Poor Boy Gourmet---Bar Harbor, Maine

http://www.poorboysgourmet.com/

Poor Boy Gourmet, 300 Main St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609(207) 288-4148

Trying to find a dinner place with parking is hard to find around downtown Bar Harbor. But we serenditiously ate at a wonderful place while on vacation. On a busy Saturday night, we were lucky to score a table (with no reservation over Labor Day weekend too) at this restaurant.

There are some seafood specials that this restaurant is known for you can get appetizer, entree--crab or lobster and dessert for $22.95. ($2 more to choose your dessert from brownie a la mode). I got the lobster feast which has choice of lobster bisque or clam chowder, then lobster ( a few ways) or crab legs and then finale is brownie a la mode.

The clam chowder was too watery for my taste. The clams and potatoes were good though. My Lobster Brandoni (freshly picked lobster meat smothered in our crab and shrimp stuffing and baked) was heavenly. I had food envy from my dinner companions. It was DELICIOUS! Plus I did not have to contend with the shells. If you are a seafood lover, you will love it!

The crab legs you really cannot mess up as they are boiled. One friend got the steak caesar salad. She enjoyed it and there were anchovies in it. The steak was not overly cooked and the salad was flavored correctly.

The thing that elevated this meal to excellence was the blue berry pie! Two of my dinner companions dislike desserts but we devoured the piece of pie in record time. (It was so memorable we got some slices to go the following night!) The vanilla bean ice cream serves as a lovely accent to the luscious blue berry pie (which was not overly sweet). The crust was excellent on top being crumbly and bits of nuts only added flavor and texture. The pie tasted of pure heaven! (The pie I give a 10!) Sadly our other dessert the tiramisu was a free form mess on a plate that was overly soggy and lacking in depth of flavors you come to enjoy in tiramisu.

Overall service was alright, food had its highs and lows. Kudos to the inhouse baker who bakes the scrumptious blue berry pies!!!!!!

space--too cold on the porch and no heating lamps

waitress---service was average

food---highs with stuffed lobster and blue berries and lows with clam chowder and tiramisu

8 forks out of 10 forks.