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.