Menus week of June 9th
Four nights of pizza is here! We’re serving Tuesday-Friday. Reservations open tomorrow at 9am!
Bake and cafe days continue to be Wednesdays and Saturdays for the next two weeks. On the week of the 22nd, they will expand to Wednesday-Saturday.
Yay summer!!
Menus week of june 2nd
Pizza opens up to four nights (Tuesday-Friday) next week, but for this week it’s only Friday! Reservations open now :)
Menus week of May 26th
Here are our menus for this week :) we’re open Wednesday and Saturday for the cafe, and Friday night for pizza. Summer hours expanding soon!
Menus week of May 12th
This is our final week of our expanded brunch and pizza menus - come and enjoy!
Menus week of April 14th
We’re back in the regular swing of things, and have been loving it! Come join us soon!
Concert April 19th - Shantala Subramanyam
Tinder Hearth is thrilled to announce Singing Bamboo Trio — an evening of Carnatic music with Shantala Subramanyam—flute/vocals, L. Subramaniam—Mridangam /Kunnakol, and Madhu Vadlamani—violin on Saturday, April 19th. The show will take in the Tinder Hearth barn, with dinner available before the show.
Join us for an enchanting evening of flute music with the virtuoso Shantala Subramanyam, a celebrated artist who has captivated audiences around the globe with her soul-stirring performances. This special concert promises to be a mesmerizing experience, showcasing the rich traditions of Indian classical music through the sounds of the bamboo flute.
Shantala Subramanyam, hailing from Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, has emerged as one of the leading flautists in the Carnatic music scene. Her profound musicality, technical brilliance, and deep emotional expressiveness breathe life into each raga she performs, inviting listeners into a world of divine melody and intricate rhythms.
With a career spanning several decades, Shantala has not only mastered the flute but also excelled in vocal music, embodying the essence of Carnatic music's heritage. Her performances are a testament to her dedication to preserving the purity of classical music while also exploring innovative expressions within the framework of tradition.
This concert is not just an opportunity to witness the mastery of Shantala Subramanyam on the flute but also a journey through the heart of Indian classical music, exploring its depth, diversity, and the universal emotions it evokes. Whether you are a connoisseur of classical music or a curious newcomer, this event promises an unforgettable experience that will leave you moved and inspired.
Carnatic music is renowned for its emphasis on improvisation of beautiful ragas followed by compositions with spiritual, philosophical and nature themes. The compositions are followed by spontaneous exchanges of highly evolved rhythmic improvisations. The concert will take you through flights of ecstasy, meditative passages and excitement with Flute, violin, vocals, Mridangam and kunnakol, vocal percussion.
Doors open at 4:30PM with soup, bread and drinks available for purchase.
Music starts at 6:30 PM.
Children 13 and under get in free.
Music will be inside, with seating.
Tickets are $25, and advanced purchase is strongly recommended.
Please contact us at tinderhearth@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
Menus Week of March 31st
YES WE ARE BACK!!!
You guys, so many things have happened since February 15th, what the heck. We miss you so much. We are so so so excited to be making food for you to come and enjoy in the barn again!! The menus are below. Our schedule is back to the regular "winter" hours THIS WEEK!! Springtime, here we come!!!!
BAKERY CAFE:: Wednesday 9am-12
PIZZA:: Friday 4:30-8pm (reservations open online
on Monday)
BRUNCH CAFE:: Saturday 9am-12
There have been MANY things afoot around Tinder Hearth— we've had a wonderful tiny crew in the bakery slaying with the bread and pastry production for March, Tim has done a major electrical overhaul of the barn (including outside lights!) and many of our staff traveled, bringing back some good vibes and fresh inspiration from far off places. I am SO SO SO grateful to be re-collecting together again at the hearth, in this weird inbetweeny time of early spring, with all the mud and slush and sap flowing. How you noticed? The turkeys are all fluffed up with attitude, robins are getting those worms, and the goose congregations are growing. Together there is hope, and I hope we can feed yours too. We love you. GET OVER HERE!
<3 Lydia
FRIGG returns to Tinder Hearth - March 10th
Here at Tinder Hearth we are extremely pleased to be welcoming back FRIGG, to perform in the barn on Monday, March 10th. It is a serious honor to be able to host this incredible group of musicians again, and we hope that you all can come join us for an evening of incredible music.
Many thanks to Bagaduce Music for bringing FRIGG to Maine. We are all so fortunate!!
For tickets, please go to Bagaduce Music. They will probably sell quickly (our barn doesn’t have as much room as the yard) so purchase now if you can!
For videos and more information on the band, see FRIGG’s website.
(And yes, this is taking place during the time that the bakery is technically closed. When FRIGG comes to town, we will always say YES!)
With love- Lydia and Tim
Bagaduce Music presents FRIGG at Tinder Hearth, in Brooksville, Maine
Join us on Monday, March 10, at Tinder Hearth barn in Brooksville. Enjoy “hot fiddles from cool Scandinavia”, as well as the goodies our friends in the Tinder Hearth kitchen have to offer.
Barn doors will open at 4:30pm, where drinks, soup and bread will be available for purchase. The concert will begin at 6pm.
Frigg is a Finnish septet of four Fiddles, folk strings, and contrabass, who have been playing a western influenced Nordic folk music for 20 years, and have earned a global reputation of being “ingenious” and “massively energetic.” The group’s marriage of bluegrass stylings and Nordic tradition has been coined “Nordgrass.” They boast seven North American tours; festivals including Celtic Connections, WOMADelaide, Rainforest World Music Festival and Cambridge Folk Festivals, and they’ve also appeared on Prairie Home Companion, El Mundo, and have released nine albums, winning folk record of the year in 2012 in Finland.
Tinder Hearth is located at 1452 Coastal Rd, Brooksville, ME 04617.
Seating is first come first serve and are limited to 80 tickets. The concert is expected to sell out so get your tickets right away. Consider additionally helping Bagaduce Music with their mission by being a Keeper of The Arts- a limited number of front row tickets are reserved for a budget supporting price. Tickets will be sold at the door, only if available.
For more information, please visit www.bagaducemusic.org or call (207)-374-5454.
Bakery Closure Schedule
Hello dear friends of Tinder Hearth!
Over here in West Brooksville right now the hearthfires are hot, the snow is blowing, the neighborhood kids are scrapping together a hockey game on bumpy subzero pond ice, and our hearts go out to all the embers of hope and beauty you each are tending with your tenacious care. Thank you. We love you all.
The winter in the barn has been incredible thus far—thank you for coming to be with us in your celebrations, in your grief, in the everyday togetherness that we all need. We are so utterly grateful to get to hold this this space with you all, and share our bright love of this wondrous food and community.
This year we have decided to close the bakery for a longer chunk of winter than we have in the past. This was a difficult decision to make, because, obviously, being here with you in the barn is one of our greatest loves. But our books and bodies and buildings could use a little more rest and maintenance this time of year—as I know all you local buddies deeply understand—so we have decided to take a little bit more time this season.
Here are the details, and I am sorry if this sounds complicated… it’s not, particularly, but bear with me here:
Tinder Hearth in Brooksville will be CLOSED for six weeks: February 16th-March 31st.
The bread and pastry WILL be available out at the stores for the month of March, during the closure.
Tinder Hearth will REOPEN ON APRIL 2ND.
What does this mean? Let me break it down, in calendar order, for those of you wanting details:
1) No bread, no pizza, no cafe, no pastries, anywhere, for two weeks: Feb 16 to Mar 1st.
2) Starting on March 5th, Tinder Hearth will start producing BREAD AND PASTRY ONLY. NO PIZZA, NO COFFEE, NO BRUNCH, NO BARN :( We will be running operations with a very small, pared-down team, focused on wholesale bakery production, and will not have anyone staffing the counter here in the barn.
3) For the month of March bread and pastry will be available for sale, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at the stores that carry Tinder Hearth (in Deer Isle, Sargentville, Blue Hill, Ellsworth, Brewer and Bangor!), as well as through FarmDrop, and here in the bakery via PREORDER ONLY. So if you want to pick up your bread at the bakery, you will need to order online in advance via our preorder site. We will not have a shelf of bread for walk-in sale here at the bakery.
4) The barn will reopen with the familiar wintertime Wednesday & Saturday bakery cafe, and Friday night pizza, on April 2nd, for a final couple of months of big brunches and extra fun barn pizza nights before we launch into summer 2025!!
Does that make sense? Let’s go over it one more time:: we will be closed here at the bakery for 6 weeks starting Feb 16th, reopening on April 2nd. But you will still be able to track down the bread and pastry during March out at the stores. Yeah? Yeah!
But before all that! Come see the band at the Blue Hill Library this Saturday evening for the Groundhog Day Ball :) And we ARE open until mid Feb, so come soon to visit on a Wednesday morning when the cafe is chillllll, or give us a call if you want pizza and can’t book a res online—we can usually fit anyone in this time of year! And the brunch menus are beyond reasonable, so get over here on a Saturday morning!!!
With all blessings for your massive hearts, your clarity of vision, your kith&kin, your animals and gardens— we love you—
Lydia, with Tim and this amazing team <3
image by Scott Handley
Menus week of January 27th
Menus for the coming week — the last of January, if you can believe it! The bakery will be CLOSING for six weeks starting on February 16th to do some inner and outer tending. So, come get your treats before then!
Reservations open for pizza tomorrow at 9am. Bread and pastry preorder for Wednesday open now!
Menus week of January 20th
Menus for this week — wow!! We can’t wait to treat you. The winter vibe is cozy, warm, and creative around the bakery. Come experiencing some goodness ✨
Reservations for pizza open tomorrow at 9am. Call us if you have a larger party!
Pre-order is currently open for bread and pastry pickup on Wednesday.
Menus week of January 6th
We’re returning to our regular winter schedule this week — come visit us!
Holiday Updates!
Hello dear friends-
Tinder Hearth has a couple of schedule announcements regarding the next few weeks, I encourage you to read about them!
ITEM OF NOTE: We will be entirely CLOSED for one week, Dec 22-28, to get some time with our families.
So that means, as we are open THIS WEEK as usual, make sure you stock up your bread this Wednesday or Saturday, to get you through closure! Why does it always seem longer than a week when we close…?
SPECIAL HOLIDAY BREAD: On the solstice—Saturday Dec 21—we will be making a special pecan cranberry orange loaf! This will be available ONLY at the bakery — you can preorder it online (details here) or just hope for some to still be on the shelf when you come over on Saturday for brunch!
NEW YEAR’S DAY BRUNCH: We will reopen after our lil break on Wednesday, January 1st with a special New Year’s Day brunch!! We will be open for an extra hour longer than usual: 9AM-1PM, and will have a special brunch menu— details will get put up online a few days in advance, but I think it’s going to include those fluffy filled donuts that we haven’t seen for a while…. heheheh. So plan your outfit, your date(s) and get over here! How you start your year is how it will proceed, right?
After that we’ll be back to our regular winter schedule programming.
Sending all sparking kindling energy to your hearts— we love you—
Lydia & Tim et al