Guidebook for Freeport

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Guidebook for Freeport

Essentials

A great variety of organic and Maine made items; fresh veggies; world class wine and liquors; pre-cooked meals; and they have lobsters and will cook them for you. Best grocery store on the planet.
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Bow Street Market
79 Bow St
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A great variety of organic and Maine made items; fresh veggies; world class wine and liquors; pre-cooked meals; and they have lobsters and will cook them for you. Best grocery store on the planet.

Shopping

Its more than the stores. Concerts in the summer and the Adventure trips provide full and half day recreational opportunities for kids and adults. Wicked good!
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L.L. Bean Factory Store
95 Main St
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Its more than the stores. Concerts in the summer and the Adventure trips provide full and half day recreational opportunities for kids and adults. Wicked good!
The best handmade Maine furniture you can buy. Period. Also a nice art gallery to complement the furniture displays. Linda Bail's art is on display here regularly.
Thos. Moser Freeport Showroom
149 Main St
The best handmade Maine furniture you can buy. Period. Also a nice art gallery to complement the furniture displays. Linda Bail's art is on display here regularly.
Ok. We're preppy and love this store. Great buys for way less than you pay in Greenwich or the Vineyard.
Vineyard Vines Outlet
58 Main St
Ok. We're preppy and love this store. Great buys for way less than you pay in Greenwich or the Vineyard.
If you need a pharmacy while here, this is the place.
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CVS
51 Market St
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If you need a pharmacy while here, this is the place.
First, the map gives an incorrect location. It is off Old Litchfield Road. This is really a funky place: homemade bread and rolls plus local crafts. Two retired teachers make good. Go!!!
Bessie's Farm Goods
1 Grace Ln
First, the map gives an incorrect location. It is off Old Litchfield Road. This is really a funky place: homemade bread and rolls plus local crafts. Two retired teachers make good. Go!!!
Really good high end local craftspeople have this as their co-op. Been around 40+ years, so they must be doing something right.
Abacus
36 Main St
Really good high end local craftspeople have this as their co-op. Been around 40+ years, so they must be doing something right.
Class jewelry hand-artisaned by Freeport's best. Great people run the place and very reasonably priced. Come on! Your best squeeze is worth it!
Brown Goldsmiths
11 Mechanic St
Class jewelry hand-artisaned by Freeport's best. Great people run the place and very reasonably priced. Come on! Your best squeeze is worth it!

Arts & Culture

One of the best small liberal arts colleges in the country; great museum; in summer, the Maine State Music Theater has summer stock shows.
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Bowdoin College
255 Maine St
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One of the best small liberal arts colleges in the country; great museum; in summer, the Maine State Music Theater has summer stock shows.
Great museum known for its Winslow Homer collection plus world class traveling exhibits. Sign up to do a tour of Homer's Studio on Prout's Neck. It's worth every penny.
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Портлендский музей искусств
7 Congress Sq
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Great museum known for its Winslow Homer collection plus world class traveling exhibits. Sign up to do a tour of Homer's Studio on Prout's Neck. It's worth every penny.
It's a hike to Rockland (about an hour and a half), but the Farnsworth is well worth it. Home of a boatload of paintings from the Wyeths. Good day trip and there are great restaurants in Rockland.
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Художественный музей Фарнсворт
16 Museum St
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It's a hike to Rockland (about an hour and a half), but the Farnsworth is well worth it. Home of a boatload of paintings from the Wyeths. Good day trip and there are great restaurants in Rockland.
You won't believe this place! Check out the Fairy Cottages along with world-class landscape gardening. If you like gardens, this place is for you.
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Botanical Gardens Drive
Botanical Gardens Drive
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You won't believe this place! Check out the Fairy Cottages along with world-class landscape gardening. If you like gardens, this place is for you.
Neat spot to visit; organic everything plus cross country skiing in the winter. Good family visiting.
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Фермы Пайнленд
15 Farm View Dr
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Neat spot to visit; organic everything plus cross country skiing in the winter. Good family visiting.

Food Scene

Great pizza, outdoor eating in-season, and innovative menu. Also best bar in town.
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Tuscan Brick Oven Bistro
140 Main St
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Great pizza, outdoor eating in-season, and innovative menu. Also best bar in town.
Want to eat lobster or fried clams on the dock? This is the spot for Freeport.
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Harraseeket Lunch and Lobster Company
36 Main St
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Want to eat lobster or fried clams on the dock? This is the spot for Freeport.
Great pizza and takeout. Get the Hercules and take 6 Lipitor with it. Heartstopping good.
Antonia's Pizzeria
193 Lower Main St
Great pizza and takeout. Get the Hercules and take 6 Lipitor with it. Heartstopping good.
Best BBQ around, bar none. Take out, too.
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Buck's Naked BBQ
568 US-1
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Best BBQ around, bar none. Take out, too.
The Broad Arrow Tavern at the Harraseeket Inn is a solid "go-to" for Maine fare plus a pretty good bar. The main dining room at the Inn has a broader menu of fine food. Linda's art is on the walls
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Harraseeket Inn
162 Main St
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The Broad Arrow Tavern at the Harraseeket Inn is a solid "go-to" for Maine fare plus a pretty good bar. The main dining room at the Inn has a broader menu of fine food. Linda's art is on the walls
Our go-to Vietnamese restaurant. Right next to the Bowdoin College Campus.
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Lemongrass Vietnamese Restaurant
212 E Maine St
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Our go-to Vietnamese restaurant. Right next to the Bowdoin College Campus.
Like a gillion flavors of Gelato. What's not to like?
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The Gelato Fiasco
74 Maine St
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Like a gillion flavors of Gelato. What's not to like?
It takes 45 minutes to get there; it is on the end of the peninsula, and it is the place for lobster stew, clam chowder, scallops wrapped in bacon, and to-die-for homemade blueberry muffins. Goforit!
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Dolphin Marina & Restaurant
515 Basin Point Rd
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It takes 45 minutes to get there; it is on the end of the peninsula, and it is the place for lobster stew, clam chowder, scallops wrapped in bacon, and to-die-for homemade blueberry muffins. Goforit!
You heard about the Portland foodie scene? This is the poster child. More than food; culinary art and imagination. Only place better in the US is the French Laundry in Napa.
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Hugo's
88 Middle St
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You heard about the Portland foodie scene? This is the poster child. More than food; culinary art and imagination. Only place better in the US is the French Laundry in Napa.
Guys who own Hugo's own Eventide, too (its next door). Artisnal oysters from all over the east coast cooked and served in imaginative ways. More foodie heaven.
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Eventide Oyster Co.
86 Middle St
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Guys who own Hugo's own Eventide, too (its next door). Artisnal oysters from all over the east coast cooked and served in imaginative ways. More foodie heaven.
What do you do with and old firehouse? Make one of the best restaurants in Portland, that's what. Another stop on the foodie dream circuit of Portland.
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555 Congress St
555 Congress Street
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What do you do with and old firehouse? Make one of the best restaurants in Portland, that's what. Another stop on the foodie dream circuit of Portland.
Funky, tiny and interesting food on Munjoy Hill. Great for lunch.
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The Front Room
73 Congress St
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Funky, tiny and interesting food on Munjoy Hill. Great for lunch.
Same folks who own the Front Room own this, too. Great food in small spaces.
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Blue Spoon
5 Congress St
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Same folks who own the Front Room own this, too. Great food in small spaces.
This is another of the great foodie stops in Portland. More steak and chops than the other spots, but fine wine list and good grille. You won't be disappointed.
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Fore Street
Fore Street
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This is another of the great foodie stops in Portland. More steak and chops than the other spots, but fine wine list and good grille. You won't be disappointed.
Great restaurant and bar in a restored textile mill. Live music, too.
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Frontier
14 Maine St
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Great restaurant and bar in a restored textile mill. Live music, too.
Homemade donuts in the middle of Freeport by the perennial winner of best donut in Maine. Lipitor sold separately.
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Frosty's Donuts
45 Main St
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Homemade donuts in the middle of Freeport by the perennial winner of best donut in Maine. Lipitor sold separately.
Ok, if you have to have your mocha-chocha-loca-latte venti, Freeport has your spot right around the corner from Beans. You know the drill once inside.
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Starbucks
49 Main St
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Ok, if you have to have your mocha-chocha-loca-latte venti, Freeport has your spot right around the corner from Beans. You know the drill once inside.
Portland has a coffee scene as well as a beer scene. Kind of like Seattle, east. This is the mother ship and vanguard of the movement and a must visit when in Portland to get your jazz going.
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Coffee By Design
43 Washington Ave
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Portland has a coffee scene as well as a beer scene. Kind of like Seattle, east. This is the mother ship and vanguard of the movement and a must visit when in Portland to get your jazz going.
This is your basic breakfast place that is old reliable and a great value. In SanFran it would be in an old diner. In Freeport, it is in a little white building that masques greatness.
Freeport Cafe
29 US-1
This is your basic breakfast place that is old reliable and a great value. In SanFran it would be in an old diner. In Freeport, it is in a little white building that masques greatness.
Who likes homemade sticky buns and cinnamon rolls? This tucked away spot has them with regular breakfast fare. A little funky, the staff is well pierced, but the food is to die for.
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Isabella's Café & Bakery
2 School St
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Who likes homemade sticky buns and cinnamon rolls? This tucked away spot has them with regular breakfast fare. A little funky, the staff is well pierced, but the food is to die for.
This bar-restaurant is across the street from the LL Bean flagship store; good food, great bar (particularly outdoor in summer); really good spot for breakfast. Clean and reliable and in town center
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Linda Bean’s
88 Main St
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This bar-restaurant is across the street from the LL Bean flagship store; good food, great bar (particularly outdoor in summer); really good spot for breakfast. Clean and reliable and in town center
You want creative Asian that is world class? This is it. Chef Cara Stadler is a James Beard Finalist and come see why. Oriental creativity in a classic Maine cape. What a combination!
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Tao Yuan
22 Pleasant St
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You want creative Asian that is world class? This is it. Chef Cara Stadler is a James Beard Finalist and come see why. Oriental creativity in a classic Maine cape. What a combination!
Newly renovated and really upgraded the menu. Great waterfront bar and outside seating on the Royal River. Wonderful summer place to take in the full Maine experience.
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Royal River Grill House
106 Lafayette St
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Newly renovated and really upgraded the menu. Great waterfront bar and outside seating on the Royal River. Wonderful summer place to take in the full Maine experience.
Great new brewery. Food from the Nighthawk Kitchen next door.
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Mast Landing Brewing Company
920 Main St
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Great new brewery. Food from the Nighthawk Kitchen next door.
NC comes to ME. Great groove. Just opened and great beers and BBQ. What could go wrong?
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Wilson County Barbecue
82 Hanover St
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NC comes to ME. Great groove. Just opened and great beers and BBQ. What could go wrong?
Great views on Portland Harbor plus really good lobster rolls and beer.
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Luke's Lobster Portland Pier
60 Portland Pier
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Great views on Portland Harbor plus really good lobster rolls and beer.

Everything Else

Right down the street from Bailiwick Cottage; about a mile total distance so you can walk there. Great wooded hikes along the shore. Snowshoe or cross country ski in winter.
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Штатный парк лесов Шеи Вульфа
426 Wolfe's Neck Rd
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Right down the street from Bailiwick Cottage; about a mile total distance so you can walk there. Great wooded hikes along the shore. Snowshoe or cross country ski in winter.
Neat spot in summer; animals, kids stuff, organic veggies. Easy walk over from Bailiwick Cottage
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Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment
184 Burnett Rd
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Neat spot in summer; animals, kids stuff, organic veggies. Easy walk over from Bailiwick Cottage
Good hiking and close to Bailiwick Cottage.
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Государственный парк Брэдбери-Маунтин
528 Hallowell Rd
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Good hiking and close to Bailiwick Cottage.
You want Maine beaches, bold ocean, cold water swimming, sea birds? This is your spot.
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Государственный парк Рейд
375 Seguinland Road
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You want Maine beaches, bold ocean, cold water swimming, sea birds? This is your spot.
Maine does Vodka as well as beer. This local spot shows you how.
Maine Distilleries
437 US-1
Maine does Vodka as well as beer. This local spot shows you how.
Classy stuff at great prices. Deep discount shoes in the lower level, too. Imelda Marcos, keep away!
Cole Haan Outlet - This location
66 Main St
Classy stuff at great prices. Deep discount shoes in the lower level, too. Imelda Marcos, keep away!

Drinks & Nightlife

Ok. Maine has hopped on the craft brewing train big time. Our recent guests have told us that the Maine Beer Company here is Freeport is well worth the stop. Across the street from Bucks BBQ too
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Maine Beer Company
525 US-1
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Ok. Maine has hopped on the craft brewing train big time. Our recent guests have told us that the Maine Beer Company here is Freeport is well worth the stop. Across the street from Bucks BBQ too
More craft beer, this time in Portland. New brewery and great beer. Good part of the Portland craft beer tour.
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Rising Tide Brewing Company
103 Fox St
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More craft beer, this time in Portland. New brewery and great beer. Good part of the Portland craft beer tour.
More craft beer tasting from one of Portland's originals. Our guests say it is worth the stop.
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Allagash Brewing Company
50 Industrial Way
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More craft beer tasting from one of Portland's originals. Our guests say it is worth the stop.
Shipyard Brewing makes THE best Pumpkinseed beer, plus all other sorts, too. The company store also dispensed Capt'n Eli's natural sodas and plenty of good branded clothing items, too. Good stop.
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Shipyard Brewing Company
86 Newbury St
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Shipyard Brewing makes THE best Pumpkinseed beer, plus all other sorts, too. The company store also dispensed Capt'n Eli's natural sodas and plenty of good branded clothing items, too. Good stop.
This is one of the local "go-tos" for beer and burgers; one of Freeport's first brewpubs.
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Gritty McDuff's Freeport Brew Pub
187 Lower Main St
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This is one of the local "go-tos" for beer and burgers; one of Freeport's first brewpubs.
Part of Maine's craft brewing scene, Sea Dog is owned by the Shipyard Brewing folks. This is fish and chips, burgers and beer, and a drop-dead view of the Androscoggin River roaring by.
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Sea Dog Brewing Company
1 Bowdoin Mill Island
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Part of Maine's craft brewing scene, Sea Dog is owned by the Shipyard Brewing folks. This is fish and chips, burgers and beer, and a drop-dead view of the Androscoggin River roaring by.