Café This Way — American / Breakfast, Bar Harbor
Café This Way has been the Bar Harbor breakfast institution for decades. A small, character-filled morning café that serves both the Acadia hikers who need fuel before Cadillac Mountain and the village's year-round community who need coffee and eggs before work.
The eggs Benedict preparations are the kitchen's creative expression. The classic with Maine smoked salmon, the version with local lobster, and the rotating seasonal preparations that demonstrate a breakfast kitchen with genuine range.
The blueberry pancakes use wild Maine blueberries. The small, intensely flavored variety that Maine's barrens produce in late summer, frozen to extend their season into the year-round breakfast menu.
The weekend wait is the Bar Harbor rite of passage. The line that extends onto Mount Desert Street on summer mornings is the verification that quality is real.
Best Occasion: Perfect for Solo Dining
The Maine lobster eggs Benedict, wild blueberry pancakes, and the Acadia morning. Solo dining's most specifically Bar Harbor breakfast.
Best Occasion: Works for First Dates
The breakfast-date format at Café This Way. Low stakes, creative eggs, and the Bar Harbor village as backdrop. The morning that Acadia's proximity makes romantic.