Terms of use

What the app is

Maine Eats is a free guide to restaurants in Maine, made by Nicholas Soderstrom. It is provided as is, for personal use, without charge and without warranties of any kind.

Check before you go

Restaurants open, close, and change their hours and menus, and many lobster pounds, clam shacks and dairy bars close for the season. Dishes, seasons, and years at an address are what each place or a named source said when we checked in October 2026. We work to keep the lists right, but we can't promise that any listing is current or complete. Call the restaurant before you make the trip.

Health inspections

Maine's official inspection result is Pass or Fail, and Maine Eats doesn't grade restaurants. Where the City of Lewiston posts a result, the app and the web search show the city's latest posted result for that place with its date and a link to the city's report. A result describes one inspection on that day. For the official record anywhere in Maine, see the state's health inspection search.

Other people's content

Hours, photos and other details in each place card come from Apple Maps and are Apple's and its providers', under Apple's terms. Restaurant names and trademarks belong to their owners. James Beard Foundation and James Beard Award are trademarks of the James Beard Foundation; honors are reported as facts. Maine Eats is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the State of Maine, Maine CDC or its Health Inspection Program, the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations, the City of Lewiston, the James Beard Foundation, Michelin, Apple, or any restaurant, brand, team or chain.

Data sources and licenses

• Overture Maps Foundation places data (overturemaps.org), release 2026-09-23.1, filtered and reformatted for Maine Eats: data from Meta, Microsoft, DAC, and BrightQuery under the Community Data License Agreement, Permissive 2.0 (text); data from Foursquare under the Apache License 2.0 (text; NOTICE); data from AllThePlaces under CC0 1.0.
• Maine Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations liquor license data, current as of Oct 1, 2026: trade name, address and license class only.
• City of Lewiston Restaurant Inspection Reports, shown as posted with their dates.
• U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files (public domain).
• James Beard Foundation: award, nominee, semifinalist, and America's Classics history.
• Lobster shacks, clam shacks, red snappers and Italians, whoopie pies, diners, oyster bars, dairy bars, and years at an address: our own research, with a source recorded for each place.

More on each source: about Maine Eats.

Corrections

If a listing is wrong, or you own a restaurant and want something fixed, email nick@eatsranked.com. We fix mistakes in the next update.

Liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from use of the app or site, including a wasted drive to a shack that's closed for the season. Maine law governs these terms.

Changes

We may update these terms; the current version and its date are always on this page. See also the privacy policy.