Conte's 1894 Restaurant

 Okay...for any and all of the food buffs...as in "Man vs Food"...Cheryl at the Berry Manor Inn BB in Rockland ME told Tami and I about "Conte's 1894 Restaurant".  It was in her list of recommended restaurants and when asked, she said eating there is an adventure....nuff said!!  We had to GO!  Enjoy the following pictures.....

 This is the view toward the front door...which has a sign that reads something like "Open at 5...Maybe".  From this view Tami's words were "Ray    are you sure.....????"

 View of the restaurant, street is to your left, notice there is no sign to indicate this is an eating establishment.  Just word of mouth!!!

 Not a very good picture of the menu because of the flash but this is it!  3½'x5' chalkboard wrote out by the chef, changed every day, completely unreadable to the common public...the waitress was the interpreter!!  I asked her if we should be seated before we order.  Her reply..."I ain't hauling this big ole board to your table...you order here"   This wasn't said offensively just straightforward and we ordered THERE!!!

 The table cloth is newspaper, the bread is cut off of a 2' loaf beside the menu (didn't get a picture), lit by a candle stuck in an old wine bottle (already emptied)...!  The waitress found out it was our 25th anniversary and agreed to take our picture...we smiled and repeated what we thought was the Italian version of "Cheese"... which she then interpreted.......it wasn't "Cheese"....believe me you don't want to know...my face gets red just typing this...so glad we were the only diners at that time!!!

 None of the chairs matched the tables, newspaper table cloths, well used candle wine bottles...

 The food...everything is served over pasta.  Mine is baked haddock with medium marinara sauce.  Tami's...crab meat, whole soft shell crab and sea scallops.  You could eat the entire soft shell crab, which we did, legs and all.  They were kinda crunchy like overdone onion rings.  The scallops...perfect!  The marinara was a little more spicy than I was used to (definitely not RAGU!!! ) but very good!

This was our anniversary cake from Conte...a "Little Debbie" oreo cake cookie with a candle....we felt VERY special!!!

If you ever get to Rockland, ME do not miss this place!!!