Sammy’s Deluxe in Rockland and the recently opened Pilgrim’s Inn in Deer Isle have each earned a spot on the New York Times annual Restaurant List, subtitled, “Here are the 50 Best Places in America Right Now.”

The paper praised Chef Sam Richman for his “skilled cooking with a whimsical twist” at Sammy’s Deluxe, which he opened in 2016. The restaurant, the write-up noted, aims “to celebrate the state’s pristine ingredients without any high-end fuss.” Richman’s skill in meeting that mission, it said, proves that “sometimes the best restaurants happen when chefs focus on cooking the food they want to eat.”

The current iteration of Pilgrim’s Inn opened this summer, and operates, in a way, as a permanent pop-up for chefs overseen by the inn’s own chef, Cortney Burns; a rotating crew of chefs cook at the century-old inn for a month at a time. The Times praised the inn as “impossibly charming,” calling out the lobster and fennel chowder with hush puppies, as well as roasted monkfish with clams and tomato broth, served by then-chefs Ben Wheatley and Whitney Otawka.

The annual list noted it selected places with “delicious food and a mastery of craft, but also a generosity of spirit and a singular point of view.” The list went live on the New York Times website on Tuesday.