SUMMER at EL EL FRIJOLES

SUMMER HOURS: We open at 11:00 am every day except Monday and Tuesday. We serve until the food is gone, or 8:00 pm - whichever comes first.

We make our entire menu from scratch, every day, and our food depends on lots of fresh, locally-sourced components, which may be hard to find sometimes. When we start to run low on food, we "put out the hat" and the last person in line wears our ceremonial sombrero. If you are in line behind the hat, you might need to try us another day!

During the peak weeks of the summer season, we rarely, if ever, make it until 8:00. If you really want to join us for a meal, plan to come early! In Maine, early is like 5:30 or so . . . thanks for your understanding, we can't wait to see you soon!
AUGUST 27: We will be closed for a private function on Sunday, August 27th
LABOR DAY WEEKEND: We will be Closed for the entire Labor Day Weekend — Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday (Sept. 1-4). We will, of course, open at 11:00 am Wednesday, September 6th.
FALL HOURS: Beginning Wednesday, August 30th, we will change to Fall Hours, which are Wednesday-Friday 11 am to 7:00 pm.
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MERCH: We have t-shirts and hats in stock! We can ship them to you for about $20, including tax and shipping. Send me an email at or just mail me a letter with a check inside!

Phone Orders

We cannot accept phone orders (or really even answer the phone) after 4:00 pm. Come on down and place your order like everyone else, and we will happlily pack it up for you to take home and enjoy at your place.

Dudley's Refresher in Castine, Maine

Be sure to visit Dudley's Refresher, our dock-side take-out in Castine, where you can enjoy the finest chef-driven, farm-to-table Downeast cuisine on the coast. All those hyphens, and a spectacular waterfront view to boot! Plus, Dudley's is open on Tuesdays, so there is that . . .

El El Frijoles, The Movie!

The absolute best part about what we do is that we get to meet the most amazing, incredible, talented people who come to Sargentville to check us out and eat our food.

One of our favorite folks is Princeton, NJ, filmmaker and photographer Jon Roemer. An amazingly talented guy, he knows his way around an image and he really has that uncanny ability to tell stories with pictures. He’s got that “gift of the Narrative” we are always talkin’ about around here . . . in spades.

In any case, last summer Jon asked us if we’d mind (?!?!?) if he spent some time with us here at the Taqueria. He was interested in working the bugs out of some new equipment, had a few vacation days and was thinking about maybe making a little film about EL EL FRIJOLES. We were thrilled to have him here (and for those of you in need of a good photo/videographer, he worked as hard as any of the folks I worked with in my 20+ years as a photo assistant, but on his vacation!). We offered him access to anything he wanted, which included some painful interview sessions with Michele and I, and he took a lot of pictures of our food. The result is this amazing look at what we do here at EL EL FRIJOLES, in a barn, in the woods in Maine.

We hope you enjoy watching this as much as we do. He really captured the spirit and feeling of this place, and does he ever make our food look good!

If you like what he’s put together here, feel free to share this with anyone you think might like to see it. And by all means, visit his website, look at his films on Vimeo and YouTube, and give him a shout out when you see him.