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May 17, 2012
Four Questions with Susan Austin, Owner of the Urban Lobster Shack
The Urban Lobster Shack opened their first food truck late last month. We caught up with Susan Austin, owner of the restaurant, to talk about her new business on wheels, the truck design, and the challenges on managing a seafood business. There are tons of lobster shops in the city. What distingu ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
The Claw's Lobster Roll: A Review
The Claw opened last month on 23rd Street, dishing up a menu of seafood rolls and other treats from the ocean, including lobster mac and cheese and chowder. Wanting to know how its signature lobster roll stacked up, we popped in for a quick bite.
Dining
December 14, 2011
Littleneck: Gowanus Gets Its Clams
We promise you they're not from the canal
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December 14, 2011
Have I Got A Hot Date For You! (Photos Inside)
Your sizzling date with this dream man will start with some mutual touching in the model-train room. Isn't that what you've always fantasized about? No? That's followed by some hot action where you stomp about the room like a monster, but please don't break the trains and buildings. "They a ... More >>
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December 7, 2011
The Claw Restaurant Will Soon Sling Lobster Rolls on 23rd Street
Lauren ShockeyLobster rolls? Yes, please.We've already highlighted the 10 Best Things to Eat on 23rd Street, but it looks like there soon might a new contender for good eating on the busy thoroughfare. Signage is up at the Claw, a soon-to-open lobster roll joint located at 269 West 23rd Str ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
What's Happening This Week: Singles Mixer; Crab Fest
Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Perilla & Blind Tiger Ale House Pairing Perilla Monday, October 17 The folks from Perilla have teamed up with the Blind Tiger Ale House team for this beery dinner. The menu includes ... More >>
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September 20, 2011
What's Happening This Week: Dinner in the Dark, Crabs for a Good Cause
Our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the hottest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! The Joy of Cheese Presents Cheese & Beer Rules!! Culturefix Tuesday, September 20 at 7:30 p.m. Forget wine and cheese. The best pairing for curds is, by far, beer. For $25, learn wh ... More >>
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August 17, 2011
Dish No. 51: The Red Hook Lobster Pound's Lobster Roll
Rebecca Marx Although lobster rolls have more or less hit their saturation point, truly excellent specimens remain a rarer breed. And so we're happy to have found one at the Red Hook Lobster Pound.
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August 17, 2011
GANGSTA CHIC
Main Attrakionz play—wait for it!— New Museum
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May 4, 2011
Tickets for Tasting Table's Lobster Roll Rumble Go on Sale Today
Rebecca MarxThe Lobster Pound's roll will rumble.Our digestive tracts are still working out the kinks from the Lobster Roll Claw-Off that Tasting Table threw last June, and this year's iteration promises to be a boon for gastroenterologists across the city. The folks at TT have sent word th ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
The High Line Will Get Itself Some New Elevated Eats
David Berkowitz/FlickrExtra nice with a dribbling lobster roll The food vendors lucky enough to win a spot on the High Line this summer are still being decided upon. But if the organization that runs the elevated park gets what they asked for in proposals due yesterday, April 14, New Yorkers ... More >>
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March 1, 2011
Clam Chowder at Grand Central's Oyster Bar, One of NYC's Best Soups for 98 Years
#22 of our 100 Days/100 Dishes count-up, and white like library paste, the Oyster Bar's New England clam chowder is one of the glories of Yankee cooking. Though not really part of New England (you have to go a few miles northeast to Connecticut to be part of that sainted realm), NYC can boa ... More >>
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December 27, 2010
What's Happening This Week: New Year's Eve in the City
As you may know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Boqueria Soho & Flatiron Welcome the new year with a nine-course tapas tasting menu. There are two seatings -- 6 and 9 p.m. -- priced at $65 and $95, respectively. ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
M. Wells Celebrates Bi-Valve Birthday Bedlam on Thursday
Behold, a bi-valve.John Bil is a Prince Edward Island oyster-shucking champion whose renown has spread through Canada and all the way down to the pages of The New Yorker. This Thursday, Oct. 7, Bil's prodigious talents will be on display in Long Island City, where M. Wells chef Hugue Dufour w ... More >>
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August 31, 2010
Fresh Littleneck Clams, Plus How to Quick-Smoke Them
PE & DD Seafood sells the fish it catches off the coast of Long Island every Monday at the Union Square Greenmarket. They usually carry hard-shell clams of the small, sweet littleneck variety, which are perfect for a late summer grill-up, along with corn and sliced tomatoes. Salty clams are ... More >>
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August 19, 2010
Tell Me Your Latest Minutiae
Yes, it's that time again. Regale mama with your most mundane, banal, and lame reports from your extremely everyday life. I'll start:
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August 5, 2010
A Tale (Tail?) of Two Crayfish Fests
greencolander/flickrCray baby. Wondering where to celebrate your favorite crustacean this month? Sure, Aquavit has its annual Crayfish Festival for two weeks, from August 9-14 and 16-21. And, yes, the deal includes a whole pound of peel-and-eat crayfish, plus a crayfish smorgasbord for $28 a ... More >>
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July 21, 2010
Jeremy's Ale House: Fried Seafood, Beer in Styrofoam Cups, Off-Duty Firemen
It's not that the fried seafood at Jeremy's Ale House near the South Street Seaport is the best you've ever had. It's more like an ideal version of boardwalk food--greasy, but also fresh-tasting and generous. Beer comes in giant Styrofoam cups in either 16- or 32-ounce servings ($4.75-$6.50), ... More >>
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June 21, 2010
The City's Lobster Roll Pushers Sure Like to Talk a Lot of Smack
The Red Hook Lobster Pound's lobster roll: pretty is as pretty does.The latest issue of New York Magazine features an exhaustive look at the city's lobster roll scene, and includes a fascinating break-down of the economic, environmental, and ethical factors that have helped to create our curr ... More >>
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June 17, 2010
Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Things to Eat at Locavorish Outdoor Markets
The Red Hook Lobster Pound's lobster roll sure is pretty, but will it make our 10 best?The Greenpoint Food Market may have closed in the face of threats from the killjoys at the Health Department, but the summer months are rife with plenty of other markets where vendors hawk painstakingly sou ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
Successful Publicity Stunts 101: Dr. Claw Crashes Tasting Table's Lobster Roll Claw-Off
Who was that masked man? Ben Sargent may have gone through some rather dramatic transformations over the past few months, but his talent for self-promotion has remained a constant. This was made hilariously apparent last night when the founder of Greenpoint's Underground Lobster Pound crashe ... More >>
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May 13, 2010
Brooklyn's Black Market Lobster Kingpin's Advice Applicable to Aspiring Black Market Entrepenuers Everywhere
"If the person is an artist or a member of a dance troupe who lives in the neighborhood, that's cool. If the person has a short haircut, lots of muscles, and a polo shirt with the word 'DEC' on it, that's not so cool," said Claw." - A Brooklyn Lobster Roll "Dealer" named "Dr. Claw," who now d ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
Luke's Lobster and Pearl Oyster Bar: The $15 Lobster Roll Versus the $29 Lobster Roll
Luke's Lobster Roll with pen for size perspectiveWhen Fork in the Road caught up with Luke Holden of Luke's Lobster last month, he (very politely) threw down the gauntlet on the subject of fancy $30 lobster rolls: ...seeking a $30 lobster roll was never an intention of mine when I moved to t ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Brooklyn Bridge Park Announces Its Summer Food Vendor Line-Up
Now with lobster rolls, organic ice cream.In March, the newly constructed Brooklyn Bridge Park was launched with a ceremony at Pier 1 attended by a lot of city politicians who stood around shivering in the drizzling rain. It was but a prelude to sunnier and more well-fed times: today, the Bro ... More >>
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April 30, 2010
Chatting With Luke Holden: Con Edison, $30 Lobster Rolls, Maine Pride
Photo courtesy of Luke's LobsterLuke HoldenLuke Holden is loathe to call himself a chef -- "I am no chef" were his first words after he picked up the phone to talk to us -- but he inarguably knows a thing or two about how to make a superlative lobster roll. The son of the owner of one of Main ... More >>
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April 13, 2010
Luke's Lobster Is Expanding to the Upper East Side
Sarah DiGregorioComing soon to the Upper East Side.Kids, they grow up so fast these days! Scarcely six months after opening Luke's Lobster on East 7th Street, Luke Holden and his business partner, Ben Conniff, are planning to expand to the Upper East Side.
Dining
February 23, 2010
Choptank's Maryland
A new restaurant tries to whisk you away to Baltimore
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February 1, 2010
An Underground Lobster Pound in Greenpoint
The Underground Lobster Pound: A Purist, An Apartment & The Perfect Lobster Roll - *food curated* from SkeeterNYC on Vimeo. Liza Mosquito de Guia of food.curated will be on the panel at Afternoon Snack, a New York new food media event at Whole Foods Bowery this Friday. Her latest mini documentary ... More >>
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November 12, 2009
Oysters That Aren't Raw; Apples That Don't Rot
Oystermen are up in arms over a federal effort to ban the sale of raw oysters harvested during the warm months along the Gulf Coast, unless they're treated to destroy deadly bacteria. Raw oysters, they say, taste much better. [NY Times] Meanwhile, restaurateurs react to the proposed oyster b ... More >>
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October 13, 2009
The Early Word on Ed's Chowder House: Skip It
Chowder sampler, clockwise from top New England clam, Manhattan blue crab, and sweet corn Ed's Chowder House smells right--like lemon and that flinty, mineral aroma of good shellfish. But that's where the good news ends. It's not that the food is terrible--although the slaw does deserve that ... More >>
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October 6, 2009
The Early Word: Luke's Lobster in the East Village
The large (four-ounce) lobster rollIt's not often that a new restaurant's tag line includes the confession that the place's cooks aren't actually so skilled. "It doesn't take a great chef to make a great lobster roll," pronounces the Luke's Lobster website. What it does take, says Luke's, is ... More >>
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September 9, 2009
The Hamptons Comes to the Flatiron District
According to Madison Park News, Sagaponack, a -- yes, you guessed it -- Hamptons-themed restaurant opened today in the former Prey Bar & Lounge space on 22nd Street off of Fifth Avenue. On the menu: lobster rolls, Long Island corn, and, sigh, cupcakes.
Dining
September 8, 2009
Fall Guide: Our Retro Dining Picks
10 places that have persisted—somewhat miraculously—among the ceviches, tiny Neapolitan pizzas, and banh mis.
Blogs
August 17, 2009
Fork in the Road on the Road: The Cape Cod Lobster Roll
Not the best lobster roll ever, but one of many good lobster rolls One-fourth of Fork in the Road just got back from Cape Cod (where this particular one-fourth grew up). And you know what's great about Cape Cod? The fact that, no matter where you are, you are never far from a decent lobster ... More >>
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August 4, 2009
The Early Word: Xie Xie Project
Xie Xie's Asian lobster roll Xie Xie (pronounced "shay-shay" -- "thank you" in Mandarin) is a pan-Asian sandwich shop recently opened in Hell's Kitchen. It's opening was followed on many of the food blogs, and comments indicate that people were vaguely annoyed with this place before it even ... More >>
Dining
October 17, 2006
Leave the Gun, Take the Marinara
Umbertos moves its tasty crustaceans and shellfish to the Bronx
NYC Life
September 5, 2006
The Way We Were
Umbertos moves its tasty crustaceans and shellfish to the Bronx
NYC Life
June 6, 2006
The Naked Crustacean
High and Low: Soft Shell Crabs
Dining
May 30, 2006
Diggin' Ditch
Greenwich Village seafood shack offers clam strip tease
NYC Life
July 19, 2005
Digging Clams
A Chowder taste-test reveals it's not all in the cup
NYC Life
June 21, 2005
To Die For: It's Lobster Roll Season in New York
A Chowder taste-test reveals it's not all in the cup
Dining
December 16, 2003
Shore Dinner
A seafood restaurant that owes much to the tartar sauce
Dining
July 1, 2003
Up on the Bayou
Where the Catfish Doesn't Bite
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October 1, 2002
Aw, Shucks
Where the Catfish Doesn't Bite
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September 3, 2002
Formica Sea
Where the Catfish Doesn't Bite
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May 7, 2002
Water Sports
Where the Catfish Doesn't Bite
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August 24, 1999
Bread Amid the Circuses
Where the Catfish Doesn't Bite
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August 24, 1999
A Family Affair
Where the Catfish Doesn't Bite
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