Maine Eats · region guide · checked October 2026
Lakes & Mountains: dairy bars & whoopie pies
11 dairy bars, 3 whoopie pie and donut stops and 2 red snapper and Italian stops in Maine's Lakes & Mountains region, each checked in business in October 2026 against a 2025 or 2026 source, plus the 487 restaurants in the app's directory here.
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About this region
The Lakes & Mountains region is Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties. Of the 487 places to eat and drink the app knows here, the most are in Lewiston, Auburn and Farmington. Our hand-checked lists have 20 places here; the towns with the most are Lewiston (5), Auburn (3) and Turner (2). The most common kinds of place are Bar & Pub (93), Coffee & Café (68) and Bakery & Sweets (56). The longest at the same address is Labadie's Bakery in Lewiston, there since 1925.
How we draw it: the Maine Office of Tourism's Lakes & Mountains region, on county lines. Counties: Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford. A place is in it when its town is in one of those counties. Town pages here: Lewiston, Auburn.
Where to eat in the Lakes & Mountains region
The 12 towns here with the most places to eat and drink by the app's count; each link opens the web search for that town alone.
Red snappers & Italians in the Lakes & Mountains region
2 places, by town. The statewide guide has 11.
Sam's Italian Foods
40 Millett Dr, Auburn
Maine Italians Known for: Maine Italian sandwich; pizza
Lewiston-Auburn's own Maine Italian sandwich chain (since 1939, now employee-owned), with shops in Auburn, Lewiston, Lisbon Falls, Augusta, Dixfield and Brunswick.
Simones' Hot Dog Stand
99 Chestnut St, Lewiston
Red snappers Known for: red snapper hot dogs on steamed buns; chili dogs
Downtown Lewiston hot dog stand run by the Simones family for four generations, known for red snappers ('Lewiston lobsters') on steamed buns; open weekdays.
Whoopie pies & donuts in the Lakes & Mountains region
3 places, by town. The statewide guide has 16.
Labadie's Bakery
161 Lincoln St, Lewiston
Whoopie pies Known for: whoopie pies · At this address since 1925
Century-old bakery in Lewiston's old Little Canada neighborhood, built on whoopie pies; retail counter open weekday mornings and ships nationwide.
Katherine's Bakery & Cafe
248 Main St, Norway
Whoopie pies Known for: whoopie pies; doughnuts; breakfast and lunch sandwiches
Downtown Norway bakery-cafe whose owner is known for whoopie pies (it once baked 3,200 for a single order); judged best flavored whoopie pie at the 2025 Maine Whoopie Pie Festival and third-best traditional in 2026.
Valley View Orchard Pies
15 Madison Ave, Oxford
Whoopie piesBlueberry pie Known for: whoopie pies; Maine wild blueberry pie; fruit and cream pies
Family-owned pie bakery that welcomes visitors during weekday business hours; its whoopie pie won best traditional at the 2026 Maine Whoopie Pie Festival, and Maine wild blueberry is its most popular pie.
Franco-American food in the Lakes & Mountains region
1 place, by town. It's the only one in the statewide guide so far.
Grant's Bakery
525 Sabattus St, Lewiston
Franco-American Known for: pork pie (tourtière); salmon pie; baked beans and brown bread
Family bakery since 1956 that bakes hot pork pies (tourtière) on Wednesdays and salmon pie on Fridays; its tourtière was in the Sun Journal's 2015 local tourtière tasting.
Diners in the Lakes & Mountains region
1 place, by town. The statewide guide has 13.
Rolly's Diner
87 Mill St, New Auburn (Auburn)
Diner Known for: crepes; pancakes; all-day breakfast · At this address since 1993
New Auburn neighborhood diner named for co-founder Rolande 'Rolly' Blais, serving breakfast all day; its walls hold old New Auburn photos and memorabilia.
Dairy bars in the Lakes & Mountains region
11 places, by town. The statewide guide has 54.
Taber's
470 Lake Shore Dr, Auburn
Dairy bar Known for: hard ice cream (23 flavors, including Maine blueberry); frappes
Lake Auburn ice cream stand and restaurant with mini golf and a driving range.
The Ice Cream Shoppe
171 Wilton Rd, Farmington
Dairy barSeasonal Known for: soft serve; flavor of the week; dairy-free soft serve · Season: mid-April into October (opened April 18 and still serving Oct. 1 in 2026)
Family-run Farmington soft-serve stand since 1988 with a weekly flavor and dairy-free options.
Route 160 Ice Cream
5 Brownfield Rd, Hiram
Dairy barSeasonal Known for: hard ice cream (20+ flavors); frappes; red snapper hot dogs · Season: opens in early May (May 3 in 2025)
Hiram ice cream stand with 20-plus hard-serve flavors that also sells red snapper hot dogs.
Sweet Scoops
258 Main St, Jay
Dairy barSeasonal Known for: ice cream · Season: mid-April into October (opened April 18 and still serving in October 2026)
Seasonal Jay ice cream stand owned by Rhonda Harlow.
Dairy Joy
109 Campus Ave, Lewiston
Dairy bar Known for: soft serve; hard ice cream; sundaes; banana boats
Family-run ice cream stand with soft and hard serve, sundaes, shakes and floats; a second stand is at 137 Spring St in Auburn.
Main Street Dairy Treat
688 Main St, Lewiston
Dairy bar Known for: soft serve; homemade hard ice cream; warm apple pie sundae
Lewiston ice cream stand serving soft serve, homemade hard ice cream and low-carb ice cream.
Softie Delite
7 Bridge St, Livermore Falls
Dairy bar Known for: soft serve; hard ice cream; brioche waffle sundae
Livermore Falls ice cream stand with soft and hard serve and gluten-free waffle cones.
Frosty Delite
190 Main St, Mexico
Dairy bar Known for: soft serve (blueberry, orange-pineapple, peanut butter)
Soft-serve stand under the lighted cone just east of the Mexico town office.
Log Yard Dairy Bar
1184 Maine St, Poland
Dairy barSeasonal Known for: frozen custard; soft serve · Season: seasonal; check before you go
Seasonal Poland stand known for frozen custard as well as soft serve.
Pine Tree Frosty
2459 Main St, Rangeley
Dairy barSeasonal Known for: soft and hard serve; weekly ice cream specials; lobster roll · Season: spring to fall (opening day May 20 in 2025)
Waterfront Rangeley ice cream stand in business since 1964.
Northland Dairy Treat
1355 Auburn Rd, Turner
Dairy bar Known for: soft serve
Turner soft-serve stand on Route 4.
Icons and old favorites
Hand-checked places here that aren't in the guides above: James Beard honorees, long-running places, inns and bakeries.
Nezinscot Farm
284 Turner Center Rd, Turner
America's Classic Known for: house-baked bread; farm cheese; café sandwiches and soups; whoopie pies and doughnuts; bread; cheese; doughnuts · At this address since 1987
Organic dairy farm with a café, bakery and fromagerie that cooks with what the farm raises; named one of the James Beard Foundation's America's Classics in 2023. Café open Wednesday-Sunday.
James Beard: America's Classics 2023 (winner): Nezinscot Farm, Turner
Kawanhee Inn
12 Anne's Way, Weld
Seasonal Known for: dinner in the lodge dining room (menu changes) · Season: summer and early fall (opening day June 16 in 2026) · At this address since 1929
Rustic 1920s lodge on Webb Lake with a public restaurant in its fieldstone-fireplace dining room and enclosed porch.