It was fun a couple of years ago when a lobster glut contributed to a big lobster roll boom in NYC, with the excellent Luke's Lobster opening up and an underground lobster guy delivering illegal rolls to street corners. But now it seems like the city is crawling with lobster rolls, and with the opening of The Claw in Chelsea—where a lobster roll sets you back $16.50—we're about ready to tear off our plastic bibs and pull an Eddie Furlong on this lobster tank crane game. more ›

You know those arcade games in which you operate a small crane with a claw on the end in an attempt to fish out a stuffed animal and get laid? Know what would make that "game" even more fulfilling? If, in addition to impressing your date, you walked away with a living animal which you could then slaughter and eat. For decades, many Americans have enjoyed just such an amusement by playing The Lobster Zone, verily "the most exciting development to hit the vending machine industry in the last 20 years" (according to the company's website). Now, at last, New Yorkers can get in on the fun! more ›

Everybody loves a good lobster roll (even a fast food one) and the tasty crustaceans have been all over town this summer thanks in no small part to the booming lobster population in the Gulf of Maine. But is this golden age we're living in of plentiful and tasty lobsters actually a portent of a grim, lobster-less future? A new paper in Conservation Biology says yes, it very well could be. more ›

Red Hook, the Brooklyn neighborhood on the brink of perpetual change, is about to see some lobsters move into the neighborhood. Pardon Me For Asking has the scoop on the soon-to-open Red Hook Lobster Pound, a new business at 284 Van Brunt Street that will deal in retail sales of live Maine lobster at around $10-11 a pound. more ›

Lobster lovers may be crushed, but at least there's a bit of good news for Edward Furlong: The flagship location of Urban Lobster, the East Village steamed lobster takeout shop (they also sell giant stuffed potatoes under the unassuming concept name “NY Stuffed Idaho”) will close tomorrow night. Reached by telephone, a counter person confirmed the news. Urban Lobster’s Stone Street location, on the other hand, which opened late last year, will remain open, but will “scale down” its seafood operations with a more limited menu of lobster and crab rolls, soups, and salads. The fleet of stealth lobster delivery mobiles is also presumed to be kaput. The restaurant’s contents will be auctioned on Wednesday at 3 p.m., so that’s your chance your chance to buy a bona fide Cleveland Double Door Electric Steamer once used by Urban Lobster, and not the kind of Cleveland Steamer as defined in the Urban Dictionary. Meanwhile, the Feedbag brings news of another seafood-theme named place closing: Williamsburg's Lazy Catfish seems to have been at least temporarily closed by the Department of Health. more ›