Looking for shore-shack ambiance but can’t hit the Maine coast? This fish market/restaurant in Boston’s backyard, just over the bridge from Eastie in Winthrop, is your answer. Fried seafood and icy beers are a draw, but the Maine lobster roll is the stud of the lineup: a proper split-top bun generously stuffed with mayo-kissed tail and claw meat, plus a token lettuce leaf. It’s so canonical it could illustrate the dictionary definition.
Belle Isle Seafood
1 Main St., Winthrop • (617) 567-1619
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Lobster Roll
2014 Winner: Belle Isle Seafood
The closest real clam shack to Boston is outside the city limits, just over the bridge that connects Eastie to Winthrop...
- 1 South Main St., Winthrop
- (617) 567-1619
- belleisleseafood.com
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Lobster Roll
2016 Winner: Luke’s Lobster
Notoriously insular Bostonians greeted the Back Bay outpost of the Manhattan-based Luke’s Lobster chain with the kind of squint reserved for Yankees fans...
- 75 Exeter St., Boston
- (857) 350-4626
- lukeslobster.com/boston
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Lobster Roll
2018 Winner: Eventide Fenway
- 1321 Boylston St., Boston
- (617) 545-1060
- eventideoysterco.com/eventide-fenway
Eventide: Zack Bowen / Knack Factory
