Dear Oyster Bar,

I was ready to be underwhelmed by you. I am a great eater and snob about lobster rolls. To me, the perfect lobster roll is one eaten outside in Maine or Cape Cod from a lobster taken out of the water and cooked the hour before. Not to mention, it costs about $8.

When I forked over $29 for a lobster roll in your restaurant, I was totally ready to say “yeah, but the ones on the Cape are better. I spent the money, but the original is always the best.”

Imagine my surprise when my $29 lobster roll appeared today:

And it was delicious. A 9.5 out of 10, despite a few small pieces of shell. That’s ok. I only give the 10 to the eaten outside, mid-summer variety, but this was also quite good.

Sincerely,
Someone who didn’t mind spending $30 on this following small amount of food.

Ok, so here’s the rest of my usual review, complete with half eaten food:

No hesitation here. Yeah, the pictures suck because I was afraid someone was going to tell me to stop taking the pictures. I wasn’t thinking “these have to be good,” more like “take this quick, because someone is going to tell you to stop.”

Actually, I think the pictures may have been a good thing, because they thought I was a food critic or something. What kind of freak photographs their food, especially when it is half eaten? Wait, um, never mind.

And the best part of the meal:

But money well spent.