Hours

Monday	8:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 4:00 - 7:30 PM
Tuesday	8:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 4:00 - 7:30 PM
Friday	8:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 4:00 - 7:30 PM
Saturday	8:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 4:00 - 7:30 PM
Sunday	8:00 AM - 2:00 PM, 4:00 - 7:30 PM

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Reviews

• Dionne Chen
  ★ 4

  Wish I could reply to the AI generated review directly, but pls ignore that slop —nIn actuality, this place is adorable! The staff is really friendly, the ambiance is so cute. The food is pretty good — I’m not the biggest seafood person but I enjoyed the poutine. Overall my experience was great and I also enjoyed the record music. Would love to return

• Lisa Clay-Leroy
  ★ 5

  Drove up from NJ for a visit to a school in Brunswick and wanted to find a place closer to the coastline to eat pre-dinner appetizers while there was still daylight. In early April and many places are still closed for the season but we got lucky finding this cafe was open. Quaint space, loved the decor and color scheme. Really friendly staff (waitress and cooks) and the food was delicious we had crab cakes, fish chowder and the salt and vinegar fries. Would go again to try out the dinner entrees.

• Melissa M
  ★ 5

  I had gone here for lunch with a fiend for the first time, a few months ago, it was delicious!!!
  Went back today with my husband for dinner and it was absolutely fabulous! The French onion soup was out of the park and my squash and spinach lasagna was so flavoful. Mmm nutmeg. My husband's friend chicken with all the fixings were legendary! We didn't even bring any home because we cleared it 🤭 so excited to have this gem in Harpswell and for their winter offerings. We are grateful and our taste buds and stomachs are too!! 🥰❤️

• Laura Vinalet Brown
  ★ 5

  We visited Harpswell, a bit before the season, and one of the locals told us that we had to eat at Fishnet Cafe. We are so glad we took the recommendation; the food was amazing. My three kids also loved the food. I am glad we had the made-from-scratch pie; it was delicious, and none of us likes blueberry pie usually. I had crab cakes, and they were great.
  
  The fries were also excellent. The service was amazing; it felt like we were dining with friends. Amazing place, definitely recommend.

• shaheen mehrdad
  ★ 1

  a month agonIf bad decisions were a restaurant, The Fishnet Café would be their entire business model. Calling this place “dining” is an act of generosity usually reserved for participation trophies and misleading movie blurbs. From the instant you walk in, you’re hit with the unmistakable aura of neglect — a charming euphemism for “someone abandoned a thrift store here and called it ambiance.”nnThe food: imagine a sad, confused cafeteria tray that tried to reinvent itself and failed spectacularly. The “seasonal” soup tastes like it lost a fight with a can opener and a pawn shop spice rack. The burger arrives with the emotional range of a deflated balloon — flattened, limp, and clearly wishing it had never been summoned. Portions are stingy, the plating is defensive, and the seasoning appears to be an afterthought that never made it to the meeting.
  
  Service? If indifference were an Olympic sport, the waitstaff would sweep the podium. Orders are taken with the brisk efficiency of someone who’s already filed a restraining order against your table. Requests are treated like optional folklore — you may get them, you may not, and either way the server will smile as if this is all part of a quirky little improv piece no one else was informed about.
  
  Cleanliness and hygiene are not opinions here — they’re a creative interpretation. Sticky menus, tables that cling to your elbows, and a restroom that tells stories you don’t want to hear form the backdrop to your meal. If you’re nostalgic for the faintly offensive whiff of “closed-for-renovation” floor cleaner, congratulations — you’ve found your place.
  
  The decor is an assault on taste. Every surface is curated to ensure maximum cognitive dissonance: a mishmash of cheap nautical knickknacks, a bumper-sticker collage that reads like a fever dream of bad takes, and lighting so apologetically dim you’ll wonder if they’re hiding the food on purpose. The playlist is a grab-bag of songs chosen by an algorithm that clearly hates humanity.
  
  Worst of all is the vibe. If you bring children here thinking you’ll get a tolerable meal, you might as well bring them straight to the exit — and keep walking. This place makes questionable life choices look like a public service. You’ll leave feeling not merely hungry, but morally and gastronomically betrayed.
  
  If you want to experience food that tries and fails, a staff that practices the art of being perpetually busy, and an atmosphere that seems to champion poor judgment, The Fishnet Café is perfect — for every scenario except the one where you actually want a meal. For everyone else: avoid. There are twenty better options on the same block and none of them will make you consider a dramatic life change after one bite.
  
  Final verdict (for the brave, the bored, and the masochistic): do not bring family. Do not bring friends. Do not bring expectations. Bring a sense of irony and a backup restaurant plan.