NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Aug 2001 23:42:35 GMT X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #8 (NOV) Xref: usenet.INS.cwru.edu rec.food.restaurants:54095 Well Regina, This is tourist season up in Maine. Locals will have a lobsta for lunch, and leave the dinner prices to the tourists. May I recommend a place in Pemaquid harbor... right off the boat- great deal,but still 14 for a 1.5# dinner (lobster on a tray with a roll and cole slaw). Summer is not the time to be looking for dinner deals in a place like Bar Harbor. Lobster lunch is the only way to get a good, reasonably priced whole lobster here. Maggie in Pemaquid for the summer Regina L. wrote: >We went to Maine in 1995 and 1998, so to keep up the progression, we >went again in twenty-oh-one and just got back. I had positive memories >of the reasonable prices of lobster on those two trips, and this year I >looked forward to more of the same. >However, in the Bar Harbor/Mount Desert Island area this year, the good >prices are only available as early bird specials. The early birds end >at 6:00 p.m. Whether this is to encourage people to eat earlier, due to >parking space shortages and heavy traffic, or because prices of lobsters >have gone up due to scarcity or energy costs or some other reason, I was >disappointed that I had to change my eating habits to take full >advantage of good prices. >Here's a synopsis of what happened: >Monday - On my way up to Bar Harbor, stopped in a restaurant in Belfast >around 8:30 p.m. Lobster was listed as $9.95 on that day's blackboard >specials. So far, so good. But as I placed my order, the server >informed me that they were sold out of these. I wish they had erased it >from the board, so I wouldn't have gotten my hopes up. The $9.95 was >for a one-pound lobster, enough for me but perhaps not enough for >others. There was a 1 1/4 pound lobster on the menu for $14.95. In >hindsight, after what I saw later in the week, that was a good deal >which I should have taken advantage of. But something else that I >considered to be a unique dish caught my eye, and I ordered it and was >satisfied with it. >Tuesday - I got to town in Bar Harbor and discovered that >reasonably-priced lobsters (under $15) could only be obtained via the >early bird specials. Of course, it was already well past 6. I ended up >paying $19.95, which was still less than I could get a lobster for down >here. >Wednesday and Thursday - I made sure I went out for dinner before 6 and >got good lobster deals.
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