Currents Seafood and Bar
TRENTON—If fresh seafood, craft cocktails, local beer, and music sounds like a good combination and a great time to you, then you should probably head over to Currents which opened June 1, 2025.
After running the bar last year at the previous restaurant where Currents is located, Woodfin was given the opportunity to take over the restaurant space and jumped on it. Since then, it has become a “passion project” for him as well as an all-consuming job to craft a restaurant and bar destination that he would want to patronize if he was visiting another locale and looking for a great place to hang out.
Woodfin and his contractor, Michael Fillmore of A Design, have completely renovated the entire building to include a brand-new kitchen with a newly poured concrete floor, new appliances, and new FRP paneling on the walls.
Boiled lobster and lobster rolls, while popular favorites, seemed very constricting as a menu base to Woodfin, so he and his executive chef, Tyler Roberts, have been developing an expanded menu of seafood offerings including chilled lobster salad with burrata, lobster poutine, scallop risotto, prosciutto wrapped scallops, and lobster mac and cheese. Of course, there are meat based options available as well like, short rib, Steak frites, and a smash burger.
The bar and restaurant will feature craft cocktails, locally brewed beers, and live music on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 6 – 8 p.m. every week.
“I’m extremely happy with the music lineup that we have for the season. As someone who is a member of the local musician pool, I can say that the amount of musical talent we have locally is absolutely incredible. All of our bands are local and many are lifelong friends that I can’t wait to rock the stage,” Woodfin said.
Currents has a planned opening date of June 1 and while Woodfin admits there is a lot of work still to be done, he says that they are getting close.
Rum Runners
Woodfin’s first business venture, Rum Runners was built in a repurposed ambulance. It was conceptualized as a mobile bartending service that actually carries its own liquor license making it easier and less work for the event’s planner.
According to Woodfin, most mobile bartending services in the state simply rent a bar and bartenders to an event and serve alcohol that the event organizer purchased themselves. Rum Runners comes fully stocked with beer, wine and alcohol. Of course, non-alcoholic drinks arrive onboard as well.
“I knew when I started the company that I wanted to bring the full brick and mortar bar experience to any event,” Woodfin said.
To that end, Woodfin fashioned a full bar that sits behind the ambulance when set up. It is behind this bar that Woodfin and his “partner in business and life,” Sally Lockhart, perform the magic that helps make their customers events more memorable.
Lockhart and Woodfin are a two-person team, according to Woodfin, and not only operate every Rum Runners venue together but while “she would argue that I do all of the work, she’s been instrumental in making the business happen and keeps our life in order when I’m busy trying to figure out things like how to make an ice maker work in the back of an ambulance.”
Not wanting to be cut off from their bar guests, Woodfin opted for the bar rather than a window cut into the side of the ambulance through which to pass drinks.
Woodfin believes “there’s a romanticism of the bartender creating the perfect drink for the customer in front of them and sliding it across the bar whether that’s a dive, a tiki bar, or a fancy cocktail joint.”
While it may seem that it’s coming down to the wire for Currents to be open by June 1, Woodfin seems to thrive operating on a tight timeline and has confidence that he will make it, even if there a few small loose ends left. He’s proven that with Rum Runners.
“I actually woke up at 4 the following morning to drive it (the still red-colored ambulance) down to Auburn for Mad Monkey to do the wrap on it” following Rum Runners first event, a benefit for Acadia Community Theater, said Woodfin.
“I could not be more excited for the world to see what we’ve been working on,” Woodfin said about Currents, his newest project, but this statement applies to all of his projects and productions.
1192 Bar Harbor Road, Trenton
(207) 664-0938