The Clam Man — Restaurant in Falmouth

Today I went in and asked about a Connecticut style lobster roll (hot with butter only) and made it clear I wanted butter topped (FYI Boston born and raised, been buying lobster and oysters from Duxbury Wellfleet Gloucester St Anne’s Mass and Saco MAINE for 30 years).

Homeboy told me he can do that lobster roll, and it’ll be 28.99 (huh ok lobster clearly has gone up since 2021/22 even with Covid inflation).

((Another FYI, I lived in Paris and regularly went to a special restaurant that imported Maine Lobster and used FRENCH brioche rolls with freshly flown in Maine Lobster for 20 euros. It was delicious)).

He ends up walking over to the fridge and pulls out one of the pre packaged lobster cups for 22.99 or something similar that’s slathered in Mayonnaise. (How long was that sitting in the fridge, that day, or two days or what?) I was like, wait is this with Mayo? Cause I just want it with butter. He seemed pretty annoyed I’d ask such a Dustin, after I said I wanted Connecticut style roll, and said he’d have to measure out the fresh lobster in front of him on the ice, as if this was an annoying step. I’m like yea sure I just don’t eat mayo so please do so.

I also asked about fries and he looked even more annoyed and was very clear about how this is a fresh fish shop. Yea I get that, I buy from those shops along the coast all the time. But forreal, this service vibe.

The roll was abysmal and small for the amount of lobster, and only the roll was coated in butter, with COLD and somewhat fishy smelling lobster. The lobster size and meatiness was good, but not 29 bucks worth with a mediocre roll. You’re telling me the roll costs 6-7 bucks? If you’re offering lobster rolls, it would be really nice to have the hot butter offering, where the lobster itself is warm or AT LEAST COVERED in warm butter, not cold lobster on a warm buttered roll that it can’t even fit.

Sorry but the price really doesn’t do it Cape Cod justice, and I say this as someone who’s been eating lobster in the area and up the coast since she was a mass hole kid. Pretty sick of inflated prices for...

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