The new Candy Lounge, a cocktail and dessert bar in the Camden Harbour Inn. Photo courtesy of Camden Harbour Inn A cocktail and dessert lounge catering to grown-ups with a sweet tooth has opened this summer at the Camden Harbour Inn. Done up in colorful candy shop décor, the Candy Lounge aims to provide a venue for playful escapism.
The candy store theme runs through the entire customer experience: The lounge’s menus arrive tableside in vintage tins with each dessert printed on an individual card designed to look like a candy wrapper, and the check is delivered in the handle of a mini gumball machine. The whimsical dessert menu from Pastry Chef Gwenythe Frechette includes dishes like “Snickers” – featuring vanilla ice cream with caramel swirl, espresso-chocolate sablé, malt Chantilly and candied peanuts – and “Bubblegum,” made with vanilla sponge cake, strawberry compote, white chocolate bubble gum mousse and edible wafer paper. Lounge cocktails include sweet sippers like the Clementine Crush, Sake Snow Cone, Cotton Candy Cloud and Lemon Drop.
The Candy Lounge is open seven days a week from 4 to 11 p.m. DOWNTOWN ROAST BEEF RESTAURANT TO OPEN A new restaurant offering regional roast beef specialty sandwiches is on track to launch on Congress Street in Portland this summer.
Owner Jennifer Rockwell said she aims to open Roasty’s at 642 Congress St. sometime in August. The space formerly hosted Ada’s Kitchen, an Italian restaurant and pizzeria, which Rockwel.
