La Bella Vita

Restaurant

La Bella Vita

55 West St., Bar Harbor, 04609, ME

When you finally tire of lobster, check out this Italian restaurant in the Harborside Hotel that ranks among some of the best food in Bar Harbor. Even better, it expertly toes the line between upscale and family-friendly, welcoming kids with a children’s menu, crayons and activity books, even while it cultivates a wine-bar atmosphere. The restaurant advertises itself as only using the freshest ingredients, and it shows in the flavors that burst from even simple meals like pasta pomodoro or seafood fra diavolo. And if you have to have that lobster, you can’t go wrong with lobster oreganato, a two-pound lazy lobster split and baked with a crisp oregano crust.