Where to Find the Best Lobster Rolls on the East Coast

Hot or cold lobster roll? If you can’t choose, then you might as well get them both. At Captain Scott’s, you have a lot of seafood to choose from. It is extremely busy on weekends, but that’s all part of the fun. Join other families enjoying the CT sunshine and order a la carte, choosing from po-boys, lobster rolls, and fluffy hush puppies. If you feel the need to get everything off the menu, get the Captain’s Combo with extra fried shrimp. Be sure to wash everything down with a cool glass of Schooners coffee soda.

There is something very refined about Chauncey Creek Lobster Pier. As a guest, you sit patiently by the calm, broad tidal creek awaiting your meal, sipping on BYO wine as if you were not at a lobster shack—but you are! You come to Chauncey’s for fresh lobster and cherrystones or oysters on the half-shell, but if you are hankering for fried food, choose between coconut shrimp or “Chowdah,” which comes thick and creamy—as it should be!

Maine lobster shacks are completely out of this world, and no matter where you go in New England, you just have to drive a little further out and try out any old Maine shack and taste the difference. Five Islands Lobster Co. is a great start on your lobster pilgrimage, with the shack located at the end of Route 127. Celebrate your long journey touring New England with cold-water, hard-shell lobster caught off the East Coast, but be sure to gather your friends and order other items like the award-winning fried clams and crunchy onion rings. If you remember, lift your head up from your meal and take in the view of Sheepscot Bay.

Opened in 1990, Petey’s catches its own seafood and is where locals go for clam bakes during the summer. But if you are just popping by during the summer and not hosting a party for 30 of your friends, you should try all the quintessential Petey favorites. Open year-round, the menu starts from scallop rolls to a traditional clambake dinner, but you have to go for their award-winning corn chowder no matter what you do.

If you love fried seafood of all varieties, you have to visit The Lobster Pool. Located on Cape Ann, enjoy beautiful views of Ipswich Bay and tuck into some seriously good seafood. The ho-boiled lobsters are nice, and so are the “no-nonsense, no celery lobster rolls,” but there is something really satisfying ordering the Lobster Pools dinner plates, which vary from calamari, shrimp or scallop, but who are we kidding? Get the Fisherman’s Plate, with all three, including haddock bites.

Some say Barnacle Billy’s is the best place to chill out during the summer when in Maine, and with whole lobsters, paprika-seasoned lobster rolls, and their famous rum punch all best enjoyed looking over Perkins Cove—who are we to argue? A family-run business in Kennebunkport makes this place very homey and enjoyable no matter when you go. Save room for the homemade blueberry pie.