The Dogfish Bar and Grille Bar in Portland

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#199 From 423 in Portland
8.9
117 Review
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Price & Cuisine
$$ American, Bar, Pub
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Bar
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You can visit this restaurant if you appear to be near Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine. Many guests come here to enjoy perfectly cooked potato salads, salmon sandwiches and deviled eggs. Good Brezeln are the tastiest dishes. A collection of delicious craft beer, wine or cider is provided to visitors. Dogfish Bar & Grille is well known for its great service and friendly staff, that is always ready to help you. In accordance with the reviewers' opinions, prices are fair. There is a cool atmosphere and cute decor at this place. This spot has got Google 4.4 according to the guests' opinions.
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This is an awesome place and totally worth the walk up the hill from the main beat. The Dogfish Bar and Grille was unique with atmosphere, crowd and fantastic music. I would highly recommend it. Prices were great as well. Staff very friendly and witty too.
We're visiting Portland, Maine from Portland, Oregon, where we enjoy the best micro breweries in the country AND the best burgers! BUT the burger I ate tonight at The Dogfish Bar and Grill was not only cooked to perfection (medium rare for me), the flavors of complimenting condiments with a pile of fresh romaine lettuce on a gluten free bun, won my heart over.
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Kelly Lilly
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10
4 years ago
Really great food. Bartender had a great personality, very attentive. The atmosphere was perfect, nice bar without feeling like a dive, ambient lighting. And happy hour on Friday was from 4-7 that's amazing!! And their well vodka is ice pik 🤯
I believe that this place has something for everyone. I tend to gravitate to familiar restaurants and this one is definitely one of my favorites. Their food, service, spirits, and atmosphere are all very pleasant. I even enjoy going to their live music nights. I've heard people call it a hole in the wall, but I'd rather it be called a diamond in the rough.
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Pete Clark
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10
4 years ago
One of our favorite spots in Portland! Absolutely the best staff ever, super friendly, laid back but professional and the food is great, beer is cold and gluten free options for the wife (with Celiac's) is awesome. You'll never go wrong here!
Started out waiting 10-15 min for our waitress to come for our drink orders. By the time she came, we were ready to order our food but she told us that she "had things to do" so she could only take our drink orders. Wrong drinks. Waited more, placed orders. Food was good but definitely overpriced...$30 for 2 sandwiches and water! Waited forever to get the check, and she was busy talking to her coworker and didn't see us trying to wave to her. Never refilled drinks. It wasn't even busy. If we hadn't gone through such a hassle to find and pay for parking, we would have left when she refused to take our order. The food was good, so that's why I even gave 2 stars.
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Sean O
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10
4 years ago
Great little place in Portland. Not fancy or pretentious, witch is nice. Great selection of regional beers paired with pub style menu. Atmosphere is cozy & casual. Great for a low key night.
The website said Happy Hour, Mon. through Friday 4-6. We arrived at 4, just as they were opening, and were told Happy Hour starts at 5, by a dour, unfriendly bartender. I showed her the place, on the website where it says 4 -6. She gave me some excuse about another website they don't have control over???? The website, I showed her was their website. The right thing to do would be to not charge us for our drinks, then we may have stuck around and ordered food. Nope, and the drink was lousy, tasted like ice water. We are an older couple and wondered if that might be a factor. Regardless, we will never go back or recommend it to any one. PS Next day, checked the website and Happy Hour info was taken down, so they do have control over the website. Bad way to do business.
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Mat Yerkes
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8
6 years ago
I visit Dogfish Bar and Grille weekly for trivia with friends. It's one of my favorite places in town to stop into and hang out for a bit with a beer, chat either inside or out on the deck, or relax after work. The staff is one of the friendliest groups of people I've met at any restaurant in town, and my be *the* friendliest from my experiences. Beer rotates frequently and they get some great ones on tap at a near-constant pace. The wine list is curated to fit a low to medium price budget as well and has had some standouts (I'm not really a wine guy). For food, they specialize in pub-styled snacks like the pretzels (which are great), nachos, sandwiches and burgers, but the entrees, while few, rotate and are delicious. If you can run into the meatloaf during the winter (not sure if that's on the menu for the summer), you should get it. And even more so for the turkey pot pie soup. That stuff is what dreams are made of. Not to mention they have a mug club with specials on certain days for cheap pours of certain beers. I don't remember how much it is, but it's a great deal for someone like me who goes once a week.
Great happy hour with $5 well drinks. Friednly service. Got the turkey club and it was absolutely amazing. Definitely suggest this place for a casual bite and drink. Meal type Dinner Price per person $10–20
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