January 4, 2015 — If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to eat shellfish at Cook’s Lobster House, better get cracking.
The iconic Maine seafood restaurant in Harpswell closes for the season Sunday, and while the restaurant promises to open again in spring for its 60th year, the business is being sold.
The restaurant and real estate are on the market for $1.79 million, according to the website of Malone Commercial Brokers in Portland. The sale includes a 5,320-square-foot, single-story wood frame building on 1.37 acres, the listing says. The restaurant seats 190 people and includes a large commercial kitchen, two dining rooms, a bar and lounge, a gift shop and outside deck that seats an additional 50. The decor is decidedly Maine-centric: knotty pine, lobster traps and lots of nautical memorabilia.
And then there are those views. Generations of Mainers have journeyed down the peninsula and over the historic Cribstone Bridge to feast on lobster while enjoying views of Merriconeag Sound and Garrison Cove, and of lobstermen bringing in their daily catch.
For at least the past three years, the restaurant’s fans have included Jackie and Terry Tiner of Belgrade, who make an annual pilgrimage to Cook’s to celebrate their wedding anniversary. They always order the Point Shore Dinner, which includes a lobster, steamers, corn on the cob and potato. If anything changes, Jackie Tiner said, they would miss it.
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