From the time she was 7 years old, Judi Stanley knew she wanted to open a restaurant. While living in San Francisco, a relative had taken her to see the original film, “Moulin Rouge.” “I came home and I said, “Daddy, I’m going to open a restaurant one day,” Judi Stanley said of her father, Michael Klein. “He said, ‘No daughter of mine will ever be in the restaurant business.’”

But at 49 years old, Stanley did, after a successful career in the real estate industry. She opened her first restaurant and general store in 1992 in Bar Harbor, Maine. Now, at 76, she still is a restaurateur — with the opening of the area’s newest Italian eatery, Pascone’s Ristorante.