeagull's…

Christopher and Tracey Anderson met while attending culinary school, and now they are successful innkeepers who offer award-winning meals at their elegant Wings…

An outdoor night club made out of 12,000 pounds of ice debuted January 18 at the Samoset Resort in Rockport. The resort's FROST Ice Bar & Lounge is “the…

Eventide Epicurean Specialties is doubling in size and the store is adding a line of freshly baked artisan breads and a wide range of cheeses, both domestic and…

Conservation. Stewardship. These are two objectives of the Boothbay Region Land Trust and its Conservation Partner program.

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 It was the spring of 1976. Bob Fish was the king of the…