Streetlevel: Lobster Pound Coming to Red Hook
Just in time for summer, the husband-wife team of Susan Povich and Ralph Gorham are getting ready to open the Red Hook Lobster Pound at 284 Van Brunt Street in Red Hook. Every week, the duo (or one of them, anyway) will drive a truck up to Maine, back it up to a boat that’s…
Just in time for summer, the husband-wife team of Susan Povich and Ralph Gorham are getting ready to open the Red Hook Lobster Pound at 284 Van Brunt Street in Red Hook. Every week, the duo (or one of them, anyway) will drive a truck up to Maine, back it up to a boat that’s just come in off the water and drive the bounty back to Brooklyn. While the proprietors emphasize that the Lobster Pound will not be a restaurant but it may be possible to have the lobsters steamed. The store opens April 24. Yummmmm! GMAP
Ralph drives to Maine to pick up his fresh lobsters each week, and they are alive when you buy them. He now offers boiled crabs, also. I prefer to suppoert my local small business than Fairway, altho a great place, doesn’t know me and love me and need my business.
Ralph’s Lobster store is open Fri., Sat. and Sunday. Most of the lobsters are 1.5 lbs., which is what you want for a tender one!
I think a lot of these post are made by friends of Susan and Ralph. If/when i want lobster i’ll be taking it to fairway were im sure it’s cheaper, unless I just want to grab only a lobster to go (very, very, very……. unlikely)
I think a lot of these post are made by friends of Susan and Ralph. If/when i want lobster i’ll be taking it to fairway were im sure it’s cheaper, unless I just want to grab only a lobster to go (very, very, very……. unlikely)
I like my lobsters waterboarded first, then killed
How can garbage taste so good?
Fresh Maine lobster is one of the best things on this earth.
We can’t wait. Ralph and Susan are the best, and these lobsters will be fresher than anything you can find without going to Maine yourself !!!
Taste-wise I would probably choose blue crabs over lobster, but growing up spending summers in New England made me very lazy when it comes to shellfish. Pounding away for an hour with a hammer to get two ounces of crab meat was just never that appealing, when one snip of the scissors gets you a whole lobster tail.
And yes, if I didn’t have a car, I would certainly not slog the B61 from Williamsburg to Red Hook just to shop at Fairway. But given the pathetic range of choices up here, I would take the train to TJ’s and Whole Foods at Union Square. I’m much happier being able to go to Fairway.
Okay, diss lobsters all you like but to me they are most delicious. PS: Love that overrated chocolate as well.
Lobsters are delicious cockroaches of the sea.