When you travel on holiday or move to Belfast, Maine, you needn’t worry about finding delicious and nutritious food for dining out.
This coastal location not only provides the ideal launch point for a trip to Islesboro or Deer Isle, but it also offers some of the tastiest restaurants on the coast.
Read on to find the perfect eatery for you and your family. Whether you want fine dining or a quick pizza, this tiny coastal town offers it.
Young’s Lobster Pound Restaurant
$$ | (207) 338-1160 | WEBSITE
Young’s Lobster Pound serves American food and specializes in seafood. You can dine-in seven days per week on succulent fresh-caught lobster.
Young’s delivers to businesses and supplies other restaurants. You can also have their lobster shipped via Federal Express overnight. Expect a down-home New England meal at this eatery.
Nautilus Seafood & Grill
$$$ | (207) 218-4218 | WEBSITE
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If you want seafood or steak, this is the place. Locals swear by the haddock. You won’t need reservations, but it is a good idea to phone ahead to ascertain the seating wait.
Choose from table seating or sit at the bar. This steakhouse offers healthy, grilled items, too.
This ambitious restaurant offers a diverse menu that includes chicken portobello marsala, sweet Thai chili stir fry, pulled pork poutine, and shrimp scampi.
Enjoy a daily flatbread with salad or shrimp and grits for a Southern dish in the far north US.
Other popular options include fried calamari and the duck trap smoked salmon plate. Accompany your meal with either a wine or the house margaritas.
Darby’s
$$$ | (207) 338-2339 | WEBSITE
Built in 1865, Darby’s restaurant offers every day of the week. It provides the oldest continually operating dining establishment in the town.
Some eateries might renovate, but the Darby building proudly still features its original walls and tin ceiling. Dine at the antique bar or sit at one of the many roomy tables in the dining room.
Owned by the Darby family from 1910 to 1940, the current owners, Jerry and Gail Savitz, purchased it in 1985 and renamed it after the Darby family.
Chase’s Daily
$$$ | (207) 338-0555 | WEBSITE
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Chase’s Daily closes on Mondays, but all the other days of the week, this restaurant offers a bakery and dining.
The family that owns it also operates a farm, offering seasonal produce and farm-to-table meals seasonally. The location also offers a florist with fresh-cut flowers.
Bell the Cat
$$ | (207) 338-2084 | WEBSITE
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Eat breakfast at Bell the Cat for tasty American food to get your day going.
The café offers unique items like feta scallion avocado toast and boar’s head roast beef on a French baguette. The eatery offers weekly specials and a light lunch that includes soups and sandwiches.
Delvino’s Grill and Pasta House
$$$$ | (207) 338-4565 | WEBSITE
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Hit Delvino’s Grill and Pasta House when you want a vast Italian meal complete with a delicious traditional dessert.
Open every day of the week, you can nosh on their eggplant parmesan and tiramisu whenever you desire a heaping plate of Italian food.
Established in 2010, this downtown restaurant has offered fine dining to residents and vacationers for more than a decade.
Rollie’s
$$$ | (207) 338-4502 | WEBSITE
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Rollie’s offers sub shop fare and bar food in a casual atmosphere. Try an appetizer of haddock nuggets or harpoon vegetables.
For your entree, trust the locals, whose favorites include its calzone, baked haddock, chicken parmesan, classic Reuben, and Philly steak and cheese sub. Popular side dishes include sweet potato fries, pub skins, nachos, chicken fajita salad.
Seng Thai Restaurant
$$ | (207) 338-0010 | WEBSITE
Closed on Mondays, Seng Thai Restaurant offers fine Thai dining. Local favorites include the chicken satay and the spicy thin sliced beef.
Flavors include lemon juice, chili, cilantro, and hoisin. The eatery focuses on fresh vegetables for its complements to Thai entrees.
Bay Wrap
$$ | (207) 338-9757 | WEBSITE
Closed on Sundays, the Bay Wrap restaurant offers Japanese barbeque wraps.
Choose from an array of teriyaki meats wrapped with jasmine rice and your choice of vegetables including broccoli, carrots, cucumber, caramelized onions, and pineapple. Top it with teriyaki sauce, sake, or BBQ sauce.
Harborwalk Restaurant
$$ | (207) 338-0488 | WEBSITE
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Harborwalk Restaurant offers a cozy, casual dining experience and American food prepared old-school.
Enjoy hamburgers and seafood indoors or on the patio. This eatery offers a wide range of beers and great coffee. It offers a family eatery for tourists and residents.
Dunkin’ Donuts
$$ | (207) 338-3005 | WEBSITE
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Don’t laugh at seeing a chain restaurant among the favorites of Belfast residents. Dunkin’ Donuts provides a tasty place for breakfast with a dependable cup of coffee.
Enjoy a range of items, including breakfast sandwiches and wraps, such as the Angus steak & egg sandwich and ham and cheese biscuit, Danishes, and hash browns.
Other popular items include donuts, bagel twists, and donut holes. This location offers some lunch sandwiches as well, including tuna sandwiches and chicken salad sandwiches.
Laan Xang Café
$$ | (207) 338-6338 | WEBSITE
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Closed on Sundays, the Laan Xang Cafe on the coast of Maine serves Pad Thai and authentic Laotian. The eatery uses locally grown produce when in season and available.
You won’t need reservations, but you might phone ahead to determine seating availability.
Dockside Family Restaurant
$$ | (207) 338-6889 | WEBSITE
Try the lobster roll at Dockside Family Restaurant or the chicken salad roll for a tasty complement to its northern traditional fare. If lobster or chicken isn’t your thing, the Dockside also offers a scallop roll and a crabmeat roll.
You can enjoy Yankee pot roast or surf’n’turf or try their calzones – broccoli and cheese or chicken and portabella. Pair their fried chicken with a cup of scallop stew or lobster stew, or haddock chowder for a chilly weather treat.
Traci’s Diner
$ | (207) 338-6626
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Grab breakfast at Traci’s Diner any day of the week for a tasty corned beef hash with toast and eggs or lobster benedict.
Also known for their omelets and Irish benedict, you can add a stack of buttermilk pancakes to any order. Enjoy a cup of fresh coffee with your hearty breakfast, but finish up before 2 pm, when Traci’s closes for the day.
Ming’s Garden
$$ | (207) 338-2226 | WEBSITE
Hungry for Chinese food on Maine’s coast? Dine at Ming’s Restaurant for pork chop suey, General Tso’s chicken, Szechuan beef, chicken wings, or vegetable egg foo young.
You can warm up with hot and sour soup or start with an appetizer of garlic shrimp or scallops. The extensive menu offers something for nearly everyone.
Alexia’s Pizza
$ | (207) 338-9676
Open every day of the week, choose Alexia’s for a quick pick-up or delivery order. You can dine in, too, but many get their order to go.
Choose from piled-high pizza, calzones, pasta, subs, and regular sandwiches, plus chicken dinners. You can dine indoors or on the patio.
China One
$ | (207) 338-0523 | WEBSITE
You have choices when it comes to Chinese food in Belfast. China One serves vegetarian items such as Szechuan bean curd, rice soup, a mixed vegetable tray, and a family-style bean curd meal.
You can round things out with egg drop soup, won ton soup, or hot and sour soup. Seafood and meat lovers can sample the fantail shrimp fried chicken wings.
In Conclusion
Although a small town, Belfast offers a plethora of dining options. You can choose from American, Asian, Italian, seafood, and tasty bakery goods.
Plenty of restaurants don’t require reservations and you can always find a table and a delicious meal at one of these 20 choices.
