Mixed  experience.  Lobster roll had celery which is the one food that I don't care for.  The waitress kindly picked out the big chunks for me so that was above and beyond. Kudos to her for understanding my distress. We sat out on the balcony overlooking the place where we wanted to eat but only accepts cash. We were too lazy to go to an ATM or unwilling to shell out ATM fees.  I figured that a restaurant in Wiscasset must serve steamers and lobster but I was mistaken.  My DC ordered a very nice Cobb salad adorned with delicious crab cakes.  The mixed drink I ordered for $7.00 was not worth finishing.  Tasted really sweet and overpowering.  It was a nice end to a great day at the beach.
Review Source:I am local to the area and go to Sarah's from time to time and I usually leave satisfied. Their chicken salad sandwich is great and the bread is tasty. The haddock chowder is delicious with lots of haddock. No skimping! Â The waitresses are friendly but I always feel a little rushed but I think that is more because they are short staffed not because they are rude. Check it out, Sarah's is better then most of the areas food and the lovely ocean view is a plus.
Review Source:Although I found the haddock to be delicious, our waitress was not very friendly and the service was very slow. Â Still, the food was very good. Â We were a rather large group of six and four more were going to join our party but we were told they could not hold the table, which I found to be bad business, especially since they were only five minutes away. Â Unfortunately, they seated others at the table we were hoping to have for our other group just before they arrived. Â It was my first time here and I will probably return again sometime to try something else. Â Everyone at the table enjoyed what they ordered but none were happy with the service as drinks were not refilled on time and service was slow.
Review Source:Great place to stop in for lunch. Yeah, service can be slow, but the extensive menu is tasty, and it's worth the visit. More of a diner/lunch feel to it than a fancy dinner joint. Old-timey in their whole "we've got pies" thing. Cost isn't too outrageous. $9 for a burger is cheap, people. I don't know where all these "midcoast Maine is so pricey" folks are coming from! Seriously, I can't find a burger under $13 in Los Angeles anywhere that isn't fast food! Sheesh!
Anyway, this place is tasty; comfort food - maybe a little on the heavy side, but a good place for a calzone or a burger or club sandwich.
I love Sarah's Cafe! I live close by and I go about once a month. I used to get the pepperoni matey when I was younger, but I went to a birthday party which was catered by Sarah's and there was pizza there. Ever since then, I have ordered the pineapple pizza. It is so good! I'm not a big fan of seafood, which isn't an issue here because of the large selection of food.
Now the dessert, fabulous! The cheesecake is great! Cheesecake is my favorite dessert and it is very good at Sarah's. I also like the eclairs and the cakes.
If you are in the area, don't forget to stop at Sarah's Cafe!
Nice view of the Sheepscott river but painfully slow service. The $9.00 Blues Burger was smaller than the expeted 6 oz portion promised and came with absolutely nothing. No fries, chips or even a pickle..Strange. The haddock club had no bacon as promised on the menu but was tasty nonetheless. $11.00 and extra $ if you want anything with it (no side included again). The kids-sized single slice of cheese pizza was tasty but again steep at $4.00.
The service was slow to give us menus, take our orders, deliver our orders, and he had to be practically chased down for the check.
Tasty enough food but overpriced and the poor service would keep us from going back.
Sarahs. Local legend. There is a reason...Sarah buys everything as fresh and local as she can. That has drawn people in, and that has made her place grow. That means she is busy and employs several shifts of people every day. That also means some things can fall through the cracks. There is an occasional missed hit but they really really try. I have always found service to be slow at Sarahs, which is why they only get 3 stars from me. It's not the food..I must emphasize that the staff try and they will not know if something has been missed if you don't say anything! So no bad words about Sarahs...except that awful puke yellow she has just painted that railing. Still best place to get a giant Chef Salad in the entire state.
Review Source:While enjoying my fancied up ginger ale (if you ask for it, it's really quite sweet & fancy) we inquired about any nearby place with pie. "We've got pie!" I was cheerfully told and I practically skipped to the case where the days pies were displayed. I couldn't tear my eyes away from the chocolate one but my mouth wanted the lemon.
I got the lemon pie and accidentally moaned out loud a few times while eating it. It was good.
If you're in Maine and tired of the endless seafood restaurants, Sarah's should be at the top of your list.
All the food is genuinely good. Â Over the several years i've been coming here, I can't say that one single item stands out, but the fact that I keep coming back should speak for itself. Â Tasty, freshly prepared foods, a great soup bar, and a wonderful location.
The atmosphere is very casual. Â No worries about dress codes.
The one down-side, and the reason Sarah's lost a star, is for the service. Â The service is really iffy -- one day it might be fantastic; the next, slow and rude. Â Generally, it's the older waitresses who are a bit gruff and drag their feet... the younger kids are fast and eager to earn their tips.
It's nice to have a place in Maine that doesn't do the usual fried seafood etc. Â Sarah began life as a baker, so anything baked here is really outstanding, right down to soup croutons and hot dog rolls. Â And what a selection of great cakes and pies.
As to the rest of the food, it's all pretty good - everything from a soup bar to sandwiches to (great) pizza, to various calzone-type stuffed pastry things. My biggest complaints are (1) lot of cheese and mayo on that menu, and (2) they should give up trying to do Mexican food (like most places in Maine should) - after you've been here a few times you realize that all the so-called Mex dishes taste very much the same.
Low prices and huge portions.
It's open year round, and this area goes from a sleepy place to a major tourist route in the Summer - they do keep up with the Summer crowds reasonably well but some people may find it slow.
Love Sarah's. I only spend a few weeks in Maine a year now but always goto Sarah's. The menu is huge but I don't even look at it, lobster sandwich (different than the roll) every time! They have amazing desserts and a great selection of local microbrews. Grab a seat on the deck and laugh at all the fools waiting in line at reds!
Review Source:Had Sarah's on and off over the years when I lived in Maine. Â My favorite time to go there is in the winter, on some dark cold night, and have their soup and bread bar. Â Their fish chowder is always delicious, as well as the home made bread. Â The last few times I have been there its been in the summer....and I always end up with their lobster quesadilla, which is always packed full of lobster meat. Â Its a simple dish, but its always very tasty! Â The service isn't always the best, and occasionally the food quality varies, but most of the time, it really is a good place to eat!
Review Source:This place was about average. We had a very short wait for a table and our waitress was prompt but a little forceful and not as polite as she could have been.
I was expecting a larger seafood selection; we are in Maine, afterall, and right on the water. The only seafood offerings were lobster in a few dishes and haddock in about the same amount and preparations, many of which seemed to feature an inordinate amount of cheese. I expect this place really shines in its sandwiches, so I ended up getting a lobster roll in a sundried  tomato roll which featured a trip to their "world famous" soup bar. I cannot understand why three mediocre soups constitutes "world famous." Anyway, I tried the haddock chowder. Bland and I think the fish had been long frozen. The lobster roll wasn't bad. There was a very nice amount of lobster meat in the roll and it wasn't too mayonnaise-heavy, but the chef went way overboard with the celery salt.  The roll itself was surprisingly amazing. Lovely flavor, great texture. Their baker is a genius.
Mom got a chili fajiti. Â She asked our waitress if the chili was spicy and was told that the chili is pretty mild, so Mom ordered it. Woops. The chili itself wasn't that over-spicy but the guacamole certainly had quite the kick to it. Our waitress noticed Mom gasping for unspicy air and came right over. Waitress proceeded thusly: she suggested a much more innocuous meal (taco salad, which turned out to be delicious and not spicy at all), promptly whisked the offending fajita away, brought more water, and returned with the taco salad in a flash. Tip: earned!
Overall, it wasn't bad but it was mostly an average experience. Not quite what we were expecting but I suppose a summer menu is more extensive than this November offering.
Sarah's was pretty good. I would give it a 3.5 overall, but I am rounding up because I am in a good mood after having a great weekend.
The service can be slow there and when hitting the soupbar you need to get there right when they restock. You can't be surpised that its all soup and no fish when the thing is practically empty. Â I wish they were more attentive on restocking the giant vats tho because it is sad to get fishy tasting soup where you legit have to angle the ladle "juuustt riiight" in order to get that one piece of fish that is left.
Allongside the soups are hommemade artisnal breads. Some are better than others you just need to try them all. I had one loaded with onions and dipped in oil (a focaccia maybe?) that was absolutely awesome.
The Mateys are good and very filling. I wish they had seasoned the chicken that was in mine because it almost gave it a bland taste. Â Don't count on being productive after demolishing one of these things though I also liked that it was only $1 to add meat.
I also had a smoked gouda and mushroom burger special that i think had a hint of truffle. It was phenomenal. Â Would definitely get this again
I feel like this place has a bit of an older crowd who frequent it. Â I don't know if it's the type of people living in the area or the attractiveness of the soup/salad bar concept. I was easily the youngest person here every day though.
Perennial favorite for home-made soups and lots of sandwich choices. Â As you tuck into wooden booths with upholstered seating in an air conditioned dining room, you can see the bridge and river, as well as a drive-in lobster roll shack.
The real attraction however is anything on Sarah'sr menu, including "oven (potato) fries." Â Since I was still focused on consuming real Maine lobster during my real Maine visit, I thoroughly enjoyed Sarah's version of a lobster roll. Â I was happy to see mounds of lobster meat in a scant mayo dressing, specked green with finely chopped celery. Â The roll was toasted on the outside and soft inside. Â
Perhaps because all sizes of salt and fresh water  bodies are close by just about everywhere in Maine, the art of water color painting has every citizen displaying their masterpieces.  A nice collection is on the walls at Sarah's.  I was tempted to straighten them as they hung on the walls because they were all crooked/listing slightly.  Nah.  It wouldnt be nautical of me.  This close to the Atlantic, every fisherman must think the paintings' angles looked just right.
The soup is fantastic, the selection of Beer is better than most in the area, the service is friendly and warm. Very good about refilling your water and making sure you're taken care of even at the busiest of times. The dinner is always excellent and their desserts... oh their desserts are to die for. If you thought the soup was good just wait to have some of their chocolate cake or a fresh piece of pie. A must to anyone passing by and wants good food.
Review Source:I was passing through Wiscasset and decided to stop and eat. Â I could have eaten at Red's (that local and tourist favorite), but instead I chose to eat here. Â I ate at the Twin Schooner Pub (which is the bar of Sarah's). Â It was recommended that I try the soups or lobster pizza, however, I saw most of the locals eating burgers, so that's what I had (substituting a veggie patty, of course) with a side of oven fries. It was very good, but it was the oven fries that made the meal great. Â (The burger may have tasted better with a meat patty....) For in uninitiated, the menu consists of a lot of lobster dishes (at market price) or pizza, but to be honest, I just didn't see that many people eating lobster or pizza which makes me wonder about how good their "specialty" food is. Â The atmosphere is casual and I suspect a lot of their business is based on drive-through tourists. They serve wine and beer for meals. Â The portions are huge so you won't go away hungry and the service is standard table service. Â The prices for the non-lobster stuff is reasonable ($7-12 per entree), but if you are getting seafood, the sky is the limit (the prices aren't given on the menu but I saw $18 quoted for a lobster appetizer, so the prices go up from there.)
Bottom line, it's a strange mix of local hangout and overpriced tourist trap with middle of the road food.
My mother and I stopped here for lunch while she was visiting me when i lived in ME. Â I had the lobster roll and she had a taco salad of some sort. Â The portions were very big, i was dissapointed, however, that my lobster roll was killed by too much celery and a tad too much mayo. It is a lovely place overlooking the water, and if you are vacationing in ME, Wiscasset is a great little town for antiquing and such.
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