EXCELLENT!! Great drinks, food & service. The vibe of the restaurant is laid back, and fits the…read morevibe of Rangeley. The wings were AMAZING. We got the cajun dry rub and they were to die for. the ranch was homemade and excellent as well The star of the show was the Cajun pasta. Holy. Smokes. Absolutely amazing, better than most restaurants over in Boston (where we are from). Genuinely some of the best pasta i've ever had. Burger was good! Needed some type of special sauce. Fries were great as well I can't wait to come back!!!

Went in on a Saturday night without reservations so sat at the bar. That was actually a good call…read more The bartender was excellent as was our service there. Could tell the waitresses on the floor were falling behind. Probably they could use a bus person or food delivery person to help the waitresses out. As for the food the spinach, artichoke pizza and blueberry BBQ chicken pizza were excellent! Beer selection was good also. Hope to return later in the week. Lots of locals there, which tells you it's consistently solid.

The food was amazing. We both had the lobster very good. Becky was our waitress and she very nice…read more Service food and atmosphere were amazing. Will definitely revisit.

Our group of nine had an excellent experience at Parkside & Main. Service was on point, food came…read moreout hot, and everything we ordered was well executed. The panko shrimp were large with a crisp outer crust, the Santa Fe burger was flavorful, and the haddock was cooked perfectly. I had a Bissell Brothers IPA and a Trillium IPA. Both were great beers, but they were served in the "fancy glasses," and after checking the volume against a pint water glass, it was clear they weren't full pours. The Trillium was roughly 12 oz and the Bissell around 10 oz. When I asked, I was told they change the volume based on alcohol content. At $9 a glass, I expect a full pint unless otherwise stated. To show the difference in pour size, I took water from the pint‑size Coke glass and poured it into the "fancy" beer glass they used for my IPAs. The fancy glass filled up, and the water left behind in the pint glass is the amount of beer you don't get with their short pours. It clearly shows the fancy glass only holds about 10-12 oz, and the remaining water in the pint glass represents the missing beer compared to a full 16‑oz pint. Essentially, a 12 oz pour means you're being shorted one‑quarter of a beer. At that rate, a full pint would cost $12. And with a 10 oz pour, a full pint would work out to $14.40. Everything else was excellent, but the beer pour practice feels misleading. Most people ordering draft beer expect a pint, and the menu doesn't indicate otherwise. Great food and service, but the beer pours should be clearly disclosed. I recommend eating here, just ask for a pint glass!

Delicious food -and drinks. Open Thursday - Saturdays for dinner. Yum, yum, yum! Small restaurant…read moreand they don't take reservations so go early if you're worried about waiting.

Stupendous! If you are in the area, I highly recommend The Hungry Trout. I've been waiting for a…read moresolid place to come to this location since the Tall Tales Tavern closed and this place is it (sorry 45th Parallel). Our group came in on a busy Friday night and we were blown away by their seafood pie special. My son absolutely devoured their chicken fingers, which you would think would be run of the mill, but even those were outstanding. We were so impressed we went again during our stay and were again blown away by the nastiness of the dishes and the portion sizes. This is such a great addition to the area and I'm looking forward to going back for years to come.

I go up to Sugarloaf once a year with my fiance and his family. We usually have lunch before we…read moreleave (we're about an hour away) and then have dinner after my fiance and his brother play a round. This time however, we didn't have lunch and my future mother-in-law ordered two sandwiches from Strokes as the rest of us explored the pro-shop. All I can say is wow! I would have never expected a club house to have such great food. Everything we had was great and the service was top notch! The servers were kind enough to package the food and beverages for us so we could take them out on the course and enjoy the round. Will definitely make an effort to patronize this place more often!

We drove up here just to see the area and Sugarloaf. We are so glad we read reviews of Strokes…read more We were quickly greeted and could sit anywhere with great views. We enjoyed their flatbread special and drinks from the bar. The menu is small but we were very pleased.

The Pickford pub is an upscale bistro and bar located in the Loon Lodge Inn and Restaurant. The…read moremenu is the same as the Lodge's main dining room. The food is excellent! The chef makes dressings, deserts and everything on site. There is an extensive bar with seasonal cocktails and a friendly bar tender. I had the Caprese salad and fish tacos, with a strawberry basil margarita. Everything was sublime. Great place to stop for a drink after a day on Rangeley Lake, you can get there by boat and dock at the Loon Lodge Inn dock. The decor is rustic and warm and there is a wonderful view of Rangeley Lake. Would definitely come back again.

Maine-style barbecue. I never knew this was a thing, but it makes so much sense. Fat and protein do…read morewonders for the body and soul when you've put in a full day of skiing and/or it's 10 degrees F or less out. Not to mention there's plenty of maple wood to be had in Maine for smoking. I don't have much of a basis of comparison to other Maine-style bbq places, but what I tried of the The Rack's bbq was excellent by any standard. I'm not sure I detect a huge difference from, say, Eastern South Carolina style 'cue. In fact, the sauce that my ribs (half rack of ribs with mac 'n' cheese, baked beans, coleslaw and cornbread; $38) came with would feel right at home in Eastern SC: vinegary with a touch of heat. The ribs had a wonderful layer of bark and were moist, but not fatty. They were not heavily seasoned or salted, which many of those in the know prefer since the quality of the meat can shine through. It did, here. Of course I didn't snap a photo of my meal -- I was so excited to eat, I forgot! -- but it came with a generous portion of mac 'n' cheese (pleasantly cheesy, but undersalted by our standards), baked beans (very vinegary, made with onions that could've been cooked to a softer consistency, but were enjoyable in their own right), a mayonnaise-y coleslaw (fair), and a tiny square of cornbread. The cornbread was southern style to my surprise and delight, not the fluffy, sweet, cake-like version usually passed off as cornbread in the north. I loved the slightly spicy, slightly sweet pickles that accompanied, as well. The Pardner had the kimchi beef short rib (shredded beef short rib in a kimchi beef broth served over seared sticky rice with chef's vegetable of the day, pickled carrots and daikon, hoisin bbq sauce, Korean bbq sauce, fried garlic, scallions and cilantro; $38). He mostly enjoyed the dish, but I found the texture of the seared sticky rice too hard and chewy, personally. There was more sweetness and less spice in the bowl than I personally prefer and would expect from the name. The vegetable of our day was broccoli, cooked crisp. One of my progeny had the smoked brisket sando ($26). I didn't try the sandwich, since it was inhaled in seconds, but I deduce it was good. The fries I snagged were crispy on the outside, tender on the inside -- great! The other progeny had a L'il Rippers (children's menu) grilled cheese with fries ($12). She enjoyed it, but evidently not as much as my mac 'n' cheese, ribs, and cornbread, which she heavily poached. There are many good local beers on tap, from clean taps based on what we tried. There's a hand-written menu in the back room by the pool table, which listed $5 specials. This restaurant, partly owned by Olympic snowboarder Scott Wescott (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Wescott), is clearly very popular. (There was a 20 minute wait on a Friday evening, even on the dregs of the Sugarloaf ski season.) I think it probably draws Carrabassett Valley Academy students, families, and staff, given that this well-known ski and snowboard school is just a short walk away. Customers are a great mix of teenagers and young adults, old people, families, Mainers and tourists -- and everyone seems to have a good time. The pool table, dart boards, and arcade are fun for kids of all ages. We were given a compostable (non-waxed) cardboard box for leftovers. Appreciate the planet-friendly approach. The bartender in the back room was great -- so nice and helpful. Wait staff were nice, but no-nonsense in that extremely competent Mainer sort of way. It's easy to see why The Rack is popular.

The Rack has always been the best Apres Ski bar in the east, serving up amazing live music and…read moredrinks that will have you struggling to make first chair. But in the past 2-3 years, their food game has gotten a complete make-over for the better. Our family's go-to is the Mexican Corn Street Nachos, add chicken, but recently we branched out more and let me tell you...it has not disappointed! Most recently, I had the Hot Pastrami Reuben (but had them remove the spicy components because #heartburn) and WOW, that was one of the best reubens I've ever had. not only that, but the pastrami itself was some of the best tasting pastrami ever. So juicy, flavorful, and not overly fatty. The BBQ is also phenominal. Maybe the post-skiing hunger and good beer selection makes me biased but hey....it really is good!

Perhaps it was our mistake for not ordering the burger. That seems like what everyone gets excited…read moreabout, here. What we had, instead, over the course of a few visits: four different pizzas, three different salads, a few sandwiches, and lots of different beers. The pizzas were made with a thicker-style crust, I guess what might be called Greek-style in CT: thicker than a NY-style crust, thinner than a Chicago-style crust, and middle-of-the-road glutinous. Toppings were in good balance, a not-overly-sweet tomato sauce topped with just the right amount of cheese in our view. Pepperoni comes in wide strips cut from sandwich-sized slices, and versions we ordered with peppers or olives came with a fair amount of each. Our contingent of pizza snobs enjoyed, but did not love these pies. Sandwiches were pretty spendy, but appeared to be nicely filled, e.g. with chicken salad or deli meat, cheese, and veggies. The primary consumers said they were "okay." The three salads we tried (Cobb, beet, and King's Bag) were weak: so wimpy and mediocre for the price. (The ones down at D'Ellie's were far better!) I would emphatically not get these again. A few of our beers tasted as though they'd come from taps that hadn't been properly cleaned in a while. (Others were fine.) We hear there's a robust apres ski / evening scene here at times.... and the restaurant sure smells like it! It sounds like this restaurant has some strengths, which I guess we didn't quite hit. I'd come back with friends for apres ski drinks -- but probably not so much for the food (unless those drinks need absorbing).

Perfectly decent food, especially being a ski resort! Fish and chips special was perfectly tasty,…read morewith the haddock being of appropriate flakiness. Steamed broccoli was probably frozen, but that's what I get for ordering the default fry substitute.

Super fun place to be at Reggaefest with DJs but the lines are literally sometimes 40 people long…read moreto get your bracelet to get in, or to get drinks/food. $20 bloody marys is criminal haha but very good. Just so much ice and so little liquid.

Love the drinks and food! Fried chicken sandwich is awesome! All day breakfast sandwich is also…read moreawesome!