Beacon Bar & Bistro catered a 3 hour music party/barn warming for us near the end of July, 2025. They fed a group of 80 to 90 party goers with delicious snack sized pulled pork sliders, lobster rolls, and their signature hot honey chicken sliders. Right from the start Lisa, the manager and chief cook, helpful planning suggestions for us, and her three-person crew were courteous and supporting in every way. We are already considering holding another party next summer and will certainly be contacting Lisa and Chris to again cater for us.

Beacon Bar and Bistro went above and beyond to meet my expectations. Working with Lisa and her crew was such a breeze from figuring out what we wanted to how much we needed. The food tasted absolutely incredible and was a big hit with our guest.

We offered my wedding guest lobster rolls, shrimp pad Thai, salad, cheeseburger sliders, corn bread, brisket, and nachos with bean dip… pretty much a little bit of everything and it all tasted amazing.

Lisa and her crew worked efficiently to get the food to us and it was served hot. Everyone was very kind.

The cost of the catering was very fair.

In the future, I plan to use beacon bar and bistro for any other events I hold.

Our experience hiring Beacon Bar & Bistro was excellent. I hosted a small destination elopement party for my daughter's wedding in Bethel ME. The couple were looking for something meaningful to their relationship and BBQ after snowboarding or hiking was their dinner choice. The weekend of their elopement just so happened to fall during peak leaf peeping in the mountains and the Freyberg Fair (which I'm assuming was having a BBQ competition that weekend).

After calling and email any and all local to Bethel BBQ places (and there are many) and receiving NO responses, I turned to The Knot for help. At this point I was willing to drive hours to give the kids what they wanted for this momentous occasion.

I reached out to Lisa Cooke, Owner of Beacon Bar & Bistro, responded immediately. Lisa didn't just take my order but she went out of her way to help me nail down exactly how of each item I should order, she advised me on what not to waste my time and money and put this mother of bride's mind at ease. She did not rush me though the process and answered no less than a hundred questions, some of them not even related to the catering! Shortly after our initial conversation concluded Lisa called back to let me know that she and her chef would be at the Freyberg Fair that weekend. Lisa and her team went out of their way to still work with me and help me pull of the dinner.

When all was said and done, the BBQ was outstanding, (pulled pork, jerk chicken and brisket) there was more than enough of the delicious BBQ to cover not only the dinner, but lunch for traveling guests the next day.

Thank you to Lisa and her team for an outstanding job and accommodating our party while onsite at the fair!