Linda Bean’s Maine Kitchen & Topside Tavern

The Baked Haddock was one of the best I've ever had! The spices and carrots were amazing! I would recommend this restaurant to anyone!

From FL, wanted some real Maine cuisine. These are some of the Bean family recipes, and meat, fish, vegetables are locally sourced. We really enjoyed the root vegetable salad, big enough for 2-3 to share. The candied walnuts and fresh feta cheese, along with apple vinaigrette, made this salad something special. We also tried a lobster roll with homemade chips, and coleslaw and a lobster bake. Food was fabulous, service was excellent. Definitely five stars, highly recommend when you’re in Freeport - right across Main St from LLBean.

Linda's is a staple for the family on our Freeport trips. Outside seating with fire pit tables overlooking their flagship store. Service is always great and the meals are wonderful!! From Haddock to steak!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Great service but the food is pricey for the quality.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Blueberry BBQ Wings, Fried Seafood Platters-A Maine Tradition, Clam Chowder, Lobster Roll with Chips, Seafood

Lobster bisque temp was cool to warm, definitely too cool to enjoy. They took it off the bill but still charged for the lobster bits that came with it. Hamburger was way too salty. My daughter couldn’t drink her blueberry lavender lemonade because it was too syrupy and tasted like pure corn syrup.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 1

Service: 3

We’ve eaten here a few times over the years. The food was good, the waitress was friendly. My husband had the Bloody Mary with oyster. A couple of years ago he had it with the 1/2 lobster tail but the price was ridiculous. Prices seem to have shot through the roof in this area unfortunately.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

My wife and I went to Linda Bean’s basically because it was walking distance from our hotel. We were pleasantly surprised about how great of a restaurant it was. We were seated quickly on a Friday night. I loved the chairs at our table. They were on wheels which work great at a restaurant. We started with very good scallops which were delicious. My wife had haddock and I had a chopped lobster dish. Both were fantastic. I highly recommend this restaurant.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 4

Good food, comfortable. Friendly staff.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Salad

Drove 3 hrs from BarHarbor Me
For my birthday.Arrived at this
Place and saw 2 elderly women there.
Waited 10 min for staff at front to
Come and seat my husband and I
But waited 10 min and no one came.
The elderly women said that a hostess
Came by 15 min earlier and they were
Leaving after 25 min.A hostess came
And we asked for a table.She said
That it would be 10 more min before
We could be seated even though
There were empty tables to the right
And to the left near the bar.Five min
Later a party of 6 came in and the
Hostess said that we would have to
Move and sit on a bench while she
Helped the next party.She was rude
And not very friendly.Other waitresses
Walked by but said nothing.We refused to
Wait any longer and I told that girl
That she was rude.She yelled that
They were short staffed.We left
And were disappointed but went
To the Tuscan Bistro and were
Welcomed warmly.A mgr should
Have helped at the front and
Alleviated them being short staffed.
There are ways to politely say
That they were sorry for the delay
And would be with us shortly.
Too bad as it would have been
Nice to eat there on my birthday.

Our server was very friendly but not together. Kept trying to serve food to wrong people.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 3

Recommended dishes: Salad, Seafood

Good food, a little pricey

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Bisque

Food pricey, not as good as other lobster rolls I've had. More expensive!. Staff excellent!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Lobster Roll with Chips

Burger was first rate. Cooked perfectly. And the tastiest chips made in-house with a subtle vinager salt. Yumm ?

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Located across the street from the LL Bean flagship store they have a Maine seafood oriented menu. Server couldn’t be nicer. Crabcake appetizer was light and flavorful. The Maine blueberry pie was wonderful, outstanding flavor served warm with vanilla bean ice cream.

Parking: Freeport downtown has free parking.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Recommended dishes: Blueberry Pie, Bisque, Lobster Mac & Cheese

Waitress was nice, the food not so much. Had a flavorless chicken sandwich while my wife had the fried scallops that also had no flavor and left her feeling sick. My advice...Don't eat there. On a side note read some reviews after I dined there and saw the manager respond to one negative review by stating "I wish you would have said something before you left." So to the manager, I wish you'd have read the abundance of negative reviews and fixed the problem before I ate there .

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 4