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Is Bayley's Bait Shed Still Open? Food Paradise Update (Scarborough, ME)

Food Paradise, Season 13 Scarborough, Maine

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Bayley's Bait Shed is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 9, 2026.

What the source shows: The Places listing name differs from the as-featured name, and both the operator's live site (2026-dated content) and Google Places confirm current operation. How we decide a status →

What happened after Food Paradise?

The episode, 'A Taste of Time' (S13E5), featured Bayley's Bait Shed, a Pine Point seafood restaurant in Scarborough, Maine, now doing business as The Bait Shed. According to the restaurant's own site (baitshedrestaurant.com), the business traces to 1915, when Stephen E. Bayley settled in Pine Point, dug clams in Jones Creek, and trapped lobsters off the Maine coast; his wife Ella began cooking and selling the surplus lobsters through her kitchen window. Since the episode, the current name, The Bait Shed, appears in both Google's business-profile data and on the restaurant's own site, which offered takeout ordering, a menu, and gift cards when checked on September 9, 2026, with copyright and page content both dated 2026. Google's listing marked the business operational the same day.

The episode Food Paradise, Season 13

Episode 5
Air date not confirmed
Title: A Taste of Time · What was featured: the Pine Point lobster shack's clam-digging, lobster-trapping 1915 origin story
How Food Paradise restaurants have fared: 27% closed →

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Sources we checked 1 reference

  1. baitshedrestaurant.com http://www.baitshedrestaurant.com/
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Record fp-1003 · checked by Cal Marchetti.