What I Ate: March 17, 2009 (South Beach Cafe, Old Port Lobster Shack)

Posted 17 March, 2009 at 10:48pm by Michael Chu

(Filed under: Food, What I Ate)

6 comments to What I Ate: March 17, 2009 (South Beach Cafe, Old Port Lobster Shack)

Scott, March 18th, 2009 at 9:50 am:

• Here's an episode of "Check, Please! Bay Area" where they review that restaurant.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piPEDM27SE4

Michael Chu, March 18th, 2009 at 9:59 am:

• Thanks for the link! The Old Port Lobster Shack segment begins at 10:42.

Michael Chu, March 18th, 2009 at 10:03 am:

• It's too bad the other two people on Check, Please! who sampled the food there ordered everything except for the Lobster Rolls. I hope they went back and got the rolls.

Scott, March 18th, 2009 at 9:52 pm:

• Yeah, they never talk to the person who recommends it to get dish ideas. I suppose the thinking is "If it's no good, why have it on the menu?" and everything should be good enough to pass that muster.

Michael Chu, March 24th, 2009 at 11:09 pm:

• That works for some restaurants (especially higher end ones), but for a smaller and lower cost restaurant, they often need to add things on the menu that they aren't experts at in order to accommodate the guests that don't want to eat their specialty (who decide to come with friends who do want to eat the good stuff). It's too bad if the reviewers end up ordering those dishes.

  Well, we know better, so everyone should go to Old Port Lobster Shack and order the Old Port Lobster Roll!

What I Ate: September 23, 2009 (Perla’s Seafood and Oyster Bar, Los Vega Restaurante) | Orthogonal Thought, September 23rd, 2009 at 11:58 pm:

• […] regular menu this would have been $28 - not sure if it's worth it. In New England or in the Bay Area you can get a better Lobster Roll for under $20, but I'm not sure where else you can get a […]