Anglers Restaurant — Restaurant in Searsport

Anglers is a Seafood/Fishing themed restaurant that can be located without a fishfinder next to Baits Motel. Yes, not THAT Bates Motel which made showers famous but one that is also fishing themed. Play on words and all that, anyway. Anglers has reeled in a 5 Star rating from this reviewer. Here’s why:

We entered this eatery on a Thursday in the late afternoon and it wasn’t crowded. We usually don’t stop because it is ordinarily shoaled as a recently revealed secret fishing hole. So today there was no wait time and their customer service was excellent. The atmosphere was very relaxed and the place was heavily decorated with Fishing paraphernalia, that was quite awesome. It was a reviewer’s dream for picture taking and just generally a FUN place. The wait staff all had cool sayings on the backs of their shirts like “Fishing: A jerk on one end of a line waiting for a jerk on the other end”. The food was excellent. My friend had the lobster roll but we still had enough $$$ left over for me to get more than a piece of bread and water soup (Unlike some places). Seriously tho, the orange chicken was zestily delicious and they had pickled beets as a side! The menu was a full boat of selections. I don’t give a lot of 5 stars, but this is no fish story, Anglers is worth the trip. I can’t wait to try the other two locations!

Good Service, Atmosphere and Food. So if you come to the State that has a lobster on it’s license plates or are already lucky enough to live here, don’t let this one be the one...

Vibe is like a town diner, which I like, not pretentious. This was about all I was happy about unfortunately. Ordered haddock and scallops. Haddock was overcooked and the scallops were cut in half? I get they are trying to make weight, but I’ve cooked in many restaurants, have made broiled scallops many times, and never did I cut one in half to make weight. Not served in the dish they were broiled in which I find curious as well. Side of broccoli was swimming in its juices and the pieces were huge. Fries weren’t even brought out, I had to ask for them and when they got to me they were absolutely saturated in fryer oil, which means the oil wasn’t hot enough, or they recooked some previously cooked fries. Which brings me to service. I generally don’t care about a smile and super happy attitude, but this server just seemed to not give a damn. They would disappear in the back for extended times and was pretty short with us. Could be a bad day, so benefit of the doubt. Its difficult to convey with words, but the general feeling is lack of pride, lack of any attention to detail. I won’t repeat the story because it’s hearsay but a server at another local place gave me an earful about the owner here and I tend to believe it given the general state of the food and service at this place. I won’t be back and I would caution others to...

I had a gift card to anglers so we went to redeem it at the hampden location and i was disgusted. I noticed something that looked like blood on my napkin and some stuck on food on my fork so i asked the server for a different set of flatware she took it away and brought a new napkin and our drinks and tried to give me the same fork as she leaned on our table taking our order crumbs were falling off of her apron into our drinks. That's not all. As i was looking for a manager to make them aware i was passed in the dinning room by one of the cooks which was still wearing his apron with all sort of stuff just falling off him. I finally found a manager and told them I'd just like to leave. She didn't even ask why so as i was explaining why i got a sorry but she was very disconnected and nonchalant attitude. So the next week we went to the searsport location just to redeem our gift card and was treated rudely by whom ever checked us out when one of my coupons wasn't valid yet he said "this ain't good yet" and sort of tossed it at me. Sorry but i won't be spending any of my hard earned cash with these folks ever. Ps. I'm a professional chef. So i definitely know when a scallop is cooked properly and leaving the cartilage in is a...