6 Best Restaurants in Brooklin, Sedgwick, and Brooksville, Blue Hill Peninsula and Deer Isle

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.

Like the inn that houses it, this restaurant was modernized in 2021 and has seating in the dining room, bar, or garden. Items on its ever-changing menu feature local and seasonal produce and might include littleneck clams with tomato confit, lamb chops with mint and cucumber relish, or hand-rolled ricotta gnocchi. The bar menu offers small production wines, Maine craft beer, and creative spirits.

Tinder Hearth is well known in these part for its amazing pastries and wood-oven-baked breads, but it also makes pizza that's delicious enough to plan your whole week around—a must given that you have to reserve your pie days in advance, especially since the restaurant was named one of the nation's best by the New York Times. It's worth the bother, though, as the crust is thin but chewy, and the toppings are a mix of the classic and the inventive. Other options on the menu include local beer, good wine, oysters, and ice cream.

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

This full-service restaurant replicates the famous food truck (a trailer, really) by the same name that is parked on Isle au Haut. The menu consists of yummy rolls, sandwiches, and baskets, most of them featuring seafood from local waters.

Good beer, wood-fired pizza, and, occasionally, live music—it's a combination that fits perfectly into a lazy day of leisurely exploring the Blue Hill Peninsula. Recent renovations have upgraded the dining room, rendering it even more cozy than before, and the menu now spotlights new pizza styles (the dough is made in-house) and a bigger craft cocktail program.