Lunch at The Lost Kitchen

The Lost Kitchen (website, facebook, instagram) now offers a regular counter service lunch Tuesday through Saturday. Dubbed the Little Lost Kitchen it operates out of a seaparate cafe space at the restaurant’s renovated mill building in Freedom. Lunch is available on a walk-in basis—no reservations needed or available.

Chef/owner Erin French and her team are serving a menu of baked goods like coffee cake, scones, chocolate coconut rose macaroons with beer wine, ice tea, shrubs, cold brew, and soft drinks. The daily lunch menu includes snacks like snap peas dusted with citrus salt, oysters and olives along with dishes like the cornflake fried chicken, salad, carrot and corriander soup, French ham and butter sandwiches and strawberry shortcake shown in this set of images from today.

The lunch menu is available 11 am – 2:30 pm, with baked good, sandwiches, wine and beer available until 4 pm. Our best advice is to get there early—today’s lunch line started to form up at 10:30 am. There are a few tables indoors but most of the seating is on a patio overlooking the picturesque mill pond.

The Lost Kitchen is located at 22 Mill Street, Freedom, Maine (map) which Google Maps says is a 90+ minute drive from Portland. Parking is just across the bridge from the mill building.