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    The Hoot

    4.6 (165 reviews)
    Open 5:00 pm - 8:00 PM

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    Quiet
    Casual
    Outdoor seating
    Good for kids

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    Polenta, kale, ham.  I skipped the poached egg
    Linda R.

    What a great breakfast surprise! We aren't brunch people, we are breakfast people so up until now we haven't been to The Hoot other than for dinner. But now....its a whole new story as they are opening at 7:00 am on some weekdays. Menu has egg classics and waffles, donuts, home made hash. Totally yum. This is a farm to table restaurant and everything really seemed to be home made. Coffee is self serve with a "select your mug" rack. I love this model because there are three different organic coffees at the coffee station and I can refill whenever I am ready. Breakfast items were all delish. Service was great. Fast and friendly. Nice tables, beautiful artwork by local artists adorn the walls. Parking was good but we were early. I have seen a full lot many times so be ready for a tight squeeze. This place is definitely worth the visit!

    Blueberry pancakes
    Hillary L.

    Upon arrival, we were greeted by the host who let us know it would be just a few minutes and to please help ourselves to some coffee. They have a table setup with a variety of coffees and a bookcase filled with mismatching coffee mugs. This is brilliant and I wish more breakfast spots would copy. My husband and I split a couple of dishes because everything sounded too delicious to just attempt one taste. Both meals rose to the occasion. I believe they change out their menu with seasonal flavors. We enjoyed fresh blueberry pancakes and honeybun french toast. Everything was fresh and I don't think we left even a drop on our plates. The restaurant itself is quaint and feels almost barn-like on the inside. It's very open with tall ceilings. There is an outdoor seating area as well.

    Streetview
    John H.

    This is a great spot. Travelling through the area and found this place and were lucky enough to get a table on a Sun around noon. They had seating on the patio outside (which looked inviting) and comfortable spots inside as well. My bride ordered the North African Green Shakshuka ($15) and enjoyed the dish but thought it was a little too watery and should have been served in a bowl so the pita wasn't wet/soggy. I ordered the Smoked Salmon Omlete ($17) and it was a great choice. It's a very chill atmposhere and they do a great job creating a comfortable dining experience. Service from Kaylen and the entire team was super friendly!

    Corned beef and Hash with Eggs
    Emily H.

    The ambiance was awesome here! The food was super flavorful but the toast was a little rubbery. The banana pineapple bread was soft and delicious! The service was pretty darn slow though. If the service had been better I'd given a 4 star review.

    Jessica D.

    After one negative experience here, I had become disillusioned, but clearly it was just an off day and not indicative of this restaurant overall. When we return this year, Service was fantastic and attentive, and the food was just as wonderful as ever. The atmosphere and vibe is lovely for brunch or dinner and the cocktails are always on point, check it out!

    Anna P.

    Amazing! I love how you just pick a mug and help yourself to coffee. The staff was delightful and the food was delicious! It felt like home in that I got to enjoy coffee by the window in a beautifully decorated room.. but an amazing restaurant in that I was served a tasty meal that I didn't have to cook!

    Lemon Ricotta Pancakes
    Anna S.

    YUMMY!!!!! Perfection on a sunday morning. Love the coffee station. Pancakes were perfect lemon to sweet to buttery flavor!

    Eggs Benedict with fried chicken and lemon ricotta pancakes
    Ji Hea K.

    Surprised by how good the side of kimchi was --- further along on the fermentation process, mellow flavor, and good mix of salt, spice and tang. Enjoyed the eggs benedict and preferred it without using the "hollandaise" sauce. Pancakes were delicious but a little overly sweet for me. Husband really enjoyed it though! Service was slow, which is expected when places are understaffed. Super nice though and patient even though our table and the large one a little ways over were still there after official closing time.

    Peach Bellini, mimosa, prickly pear mimosa, Bloody Mary
    Shelly S.

    Started off with the banana pineapple bread. It was toasted, warm and it only lasted on the plate but a few minutes! It was delicious! The omelettes were filled with fresh ingredients and were so tasty. Fresh tomatoes, sausage, cheese...mmm. The potatoes were delicious too especially since I'm not a big eater of potatoes at breakfast, but I couldn't stop eating them. The Focaccia bread was warm, soft and plentiful.

    Korean Night Menu
    M D.

    We ate at The Hoot twice today. First, we did take-out for brunch. Hubby got the delicious Breakfast Burrito, and I made the mistake of ordering two cider donuts. They are huge, so one was plenty! :-) It was delicious, although just a teeny bit dry in the thickest parts. Still, I snarfed it down. I still prefer 'county fair' cider donuts--smaller, more cake-like and melt-in-your-mouth tender. The Hoot's donuts were very good, but not 'fair donut' good. The Monday dinner menu was intriguing, so we decided to give it a try. It was Korean night. On Mondays, they have a single entree, and then a number of small plates. The menu is more limited, so if you're not inclined to the entree, you might opt to go 'tapas' style. We were both eager to try the Bibimbap with Bulgogi Beef ($25). The food was tasty, but it missed the mark on two fronts. First, Bibimbap is great not only because of the flavors, but the way it is prepared and served. It's usually served in a sizzling hot bowl, so as you eat, the rice on the bottom forms this crispy brown crust that also incorporates the flavors from the ingredients and sauces. It would have been EASY to crisp up the rice in a hot pan, giving it that crunch and warmth and then topping it with the tasty morsels of carrot, greens, sprouts, Bulgogi and shiitake mushrooms and give it that extra flavor, texture and authenticity. The Hoot's Bibimbap, while tasty, had none of that authenticity or soul. It's served at room temperature. It's not hot, it's not cold, and it's not quite Bibimbap. However, the Bulgogi beef was meltingly tender and tasty, and the Gochujang sauce was so very yummy. The second miss was the fried egg. It was fried almost hard. It's great when you have a softly fried egg on top of the Bibimbap where you break the yolk and it runs down and mixes with the other ingredients. Having a floppy, overcooked, flabby fried egg on top was kind of grossly unappetizing. While these issues with the food didn't fully detract from enjoying the meal, I found the service to be wholly lackluster. Our server never once checked on us after serving our meal. She came back after we were finished. I also asked her specifically not to put any onions or scallions on my Bibimbap, and of course, both our bowls came garnished with scallions. To her credit, she did offer to remake mine. But I wasn't about to wait another 20 minutes for them to remake my meal due to a few scallions, and, well, I wasn't about to ask them to remake my meal due to a few scallions. However, the server just dismissed it then and never mentioned it again. It was service with a fake smile. For dessert, we had the poached Asian pear in ginger syrup and black peppercorn with cinnamon ice cream. That was the star of the evening. The flavors together were outstanding. I almost licked the bowl! I found that the quality of food was good (albeit a bit pricey for what you get), but the lackluster service and the few details that missed the mark make me give The Hoot four stars instead of five. The food is tasty, but lacks attention to the fine details, and the service can use some work. And c'mon guys, learn to fry an egg the way it should be fried, okay? Rubber eggs are unappetizing any way you plate it. ***** Went back again this morning to try their brunch. The Lemon Ricotta pancakes were really delicious, with a lovely orange zest compound butter and maple syrup. The texture was fabulous--light, but dense as well due to the ricotta. It was almost like marrying a pancake and a crepe. The Peach Bellini was tasty--not too sweet. Service was much better, but we were seated and served by one of the owners/managers. I think the gal we had the other night was just phoning it in. If I could, I would up my rating to 4.5 stars.

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    Have had dinner and breakfast here. 5 star rating, delicious, cool vibe, great staff!

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    Good food and surprisingly cheap. Cute atmosphere. Would visit again. Get the balsamic spritz it's fantastic

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    This was our favorite breakfast in Maine by far! Finally a cafe that has proper tea AND an excellent breakfast. Four very happy foodies!

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    Black Moon Public House

    4.6(13 reviews)
    29.8 mi

    We had a great time at Black Moon. The night we were there, they had live music. It is a very…read morewelcoming cocktail bar and restaurant. We were standing near the bar, and one of the bartenders invited us to sit and moved chairs around for us. Service was excellent and very friendly. We had the roasted tomato burrata sandwich and flatbread. Each were great. This is such a cool place, there is a vinyl store within the restaurant, but it was closed when we there. There also was an area they sell guitars, all so random, but fit so well together. A very cool, comfy place to enjoy drinks, food and music.

    This pub has great ambience. We had come from Acadia National Park and needed some good food and…read morebeverages and the Black Moon Pub did not disappoint. The historic building has a tin roof and a wooden bar that eeks history. Our waitress was so welcoming and made us feel right at home. I enjoyed the roasted tomato burrata baguette sandwich and it was toasted and tasty. Several of my dining partners also had the same sandwich. Another had the Warm Roasted Root Vegetable Salad that she said was wonderful. We finished the meal with generous portions of carrot cake topped with delicious cream cheese frosting. There is a store inside the Black Moon (that happened to be closed on a Saturday night). In the corner they sell vinyl records and CDs and there is also a selection of guitars. There was also a musician playing live music near the front of the pub that really added to the atmosphere. It was a truly great find right on Main Street in Ellsworth.

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    In Good Company

    4.2(180 reviews)
    20.3 mi
    $$$

    Excellent meal. Beef cooked to requests. Limited menu but delicious choices. Bret wine list…read more Service is very good. Small space that can be noisy. Recommended for an outstanding dinner.

    It was ok but it did not impress me. Though the food was mostly good and the space was nice, the…read moremenu was rather limiting, the dishes had flaws, and the service was a bit off with regard to timing. I had a Black Manhattan cocktail, supposedly differing from an ordinary Manhattan by use of a different kind of bitters (Amaro) and "filthy cherries." These seemed like basic good quality maraschinos to me (3); nothing "filthy" about them. Nevertheless it was good, fruity, and ample strength. The appetizer selection was small and heavy on bread-based items. (No free table bread was available - grrrr.) Most didn't appeal but the Roasted Garlic did, served with bread (2 kinds: a toasted crostini and a fresh crusty sourdough). The garlic was a whole head, sliced open for easy access and presented on a very hot plate, sweet and mellow from long slow roasting, and served with a choice of cheeses (molten blue, brie, whipped feta, or chèvre) - I chose chèvre and it was very good and a generous portion. A very simple dish not often encountered in restaurants. In retrospect this was the best part of the meal. I felt a little rushed at times and impatient at other times. It took a very long time to get the appetizer so I had nothing to dilute the effects of the strong cocktail. But then more than once I was asked about my entree before I was ready; once when ordering the appetizer and another time soon after I received it and hadn't made up my mind yet. I held my ground and told them I wasn't quite ready, and they accepted that and I took my time eating. There was an eclectic selection of wines by the glass. I had an interesting rosé from Slovenia. My entree was a roasted fish filet (halibut I think? It's no longer listed on the menu) served over a tomato-based sauce. This sauce was richly scented and complex and the plate was attractively garnished with micro greens. But the fish was on the small side and the flavor was monotonous - no discernible browning on the top. The other component, probably an herby cucumber-yogurt sauce resembling raita, which should have been a cool complement to the hot tomato broth, instead was melting unattractively and dispersing into it. Perhaps most disappointing, there was nothing else to this dish. It needed a starch or something (rice, boiled potatoes, or even more of those very good breads from the appetizer - wish I had saved some.) So it's good I got the appetizer first, or I would have left rather hungry. Desserts were also very limited and most didn't appeal. I decided on the Clafouti, which is a baked tart, thicker and heavier than flan, with fruit (black cherries) It was way too hot, didn't have enough fruit, and ice cream would be a far better choice than the amorphous blob of whipped cream it was served with. I should have skipped dessert. It was so boring. As for ambience: it's a crowded, noisy place but in a pleasing way. Very small, and I had reserved one of the 6 seats at the bar (I was dining solo). It's whimsically decorated, like with the grape-covered nude statue holding a candle. There was attractive artwork on the walls, some of which I believe was for sale. I did detect smoky odors coming from the kitchen that other reviewers have noted but I consider that a positive thing, not a negative. So come here if you wish. Check it out and form your own opinion. As for me, I wasn't sufficiently impressed and wouldn't return.

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    A tiny kitchen that produces deliciousness

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    Blueberry cheesecake

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