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North Creek Farm
(207) 389-1341
24 Sebasco Road (Route 217), Phippsburg
northcreekfarm.org
Open year-round: summer 9-6, meals 11-3:30 daily; off-season 10-6 with same meal hours
Sandwiches $6.50
An idyllic setting for summer picnics, but winter lunches are perfect too because perfectly made, as much as possible, from Maine produce and fruits from the garden
"We're the only thing down here in the winter," Suzy Verrier, the owner, said. But watch out for inaccurate MapQuest directions; rely on a DeLorme Maine Atlas & Gazetteer if you can.
After 10 years in a plant nursery business, Verrier started a smaller nursery and then began serving food in 2001. First selling gardening goods, cut flowers, and produce, she added cheese and wine and meals. Summer visitors love to eat outside, where they can admire 3 acres of display gardens. But indoor dining with three tables accommodate people in bad weather.
"We cook like we're cooking for ourselves," she said. She serves mostly soups with homemade stocks, chowders, and sandwiches, using seasonal ingredients. Sandwiches are usually panini-grilled-like the popular tuna in olive oil with artichoke hearts ($6.50), a little bit of oregano, tapenade, and Gruyère on rosemary bread from Borealis Breads.
Homemade pies, like gooseberry pie with berries that were in abundance in summer 2006, are customers' favorites. When the apple pie run exceeded her own trees' apples, she bought local fruit to supplement it. Her focus is on what Maine does best, when it does it. Soups are stocked in the freezer.