ICYMI: Best Places in Havre de Grace to Take Out-of-Towners

HAVRE DE GRACE, MD–Memorial Day is coming and so are your friends and family!

With the weather getting warmer and graduation season starting, your home is sure to be filled with out-of-town guests. How will you keep them entertained and well fed?

Leave it to Patch Readers in Havre de Grace to be your personal tour guides.

We asked Havre de Grace residents where they’d take their long-weekend lodgers. Here’s a list of the best eats and awesome activities in your neighborhood:

• "To eat: Laurrapin and Tidewater Grille / For drinks and catch a good game: Bill Batemans / Wine: Mt Felix and The Vineyard Wine Bar"
• "Definitely the Pier and Lighthouse (weather permitting)."
• "I visit my sister a lot. Downtown HdG is a great place. Lots of restaurants, unique shops & the park down by the Bay is beautiful. And don't forget Mt Felix Winery. The owners are wonderful & the view from the patio out back is just gorgeous."
• "Bayou for delicious crab cakes and than a stroll on the boardwalk"
• "Laurrapin is a small fresh from the farm family owned restaurant that's great!! Ice cream and candy at Bomboy's. Take a stroll down the pier- the little food place there is great if you want to sit outside!- Pramemade! The coffee shop Concord Point Coffee has a to die for Black Forest Latte. You can grab a few sweets across the street"
• "Susquehanna State Park"
• "The Vineyard Wine bar is excellent if you like original cuisine, even if you don't get their notable wines. They have a separate room with couches and a fireplace you can reserve for an intimate "at home" feel."
• "Definitely walk along the promenade- beautiful and free. Lunch or dinner at Vineyard wine bar or Tidewater Grill or Laurrapin restaurant. And everyone loves Bomboy's for ice cream."
• "When my sister comes to town, she likes to go to The Tidewater."
• "Sam's Deli definitely, macgregors for a sit down, the laurrapin is ok but people need to know its menu is on a schedule type of thing so if you want steak on a specific night your out of luck at that restaurant."

If these suggestions don’t make the mark, take your guests on Maryland’s Best “Ice Cream Trail” Passport Challenge!

From May 20 to Sept. 23, ice cream lovers are invited to visit each of Maryland’s nine dairy farms, try the ice cream, and answer a dairy-themed trivia question. Each visit earns a passport stamp.

Get all nine stamps, mail them in, and a select number of passports will be picked from the lot and awarded prizes.

And check out our Havre de Grace Patch calendar for a list of Memorial Day weekend events!

If your favorite spot didn’t make the list, share it in the comments below or on our Havre de Grace Patch Facebook page.