Where Everyone Knows Your Oyster: A Night at the Barnacle
Small Space, Big Flavor: The Barnacle’s Secret to Bar Harbor Nights
On a random Tuesday night in Bar Harbor’s Main Street strip, oyster lovers and cocktail lovers saunter into the Barnacle Pub and Oyster Bar, sidle up to its bar or one of the few high tops and breathe.
From old-time Bar Harbor locals, clean-cut bankers who have just loosened their ties, to the cool guy currently living on a sail boat, everyone sips their perfectly made cocktails and then maybe even partakes in some local oysters.
The bartenders there?
They know it all.
But don’t know it in a judgmental way. Instead, they let you lean in and hear their secrets.
Sip a Paloma Kombucha Margarita.
Slurp Cadillac oysters from Frenchman Bay that are served on crushed ice with our house mignonette and lemon wedges. Not into the raw shellfish? No worries, try a Sweet Hot Manchego Panini.
It’s all good.
That’s the secret here, right? It’s all good. It’s little. There aren’t a ton of food offerings but there doesn’t need to be because everything is excellent.
THE DETAILS:
112 Main Street
Bar Harbor, ME, 04609
United States
p: 207-801-9249
The website? Right here.
The hours? Spring: open daily, 3pm-1am. Galley open ‘til 9pm.