North Beacon Oyster Company - Rockland

My hubby and I love this place!! A reservation is recommended for North Beacon Oyster restaurant! However, they were to accommodating to our last-minute reservation! It's a true gem!!! The waitress was AMAZING and quite knowledgeable!!!! Everything we ordered was wonderful!! We will definitely visit North Beacon Oyster restaurant when we are back in Rockport, Maine!

Big things come in small packages is just what we discovered here. Wonderful fresh food and drinks. Highly recommended! Prices are reasonable too.

Yes, please!! This is my new favorite restaurant! We’re new to the area and decided to try North Beacon Oyster to celebrate my birthday in part because the chef grew up in Hartford and we are also from that area of CT. Oysters and cocktails and dessert, oh my! So good! I had the shrimp special and it was a fiery, complex and super satisfying meal. Our cocktails were delicious, my oysters briny brilliance and dessert dense chocolate mouse cake and an apple compote on a yummy biscuit fantastic! Our waitress, Ashley, was a doll. She was attentive, friendly and knowledgeable. This place just works. I look forward to the next food adventure! Namaste

For New Years we made reservations for a 5 course set menu, most of which was a choice of 2 on each course. The food was very good, especially the risoto!! The consistency and subtlety of rich flavors really hit the mark!! Although, portions were small, I was sated by the end of the meal--so it ended up being a good amount. The problem was the service, a series of impactful misteps by our waitress was very frustrating. The biggest isssue--a lack of attention focus led to my wife not getting her entree for an inexcusable amount of time. And then when hers came, they gave hers to the next table who felt theirs was undercooked. We ordered well before that table. The waitress tried to make up for it with glasses of free champagne, but my wife doesn't drink champagne the experience was already negative. The value fell short regarding service and ambiance--feels like a very expensive casual bar for what I paid.

Absolutely amazing food!!! The fried chicken sandwich is phenomenal, and the burger, steak frites, crab toast are excellent! Their specials are always changing and intriguing, and it's great to have a place with a varied selection of oysters on the half shell. The only room for improvement lies in the service time... they often only have one waitress to manage the dining room, and one bartender. Of course, these days it is very difficult to find staff who want to work and will show up, so getting more help out front is no easy task. Longer than usual service times are only an issue if the dining room is absolutely full. I plan to keep coming back here frequently!!