Ben & Bill's Chocolate Emporium

Address 66 Main Street, Bar Harbor

A confectionery and ice-cream shop on Main Street that has been a Bar Harbor institution since 1987. The fudge is made in plain view through the window, the truffles are decent, and the lobster ice cream is the gimmick worth trying once.

Skip the queue out the door at peak hours by coming late evening — they stay open until ten or eleven in season.

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The signature flavour is lobster ice cream — buttery vanilla with chunks of real lobster meat folded in. It started as a joke in the 1980s and somehow stuck on the menu.

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