Weirdest New England Restaurant
Does this place still exist? A couple of years back my wife and I were on Route 1 in Kittery,Maine very close to York. We stopped at this place that I think was called "Hansel & Gretel's" Very strange. The place was nearly empty and this gruff hostess with a German accent said "You vill have to wait 10 minutes."
We were hungry so we stayed. We were seated by a mural, I swear to God, of the children in the story kicking the wicked witch into the oven. I felt like I was in a very dark Nazi twilight zone. Does ANYONE remember this place?????????
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I was actually an employee at this place. It closed a very, very long time ago in 1998. With the failing health of the 'gruff hostess' Ursula and me being the only employee to serve, cook, clean, prep and manage, we finally closed. The murals were a bit odd, but then again so were the owners. But hey, it paid the bills for quite a long time....
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re: Deana2323
MidCoastMaineiac
Sep 15, 2011 07:34 AM
Reviving an 11 year old thread...I love it!
I wonder what New England restaurant the torch has passed to?
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re: peedee360
It was a jamaican place for a couple months as well but looked ridiculous since they kept the Hansel and Gretel exterior (so did Mahalo's)...now it sits empty waiting for another business that will only survive a few months. Nothing has ever been in there for more than 4 years.
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re: Deana2323
Speaking of weird restaurants, does anyone know what happed to The Edmund Fitzgerald? It was a tugboat they converted into a fine dining restaurant, docked in Marina Bay in Quincy. Thought it was kinda funny it was named after a boat that sank in the Great Lakes & was immortalized by a song by Gordon Lightfoot. I thought I heard the owned got mad at the dock owner about them raising the docking fee so he just sailed off. Heard they went somewhere in New England - maybe Maine?
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To Michael, To even compare the place or the theme to some previous atrocities is ignorant about the Brother Grimm fairytales
To Carol, where is the sarcasm?
To Tamara, making something of a place called "Little Berchtesgaden" what it is not, would be the same as associating your Russian name with a Stalinistik Apparatchik
Wake up folks, Jim Leff, please say something.›3 Replies-
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re: Peter B. Wolf
Peter, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary...to tear flesh, bite the lips in rage,sneer, 1: a sharp & often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain. 2: mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic & often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual. Sarcasm being another mode of humor...Sick as it may or may not be. Thus the mural of the children being sent to the oven, displayed in a restaurant, does not require words to show the sarcasm! As to the reference made by Michael I agree it was not called for.
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Are you asking if it's still in existence because you would be in complete amazement, on how it could still survive? If not, you must be a glutton for punishment to even think of returning to such a restaurant. Maybe this is one restaurant with a sarcasm theme! I lived in York Harbor back in the late 60's, a small hamlet on U.S.1A.hop,skip,& jump from Kittery... definately Hansel & Gretel would not have survived in that time frame.
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