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Our last Boothbay Harbor stop was the Boathouse Bistro as seen on the left.
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It’s a rustic three story restaurant with three floors that are usually packed with summer tourists as it has the best food in town.
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We always land here, on the glassed in second floor.
But along with the first, it was closed… and empty. The same disturbing trend we’d seen all day.
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Three places that are always bursting with tourists… weren’t. Tariffs and bad blood with Canada may not be affecting you… but they’re certainly hurting this area.
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Granted…. the top floor had a crowd, but the bar was empty and the bottom two levels were deserted.
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A shocking loss of prime season business.
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Saving the best for last, along with my pomegranate margarita I had blackened jumbo shrimp with fried balls of chorizo grits and smoky tomato sauce while the husband went with pan-seared scallops and crispy cornbread with an apple gastrique (apple cider, sugar, apple cider vinegar, calvados,thyme, chicken stock).
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Both tapas were excellent, and came with a view.
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River's world..... 
While I don’t wish loss of business to any local restaurant, I hope the owners are making the same connections you are and, if they voted for HWSNBN, will see the error of their ways and repent.
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That’s my hope as well.
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You had me at fried balls of chorizo grits.
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We could also become the epicenter of contagious deadly diseases! I’m so old that I’ve had measles and I’ve had rubella. Each required at least two weeks out of school.
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Diseases that were eradicated in this country.
It’s crazy.
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Oh, that’s sad to see. Proof once again that politics has real world impacts. Drinks and meal did look nice though. Ha, ha.
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Maine is a tourist state, many businesses rely on the high summer trade.
Sad indeed.
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The food and views look fabulous.
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Even sadder was that these restaurants managed to survive COVID, only to have to deal with this.
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One of them actually didn’t. McSeagulls’ previous owners closed after COVID and sold the business.
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apple gastrique pray tell WHY? sound like something you are forced to drink
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Just a fancy way of saying sauce.
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