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Luke's Lobster - Bethesda Maryland

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7129 Bethesda Ln Bethesda MD 20814 301-718-1005 Website Service: ✮✮✮ Food: ✮✮✮✮✮ Cleanliness: ✮ ✮✮ ✮ Luke's Lobster is a seafood restaurant located in downtown Bethesda Maryland that focuses on doing high-quality seafood right.  Part of a larger sustainable seafood provider from Maine the restaurants provide you the feeling of stepping into a lobster shack along the Maine coast where you can get the freshest seafood possible.   Luke's Seafood rolls are classic.  A classic top split but that has been buttered and grilled, then filled with the fresh seafood salad of your choice, and topped with just a sprinkle of celery salt.   Lukes also offers a selection of local craft beer as well as some of the more common domestic beers. The inside of Luke's is tight and is very true to a couple of lobster shacks that I have visited on the coast of Maine in my travels.  There is limited seating, with about half of the seating being bar style and half being tables. You place your order a

Nova Scotia - Lobster Trail

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The oceans off the coast of Nova Scotia are the perfect habitat for a culinary treat of the ocean, the Lobster.  The Nova Scotia lobster fishery is a part of life in the province as the number one seafood exporter in the country.  The lobsters off the coast of Nova Scotia are known for their hard shells and the meatiness of the lobster inside.  Lobster is a sustainable food source and the fisheries off of Nova Scotia are managed to make sure that there are fisheries open but that no single area is overfished.  It should be no surprise then that lobster is a focal point of many culinary gems.  You can eat lobster for every meal of the day if you want, which a must admit I did while I was there. Probably the best known way that we think of lobster being prepared is the old fashioned lobster boil.  The lobster is cooked in salted water, oftentimes with corn and potatoes and is served on a platter in all it's glory.  The bright red shell pulls you in as you put your bib around your n