Great stop from a SxS outing here to take the rumbling hangriness! Plenty of parking out front for…read morecars or your SxS. Service was great for our rowdy group. Plenty of things to keep the team busy between shuffleboard, darts, karaoke or instruments (piano and guitars). Food was quick even with a large group. It was full of flavor and hit the spot prior to returning on our journey. If you are off the beaten path, find the Nook & Cranny and they will take care of your dining needs snd you can have a little fun while waiting as well!

We've spotted this place on many drives up through Calais into Canada, and honestly never gave it…read moremuch thought. It turns out that was a huge mistake: don't judge a book by its cover, and don't judge a restaurant by the facade. The full parking lot should have been the tip-off: this is genuinely great food, prepared by a chef-owner with four decades of high-end experience. You'd be amazed to learn that this little unassuming place is a 100-percent scratch kitchen, turning out both ambitious plates and satisfying, elevated "comfort" food. The wait staff are friendly, knowledgeable, and efficient. But the food? Next level. Really. My steak was flawless. My wife's meal was great too... This place is well-worth a stop or even a detour to enjoy scratch cooking from a talented chef. There's live music on Friday's and they support community causes, too, which makes it all even better.

This is my favorite eating spot for a casual meal. The food is always delicious and with the large…read moreserving sizes, we never leave hungry. There is a large bar in the front room and pool tables in the back, if you're into sitting at a bar and/or shooting pool. Plenty of table seating available as well. The staff is great--Always friendly and accommodating. Just a great place to go for a meal.

I will start this review off by saying that I am only placing this review for the breakfast on a…read moreSaturday morning in Machias Maine. I will tell you this if you order something off the menu for breakfast your portions are so big that it may take two or three people to eat one serving so be prepared to take some home with you as my portion of pancakes and omelette would serve an army . I was talking to one of the locals, and they stated that the owner of this restaurant served large portions because he felt it was his way of giving back to the community and not always worried about budgets and money. The only drawback about eating breakfast here is you can still smell some of the odors from the partying the night before as it had a dance club/nightclub atmosphere on a Friday night. So, if you are looking for a breakfast and you wanna go somewhere different than Helen's across the street, check this place out you won't be disappointed by the variety of their menu for breakfast and the quality of the food that comes out.

Decent food. I thought the lobster stew was a little watery, but there was a lot of lobster chunks…read morein it. The spinach salad was really good and the blueberry dressing was to die for. They allow dogs on the back deck. Only 5 tables out there so can be rough tough to get a table.

Nice view from the small deck. Good if you just want a cocktail. Service was just ok…read more This is basically a bar/pub. The food was not very good. All-in-all I'd give it a meh. Disappointed Don't waist your time. There are much better places.

giving one star because i can't give 0 the second we walked…read morein it was super loud, then they added mid live music on top of it, it was seat yourself which is fine but there were no menus or silverware in sight, and barely any servers checking on customers, had to go up to the bar ourselves to finally get a drink order in, finally had someone come over to take our order, which they got wrong, waited over an hour for the food to come out, we were about to call it quits, pay for our drinks, and leave, when we tried to pay they tried to make us pay for our full $200 bill even tho we didn't get our food, immediately after our food came out so we decided to give it a shot, terrible, we could tell all of it was either frozen or microwaved ps. we saw a cook take carrots off the top of a salad with gloveless hands and eat them, the proceed to serve it to a customer

My husband and I came in for dinner at about 6:00 this evening. There were very few customers. We…read moreordered a burger and a bowl of soup. We also got some drinks which were served to us quickly. We waited for over an hour and did not get served our meal. We asked the waitress a couple of times where our meal was and she told us at least twice that our meal would be out shortly. We continued to wait and it never came. So we went to the bar to pay and told the waitress that we would just pay for our drinks and leave. I asked why we were never served and she didn't say anything. No apologies no nothing. It was our one and only visit to this restaurant.

We visited Mad Mardigans in October on a work trip. Small family run restaurant…read more The wait staff were rough around the edges, but nice. There happened to be live music during our visit, and the musician was great! The bartender (owners daughter in law) told us everything was authentic Mexican and homemade by her mother in law- and we did realize that wasn't the full truth when we received our food. It was ok, served warm- not hot. Considering it is small town Calais, it was nice to see a newish restaurant, but I don't know if we will go back next time we visit.

This time I ate over in the restaurant side and it was even better. Had the special - salmon with…read moreteriyaki and fresh pineapple salsa. Absolutely perfect. Our waitress was on task and kind. Another great meal from a different side of the place!

The Public House is the best restaurant in Machias, hands down. Good food, good service. Six of us…read moredined and had an excellent experience. My 'steak Oscar' at 30 bucks was outstanding! The fish and chips others had was met with compliments. And our diner who had the Ribeye thought it one of the best she has had (though the most expensive dish on the menu!). Drinks were good,though, like most establishments now, expensive...12+..... for dining in this area of Maine, only Helen's comes close.

So several years ago, this place brought a new restaurant and event venue to Downeast Maine…read more Sit-down restaurants for dinner are scarce in these parts so if you don't want to make dinner at your rental or eat at a picnic bench, it's nice to have another option. We heard some good things so we made a reservation for an early supper. Decor is modern farmhouse. We arrived on time for our reservation and were seated promptly with menus. We were one of two tables in the room, the other seated a couple of minutes before us on the opposite side of the space. For the next 10 minutes a waitress went back and forth to this other table bringing drinks and taking orders. Another staffer was clearing tables near us and resetting them. Puzzled, one us went to the hosting station and a minute or so later a waitress appeared at the table explaining that someone did not check us in and that's why she did not come to our table. An apology (for the restaurant and/or herself) would have been appropriate but was not forthcoming. The food here runs from good to ok, but occasionally bad due to execution. We arrived hungry and ordered several appetizers. The winner of this course was the lobster bisque which flavorful and full of lobster pieces. The hot crab dip was cheesy and tasty but was served with bland commercial and perhaps stale tortilla chips;some nice toasts points might have been a better option. Our third diner ordered the shrimp cocktail hoping for a taste of the local Gulf of Maine shrimp, but that was not the case. For entrees, the most pleasing was the fish and chips, a generous piece of flaky, nicely fried haddock served with fries and Cole slaw. The smash burger was a double patty with all the trimmings but it lack seasoning and the usual crispness that is associated with the smash of the cold patty against the hot metal of the grill. The smoked salmon BLT was a fail. The bacon was cut to bits, the avocado schmear barely covered half the bun, the lettuce was part of the heart that was curly and made the sandwich fall apart and there was no tomato on the sandwich. For dessert , we shared the blueberry crisp with vanilla ice cream. While the blueberries were tasty as was the ice cream, there was no crisp here on the top except for a bit of oats that appeared to be added before the ice cream without being baked on. Generally, I can overlook some fails like the ones reported but there is no excuse for dirty dishes and unsafe conditions. Drinking water comes in a carafe that you serve yourself by pouring into short blue tinted tumblers. I poured for our table and two of the glasses were not used by us as there were lip prints of lipstick on them. We took two glasses from an adjacent table that was just set and again, one of them was also marked with a lipstick lip mark. Lastly, I asked for a table with a view, if possible. We were seated in a corner with a view of the trees for one of us and a view of the water. I noticed a door with an exit sign near us. It's a door you would not be able to exit as it was a clear 15ft drop to the ground. A wooden 2x4 was affixed to the frame across the door handle so you could not use it. But in case of fire, there was no way to safely escape through this door to no where. I might return under the right circumstances for the bisque and the fish, but I would walk out if I encountered the same safety issues again.

Service was quick and friendly on a slow Saturday night. Tenders come in two sizes, half pound or…read morefull pound. Felt like an over achiever and went for the full pound. Not a typical over breaded tender, light hand coating with choice of house, ranch, buffalo, sweet chili or house sauces. Fries are an additional side if desired. Plenty of drinks to choose from to quench your thirst as well. Quiet bar vibe, on this visit, to enjoy a quick bite while running errands!

Nice place to relax and have a good meal. Service has always been good and attentive.read more

Bartender was awesome! Her name escapes my memory but she was very kind and provided great service…read moreto few visiting tourists. She had good reconditions for drinks and food. Was more than 20 years since I had a cider and she helped me select one that turned out to be prefect. We had an enjoyable afternoon of drinks at Ye Ole Hookers. We had to get a t-shirt with the pub name on it!

We stopped in for a drink and some delicious blueberry pie and didn't want to leave to get back on…read moreour cruise ship. The two ladies running the bar and restaurant are so much fun. We had such a fun time I had to take a t-shirt home with me. I'll remember the laughs we had every time I wear it. Thanks Ye Ole Hookers!