Atlantic Brewing Midtown — Restaurant in Bar Harbor

I'm going to give these guys a solid endorsement here, this very well might be my pick for best deal in the town at the moment. I've always ignored their tasting room in the past in preference of the brewery but I like that you can get some food and some beers here and not break the bank. You have a few seating choices in a fairly open floorplan. As far as the beer, they had their regular brews from the brewery and I was told they will be having some one-offs and such brewed at the tasting room (about time you went back to some one-offs). Either way you get fresh/local brewed beer. The menu is extremely limited which makes choosing simpler. We got burgers and fries both times, no complaints at all, cooked as requested, good flavors. I imagine this place will be a madhouse at peak season. Some of the staff there appeared less experienced with working in a brewpub type atmosphere and could use some guidance in being customer oriented, keeping the drinks flowing, glasses filled, know your beer, etc. Anyhow, the good of this place far outweighs a few fixable issues. I've been a few times and will be back more. ...

When we arrived we waited a little bit while servers and the hostess were doing things. Once seated we were greeted by a waiter. He asked to take our order, though we weren't ready yet.

He came back a few minutes later. I felt a little rushed as I was trying to read their menu and make a decision on what to eat. We ordered truffle fries, a Ruben with a side salad, and a haddock sandwich. I wasn't offered a dressing with my salad, which was odd. The ruben was okay, the truffle fries were way greasy - way better truffle fries at Paddy's down the street. The haddock sandwich was okay, didn't taste any citrus with the tartar sauce. We also order blueberry Ale- we've had it at 4 different places and it was a lot stronger at a different bar.

We also had a flight. The first one (Real Ale) on the list didn't taste like much, the 2nd one (Blueberry Ale) was good, 3rd one (Caddillac Mountain Stout) - I don't like stouts so it was gross, but my husband liked it., 4th one (Mountain Hopper Ipa) tasted similar to other IPA's, and the last one (Summer Ale) tasted like...

What a dud. We had such high expectations for this place after seeing it being built two years ago and were looking forward to finally coming this year, and it was nothing but disappointing. This should be a home run for Atlantic Brewing - a restaurant in the middle of the tourist district of their hometown? How could you screw this up? They managed. First off - you can't get any standard Atlantic Brewing beer here. It's all micro-brew small -batch stuff, which is just OK, but we came here for their main line stuff and I don't understand why they wouldn't offer it here. The food was mediocre at best - the burgers looked and tasted like something I could make on the grill at home with minimal effort. Service was pretty bad - hard to get the waitress's attention, we never had any silverware, & my wife had to go get some ketchup and napkins from another table herself. Atmosphere was also pretty dull. This could have been so much better in every way with very little effort on...