Here are listed most of the Restaurants and Places to Eat In Camden Maine, and some information about walkability, price and seasonality of the various places to eat. There are listings of all places mentioned below the articles on Views, and Cocktails.
Camden Cocktails, Coffee and Restaurants with Harbor Views, Anniversary and Special Occasion Dining in Camden Maine...
Which Restaurants and Places to Eat In Camden Maine Have a Camden Harbor View
- Camden Deli
- Waterfront (large outdoor deck)
- Atlantica Restaurant (outdoor deck)
- Natalies (from the porch on a hill)
- Bay View Lobster (rustic on the warf)
- Off the Boat (not all seats second floor only)
- Village Restaurant(in the back)
- Mariners Restaurant (in the back)
- Camden Deli (great deck and indoor view)
Camden, Maine is a small New England fishing village. However despite its small town of Maine stature, you can find something to suit every food yearning, from white table cloth fine dining to the traditional chowder house and lobster pound style dining with views of Camden Harbor. Without further ado, let’s get down to the questions visitors to Camden Me. usually have about dining: Here is a list of Places to eat in Camden with a view of the water. With a harbor voted one of the top ten prettiest in the world, and the largest fleet of historic schooners in the world, as well as yachts both motor and sail not to be seen in one harbor anywhere in the world, it is no wonder why so many of our guests ask which restaurants have a view of Camden Harbor. Without distinction as to the style of dining experience, here is our list of restaurants with Camden Harbor Water Views:
Having Cocktails in Camden Maine
In the mood for cocktails? Here are a few of the bars either in a bar or in a restaurant that are particularly appealing, ether for ambience view or great mixology:
- Cocktails at Waterfront Restaurant
- Waterfront has a very nice interior with exposed beams a gas fireplace and copious windows to take advantage of their great harbor view location. However, they have an even nicer deck. You may order cocktails on the deck, which has some space reserved for dinner traffic, but also a not ungenerous section for those enjoying cocktails. Decorated with fine carved fish and birds and interesting photographs of the Maine coast of yesteryear, the Waterfront restaurant is one of the venerable old standbys for locals and visitors alike. In the cocktail section a bar menu which is quite excellent is available.
- Cocktails at Natalies Restaurant
- The restaurant at Natalies is actually within the first floor of the Camden Harbor inn. Completely renovated in 2006-2007, Natalies has a new chef, and an ultra chic interior, as well as seating on the deck. Situated on a hill, Natalies has views of Camden harbor. As you would expect with such cosmopolitan décor, the bar tender at Natalies is an experienced mixologist serving their original creations as well as some of the more cutting edge big City concoctions. The traditional architecture of the Harbor Inn has difficulty breathing through the fashionable modernity of the décor; however, it is quite comfortable if urbane. Here's a tip, order the Pemaquid Oysters, superfresh great mignonet and traditional cocktail sauces.
- Cocktails at Peter Otts Restaurant
- Peter Otts has a loyal local following, and a comfortable bar that is well situated for people watching on Bayview Street. With very large picture windows, and televisions, patrons at the bar can enjoy sporting events without a sports bar feel. The restaurant is decorated with fine art by local artists including Gordon Bok. They sometimes feature live music.
- Cold Beer at The Camden Deli
- The Camden Deli is one of the best kept secrets around. For those who enjoy cold beer with a terrific view, they offer a choice of indoor or outdoor seating, including plush lounge seating on the second floor, this is the place. It is very casual, and very comfortable, with local and visitor patrons, great casual food, and friendly service. And did I mention the view!
- Cappy’s Restaurant
- Cappy’s has an interesting bar cum Hard Rock Café of the Maine Coast. The outboard motor beer tap is worth the price of admission. The interior is thickly encrusted with every manner of hokey shore vacation memorabilia one could imagine, and even some that is hard to imagine, including the infamous Heron-Gull-Hit-Head-On-By-A-Truck stuffed bird. Mounted within a convex glass frame is -, well who knows exactly what it is, but some time passed the ecology police had words with the owner about it, and it may have had to go away. If it’s still there, someone let me know.
- Gilberts Public House
- Gilberts features live music often, which is to be commended. The live music is typically local bands, with young and old artists who tend to be quite good. The bar is very large, with a t.v. or two in this subterranean cave-like haunt. They serve their own pizza, which some of the Portland Pirate’s hockey players have informed us is not bad. There are pool tables and a juke box. It is a very traditional Maine honkey tonk frequented loyally by many locals as well as schooner bums, who may or may not be granted a discount for their cabin boy status –or so I’ve heard.
- Off the Boat, formerly The Quarterdeck
- Off the Boat has eliminated most of the formerly popular second story bar. They still have the first floor bar, and their near life sized, sword wielding Captain Morgan wooden statue, but it is apparent they are seeking to enhance their dinner crowd at the expense of the bar trade that was very popular. It was a younger more local crowd as the Quarterdeck, and now as Off the Boat, it is still too soon to tell. They have tucked upstairs and outside a little screened porch facing the hill of the street behind them for secret rendezvous.
- Drinks at the McMahon’s Knox Mill
- McMahons has a long wooden bar partitioned from the dining area with 2 televisions mounted behind the bar. They have a great selection of local and your favorite national and international beers, including one of my favorites, Stella Artois. The people are very friendly, and the décor is authentic traditional Maine mill town; it is the premises of the former Knox Mill, and they have fortunately kept many of the old mill fixtures on display, and made renovations that fit right in. This is a very comfortable watering hole. They have wines by the glass at reasonable prices.
- Drinks & Sushi
- One of my favorite past times is to site in a sushi bar, have a roll or two, a great cold beer, and chat with the bar tender or sushi chef. Well, Mikado in Camden is a terrific spot for that. The bar is casual, yet sophisticated, the sushi is excellent and the people are friendly. So if you're thinking of ducking out for a while, and enjoying yourself this is a wonderful spot for it. Top
Having Coffee in Camden Maine
Like all great waterfront communities, there are many great places to have coffee. With roasters such as Rock City Coffee, and others, you can find fair trade, shade grown, flavored, hot, cold, etc., etc.
- Camden Deli
- Great views and home baked sweets, selections of coffee, all the big newspapers available, all around nice casual place to sit. The Camden Deli also has a counter with a couple of stools in the front window for those who wish to people watch, but by far their view of the harbor is the best of any place to simply have coffee.
- Boynton-McKay Food Co
- Very popular with published authors, this former apothecary shop still has many of the old Rx items on display, from scales to packaging of products from a bygone era. It is not unpleasantly busy with big picture windows and a hexagonal tile floor. They have excellent cakes and cookies, and a selection of wonderful coffees that you may enjoy in wooden tall-backed booths, or at a stool watching the world go by on Main Street USA, Route 1 North and South, Camden Maine. To facilitate people watching, it has stools and a counter for diner’s right in front of the large picture windows that face the Main Street, and shops across.
- Zoot Coffee
- Starbuckians should feel right at home here. This friendly desert and coffee shop is directly across from the village green. Zoot has wonderful coffee, large picture windows great for people watching. It also has the highest Mac-computer-per-patron ratio of any coffee shop in Camden.
- Camden Bagel Café
- Plantation shudders make you feel like you are trying to enjoy your coffee incognito. If you walk by on Mechanic Street, you may miss it. The windows look out over lower Mechanic Street. This is a great place to have coffee with the local populace. It is quiet and comfortable, with wooden seating and tables, and many varieties of home made bagels, and gourmet coffees and teas. Top
Special Occasion Dining In Camden Maine
Many of our guests are here celebrating anniversaries, the beginning of their honeymoon, birthdays, babymoons, family or school reunions, and many other special occasions and they ask us what restaurants might suit their special occasion. While individual tastes will make a large difference, here is some advice on where to celebrate your special occasion dining out in Camden Maine: For a unique outdoor event you might consider chartering an historic schooner, picnicking on an island, a lobster bake, but for those interested in a formal dining experience, with great service ambiance and food, here are some suggestions in order of price high to lower:
- Natalies (outside inside dining, hilltop view of town and water)
- This Restaurant within the Camden Harbor Inn has impeccable service, and their chef recently won a State contest for his lobster recipe. Dinner is served formally in a relaxed, yet sophisticated atmosphere. The decorating is soft but a treat for the eye, and they often feature a live pianist on the deck. I highly recommend cocktails and oysters, if the whether is nice, there is nothing nicer than watching the stars come out above the harbor and Mt. Battie, as you look down on Camden Harbor. Natalies is a great special occasion restaurant, and a rare treat. Those familiar with white tablecloth experiences in cosmopolitan places will feel at home here. Reservations are recommended.
- Atlantica Restaurant (waterfront deck, outside inside dining)
- Consistently excellent food and service on the waterfront, chef owned. Our guests consistently rate this restaurant high on their list. It has an excellent location including a deck. Reservations are recommended, especially for outside seating on a nice night.
- Hartstone Restaurant at Hartstone B&B
- We have never eaten here, but our guests who have have said they enjoyed it. They have a prix fix as well as alacarte menus and offer formal settings in a French country decorated Victorian bed and breakfast. The chef owner Michael Salmon has won awards including the top Caribbean chef. Top
The category of Walkable in Camden is measured from Camden Harbor and the Windward House B&B. "Yes" means its no more than four blocks or so. "No" means further. Consult a map for more exact coordinates. Cost or cost range tries to describe a cost range, or give an exact price when it is known. We also try to indicate if an eating place is Seasonal. We try to update this page frequently as to opening and closing times and days of the week. However keep in mind if a date and time are important it is advisable to call ahead. Please email us with any new information about any of our listings!
Camden Deli
Great deli for lunch or light dinner. big windows and deck right over the Camden waterfall. This deli is a best kept secret: it has a world class view, upstairs outside deck with comfiy chairs and wonderful beers on tap. Great home baked goods too! Happy Hour is every day this summer in the upstairs dining area and on the rooftop decks from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. with FREE Appetizers and $3 drafts.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:June-October
- Camden Deli
- Address: 37 Main Street Top
Waterfront Restaurant
This restaurant is always fun. Right on the harbor, you can watch for harbor seals as you drink a cocktail. Great for large groups. Dinner, lunch and bar menu are available. In the summer they have two different menus for the outside deck, a formal dinner menu, as well as a bar menu. You may also simply order cocktails on the huge deck. You feel like your on the deck of one of the ships right in the harbor. The inside decor is exposed beams, nautical prints and carvings of fish and birds, open gas fireplaces and lots of windows.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:all
- Waterfront Restaurant
- Address: 44 Bayview Street Top
Natalies
Elegant and sophisticated very refined menus. The owners pride themselves on decor, and this grand old hotel has a wonderful large porch and views of the harbor.The dining room has just been completely renovated and restyled to create the look of an elegant old French restaurant with contemporary casual accents. Dinner is also offered on the wrap-around porch, which is heated for those crisp spring and autumn evenings. The bar is the place for an after-work cocktail or a more casual meal from the bar menu.
Atlantica Seafood Bistro
Great restaurant right on the Camden dock. Great outdoor deck, for dinners only. Reservations are taken, and suggested for the Summer and October. They have propane heaters on the deck for chilly nights. The menu is consistently fresh and new, but not intimidating.Atlantica is a chef owned and operated upscale bistro nestled in a large historic clapboard building located on Bayview Landing in Camden, Maine. Stylish yet comfortable dining rooms are professionally decorated and furnished, while the open kitchen creates a lively yet intimate bistro.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:June-October
- Atlantica Seafood Bistro
- Address: 1 Bayview Landing Top
Bayview Lobster
Picnic style lobster house. Great selection of imported and local beers. This place has a great view, rustic dining. Fun restaurant right on the dock. Choose your lobster from the outside tank and watch them cook it for you. Picnic benches and lobster bibs.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:June-October
- Bayview Lobster
- Address: 1 Public Landing Top
Camden House of Pizza
Small pizzeria, primarily for take out, but they have a few booths.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:high and shoulder seasons
- Camden House of Pizza
- Address: 12 mechanic Street Top
Cappy's Chowder House
Pub right in the center of town. The slogan is "sooner or later everyone ends up at Cappy's". Pub food and Local ales. Family owned corporation. Established in 1979.Great location. Also has a greta bakery attached to it. Grab a cup of Coffee, muffin and sit by the dock. Cappy's has been at the main intersection in downtown Camden, Maine, for more than 20 years. The goal at Cappy's is to ensure the customer has an enjoyable dining experience and will come back to visit us again and again.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:all
- Cappy's Chowder House
- Address: 1 Main Street Top
Elm Street Grill
Don't let the outside of this grill fool you, it is not the Motel, but its own place and a good one for Pizza. The Grill is a little outside the village but worth a trip for the pizza if you're in the mood. Live music on the weekends frequently jazz standards.
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- Walkable in Camden: No
- Seasonal:all
- Elm Street Grill
- Address: 115 Elm Street Top
Francine's Bistro
This is a local favorite. This restaurant is chef owned by Brian Hill.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:all
- Francine's Bistro
- Address: 55 Chestnut Street Top
Gilbert's Publick House
Pub in town that has live music during the Summer and pool tables. The even have there own money for the locals. Gilbert dollars. Fun to hang out and talk to the real fisherman and lobsterman. We learned they had pizza when a group of the Portland Pirate's hockey players brought some back to the house for a late night snack. -good to know.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:all
- Gilbert's Publick House
- Address: 1 Bayview Landing Top
Peter Ott's
Nice restaurant in the downtown. Bar and dinner menu available. Large picture windows looking out onto the street. The decor is very fine art. They have a great comfortable bar and sometimes live music.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:all
- Peter Ott's
- Address: 16 Bayview Street Top
Off the Boat (Bar and Grill?) formerly known as Quarterdeck Bar & Grill
Formerly known for its active night life, now under new management, this restaurant has a two floors, with a small outside deck in the backyard, a bar on both floors, and televisions viewable from all the bars and some of the tables. It is in town across from Gilberts and Peter Otts. Locals go here to watch the Red Soxs or the Patriot Games. Not Chef owned so food is not consistant. Two stories, bar on both, windows looking over the street; live music in the summers.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:all
- Off the Boat (Bar and Grill?) formerly known as Quarterdeck Bar & Grill
- Address: 21 Bayview Street Top
Scott's Place
This place is a secret of Camden Locals. Outside Renys there is a little wood schack that sells hamburgers, soup and hot dogs. It is easy simple food on the go. Fun to sit in the parking lot and watch the world go by.
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- Walkable in Camden: No
- Seasonal:all
- Scott's Place
- Address: 85 Elm Street Top
Village Restaurant
Restaurant in downtown Camden.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:all
- Village Restaurant
- Address: 5 Main Street Top
Zaddik's restaurant
Restaurant in downtown Camden. Mexican and Italian meals. a little expensive for what they serve, but the beer is very cold.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:all
- Zaddik's restaurant
- Address: 20 Washington Street Top
Camden Bagel Cafe
Bagels, Bagels, Bagels and coffee. Local favorite for an early morning breakfast. Not open for lunch or dinner
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:all
- Camden Bagel Cafe
- Address: 25 Mechanic Street Top
Camden Cone
A very popular ice cream shop wedged in the corner of a building on Bayview street next to Off the Boat restaurant. Owned by a local legislator who sometimes mans the counter, it features many interesting flavors of Round Top hard ice cream, floats, shakes, sundays and splits, waffle cones, sugar cones It's a real treat. A lot of great flavors. They only have hard ice cream. If you want soft ice cream you have to go to Riverhouse Ice Cream.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:June-October
- Camden Cone
- Address: 33 Bayview Street Top
French & Braun Market
This place like Cappy's, everyone ends up in. It is the town grocery store. Has great meat and wine. The store is on the corner of Mechanic Street and Rout 1. They always have banannas in the window. I recently learned that they actually sell cigaretts in this store - but you will never see them. The keep them behind the counter. So unless you know, there is no way to tell they sell them.
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:all
- French & Braun Market
- Address: 1 Elm Street Top
Primo Restaurant
A world-class restaurant inside a restored Victorian home in coastal Maine…the freshest possible ingredients put to imaginative use in dazzling recipes…a kitchen producing rustic favorites and back-to-basics treasures.
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- Walkable in Camden: no
- Seasonal:all
- Primo Restaurant
- Address: 2 South Maine Street Top
Mikado Restaurant
This is a great restaurant. The Sushi is world class, and the setting is comfortable. The people are very friendly, and the bar is casual and comfortable for cocktails. It's right across from the village green. Now you know where to get your sushi fix when you're in the MidCoast!
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:
- Mikado Restaurant
- 207-236-4477
- Address: 31 Elm St Top
McMahon's Knox Grille
With a great view of the water running through the old mill, this is a comfortable casual restaurant. Housed in the historic Knox Mill, site of a former Woolen Mill, this restaurant booths and tables situated in front of a long large picture window that looks out into the mill stream. They have a salad bar, happy hour, and brick oven pizza. My favorite dish is the gourmet burgher with avocado. They do Lunch, dinner & sunday jazz brunch
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- Walkable in Camden: Yes
- Seasonal:no
- McMahon's Knox Grille
- (207) 236-3227
- Address: 43 Mechanic St Top
