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The Boston lobster roll is fresh-picked Gulf of Maine lobster meat tossed warm with drawn butter or cold with mayonnaise, served in a buttered top-split bun; in United States we have verified places to eat it in Boston. Start with where to eat Lobster roll in Boston.
The Boston lobster roll is fresh-picked Gulf of Maine lobster meat tossed warm with drawn butter or cold with mayonnaise, served in a buttered top-split bun.
The lobster roll is credited to Perry's restaurant in Milford, Connecticut, where Harry Perry sold a hot-buttered lobster sandwich to a regular trucker around 1929. The Maine version, cold lobster bound with mayonnaise on a buttered top-split bun, became the New England standard by the 1950s. Boston adopted both schools: Neptune Oyster on Salem Street built its reputation on a hot-buttered roll heavy with full-claw and tail meat. Pauli's on Salem rolls the city's biggest XL version. The split-top white-bread bun, butter-toasted on its flat sides, is the unifying physical detail; both warm and cold camps agree the bun must crackle on contact.
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