The Lobster House — Restaurant in Phippsburg

First let me say, we really want this place to succeed. We vacation near Popham Beach every year, and every year there are fewer and fewer local places to eat. We were really excited to get there this summer to find Lobster House reopened after being closed for several years. To succeed though, these folks need to change a few things up a bit.

The good: the decor, the view (!), staff was friendly, the menu is presented in a unique way on a blackboard that is brought to your table (good for keeping costs down, no reprinting of menus every day to accommodate specials), lobster stew broth was delicious, decent wine, beer and cocktail options.

The not so good: the beer, cider and wine we had were not nearly cold enough, the entire restaurant was too warm, while the lobster stew broth was delicious it had almost no lobster in it (half a claw), a menu item described as Stuffed Haddock was literally a piece of fish covered in tons of breadcrumbs (a huge disappointment when you're expecting "stuffed" to mean seafood, or really anything else to compliment the fish),

In general, the food was just okay but has potential to be really solid. They've got to do something about refrigeration - barely cold beer and wine won't cut it. And make the restaurant just a touch cooler, please.

We didn't sit at the bar but I walked past it to the restroom, and it looked like a nice cozy spot to enjoy a drink (if it were cold) with locals hanging out. Looked like fun.

Looking forward to next summer and hopefully seeing some improvements. Good luck, please succeed!!...

Very disappointing return of The Lobster House. Having been in years past with good experiences, this was a “no return” visit. We first waited over 15 min to even be acknowledged by the waitstaff and only after inquiring with the front of house, all while watching the table next to us promptly get their order in free entering after us). The menu is currently limited. We ordered a pizza and 2 orders of fish tacos. To our surprise the $18 pizza was only 10”!!! A personal pizza, to be exact (and our non-picky kids didn’t even like it!). We only received 1 order of fish tacos and after waiting to be served and then the wait on the food, we didn’t bother to ask for another order. We understand they were grossly understaffed, so perhaps delay re-opening? We also suggested that they let others know the size of the pizza (we assumed for the price it was a “full size”-our mistake to assume). Also, drink refills are not free. Really frustrating to pay so much for so little, not to mention the...

Took our aunt out for her birthday dinner and the food was absolutely delicious. I had a prime rib, caramelized onion & blue cheese pizza and it was amazing. Husband had duck with a blueberry sauce, his words...I haven't had duck a lot in my life but that was th best, cut it with my fork. He tried the lobsterman's daughter...raspberry, lemon hello, pomegranate martini......yummo! Aunt had a lobster newburg that was loaded with lobster and they both had dessert that knocked it out of the woods. Waitress was great and then we hit the little gift shop on our way out the door. Will definitely be going...