MAINE - Melt
Yesterday was our chaos day. Three hour drive from Old Orchard Beach to Bar Harbor to get in around noon, do a quick look around Acadia, then ended up on Main Street with a couple hours to spare to shop and get lunch before the wedding!
We did try another sit down restaurant but with our time crunch, we were just looking for a quick bite and we knew we were in trouble when a waiter never stopped by our table to even give us water, and there was a server who came to our table twice trying to hand us food that was most definitely not ours in a 10minute window. We were a little stressed and even though there were a lot of lobster roll options around, we ended up at Melt so Caleb would have some non-seafood options.
LOCATION: 27B MAIN ST. BAR HARBOR, ME 04609
Melt is a small little sandwich shop that we KNEW would be speedy and get the job done. I saw the Lobster Roll and so did Caleb and even though we knew it was going to be $$$ he said it was his treat. He was willing to to give me a second chance since my lobster roll at Old Orchard Beach wasn’t great. Now this lobster roll was upwards of $30 and didn’t come with fries the way my first one did. This roll DID have some quality lettuce on it and it was REALLY nice to eat it on a park bench across the street. The restuarant was a little loud and cramped with bar style seating along the wall so we opted to go outside instead. It felt like peak Maine and for a few minutes, it was really peaceful and I INHALED this sandwich after a long morning without any real food.
I don’t know that this was the best lobster roll and under more relaxing circumstances I would’ve liked to take some time and walk around to to look up other reviews and see what options were available but we didn’t have that luxury this trip so this was the best option for the day we had. And I will say, this second sandwich was better than my first so we did manage an upgrade on that park bench.