Downtown Bangor’s newest cocktail lounge, which will also serve farm-to-table snacks and plenty of non-alcoholic options, will open on Friday.
Barliman’s, located at 1 Kenduskeag Plaza West, will be open at 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6, according to co-owner Zack Pike, a developer at Pike Project Development. The lounge is tucked in the walk-out basement behind 2 Hammond St., along the Kenduskeag Stream.
The bar’s opening day comes several months after Pike and Laura Peppard, co-owner and general manager of Barliman’s, began working on the basement location in May. The space was previously a drive-thru for Merrill Bank.
Peppard previously co-owned The Fiddlehead, a Bangor restaurant that closed in March 2023 after 13 years in business. The Fiddlehead’s staff will operate Barliman’s, with the exception of the head chef position, Peppard previously told the Bangor Daily News.
The bar is named after Barliman Butterbur, a “Lord of the Rings” character who owned The Prancing Pony, an inn that served beer and food and provided shelter to travelers.