8 Best Restaurants in Blue Hill Peninsula, Maine

This place offers amazing (and equitably sourced) coffee and invites you to take a minute to have a conversation while you wait for your slow-pour brew to flow through a colorful, custom-built wooden drip bar. Grab a pastry supplied by a variety of local bakers---if there are any left when you arrive. 

This tidy little joint next to the reversing falls on the Bagaduce River is the perfect place for a lunch of clam, shrimp, haddock, or scallop baskets that come with onion rings or chips; there are also hot dogs, burgers, and chicken fingers. Picnic tables dot this nub of land surrounded on three sides by water, and you can walk onto the pier (or moor your kayak or boat there) for tidal estuary views and glimpses of seals, bald eagles, and ospreys. At low tide kids can explore the shore.

This tiny, friendly shop serves big, flavorful coffee and interesting sweet and savory pastries.

Housed in the Blue Hill Co-Op Community Market, this is a prime place for soups, sandwiches, and pastries. The bread selection alone is worth a stop.

Enjoy this inn restaurant's small-plate dishes, local beers, and craft cocktails in the quiet dining room or the rustic pub.

Burritos, bowls, nachos, empanadas, and tacos filled with crab, fish, lobster, or meat and served with a full range of fiery accoutrement are made fresh daily at this taqueria, whose name is a play on L.L. Bean!

Open for breakfast, lunch, and weekend brunch, this place has a mix of standard and surprising offerings, including a great falafel platter. If you want dinner, you can select from such house-made frozen dishes as beef stew, vegetable and cheese enchiladas, or Georgia onion pie. In summer, the café occasionally hosts special concert lunches and dinners (reservations required).

Good beer, pizza, and, occasionally, live music—it's a combination the fits perfectly into a lazy day of lazily exploring the Blue Hill Peninsula.