Chippers - Hancock

After spending the day in Acadia it was great to come upon this relaxing restaurant away from the crowds in Bar harbor. The food was very good. Service excellent. The price of the meal included soup, roll and salad. Well worth it. Plus we received a military discount. Thank you.

Really nice dining room and excellent food. Fine dining options downeast are somewhat limited outside of Bar Harbor, so this restaurant is much needed. The menu has a wide variety of options from filet medallions down to pub burgers. The haddock chowder is fabulous.

Best. Chowder. Ever. I have seriously never experienced a haddock chowder as amazing as Chip?s. It has won many awards and it is very easy to see why. Each meal comes with a sample of it, but I highly recommend upgrading it to a cup rather than a sample or you?ll regret it forever! I recently took some family here, who know great seafood, and their reaction to the entire meal was, ?best seafood I?ve ever had!? Chippers is even catering my brother?s wedding. This food is the real deal. They are only open on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for dinner so make a reservations as fast as you can. You will not regret it!

I correct my previous positive review. Last Friday, my wife and I were hoping to dine in this restaurant. We've already eaten here without reservation and a supposed full book. We left a VM at 10 a.m. for a reservation of 5 a.m. (if open). We were called at 2:30 and said they were full. Good enough. At 5:15 we drove past and noticed almost no cars in the parking lot so decided to stop. As expected, 2/3 of the restaurant was empty. After a 10-minute waiting period to be noticed, we were told that they were full... no explanation given. We were wondering how we thought they were short, but no. We asked all open tables and were quickly told that they were reserved for 6:30 (again, it was 5:25p best). They were also quick to point out that they were only open for 3 hours, as if they explained their expected empty restaurant when we wanted to eat. I can only speculate that they simply didn't want to work and were comfortable with an empty restaurant for the first hour at least their night. We drove down the street to another full restaurant that was more than happy to welcome us. We won't try to dinate here again.

Definitely the best restaurant meal I had in the area in the last different seasons. Seafood was excellent. Steak cooked for perfection. Excellent service that is difficult to find in this area due to lack of personnel outside the control of many restaurant operators. A quiet, pleasant atmosphere and a great value.