50 Local — Restaurant in Kennebunk

If you come through the side entrance, there's a cute gift shop you have to check out. 50 Local also had a baby name 58 Main. Check my photos. Also, you can park right there on main street for two hours no worries. 🤗

The staff was pleasant and seemed like they were happy to be there. Apparently the owners must be treating the employees right. This restaurant needs to be on your go-to list. This place was poppin 😚. Blake was our server and he took care of us. I can tell you that servers are exceptional when they hear their name vs "excuse me, excuse me." They know exactly where to turn when they hear their name.

The food and ambiance was excellent. Reservations are required. Go at 5p and have the place to yourself. Get the salad with the poachds egg on top. Perfect for the light eater or hot summer night. The crab 🦀 cakes are served on a thick wooden paddle with spicy mayo and pickled onions. The cake itself is served as a meatball shape not as a cake/paddy. I had the mussel frites (that means fries served on top of the mussels) - ask for them on the side. 💁‍♀️

If you're a bourbon drinker, and am old fashioned doesn't tempt you, and you feeling like you had a donkey 🐴 kind of day? Ask for a mule, they'll make you one. Right on.

The serve fresh hot bread out of the oven (at least at 5p they do) and filtered water...

A recent slushy, Wednesday snow storm provided the perfect opportunity to dine out locally without a reservation. To ward off the bone-chilling wet cold, I went looking for heat - and was not disappointed. Starting with a Six-Point Resin and crispy calamari with a side of lovely dipping sauce, I was soon presented with one of my favorite 50 Local dishes- Tagliatelle. This one was billed as being served with lobster, calamari and mussels fra diavolo. Pasta fra diavolo is served in many places, many ways. What I was yearning for was sustained, but not overpowering heat. This was no less than an amazing dish, definitely the best fra diavolo in my experience, and possibly the best dish I've had, to date, at 50 Local. The sauce was rich and generous; the seafood, excellent, including the most tender lobster ever, and even an occasional surprise shrimp. I ran out of pasta before the seafood was finished, but never ran out of sauce. Thank goodness I saved some bread! Now I just long for foraging season to be able to compare this dish with Tagliatelle with marsla sauce and wild...

I was looking forward to eating at 50 Local for the first time, and had made a reservation a month in advance, but as I ate my meal I was very disappointed and saddened. I made a reservation for, and was seated at, 6:30, but my meal did not come until 8:00. Including entrees and desert, I was unable to get my check until 9:00. I had the Rigatoni Bolognese, which was so acidic and smelly it was practice inedible. There was one entirely solid chunk of ground meat on the top, and the few prices of pasta in the dish were totally over cooked and falling apart. After finishing my entree the entire restaurant was almost empty, and still my desert took half an hour, despite only being sorbet. As I ate dessert I could hear the staff seated at the bar laughing at and making fun of my table, as I had previously asked where the desert was since it had taken so long. Pictured below is the lavender-elderberry sorbet, which was a disappointing and disgusting end to a disappointing and frustrating three...