The best one in Boston is at B&G Oyster, although it is $29./

New England is known for the hot/cold differences. In CT, most lobster rolls are the warm type ... chunks of lobster, with hot butter, in a grilled split-top roll. Salad types are also available ... but it's basically lobster tossed lightly w/mayo ... I don't like when the extras (celery, onion, etc.) are added in. It takes away from the lobster taste. There is no such thing as a bad lobster roll!

Red's gets my vote!^

I saw the Food Network do a story on Hancock Gourmet Lobster Company.

They sell two lobster rolls and six Maine Whoopie Pies for $95 plus shipping.

Lobster Rolls and Whoopie Pies

I am a big fan of the traditional New England hot dog roll. Grilled with butter. Filled with lobster with a very light dill mayo. I went to the Cape about two months ago and had lobster rolls for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 2 days straight.

I have to admit the lobster roll I had in Nova Scotia/Cape Breton once was absolutely amazing. Fresh baked white baguette with a very slight sourdough tang. An entire lobster tail placed on one half and the claws on the opposite half. Lettuce and red onion on the side. A side of herbed mayo and a side of herbed drawn butter. Served warm or cold. 9.95 CAD about 7 years ago.

When in the Boston area, check out Kelly's Roast Beef. There's about 5 outlets but the best is on Revere Beach near the airport. Their lobster rolls have the meat of 2 one pound lobsters. P.S.......their roast beef ain't bad either.

i think it was dean & deluca thats selling them now, you can order them.

Yeah, Kelly's in Revere does a good lobstah roll (not to mention tasty fried clams and the famous roast beef sandwich), plus you get the inimitable "ambiance" of Revere Beach. Beware the seagulls, who are horrendously opportunistic as you attempt to fight them off and eat your meal at the beach pavilion across the street. Easily accessible from Logan outbound on the Blue Line, if you have a stopover.

Word around BOS is that the best lobster roll in town is at Neptune Oyster in the North End, with B&G Oyster in the South End coming in 2nd. Both very pricey but quite tasty, and you can get equally pricey vino or brew to wash it down.

Yep. Came across this a few days ago...

www.luxist.com/2008/08/01/dean-and-deluca-lobster-rolls-only-a-day-away


Wonder if they'd ship those badboys to London :p

serving them for a limited time @ Shaw's Crab House
 

Just had one the other night at Shaw's Crab House, two locations in the Chicago area (city and suburb Schaumburg), quite tasty and tons of lobster.^

Kelly's is a good 20 min walk from Wonderland at a fast clip; it's
possible to catch a taxi I guess, but the cabbie won't be thrilled
to give you that short of a ride.

The seagulls are amazing, aren't they? I took my violinmaker there for
lunch, and she had a famous roast beef sandwich ... she was talking
animatedly, waving the thing around, and swoop, a gull came and
picked the meat neatly out, leaving her with bread and lettuce.

World Traveller, nice job remembering the source. ^

I had lobster rolls for the first time at a little restaurant on the CT / RI border called Two Little Fish.

I liked it so much I took a few more for the road, and my folks at home enjoyed them very much although they were cold by the time I got to Jersey.


--Russ

Damm ... I'm craving for some lobster rolls now :(

I will be in BOS next week and was going to try Neptune. My dilemma is that I want lobster bisque too, and neither B&G or Neptune show it on their menu.

Any ideas on a place with a great lobster roll and lobster bisque, or do I need to make two stops?