Downtown Gardiner brewery overlooking the Kennebec River — Belgian wheats, lagers, NEIPAs, vintage arcade games, and Miller Pride food truck.
Bates Mill Store is the Monmouth-based original retailer of Bates bedspreads and blankets—the iconic Maine-woven heirloom textiles, made in the USA in 100% cotton for over 50 years.
Independent craft brewery based in Wiscasset, in Midcoast Maine with a tasting room open to visitors.
A family owned business since 1971. Bath Industrial is here to give you advice and supplies you need!
Bath Sweet Shoppe is an independent grocery & food business based in Midcoast Maine. The downtown Bath fixture is a beloved old-fashioned candy and chocolate destination featuring nostalgic treats and Haven's chocolates—made in Maine for more than a century.
Hunting-lodge-themed brewery and distillery near Kennebunkport's Dock Square — house beer, craft spirits, scratch kitchen, with sister locations in Portland, Wells, and Biddeford.
Independent craft brewery based in Portland, in Greater Portland with a tasting room open to visitors.
Lewiston-based pioneer of canned craft beer in New England. Apparel, glassware, and merchandise alongside online beer ordering.
Portland-based modern outdoor lifestyle apparel. Maine pieces inspired by Baxter State Park.
Beachgrass is an independent home decor business based in the Southern Maine Coast. The Kennebunkport Dock Square shop offers coastal-inspired gifts, decor, and artisan goods curated by locally-rooted owners with deep ties to the Kennebunks community.
Kennebunkport-based coastal lifestyle shop. Stocks beachy gifts, home decor, and accessories all year round.
Princeton-based hunting and outdoor lodge gear shop. Apparel and gear for hunters, campers, and Maine outdoors enthusiasts.
Bear Mountain Botanicals was created in 2004 to fill a need for all natural, every day products that could be used safely around children and pets -inside the house, outside in the garden, and on the body.
Mount Desert-based Beatrix Farrand Society shop. Books, gifts, and garden-themed goods.
Freedom-based working Maine plantation and farm shop. Maine-grown specialty foods and farm goods.
South Portland-based handmade stoneware pottery studio. Beautiful saturated-color functional ceramics.
Bar Harbor's modern take on the old-fashioned general store, mixing New England goods with Acadia clothing, sweets, and candles.
Southern Maine's premier salon in Scarborough since 2001 — cuts, color, extensions, bridal services, and a new Head Spa offering across a 28-stylist team.
Authentic French bakery from Le Cordon Bleu–trained Galyna Syrota, relocated to Hallowell's Water Street May 2025 in the second-oldest building in town.
Independent craft brewery based in Portland, in Greater Portland with a tasting room open to visitors.
Bell Farm Shops is an independent home decor business based in the Southern Maine Coast. The York landmark on Route 1 carries gifts, garden supplies, home decor, holiday and seasonal items, soaps, candles, cards, and an extensive wild bird feeding section—a beloved year-round destination.
Bell the Cat is a restaurant owned and run by Jojo Oliphant in Belfast, ME.
Red-sauce Italian restaurant and Philly hoagie shop from Ramona's owner Josh Sobel, opened May 2025 in the former Broken Arrow space on Congress Street.
We are makers of artifacts for those who live adventurously.
Hand-knit statement hats made one at a time by Liz Polkinghorn at her Rockport home, featuring custom words knit into 100-percent Maine-sourced wool.
Damariscotta-based gluten-free gourmet fudge. Midcoast Maine candy maker.
Bicyclette Furniture is an independent home decor business based in Midcoast Maine. Brian Christopher's Brunswick workshop in the Fort Andross maker space handcrafts unique, well-made furniture from American hardwoods—named for the functional, graceful Parisian commuter bike.
Independent bookstore in Biddeford, Maine.
Bier Cellar is a Portland-based artisanal beer, wine, cider, and mead shop—curating small-producer bottles and cans from Maine and beyond.
Independent craft brewery based in Skowhegan, in the Kennebec Valley with a tasting room open to visitors.
York-based family-owned shop for over 50 years. Antiques, gifts, and Maine treasures from a longstanding Southern Maine landmark.
South Berwick-based custom woodworker and boatbuilder. Custom cabinets, furniture, and wooden boats.
Biddeford-based slow-fashion children’s apparel maker. Heirloom-quality kids clothing produced thoughtfully in Maine.
Independent craft brewery based in Gray, in Maine's Lakes & Mountains with a tasting room open to visitors.
Caribou-based party supply retailer. Wide selection of children’s and adult birthday party supplies and decorations.
Birtwell Farm Goods handcrafts goat's milk, vegan, and specialty cold-process soaps at a family farm in Wayne. Sustainably sourced ingredients, traditional methods.
Independent craft brewery based in Portland, in Greater Portland with a tasting room open to visitors.
We are passionate about chocolate. As candy makers and now the first bean to bar maker in our state, we seek to make clean, real and sustainable confectionery products.
Waterville-based coffee roaster. Kennebec Valley specialty-coffee brand.
Black Cape Comics is a Waterville-based online comic book shop offering new releases, key issues, first appearances, and back-issue collections.
Black Ink Coffee is a veteran-owned, Bangor-based specialty coffee roaster offering single-origin beans, blends, and a subscription service.
A clothing and lifestyle boutique located in downtown Rockland, Maine since 1995, Black Parrot boasts a carefully curated collection of high end clothing, accessories and house wares.
Independent craft brewery based in Brunswick, in Midcoast Maine with a tasting room open to visitors.
At Black Swan Handmade all of our spoons, accessories, and other products are designed, tested, and made by Park Swan from start to finish. We feel it is our responsibility to provide ethical, American produced goods.
Maine's only Relais & Châteaux property, a restored 1891 country estate atop a fieldstone wall above Moosehead Lake, with 10 rooms, six cabins, a farm-to-table restaurant, and a spa.
Portland-based shop curating new and vintage treasures for the home and gift-giving. An ever-changing selection rooted in the thrill of the hunt.
Bridgton-based discount wakeboard retailer. Sells overstocks and blemished wakeboards from Slingshot and other top brands with full warranties.
Woman-owned cherry orchard, agritourism estate, and creative retreat on McCurdy Pond in Bremen — Maine's largest sour cherry orchard plus the only ornamental cherry blossom grove in New England.
1,350+ trusted Maine shops, makers, and retailers — shop online, ship anywhere, or find them on your next visit.
Maine's first bean-to-bar chocolate maker, turning single-origin cacao into clean, real confections on Rockland's working waterfront — and shipping them anywhere.
Ultralight packs and shelters sewn in a Biddeford mill — carried on every long trail in America.
Organic loose-leaf tea imported directly from worker-owned cooperatives — steeped in Brunswick.
Portland's fiercely independent bookshop — staff picks worth trusting since 2000.
100% grass-fed beef raised on 500 acres in Charleston — delivered to your door.
Hand-forged Maine axes made the old way in a South Portland shop — heirlooms with an edge.
Hypoallergenic alpaca clothing and goods — from a working farm in Unity.
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