How to Order Lobster

When you decide to spend upwards of $25 or more for a lobster dinner at your favorite seafood restaurant, you want to make sure you're getting the most out of your hard earned money. While it may seem fairly straightforward, ordering and most importantly eating a lobster can be tricky. Following a few simple (but key) steps can help ensure that everything goes swimmingly.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Your favorite seafood restaurant.
• A Nutcracker.
• A Lobster fork.
• Cash or credit card to pay for the check.

1. Inform your waiter or waitress that you'll be enjoying a lobster dinner. You can let your server pick out the lobster for you; or, if you are at a restaurant like Red Lobster, for instance, you can walk over to a tank and pick from a variety of live ones which you'd like to eat.

2. Tell your waiter how you’d like your meal to be cooked. The recommended methods for cooking a lobster are to steam, boil, or broil it. They all taste great – this comes down to a matter of personal preference.

3. Enjoy your newly prepared meal. The meat is found in the body, claws, legs, and tail. These sections can and should be separated from each other easily with your hands before you start eating. It can be enjoyed plain, dipped into melted butter, or another kind of sauce.

4. Finish your meal and pay your check. Congratulations – you’ve just ordered and enjoyed one of the finest meals the sea has to offer.

Tips & Warnings

• The shell can be separated from the body by pulling it apart from the bottom, revealing the meat inside. The claws can be cracked apart with a nutcracker (don’t worry about bringing your own – one will be supplied by the restaurant). The tail should be gently twisted off the body. Once this is done you can remove the flippers on the end of the tail and access its meat. It is recommended that you eat all the meat from the body, claws and tail with a fork. The meat from the legs can be sucked out.
• If you choose to pick out your own lobster, remember to be mindful of its size. For regular size lobsters restaurants usually have a set price, but for larger sizes there is generally a price per pound. Restaurants generally keep fresh, healthy lobsters in their tanks, so you won't have to worry about picking a bad one.

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