Cottage Street Pub

Cottage Street Pub: a 15-seat craft cocktail bar in Bar Harbor, Maine. Pouring since 2010.

Gold is the house list. Mint is the rotating chalkboard. Rose is the free stuff.

The board

Cocktails on house infusions, Maine drafts, wine and free popcorn. No food, but none needed.

House Signatures

  • Dirty Water

    The house cocktail and namesake of the bar - 'home of the Dirty Water.' Recipe stays behind the bar.

  • Smoky Old Fashioned

    A cedar plank is set alight at the bar, the glass fills with smoke, and the drink is built inside it.

  • Blueberry Mojito

    Blueberry vodka distilled from Maine potatoes and wild blueberries, fresh blueberries and mint.

  • Bees Knees

    Gin, honey and lemon with their house lavender infusion.

Blueberry Mojito in a tall glass, packed with wild blueberries and mint over crushed ice, beside a bowl of free popcorn on the bar
The Blueberry Mojito: blueberry vodka from Maine potatoes and wild blueberries. The popcorn is free, always.

From the Chalkboard (rotating)

The chalkboard turns over through the season. Recent examples, not tonight's list.

  • Turista Borracha

    Mezcal, Solerno, lime + hellfire bitters - the jalapeño-tinged crowd favorite.

  • Watermelon Crawl

    Gin, lemon, basil + fresh watermelon.

  • Beautiful Ruins

    Gin, housemade grenadine, grapefruit + Fernet.

  • Matcha Hari

    Pisco, matcha syrup, egg white + lemon.

  • Guns n' Rosés

    Gunpowder rye, rose liqueur, Lillet Rosé, honey syrup + grapefruit.

  • Barrel-Aged Cocktails on Tap

    House-crafted cocktails aged in barrels, poured from the tap.

Beer, Wine & The Free Stuff

  • Maine Craft Drafts

    Local draft lines plus domestic and craft cans and bottles.

  • Wine by the Glass

  • Solid Bourbon Shelf

    A well-kept bourbon selection for the cocktail-averse.

  • Free PopcornFree

    Popped on site with house seasoning - complimentary at the bar, always.

Sample menu based on public listings. The final site uses your current dishes and prices. No printed price list exists; reviewers call the cocktails “very moderately priced.”

Rocks glass of whiskey with a large ice cube beside an upturned glass filling with smoke over a charred cedar plank on the bar

First, a cedar plank goes up in flames

The Smoky Old Fashioned is built inside its own glass. A cedar plank is set alight right at the bar, the glass traps the smoke, and the drink goes together while it still curls.

In a room this small, every seat is front row.

“If you want to see a professional mixologist/bartender/artist, go to the Cottage Street Pub”

Review via Restaurantji, July 2023

Infused in jars, aged in barrels, poured from taps

Tessa runs the bar and the cocktail program behind it: spirits infused in-house, and barrel-aged cocktails drawn from their own tap lines.

  • Lavender
  • Jalapeño
  • Oolong tea

The lavender ends up in the Bees Knees, with gin, honey and lemon.

Pale gold Bees Knees in a coupe glass garnished with a fresh lavender sprig, backlit bottles glowing behind the bar

Fifteen seats and one popcorn machine

The room is small on purpose: roughly fifteen seats inside under the pressed-tin ceiling, about fifteen more on the bench-lined patio, and a vintage popcorn machine working the end of the bar. The popcorn is popped on site with the house seasoning.

Inside the pub: a red vintage popcorn machine full of fresh popcorn, wooden bar chairs and a glowing wall of bottles under a pressed-tin ceiling

Dale Stockburger grew up in Bar Harbor and came home after twenty years in Portland; the pub has poured on Cottage Street since May of 2010. In 2021 he bought Finback Alehouse across the street, the year-round sister bar where he had his first legal beer back in 1983. Regulars know the crew by name: Tessa, Dale, Tammy, David and Nick.

“Cool bar. Great drinks and music. Bartender was really fun to talk to.”

Google review (Tracey D), October 2025

4.6stars across 449 Google reviews

“Cottage Street Pub puts the 'bar' in Bar Harbor!”

Google review (Stephanie Peixoto), ~September 2025

“Fantastic original cocktails and a great atmosphere... ask for Dale!”

Google review (via Wanderlog), June 2024

“Amazing little bar in Bar Harbor. Great atmosphere, great service, free popcorn, domestic and craft beer.”

Google review (Carrietn), October 2025

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Tucked down a walkway off Cottage Street

21A Cottage St, Bar Harbor, ME 04609

In season, open daily 1:00 PM - 1:00 AM. Memorial Day through October. 21 and up.

Hours can shift at the edges of the season; the bar phone has the latest. Come winter, find the crew across the street at Finback Alehouse, the year-round sister bar.

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