The Widowmaker Lounge is exactly what you hope to find at a ski resort--a classic ski‑bar hangout with cozy lodge vibes and a laid‑back atmosphere that makes it the perfect stop between runs. It's the kind of place where you can kick back, warm up, and enjoy a drink without any fuss. Service was great throughout our visit, and we had zero concerns there. We grabbed a couple of appetizers to refuel, and both were fantastic. The honey barbecue wings were absolutely delicious, especially paired with the ranch and blue cheese sauces. The feta‑topped French fries were another standout--crispy, flavorful, and surprisingly addictive. We also ordered a couple of 16‑ounce draft beers, which were fresh and great‑tasting. Combined with the lively ski‑lodge ambience, it all made for a fun, relaxing break from the slopes. Overall, the Widowmaker Lounge is a great spot to unwind, grab a bite, and enjoy the mountain atmosphere. A must‑stop between runs if you're spending the day on the slopes. read more

Widowmaker Lounge - Inside lodge sign to upstairs bar - Bars Near Me - Carrabassett Valley, Maine

Stopped by the Widowmaker after a long day of skiing to enjoy some après-ski and the live music. Conveniently located at the bottom of the slopes in the main ski resort area, it's a great way to cap off a day on the mountain. We tried the nachos and the pretzel, both of which were good but nothing to write home about. Four stars only because the food was pretty average but then again still pretty good for on the mountain, resort-owned dining. read more

Widowmaker Lounge - Nachos & pretzel - Bars Near Me - Carrabassett Valley, Maine

From my brief experience of an aprés-ski beer, I think this would be a killer spot to enjoy some live music, host an event, or kick back with some friends. There is ample seating from seat-yourself bar area to seated table service. You must try Orono Brewing Company's Widowmaker beer or indulge in one of their many other Maine Local craft beers. I can imagine this place being absolutely slammed on a primo ski weekend, so be prepared to wait/receive slow service. On a Sunday following some bad weather and the last open ski day of the season, we were surrounded by a few other patrons and easily received service at the bar. Smiling faces greeted us - we will definitely be back. read more

I would say that this is a VERY solid ski bar. To the people below....most of them complaining about service? Let me guess you showed up around 10AM-4PM on a Saturday or Sunday and expected your party of 4-8 to have cheeseburgers and three apps in under a half hour. Get a grip people. If you are kind and pleasant to the staff there, even when they are busy they will treat you with respect.....and they will be honest and tell you there will be about a XX minute wait. Ashley M was a great waitress for our party this weekend. See ya soon guys. Ps. SKI THE EAST read more

Widowmaker Lounge - a ski lift in the background - Bars Near Me - Carrabassett Valley, Maine

"Welcome to The Loaf" This is the only game in town - pretty much. But its a cool spot. Has a huge bar, and big windows so you can look straight out to the mountain. Solid place for beers during the ski day. The chili is good. Everything else, not really. Typical fried foods... We met some cool local boys there, and they told us all the best spots on the mountain including the Backside which hadn't opened in two years, but did the day we were there. Big ups to "John" a.k.a. The Godfather of The Loaf The little lady servers they have there were very friendly, I'm sure that is part of their business model. My friend almost proposed to Micheala, but then realized he wanted to take it more slowly... hoooo hoooo hoooo, hahahaha! "Welcome to The Loaf" read more

The Widowmaker has been totally renovated into what the vision is: Concert Venue. Mission accomplished. Much more functional space with bar off to side and stage at the back facing the room. It still has a seating area off to the left above stage which is neat. Roof deck also a nice addition. I suspect this will be a great night place for college and people from away. Rack will likely remain the spot for the old timers and locals. What the new Widowmaker is not is a restaurant any longer. It's serves food but it's essentially to get bodies into base lodge at lunch time. Further $10 for a beer is an outrage! I had the poutine and it's was French fries with some cheese on it. Terrible. Shepard pie, burger just ok. Menu is extremely limited. The servers were all attentive and nice. However, trying to get a table was a negotiation. Hostess would not let me have a table without all of the party present. Even though plenty of empty tables. She suggested the bar, which is much smaller than the old one. Packed. No place to sit. I get the concept but really, this is Sugarloaf. Back to The Bag for me. The ratings is for the restaurant experience but concert venue is more like 4 stars. Hogiesalad Hawaianckicken wrap Chicken Coden Blue Fries good Great beer selection Blt wrap, not bad. Spinach salad g. read more

This used to be one of our favorite lunch spots - even considering we have a place on the mtn we loved the Widowmaker for lunch with our three kids and a couple beers for myself and my husband. Ever since their new 'reno' (ok it looks 2000% better) their menu has shrunk to about 15 options and all stink. But my beer was cold. Wait staff stunk. Had to wait 10 minutes for a napkin while my 'child's' $20 burger was dripping down his face. Nothing is really home cooked - the fries are out of a bag. I expect this from the food place one floor below. No kids menu. They turned it into a crap millennial bar and concert gig with medial bar food. To upgrade to fries is $4. We will now ALWAYS stick with THE BAG. What a waste. Sorry, Widowmaker - you lost a 3 generation family of 11 for life. read more

Food is below average, weird entrance, horrible customer service. Decent beer at least

Persepolis, 330 BC . . . Carthage, 146 BC . . . Baghdad, 1258 AD . . . Constantinople, 1453 AD - to this veritable list of places that were burnt to the ground, we ought to add the Widowmaker Lounge in the Sugarloaf Mountain ski resort in Carrabassett Valley, Maine. Like these great ancient cities, this restaurant has it all: inattentive staff, expensive prices, a limited menu where half the items aren't available on a given day, and of course food that may literally kill you. Last weekend (MLK 2018), I traveled up to Sugarloaf with my friend and his family. What was otherwise a pleasant experience was spoiled-somewhat literally-by our foray into the Widowmaker Lounge. We entered at lunch time following a morning of skiing: My friend and I sat at the bar, and after a solid 20 minutes of waiting, were served by one of the insouciant bartenders. I ordered a cup of coffee and my friend ordered a beer. We attempted to order food items as well. I say "attempted" because the bartender informed us that literally half of the items on the menu weren't available. Mind you, this was not some random weekday in the depths of winter where small crowds could be expected. It was the Sunday of MLK weekend-arguably one of the busiest skiing days of the year (and yet, the place was not full-odd case). There was really no good reason why the full menu shouldn't have been available. It was especially strange because we had arrived at 11.45 AM, on the earlier side for lunch. Since the burger and the chicken sandwich were literally the only things that the restaurant had left, that's what we ordered. Humorously, the food arrived at the same time as our drinks (we were sitting at the bar, so a beer should have been pretty easy . . . especially considering the beer was $7/pint). I wish I could tell you that the indignities stopped there, but, unfortunately, our troubles were only beginning. I dug into my chicken sandwich, which came with chips, as soon as it arrived. The chicken was fairly dry, but I was able to get some ketchup (after trying to get the bartender's attention for 10 minutes), which helped. But the bread . . . the bread was downright stale. I had to stop eating it halfway through. I was about to offer the remainder to my friend, who had housed his burger, but then I saw it: on the crust of the bread there was a LARGE piece of mold. You read that right: The Widowmaker Lounge at Sugarloaf Mountain in Carrabassett Valley, Maine, served me a sandwich with a significant amount of mold on it (see image). It took another 5 minutes to get the attention of the bartender to inform her of the situation. I explained to her simply there's "mold on my sandwich," and showed her the visible mold. Her response was that of a biologist who has just been shown a prosaic and uninteresting specimen. "I'm sorry about that," she said. "I can have them make you another sandwich, or take it off the bill." No, I didn't want another moldy sandwich. "Just take it off the bill, please, which I'll take now." Frankly, I think the entire meal should have been comped given what happened, but I was shocked to receive a bill for about $30 (my friend's beers and meals, and my coffee). The waitress did offer a free drink when I was settling up, but at that point I just wanted to get out of there and search the internet to see if there was anything that I could do mitigate my risk of getting sick (there wasn't). Better service from the restaurant after serving something inedible would have been the difference between me letting it go and writing a quip review. Yet here we are. I realize this place probably does a lot of business because of its location, but it doesn't have to be that way. The Coliseum is in the center of Rome and has been unused for centuries - so too let it be the same with the Widowmaker Lounge (home of the moldy sandwich). My advice: ----If you like to drink while you ski, bring a flask or visit the Bag & Kettle next door. ----If you want to grab something to eat, the food court and 45 North are both nice. ----If you're looking for a place where someone will pay attention to you, try the ski rental shop. The service is great and they people working there will acknowledge that you exist. But . . . if you want to be ignored, marginalized, bilked, and maybe poisoned, then by all means come to the Widowmaker Lounge at Sugaloaf Mountain Ski Resort. This place is a blight on the entire Sugarloaf experience, which is otherwise pleasant. Close the doors, save the beer, and torch it. It would probably be best to salt the earth for good measure. If, on the day of my execution, I were given a choice (A) between a last meal at the Widowmaker Lounge (complete with the "full service experience") followed by a painless death or (B) going hungry followed by the Braveheart rack treatment, I'll scream FREEEEDOOOM every time. In conclusion, I do not recommend this restaurant. read more

Widowmaker Lounge - Moldy chicken sandwich I was served at the Widowmaker. - Bars Near Me - Carrabassett Valley, Maine

We have been coming here for years for Saturday Apres Ski for the music after skiing snacks and drinks. Menu has been upgraded which is good but they are now making you put your name in for a table. Pure silliness!!! It is a bar! read more

This place absolutely rocks. Wait staff (Olivia and Ashley!) was awesome and the food is delicious. It's an authentic ski bar that is perfect for a quick lunch, apres ski, and even late night. You can expect me here every time I come to Sugarlaof read more

Widowmaker Lounge - a person skiing down a mountain - Bars Near Me - Carrabassett Valley, Maine

Two stars for the service. One for the food. Very little options, almost half of the menu is drinks alone. Only soups, salads, appetizers and burgers/sandwiches. For soups and salads, it's all salads and one soup along with soup of the day. Lack of options cannot be emphasized enough. The Hawaiian burger was good but not good enough that I wanted to finish the whole thing. Once the scarce pineapples on it were eaten in the first half of the burger, it lacked taste. The fries were average. The onion rings were over fried, dry and tasteless. Overall, would not go back again and it was not cheap. Try The Bag for better luck! read more

I had drinks and lunch here with a group of people today. We were able to find seating up on the third floor, which is much less hectic than the rest of the place. They have a great selection of hot cocktail options, which is just what we needed after a cold morning of skiing. The food here is just ok. I had the quesadillas, which were pretty bland. No one else seemed overly impressed with their food. I would definitely recommend stopping in for some cocktails. read more

Cool bar, yum pub food... atrocious service... the staff is rude and painfully slow. Location is everything..

Rude staff. Fair beer selection. If it wasn't at a ski mtn it would be gone in a month.

Signs say kitchen is closed, I bring my sandwich up so my buddy can grab a beer. Turns out kitchen isn't closed. I'm eating my small tuna sandwich as the rudest staff member Lindsey comes trotting over. She must really hate tuna sandwhiches... I gladly would have put the sandwich away if asked nicely and even ordered food, but with how she approached the situation with over the top disrespect I will never step foot in there again. read more

I can only speak for the booze and vibe. It's everything you would expect as an Apres' watering hole. It's located at the base of Sugarloaf mountain and is big and spacious the way a bar should be at a busy resort. The staff is great, our waitress 2 days in a row was Rachel, she had a charismatic aura about her and aimed to please. The 2nd day we rolled in here, she recognized us and remember what we had been drinking. The had a live band which stopped playing at I think about 6:00 but from the sounds of it said they would be back later in the night. They were very good, 5 piece with brass - can't go wrong !! The prices are fair, but getting a table is one of those hover over and pounce type places. I get it, it's a bar there isn't assigned seating, however I will say that I'll definitely be back... guaranteed !!! read more

Let's start by saying the specialty drinks were really good. ( without prices listed, as per most places) it was a school vacation week, long holiday weekend (New Years Day) AND a Friday night WITH a band playing, and the restaurant closed at 8PM (we got there at 8:15 pm) although there are other places to eat on the mountain, I can't believe this. If we had known that, we would have come earlier or eaten somewhere else to begin with. We left and the waitress was nice enough to save the table that we wanted, but she did state if it got too busy, she wasn't sure how long she could hold it for. Which leads me to the other place we chose , Gepettos. We were going to get a quick Philly cheese steak sub so we could get back quickly. Then a few minutes later the waitress comes back and says they are out of ALL beef products. (Again on a Friday, holiday, school vacation week) This is only my second time to sugarloaf ( in 4 years). I really enjoy it there and will be back, but just wanted to make management aware that being a Friday, holiday, school vacation week when a popular band is playing, that the kitchen should have been open later than 8pm. read more

Dylan and Owen were both great, very personable, friendly, and gave great service. I was really happy with my experience here! My boyfriend and I really appreciated the service. read more

We almost always meet our extended family (the non skiers) here for a lunch break while skiing and we did again this year. The food and drinks are good but I like the bag better. The atmosphere w TVs and view of mountain is great. Stick to the basics for the good and drink. Plate or nachos was Huge and standard. The plain wings were pretty dull but the honey siracha were great. The menu is improved from years past. The burgers were good but not great. Very good selection of beers on tap. I don't recommend the mixed drinks but some in our party always get and are surprised when a ski bar can't get a tropical mixed drink just right?!?! The staff is very friendly and helpful. If you want to go nuts grab some ripsaw shouts and you will throw caution to the wind when skiing the rest of the day!! read more