Seafood Transparency
We are often asked where our seafood comes from. It’s a very good question and often hard to answer for most restaurants.
Mussels
The majority of our mussels are sustainably raised and harvested locally (Mount Desert Narrows) by the Hollander and de Köning family. They are a Maine owned company.
Scallops
We use Comeau scallops for fried scallops as well as our seafood stuffing mix. They are harvested in the Gulf of Maine as well as the Bay of Fundy. The Bay of Fundy is the water between the coast of Maine and the Canadian Provences of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Scallops from Maine can only be harvested from December thru March. Due to there season being opposite of ours all the scallops we purchase are IQF (independently quick frozen) but still awesome!
Haddock
A premium whitefish, haddock is a member of the cod family, though smaller than Atlantic cod.
We serve fresh wild caught haddock scrod (smaller in size) in our haddock au gratin and baked stuffed haddock dish’s
For our fish n chips we use wild caught Icelandic haddock FAS (frozen at sea). The FAS product is a premium product and ideal for being fried.
Lobsters
Your in Bar Harbor…of course the lobsters are fresh! Currently we purchase all of our lobsters from Maine Shellfish Company out of Ellsworth Maine. The lobsters they sort and sell to us come from the Mount Desert area waters as well as Downest Maine.
Lobster Meat
The lobster meat we serve in our lobster rolls and lobster salads is 100 % local fresh picked knuckle and claw meat. In the spring time we pick it in house. Once the local lobster processor opens for the season we happily pay them to do it for us.
For lobster sauté and lobster scampi we pick in house daily whole lobsters (tail, knuckle and claw).
Salmon
Atlantic salmon is typically moist and flavorful.
Though wild Atlantic salmon is an endangered species, the Atlantic salmon we serve is sustainably farmed raised here in the Gulf of Maine.
Crabmeat
The Jonah Crab has a sweet taste and is an excellent choice for use in crab cakes. We also mix it with mayonnaise and serve it in our crabmeat rolls and crabmeat salad.
Jumbo Shrimp
The jumbo shrimp (aka 16/20’s) we use in our shrimp cocktail are wild caught from the Gulf of Mexico (USA to Panama).
Small Shrimp
Currently the small shrimp (aka 90/110’s) we use in our fried shrimp as well as the cafe delight are wild caught from the Gulf of Mexico (Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi).
In the spring and summer we use a similar size shrimp (North Atlantic Pandalus) wild caught off the coast of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland Canada