While Portland is often the Maine course of restaurant industry buzz, the state’s Queen City is home to an eatery in the top tier of a new national ranking.
Timber Kitchen and Bar, at 22 Bass Park Blvd. in Bangor, placed No. 10 among the “everyday eats restaurants” in Tripadvisor’s 2021 Best of the Best Restaurants Awards, the popular travel website announced Wednesday.
This year’s ranking is the first in at least several years in which a Maine restaurant has made any of the annual top 10 lists, compiled for various restaurant categories. Timber launched in 2015 and has received generally favorable reviews on Tripadvisor.
In a news release, Tripadvisor said it based the 2021 rankings on the quality and quantity of traveler reviews and ratings for the restaurants, collected from Jan. 1 to April 30, as well as editorial input. The website hosts more than 887 million reviews and opinions of nearly 8 million travel-related businesses.
Other top 10 “everyday” honorees ranged in location from Florida to Tennessee to Philadelphia.
Timber serves lunch and dinner in what the website describes as a “loose-tie atmosphere,” next to the Cross Insurance Center. The menu includes seafood, steaks, burgers, pasta and small-plate dishes.
“It is our go-to restaurant when we have a special occasion, or when we want to treat guests from out of town,” one Timber patron said in a Tripadvisor review.
A call to the restaurant for comment was not immediately returned.
Not to be outdone, Portland has an (unranked) “Timber” restaurant of its own. The Old Port District steakhouse is not connected to its northern namesake.
