Cantrell Seafood — Restaurant in Topsham

I've gotten seafood at Cantrell's in Topsham a few times now. I've never had a bad experience. On Saturday I shopped around for lobsters and Cantrell's had the best price at $7.99/lb so I stopped in and got a half dozen chicks, while there I saw that they had fresh haddock at $9.99/lb, so I asked the nice girl for a fillet. She was very attentive. I liked that she drained the lobsters before putting them on the scale and then she picked out a nice thick fillet of haddock for me. I brought everything home and the lobsters were fresh and full of that sweet soft shell goodness. I broiled the haddock the next night and it came out fantastic, just a great fresh slice of heaven. I am very grateful for Cantrell's. When the young man has waited on me in the past he was attentive and knowledgeable and the young women was the same, very nice and helpful. I do live in the area so I see activity around the seafood market and the fishermen always seem pleasant dropping off their catch, the service is great and the selection is pretty good as well. The prices are decent but certain things can fluctuate, like the crabmeat is at $19.99 where you might find it for a buck or two less if you shop around, but where I've seen lobster meat at $65/lb, Cantrells has it around $55/lb so as a general rule the prices are quite competitive and you can't beat the freshness of the seafood. I will say that I have never been disappointed by anything that I have purchased at Cantrell Seafood and they are my first place to check out. Good service, friendly people and fresh seafood at...

July 21, 2021 - News flash . . . Cantrell’s sells SEAFOOD 🦞! Scott Cantrell started selling seafood in 1983, now his son Andy operates the Topsham store, with several of their trucks going out to Winslow, Oxford, Newport, and Jay ( Maine). I rate this good operation a solid 4.5 ! They were out of the soft shell lobsters, but I still enjoyed my hard shell lobsters just the same. . . Good service, thanks Morgan!

They charge an extra $1 a pound to steam the lobsters, then pack in a steam bag to take home and make your own lobster rolls! Which I did! They sell other seafood items as well:

Alaskan King Crab legs Oysters Mussels Salmon Maine Crabs 🦀 Canadian Shrimp meat Scallops Trout

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As for the prices, seafood is more expensive than chicken ! As climate change impacts the coastline environment, warming water temperatures. . . Fish move further away, thus reduced “ fish catches” in our area.

Maine is known for their Lobster Roll ! 🦞🦞 ( Make your own)

Step 1 . . . cook/steam your lobster

Step 2 . . . Shuck your lobster

Step 3 . . . Melt some butter in sauce pot

Step 4 . . . Cut lobster meat into chunks

Step 5 . . . Place lobster in melting butter

Step 6 . . . Cut sub roll, butter w/ brush ( inside and top of roll)

Step 7 . . . Broil sub roll, to brown color

Step 6 . . . Load up sub roll with...

My family has been purchasing hard shell lobsters, for pick up at the Oxford location, for many, many years. We call the store number to place an order, a few days prior. There have been quite a few instances where the driver did not have our order, blaming it on the store not “putting it on the board”. We arrive at the truck first thing, so that if this happens, we can be first served and hopefully get the hard shell lobsters we wanted. This happened again this weekend however, even at the very start of the day, there were no hard shell lobsters to be had. After verifying with the store that the order was “on the board”, they apologized and offered to give a couple extra soft shell lobsters to compensate. However, when I approached the driver and explained the situation, he became verbally abusive (swearing at me) in front of other customers in line. He denied my order being taken. This kind of treatment, to a very long standing customer, is very upsetting and so disappointing. I will NOT be using Cantrell...