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“Ed's Lobster Bar”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	Seafood	Soho	Moderate	Great

in a blue clam pot, with a bowl of water to rinse and a shallow pool of melted butter to dip. I can't ever seem to get all the sand out but I didn't really mind. Steven agreed. "They're a little sandy, but I think they're better that way," he said as he dipped one in the butter and popped it in his mouth with a smile. "Delicious!"

Ed serves a fish of the day ($M/P) with seasonal sides, and we went for the Alaskan halibut with corn, fava beans and snap peas. The halibut was nicely cooked, though it could have been seasoned up a bit more. And while he's jumping the gun on the corn, on the night in question, which was like August, it felt like the right thing to eat. 

Now, I have been trying to figure out a way to do justice to the loveliness of this lobster roll ($M/P) in print, and I am not sure that I can, so I encourage you to go and have one for yourself as soon as possible. Ed's opens daily at 5pm. Catch a 6 train to Prince Street and it's a block away. Park yourself at the bar. Order a pint of Smuttynose or a Hitachino White, and a lobster roll, and you will thank me. Actually you should thank Ed, first. Then you can thank me too, if you want. 

For those of you who can't get there until later today, or for heaven's sake tomorrow (!), picture this: a pulled pork sandwich, but instead of a roll, substitute a split hot dog bun, buttered and griddled, and instead of pork, substitute a mound of sweet and luscious lobster meat that tastes like it's been poached in butter (or possibly sugar) so it's almost seasoned from the inside out, then pulled apart into blessed shredded mess, dabbed with just the right amount of mayonnaise to let it loosely hold together. Add an ample serving of hand-cut, piping hot, sea-salted fries, and a ramekin of housemade bread and butter pickles, cut like Ruffles potato chips, and slapped with the heat of a habanero pepper. Okay. That should do it. You are now in the lobster roll zone with me. It's wonderful, isn't it? Yes, it is.

There are desserts too, like a rather silly ice cream sandwich (three scoops of vanilla in a hot dog roll), a homemade strawberry rhubarb crumble that's nothing to look at but tastes like something that might have one the Country Fair, and a lackluster blueberry crème brulee. I'd have the pie, though. And another lobster roll, if you can fit it in. Ed learned well from his mentor. And once again, Rebecca's loss is our gain.

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Posted: May 31, 2007

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