Wayside Tavern

Wayside Tavern is a neighborhood restaurant and bar serving dinner in a cozy setting. The menu is organized into snacks, small plates and large plates, with dishes such as broiled Maine scallops with caviar and bearnaise, beer battered cod, tonnarelli with guanciale and pecorino, halibut with brown butter and capers, and steak au poivre with bone marrow.

Reservations can be booked online, and gift cards are available for purchase on the website. The restaurant sits next to the Francis Hotel on Congress Street in Portland's Maine neighborhood, and it is closed on Wednesdays. Dinner hours run from 4 PM to 9 PM most days, with the kitchen open until 9:30 on Fridays and Saturdays.