Blaze.

198 Main St, Bar Harbor, Maine

Craft beer & wood fired flavors

A Bar Harbor original since 2011: red oak fire, duck fat fries, 40+ taps, and a heated dog-friendly patio.

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Skillet of hand-cut duck fat fries loaded with dark duck gravy and melting cheddar cheese curds, topped with green onion

Bar Harbor original since 2011

Wood-fired over Maine red oak

4.2★ across 1,900+ Google reviews

Dog-friendly Main Street patio

Nearly everything crosses the red oak fire

The kitchen runs on a wood-fired brick oven, custom grills burning red oak, a wood-fired Argentinian Asador, and a duck fat fryer. The pizzas bake at the mouth of the oven, right beside the logs. The fries come out of duck fat, and they are the most-mentioned dish in Blaze’s Google reviews.

Flames rolling over split red oak logs inside the brick pizza oven, two pizzas baking at the oven mouth
Red oak burning in the brick oven, pizzas at the mouth.

The only wood-grilled lobster in town

Everyone in Bar Harbor sells lobster. Blaze is the only place that splits a whole Maine lobster and grills it over the wood fire. Several sizes, priced at market.

“Always skeptical about grilling lobster... because they oftentimes end up dry. NOT the case here. The grilled lobster was excellent.”

Tripadvisor review, October 2025
Whole Maine lobster split and grilled over the wood fire, served with charred corn and drawn butter

40+

craft taps

One of the largest draft selections in Bar Harbor

Maine craft brews anchor the wall, next to hand-selected wines and signature cocktails like the Blaze-A-Rita. And some of those handles pour Blaze’s own: the group runs its own craft brewery, Blaze Brewing.

House pours from Blaze Brewing

  • Blazing Loveblueberry sour
  • Runabout Red Alehouse red

2011

The first Blaze, still the flagship

Matt Haskell lit this fire first

Blaze opened in 2011 as Matt Haskell’s first Blaze restaurant, “a more upscale, urban-feeling concept, with custom-made grills burning red oak,” as he told Down East Magazine. It grew into the flagship of the Blaze Restaurant Group.

Haskell is a Bangor native who started out washing dishes, worked an outdoor wood-fired lobster pit at the Harborside in Brewer, learned the trade at Rupununi in Bar Harbor in the late ’90s, and built Finback Alehouse before creating Blaze.

Named Maine farms run through the menu: Dover Creek Farms beef under the Blaze Burger, Secret Meadow Farm bacon on top of it, Pineland Farm curds on the poutine, and Pemaquid and Bagaduce oysters at the raw bar.

And the doors stay open all year, heated patio and all, in a town where plenty of kitchens go dark for the winter.

4.2stars across 1,938 Google reviews

“Their pizza is unmatched, and their cocktails and beer are fantastic - some of the best in Bar Harbor. Friendly wait staff.”

Tripadvisor review, June 2026

“The fish tacos were some of the best I've ever had!”

Yelp review, May 2025

“Caesar made in house, mussels super yummy, fries w/duck fat perfection and don't deny chowder!”

Yelp review, February 2026

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Main Street, all year

198 Main St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

Open daily, 11:30 AM - 9:00 PM in peak season. Off-season hours can start later, so call ahead.

Dogs are welcome on the heated street patio.

Call (207) 801-2755
Call (207) 801-2755