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Here’s a first look at the Dry Dock (website, instagram) restaurant which will be opening for business this Saturday at 11 am. The newly renovated restaurant can seat 145 across the 2-story dining room, with space for another 155 people on the deck. Shown above are the second floor dining room (bottom right) and high top tables adjacent to the first floor bar (top left).
Chef Mike Carney and his team are serving a menu (see below) featuring seafood dishes like broiled haddock with potatoes and green beans (top right) as well as chowder, mussels, steamed clams, and lobster rolls. In addition to oysters, the raw bar offers lobster tails, crab, ceviche and tuna crudo along with a nightly seafood specials like a crab louie and a fluke and halibut salad with horseradish and trout roe (bottom left) shown above. The drinks menu include wines by the glass and a bottle list, local and national brand beer, cocktails, and nonalcoholic drink options.
A fixture on the Portland waterfront since it first launched in 1983, the restaurant had remained dormant since 2018. A new team comprised of Luke Holden, Ben Conniff, Bryan Holden—co-owners of Luke’s Lobster—leased the building last fall and with general manager Matt Ginn have renovated and expanded the restaurant to ready it to reopen to the public.
Dry Dock is located at 84 Commercial Street. It will be open 11 am – 10 pm daily and initially operate on a walk-in only basis.
