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Great lobster secrets of Boston, the Cape, and the Islands

Photo: Nicole Pasquale

f there is a dish identified with Boston, it’s lobster. Funny thing, too; lobster was once used around here for fertilizer and eaten only by the poor. Eighteenth-century Boston dockworkers went on strike over having to eat lobster more than three times a week. Things have changed. You can eat lobster at least three times—fried, for breakfast, on pizza, in a roll, as sushi, even for dessert—with these lobster secrets. We’ll even throw in a few on Cape Cod and the Islands for good measure. Melt some butter, slice a lemon, put on that plastic bib, and get cracking:

Fried lobster tail in the ‘burbs
 

Where to fish up a lobster pizza
 

A beach-themed café with great lobster rolls—landlocked in the city
 

Where to enjoy a clambake on a private beach on Cape Cod
 

A great lobster roll in an out-of-the-way Cape Cod oasis
 

Secrets of a well-known (and really good) Cape Cod clam joint
 

Lobster gelato? Don’t knock it till you try it.
 

Try the lobster stew JFK liked.
 

A Japanese-style split lobster, in the ‘burbs.
 

A lobster Thermidor crepe? Yup. We’ll tell you where to find it.
 

The best lobster roll on Martha’s Vineyard, where you least expect it
 

The freshest place to catch your lobster on Nantucket
 

A place to eat lobster on the Vineyard that’s out of sight
 

A Martha’s Vineyard dockside fish market where the lobster couldn’t be fresher
 

Where the locals go on Cape Cod for grilled lacquered native lobster with ponzu sauce and shiitake mushrooms
 

A great Cape Cod lobster roll in an out-of-the-way oasis
 

Lobster takeout with a great Cape view
 

Cape Cod seafood pies with lobster, to go