El El Frijoles in Sargentville / Sedgwick, Maine: A Mexican food restaurant on the Blue Hill Peninsula

Summer 2025

Open for our 19th Summer Season! Now open on Mondays and Tuesdays from 3pm to 7ish, for July and August, serving a limited menu.

Full hours:
Monday and Tuesday from 3pm-close (7-ish)
Wednesday - Saturday from 11am-close (7-ish)

Scratch-made, local food. Dine in or take-away, BYOB. Please check our Facebook or Instagram pages for closures, updates, exceptions, and specials!

Makers' Market Shop & Studio: Open Monday-Saturday! Monday & Tuesday 11am - 5pm, Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 7pm.

Beer and Wine for off-sale (take it next door!) plus a tremendous selection of Maine-sourced food & provisions, also Art and Craft from more than 75 Peninsula-based artisans! Tinderhearth Bread every Wednesday and Saturday.

We have an additional parking lot! The lot is 300 yards and the 3rd driveway up the hill toward Blue Hill from El El, on the same side of the road.

Eating at EL EL—Here's How It Works

We have re-set the dining room, cleared off the picnic tables, and set up the fire pit. We’re ready for you to come on down and share a meal with your friends! Come on in to the Taqueria to place your order, get your drinks and grab some of our fresh salsa from the bar and we'll call your name when your food is ready. You can eat inside our covered screen porch, at one of our many picnic tables, or around the fire pit. We are a BYOB taqueria, and you can pick up some cold beer, wine or cocktails right next door at Makers' Market Shop and Studio.

We experience extremely busy dinners during our high season. You may find our limited parking lot is full if you come for a late dinner, and parking on the road is a very bad idea (plus, it is illegal!). There is an additional parking lot 300 yards and the 3rd driveway up the hill toward Blue Hill from El El, on the same side of the road. It may be best to come see us for a late lunch if you wish to avoid the biggest crowds, and your chance of securing one of our daily specials will increase the earlier you visit!

As our daily volume increases with the onslaught of summer visitors, so too must our service model shift. We are unable to accept any phone orders, or make advance reservations, you just have to come down and join us! We have developed a format that ensures your food will be served fresh and hot, soon after you order. You may have to wait in line for a bit to order, but we’ll get your food out right away.

If you arrive and find a customer wearing “The Hat”, they are the last customer we will be serving for the evening, and you’ll have to join us another time. Be sure you are in front of The Hat!

No emails, texts, owls or messenger orders can be considered, we want to talk with you directly!
Have a question or a comment? We’d love to talk with you about our set-up, our policies, our food and our views about life, the future and maybe early French cinema. Whatever, let’s dialog, peeps!

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We have t-shirts and hats in stock! We can ship them to you for about $27, including tax and shipping. Send me an email at or just mail me a letter with a check inside!