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Grand Central Cafe

4.3 (57 reviews)
ModerateVegan, Pizza
Closed • Closed

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Moderate noise
Hipster
Casual
Good for kids

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Pepperoni Sausage pizza

Best pizza anywhere near Waterville. Super cool brick oven. Nice people. Freaking delicious.

Kathee C.

Very cute hipster pizza joint. We stopped in on a long drive through Maine on our way to New Hampshire. We all created our own pizzas, and they hit the spot. We received very attentive service. Definitely recommend them if you are in the area.

Slim pizza
Francis Y.

This place has the best thin crust pizza in central Maine. My favorite is the "Slim" which is loaded with lots of fresh veggies. My fiancé loves the "Pepperoni Express" which has pepperoni galore. I appreciate their menu of vegetarian options since I'm trying to eliminate most meats from my diet. Their carrot cake is amazing. I could eat the entire cake. The bummer is that they're not open every day of the week.

Jeff W.

Their brick oven pizza is molte bene. Grand Central Cafe is a hidden gem. The venue is about as unpretentious as it gets and the food is so good. What's more they've got a perfect selection of Maine beers and ales on tap and in the can. Situated next to The Railroad Cinema makes the GCC the perfect place for a bite to eat after watching some cinema at one of Maine's coolest art theaters, which are a dying breed.

Pizza to die for!!
Karen M.

My husband and I have been on a great quest to find GOOD pizza in Maine. While pizza is a staple of the American diet, it seems there are very FEW people who know how to make it well. We found some in Belfast and Ellsworth, but exceedingly far. So I saw the good reviews here and we decided to give it a shot. We were encouraged by the bread dish and dipping oil brought to us by our server. It was good. We felt like the pizza might not disappoint. Our server was a young lady who was very pleasant. My husband ordered a half salad and I ordered the cup of chili because I was as hangry as a bear and thought the pizza would take a while. The salad looked fresh and the chili was generously served with chips. It was a vegetarian chili but still tasted quite good and filling. There is corn in the chili which I am not a fan of, but that's just my personal taste. Well the pizza arrived FAST. And let me tell you, it was FANTASTIC!! In my view good pizza, really good pizza, masters two things-crust and sauce...this pizza, to my surprise, totally DID! YAY! The sauce is hearty and rich, like your Italian grandmother made it. The crust is that old world tasty yet soft and luscious texture that all us true pizza lovers crave. Just spectacular! I was very pleased with the food. They made a mistake on my order and gave me pepperoni instead of red onion-not a pepperoni fan I picked it all off, and probably was missing my onions, but it was so good that all in all I really didn't care all that much. I decided to try the carrot cake..it was also quite good and tasted home made. I was not disappointed there either-although I couldn't eat it all just because my meal was so filling. Overall I was very pleased to have found a truly delicious pizza in the heart of Waterville. The only disappointment I had, which accounts for a docked star is the seating. We has to sit at a small table in the middle of the room, which I HATE. It would be nice if they had booths or tables that were more for quiet people.

Grand Bread w/olive oil and herb dipping cups
Jacqueline G.

Ordered delivery through door dash. Food was great, hot when it got here. I got the pepperoni w half pineapple pizza and then they're bread w some olive oil herb mixture for dipping; both were delicious. I will be ordering again in the future!

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Brick oven pizza! What's not to like? (Except there is no draft beer.)

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Excellent brick oven pizza, arguably the best in town.

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Earth Flow Studio & Cafe

Earth Flow Studio & Cafe

4.1(15 reviews)
40.6 mi

My wife has been practicing bikram yoga for 5 years in NY. It absolutely fixed her back problems…read moreand enabled her to run a marathon. This past year she's really embraced the meditative aspect of yoga. I've started up again in an effort to deal with back and hip problems as I attempt my first marathon. Each summer we visit the Camden / Rockport area. We were so excited to see that a hot yoga studio had opened. The atmosphere at Earth Flow and Fire was absolutely wonderful! Leslie was so kind and welcoming. She took time with each of us to point out adjustments that made a huge difference. I never would have been able to run the hills of Hope and Lincolnville without my visit to the yoga studio. And my wife absolutely loved the Namaste smoothie. We wish the studio great success and encourage everyone in the area to check it out!

I sooooo appreciate that there are healthier and/or plant-based options popping up in cities and…read moretowns all across Maine. We knew we'd be hiking all day (and had a heavy dinner planned) so we stopped at Earth and Flow to pick up some lighter bites. This was around 10am on a Thursday, and we were the only customers. It took about 45 minutes to get our food (no other customers ever came in; it didn't appear they were making any to-go orders). There were two employees that day, one who was making our order and one who was on her phone. We got: 1. Tara's Peanut Butter Heaven smoothie (banana, peanut butter, chocolate, almond milk) and the Tropical Storm smoothie (mango, pineapple, strawberry, orange juice, coconut milk, almond milk): I don't know how this is possible - maybe they were made in the same blender? - but these tasted identical. They were also liquidy. Personally, I prefer my smoothies so thick it's hard to suck through a straw. 2. the Thai wrap (almond-ginger pate, lettuce, mango, red pepper, cabbage, basil, mint, cilantro, ginger almond dipping sauce): this was okay - there was *a lot* of mint stems - but the ginger almond dipping sauce tasted purely of soy sauce - way, way too salty for me. 3. the Sun Tuna wrap (tuna salad made from sunflower seeds, not fish, combined with lemon, Bragg's amino acids, celery, pickles, and romaine lettuce): my favorite of the three! Such a unique take on a vegan tuna, but the celery was literally long uncut stalks. 4. the Sante Fe wrap (cashews, lemon, parsley, cayenne pepper, vegan mayonnaise, black beans and avocado): my partner's favorite of the three, but I found it bland, also there was no avocado and LOTS of romaine... which isn't an ingredient in this wrap. ^ I appreciated that all three wraps came on a bed of lettuce, because the wrap itself was *so* stiff and gummy in texture that we ended up dumping the interior onto the greens and eating it salad style. 5. Earthy Delights (4 Medjool dates stuffed with almond butter, cardamom, and ginger): the BEST thing we got were these stuffed dates. The combination of the rich almond butter, earthy cardamom, and spicy ginger were unlike anything I've had in recent memory. Do not miss out on these! For me, this missed the mark. But it's fantastic that an option like this exists in Rockland.

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The Green Elephant - Char Guay Teow

The Green Elephant

4.6(738 reviews)
69.8 mi•Arts District, West End
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It appears I never have completed a review before. We have eat here several times over the years…read morewhen we drive over to the coast. Each time we have had wonderful service, awesome food and enjoyed the calming atmosphere. It's great when I get to eat in a vegetarian or Vegan restaurant and they're able to ask the check what they recommend for very low sodium! This never happens at any of the chain restaurants! I got the credit card receipt so I'm thinking last month I ordered the citrus ribs, which I know I would love and what I did get was awesome, my DH dish was also awesome! It's so hard to choose what to get when you finally have options outside of pasta, Mushroom this or that-that we don't eat! Lily our server was great! Looking forward to coming back when we head hours East again! Thank you for an amazing meal and night!

I visited their Portsmouth, NH location and this location 8 years and recall loving it, so I was…read moreexcited to check out this location again. First thing to note is that the menu seems to have changed substantially, offering more Thai-adjacent and pan-Asian food than authentically Thai food. I ordered their coconut soup (Tom Kha; $10) to start and a local mushroom bowl as my main--both vegan by default. It took a while for the food to come out--maybe 20 mins for the soup and another 15 for the main. The soup was nicely seasoned, maybe being a bit too thick, and not allowing the galangal/lime leaf to breathe as much as it should. But I liked how it came with red pepper, tomato, mushroom and tofu. The main was not really Thai at all, coming with a rather stingy portion of tempeh, two kinds of mushrooms, red pepper, Lima beans, and microgreens. Reasonably seasoned but just not that interesting. Overall, disappointing relative to my previous experience, but still pretty good.

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Taste of Maine - Double lobster with corn on the cob. So good!!

Taste of Maine

3.6(350 reviews)
44.7 mi
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Excellent service & view! Clam chowder and bacon wrapped scallops were awesome! Followed up with a…read morelobster roll with fries!! Ample, easy parking. Will definitely stop n again!

absolutely a rip off went here for the first time late june 2026 got the seafood medley while it…read morewas edible. hardly any bread crumbs on it i added a lobster tail for extra $10 bucks are u kidding me it was the size of my pinky i would have paid an extra $20 to get a normal big tail this Place is a definite tourist trap the decor is strange but the lamps are pretty i almost fell over when i saw the price of the lobster roll $160.00 Even though its very long umm are u serious I tried a bite from our party too much mayo they dont even pack into the roll it just sits right there on top of the roll there not the best! Ive been to many places all around and this aint happening!!! no flavor at all !!!!!!! there rootbeer tasted like crap, bitter, almost chemical like taste coming from a bottle it wasnt the restaurants fault but I couldn't drink it, nice view of the water thats about it almost $300 for the bill thank god I wasnt paying NEVER ever again would i go back neverrrrrr my assumption is this place is what the locals are USED to especially the older people cause its all they know or its close by I cant speak for the rest of the food maybe a few things are good maybe but again its not worth the drive NO matter what state your coming from... never again save your money and go to another spot where the seafood is way better trust me I dont lie about food and if there are some other bad reviews then this isnt the place of the best outta the best

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Grand Central Cafe - vegan - Updated October 2026

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