Plates
New items and specials will keep our menu changing.
Please understand if an option on this sample menu is no longer available.
We will be sure to have other tasty items to enjoy.
Drinks
This is but a small sampling of what the team has in store for you and your friends.
Come enjoy the bar and be sure to ask what we have made in the punch bowl.
Place
Sonder & Dram pays respect to the past and looks to the future as a modern neighborhood bar in downtown Lewiston. Combining elevated fresh New American cuisine, inventive cocktails, local beer, and everything you want in a memorable bar experience. It is possible you already know the charters; come see Tom Ardia and Michael Gosselin in the basement of the historic McGillicuddy building.
Sonder & Dram is a bar and with that comes certain protocol: You must be at least 21 years of age with a valid identification to enter Sonder & Dram. We do not accept reservations. For private party information, contact us via phone or email. We do not provide table service. All orders must be placed at the bar. The menu is the menu. Bring your friends and desire to have fun. Never leave home without a great attitude. In return for your awesomeness we will provide all the energy, hard work, and creativity we have got in order to deliver an over the top experience. Enjoy!
Team
The Drinks– Thomas Ardia. With over 20 years of experience in the restaurant business, Tom Ardia has made an indelible mark on the restaurant and bar communities that he has served. Working closely with new and emerging businesses in L+A, Tom has acquired a well-earned reputation as a creative genius behind the bar, winning recognition in the industry for his stylistic contributions to mixology. Tom is back in L+A!
The Food– Michael Gosselin. A Lewiston native, Michael became passionate about food at a young age. After graduating as a Lewiston Blue Devil, he went on to study at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. After returning to Maine he worked steadily in local area restaurants for over a decade, where he helped open two restaurants and manage two kitchens as Chef. An innate desire to host and feed people has fueled his passion for food and hospitality throughout his career. Michael has always been proud to be from L+A and his Franco-American heritage has influenced his philosophies on life and cuisine.
The Place– Great Falls Development Group: Peter Flanders, Jon Mercier, and Rick Roy. With help from the industry knowledge that their new partners bring to the table, GFDG transformed this basement location of Sonder & Dram into something exciting and new. To build something magnificent requires the work of many hands. It is more than the sum of its parts. A craving for new restaurants and dining experiences pushed the members of GFDG to get involved in the exciting future of cuisine and entertainment in downtown Lewiston. Sonder & Dram is a culmination of determination, enthusiasm, and high hopes for L+A.
sonder
(noun)
the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping whiskey in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.
dram
(noun)
a small drink of whisky or other spirits.
a small portion of something to drink
