French & Brawn Marketplace

What an adorable market! French & Brawn really epitomizes Maine, since it’s small and local but not too expensive or pretentious. They have a nice mix of staples and funky local items: you can get everything from fresh produce and bread to Chuao chocolates and locally made jam.
Even though it’s a small store, they have their own bakery and deli. The bakery had a ton of items, including peanut butter cookies (~$ 1.50 for one as big as your hand!) and seven layer bars. We picked up some salmon pâté and a warm baguette for snacking at the hotel.
They carry 3 different locally roasted brands of coffee, so we grabbed up one of each! A pound will run you $ 12 – 13 for the local stuff or $ 10 – 11 for Newman’s Own or Green Mountain. They also have two grinders (one for flavored coffee and one for plain), which was convenient considering how small the store is.
The cashier was so friendly and demonstrated to us that she had «trained» a local dog to come beg for treats at the door! French & Brawn feels like a relic from another time, but it’s still a convenient and reasonably priced place to stock up on groceries!

Friendly employees lead the way at the «Corner Grocery» which has is open early and has all the essentials for a day out on the boat or your backyard BBQ.
I was in and out in less than 5 minutes with everything I needed. Centrally located in Camden and easily accessible from the Marina.

I love French and Brawn! It is an «old-​fashioned» corner grocery store. They provide excellent customer service and are friendly and caring. Their produce selection is good with local items in season. You can take out lunch or breakfast from their bakery and premade sandwiches. I love the atmosphere as it reminds me of days gone by.

Great place! Lots of fresh foods and baked goods ready for picnic lunches. Two thumbs up

I felt like I was back in Paris. Fabulous take out. Fresh fish. Small but well stocked shelves. Absolutely worth patronizing. With I had one on my block. I’d shop daily and live European style in great pleasure.

French & Brawn is a really cool market. It’s more expensive than the average supermarket but they’ve got a good selection of food and it’s hard to leave the store empty handed. If you’re staying in the area, this is a store you’ll want to visit.

This is a lovely specialty market in downtown Camden to which we’ve been coming for many years. When we’ve rented summer vacation houses in Camden, this has most often been the go-​to place to pick up needed groceries. But even when we’re staying in a hotel or motel as we were on this latest visit we always stop in. Whether it is to buy picnic items or to have some food or drink on hand in our room, we find it to be a really nice store and manageable place to shop.
There is a good selection of meats, fish, baked goods, coffee, cold cuts, cheese, beer and wine, produce as well as everyday grocery items.
The staff is pleasant and accommodating. The convenient downtown location off-​sets the sometimes higher prices you’ll find here.
It’s small and easily navigable which is also to say not overwhelming.
If you insist on a large, chain supermarket you can head further down the road to Hannafords.
But for the most part we prefer French and Brawn for its uniqueness and the more personalized Camden-​centric service that it offers.

I was walking around Camden and walked in to browse. They have most impressive collection of spices I have seen at a non-​specialty store! I stood staring at the selections for a while. They also have a decent selection of meats, cheeses, breads, etc. and regular grocery items.

Reasonable market, deli, and pastry shop. Good place to grab a hot beverage and a muffin when you don’t feel like a full Camden meal adventure.
The selection’s good, but each item was a little lackluster — the apple cider a little too sweet, the tasty blueberry pie’s crust far too dry, the blueberry danish a little limp. Still, easy in and out and lots of things to choose from.

Beautiful market with a selection of specialty foods, including meats, cheeses, breads etc. if you’re camping nearby at Camden Hills, they’ll cook up lobsters for you and have them ready in no time for you to take back to your site. When you’re friends at the neighboring sites are all waiting for the fire to heat up so they can cook up their franks & beans, they’ll envy you for your ingenuity.

Wow, what a let-​down. I had expectations of a mini Dean & Deluca. The most exotic thing in this place was me, and that is not a positive thing. Just standard fare, Boars Head, mostly domestic cheese, pedestrian wines, national beers.
There has got to be a huge untapped market here for some good food.

It’s a grocery store. Not a super market. It’s local and it supports local. Good seafood counter. Good meat counter. Good newspaper selection. Used to have a big tub of pistachio’s out front and a wheel of cheese, but in the modern germophobe era, those are gone. My fave. Go to the back, look in the cooler and get a sandwich. I am partial to the blt, my bff liked the chicken parmesan. Made on local breads, stuffed and under $ 6.50 if memory serves correct. Grab a soda or other drink, some regional chips and walk across the street and sit in the park (or go over to the harbor) and have a picnic. Life is good.

This is a small market, so they didn’t have the retail space to hold all my heart’s desires, but that’s okay. I went in a for a 6-​pack of PBR, and although they didn’t have it, they had a large selection of tall boys (in a bottle so it’s classy), 6-​packs (Maine craft brews), and wine. I ended up choosing the Gritty McDuff’s Original Pub Style Pale Ale — 1 Pint and 6 oz later I was content.
This is a great little spot to stop in if you’re looking for something to bring out on the boat or back to your room at the B&B.

Ok, this is probably the MOST friendly market that I have ever step foot into. I was provisioning for a Yacht that I am working on and had a big list of stuff. The butcher was incredible! Super helpful and cut my short ribs to order, not to mention the pork loin, the ground beef, and the chicken breasts. At least 2 people came up and asked me if i was finding what I was looking for and then… after cash out (600.00) they gave me a RIDE back to the boat! Maybe its a small town thing, but they have customer service down! Also, their fresh breads, and deli was amazing. For such a small place, they had EVERYTHING!