Dining in Scarborough, ME: A Real, Named Restaurant Guide for Higgins Beach and Pine Point
This is Scarborough, Maine — the Higgins Beach and Pine Point town in Cumberland County, not the Scarborough neighborhood of Narragansett, Rhode Island that shares a name elsewhere on this site. Scarborough's dining scene splits into two distinct clusters that don't overlap much: a small, walkable knot of restaurants around Higgins Beach village, and a separate set along Pine Point Road near Pine Point Beach. This page sticks to named, address-verified businesses rather than a long undifferentiated list, and it flags two real spillover problems directly, because both Tripadvisor search radii pull in restaurants that sit just across a town line and are not actually Scarborough businesses.
Around Higgins Beach: Shade, Higgins Beach Market, and Hank's
Shade, the eatery at the Higgins Beach Inn (34 Ocean Ave), is the closest sit-down option to the sand — about 0.3 miles away — and it's best known locally for oysters and margaritas on the deck. One correction worth flagging: Tripadvisor's own category tag for Shade lists it as Chinese/seafood, but a fresh spot-check of its own site (higginsbeachinn.com/dining) and its Yelp listing, both current as of July 2026, describe it as a seafood-and-coastal-American eatery with no Chinese menu in evidence. Treat the Tripadvisor category tag as a likely mis-tag rather than a menu fact. A short walk further out, Higgins Beach Market (about 0.6 miles away) covers the casual/bagels end of the village — a real market with its own site (higginsbeachmarket.com) still active. Hank's, about 1.1 miles out, is the highest-rated of the trio on Tripadvisor and shows up consistently across independent listings as a current, operating American restaurant in Scarborough.
E.A.T. Lobster and Bayley's Lobster Pound: The Seafood Anchors
E.A.T. Lobster, at 162 Black Point Rd (about 2.5 miles from Higgins Beach), is the highest-rated name in this cluster and has its own current site (eatlobster.net) plus an active Yelp listing. Bayley's Lobster Pound is the more institutional name of the two — a long-standing Scarborough lobster pound with its own site (bayleys.com) at 9 Avenue Six, in the Pine Point area, which is why it turns up in both the Higgins Beach and Pine Point search radii rather than sitting neatly in one or the other. Note that Bayley's Lobster Pound, a restaurant, is a completely different business from Bayley's Camping Resort, a campground also located in Scarborough — the shared name is a coincidence worth not tripping over, especially since Old Orchard Beach's own dining content references the campground too.
Pine Point Road: Ken's Place and Pine Point Grill
Pine Point's own restaurant row sits directly on Pine Point Road. Ken's Place Seafood Restaurant, at 207 Pine Point Rd, has its own current site (kensplacescarborough.com) and a large, active review base. Pine Point Grill, just up the road at 240 Pine Point Rd, likewise has its own live site (pinepointgrill.com) and shows current 2026 activity on both Yelp and Tripadvisor. These two are the cleanest, most verifiable Scarborough-side dining names near Pine Point Beach — both sit on Pine Point Road itself, well inside Scarborough, not across the Old Orchard Beach town line.
Not Scarborough: The Cape Elizabeth Names That Show Up Near Higgins Beach
Tripadvisor's "Restaurants Near Higgins Beach" results pull in Sea Glass Restaurant & Lounge, The Good Table, and The Well at Jordan's Farm because they're geographically close — but all three are actually in Cape Elizabeth, the neighboring town, not Scarborough. They're well-regarded restaurants in their own right, and it would be easy for a search-radius-based list to quietly claim them as Scarborough dining. This page doesn't, on purpose: if you want them, look for Cape Elizabeth's own dining coverage rather than Scarborough's.
Also Not Scarborough: The Old Orchard Beach Names Near Pine Point Beach
The same problem shows up on the Pine Point side, and it's arguably a bigger trap because Pine Point Beach and Old Orchard Beach are physically the same continuous sand strand, split only by a town line rather than any natural break. A fresh address check this session found that several names commonly listed as "near Pine Point Beach" are actually Old Orchard Beach businesses: Sheila's Country Store (178 E Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach), Johnny Shucks Maine Lobster (16 Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach — its own domain is literally johnnyshucksoob.com), Rick's Fried Clams (1 W Old Orchard Ave, Old Orchard Beach), Bell Buoy Restaurant (24 Old Orchard St, Old Orchard Beach), and Big Daddy's Bar & Grill (2 W Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach). A sixth name, Rumorz Bistro (198 E Grand Ave, Old Orchard Beach), turned up an even more important flag: its own Yelp listing is marked closed as of a June 2026 update, so it isn't a current dining option anywhere, Scarborough or otherwise. None of these six belong on a Scarborough dining page, and this page leaves them out on purpose rather than repeating a search-radius artifact as if it were a local fact.
What This Page Doesn't Cover
This page verifies five names with real depth on the Higgins Beach side — Shade, Higgins Beach Market, Hank's, E.A.T. Lobster, and Bayley's Lobster Pound — and two on the Pine Point side, Ken's Place and Pine Point Grill. Scarborough almost certainly has more dining options than that, particularly further inland along Route 1 and around the Downs town-center redevelopment, where new restaurants are actively signing on as that project builds out. This page's research did not extend to that inland/Downs-area dining scene. Restaurant status changes quickly for small seasonal Maine food businesses — treat every name above as a solid starting point, not a permanent roster, and confirm current hours directly before planning a visit around any one of them.
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Get a Free Agent Referral →Ratings and distances for the Higgins Beach cluster (Shade, Higgins Beach Market, Hank's, E.A.T. Lobster) and the Pine Point cluster (Ken's Place, Pine Point Grill, and the six flagged Old Orchard Beach names) originate from Tripadvisor's "Restaurants Near Higgins Beach" and "Restaurants Near Pine Point Beach" listings as scraped mid-2026. This page's build session ran fresh web searches in July 2026 to spot-check current operating status and addresses: Shade, Higgins Beach Market, Hank's, E.A.T. Lobster, Bayley's Lobster Pound, Ken's Place Seafood Restaurant, and Pine Point Grill all showed live 2026 Yelp/Tripadvisor activity and, in most cases, their own current sites, at addresses confirmed inside Scarborough. That same fresh search also turned up address records placing Sheila's Country Store, Johnny Shucks Maine Lobster, Rick's Fried Clams, Bell Buoy Restaurant, Rumorz Bistro, and Big Daddy's Bar & Grill in Old Orchard Beach rather than Scarborough, and found Rumorz Bistro specifically marked closed on Yelp as of June 2026. The Cape Elizabeth names (Sea Glass Restaurant & Lounge, The Good Table, The Well at Jordan's Farm) were excluded on the same basis. Ratings, hours, and operating status for any small seasonal Maine restaurant can change quickly — confirm directly with the business or a fresh Yelp/Tripadvisor pull before planning a visit.