Just moved to Belfast (Bangor, Camden: houses, buy, camper)

[scentifolia]

Arzachena, you could try the Penobscot Bay Inn on Northport Avenue. I think it is open year round. Quite good food for a good price, good service and lovely dining rooms. They can accommodate large parties as well as a couple. In the summer you can eat outside overlooking the bay. The lobby is pretty too, in all a formal but warm old-fashioned atmosphere. Happy Anniversary!

CoastalMaine, it is good to know about Papa J's! Thanks.

Entyss, I would like to make a rule to look at the bathroom of a restaurant before I eat there. It's awful to go to the ladies with a full stomach and see a nasty lav. Makes you wonder about the kitchen, and the waitstaff's hands. Of course you could just go there for a drink, it's a cute pub.

The Rhumb Line was very good, very pretty inside; but that was a few years ago.

Has anyone been to the Cellardoor Winery since it changed hands? I love that place but have not been lately. Not a restaurant though, just wine and gifts. Youngstown Road, Lincolnville.

[Kracer]

Anyone remember the Belfast bears?

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/763...smediumia5.jpg

[arzachena]

I have tried the Penobscot Inn....It was ok. I do not eat beef so the menu was limited for me. But the chicken was excellent. The Rhumb Line sound interesting as does Papa J's. Hopefully they are open after the first of the new year.

[BrokenTap]

Venture a little farther down the hill and you will see the Lookout Pub on the left....right on the water and that's where the locals typically hang out. Might not be what you are after though...Its not a seedy place, just more like Rollies used to be before they revamped and ruined it.

[CoastalMaine]

If I'm not mistaken, Rollie's used to be quite the dump. Famous for the chicken pooh all over the floors from the working men's boots. I hope that's not the way you liked it! And by the by... I might be wrong, but I think it's for sale isn't it?

[moughie]

Originally Posted by scentifolia

Entyss, I would like to make a rule to look at the bathroom of a restaurant before I eat there. It's awful to go to the ladies with a full stomach and see a nasty lav. Makes you wonder about the kitchen, and the waitstaff's hands. Of course you could just go there for a drink, it's a cute pub.

How true!

[arzachena]

Rollies on Main street in Belfast is for sale.
I know what you mean by the change to Rollies. It takes some getting use to. I have a close friend that works there off and on. DH and I hang with him occasionally.
I have tried the Lookout Pub. I also like 3tides, Dockside, Darby's, Dudley's, Chases and Oceans Edge. I am looking for something new and Anniversary material. Maybe something in the Portland area. That would really be new to me. I only go to the airport in Portland.

[arzachena]

Originally Posted by Kracer

Anyone remember the Belfast bears?

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/763...smediumia5.jpg

Yup!
My mother has photo album books full of bears pictures.
They were fun to find throughout town with the kiddo.

[Zymer]

Originally Posted by arzachena

Rollies on Main street in Belfast is for sale.
I know what you mean by the change to Rollies. It takes some getting use to. I have a close friend that works there off and on. DH and I hang with him occasionally.
I have tried the Lookout Pub. I also like 3tides, Dockside, Darby's, Dudley's, Chases and Oceans Edge. I am looking for something new and Anniversary material. Maybe something in the Portland area. That would really be new to me. I only go to the airport in Portland.

Portland- the restaurant in the Regency hotel used to be excellent...but sort of expensive. I haven't been there for a few years so I couldn't say if it's still as good as it used to be.

[BrokenTap]

Originally Posted by CoastalMaine

If I'm not mistaken, Rollie's used to be quite the dump. Famous for the chicken pooh all over the floors from the working men's boots. I hope that's not the way you liked it! And by the by... I might be wrong, but I think it's for sale isn't it?

Its an interesting thing really...some loathed the chicken industry here but it really made Belfast and the surrounding towns what it is. MBNA came in, but lets face it, we all knew it was a flash in the pan as thus it turned out to be.

In some ways the chicken industry leaving cleaned up the town, but it also cleaned up the bay. Those chicken parts were devoured by the lobsters, but now the lobsters are gone and so are the lobstermen. Notice how the boats in the harbor are pleasure craft, and what few working boats remain all head way down the bay to lobster now?

Inland, you drive by chicken barn after vacant chicken barn. This kept the workingman busy but atlas those days are gone. The sad reality is, even with Athena here and Bank of America, those jobs are not for the average blue collar worker, or worker that came off the many farms. Its a hard place to scratch out a living and once you adjust to it (or like me grew up within it) you can't work in an office. I tried and failed.

Back when the chicken industry was here, Thorndike had two stores, two grain mills, the railroad ran everyday and the men worked. Now the stores are all gone, the railroad is dead and the town looks worse then Cairo, Illinois...absolutely dead and desolate with everything up for sale, and I do mean everything.

The chicken industry did throw out some negative stuff too like bad smells and a bad reputation, but at least the surrounding towns were alive. Now Belfast is trying to bill itself as another Camden, Maine but its not really succeeding. The city council has made some really bad choices the last few years. Booting the railroad and booting the development on the waterfront are two quick ones I can think of.