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
Lobster is easily the most overrated food in the country.
I shop at Fairway a lot
it’s a local chain when you think about it guys!
I find the three guys that are always at the fish counter to be super nice abd helpful
But I still will check out this new place!
Anyone know where Fairway get their lobsters from? I would guess somewhere between here and Maine, and quite possibly right off the boat. I agree with new2hood – Fairway has good product and at a good price ($10 a pound I think, a little more to have them steamed? – you’re not going to do much better if you go to Maine yourself). And they are nice folks at the seafood counter there.
Still, I will surely try this place out (even if it is only 8 blocks closer than Fairway and still requires a car to get to), and I hope it succeeds.
Seems to me, something’s “fresh” if it was alive right before I ate it.
Fairway is a local company..so they should be penalized for success?
Maybe it’s just my timing, but check-out has never been an issue there
And the seafood fellas at Fairway are lovely..and who says Susan and Ralph are more “friendly?”
So yeah, given my satisfaction with Fairway, I guess cheaper would really be the only reason I’d go there.
And, wrong city or not, here I be.
hey new, how about…
fresher
smaller corporation(spread the wealth more locally)
shorter lines(quicker)
more friendly.
if cheaper is your only metric you may be in the wrong city.
While Fairway is fine I guess (I don’t shop there because it’s too far from my house and think it’s asinine to put an urban store like that only accessible by cars) I don’t think they’re going up to Maine weekly for what sounds like the freshest lobsters one could attain…
I’m all for the mom and pop whenever possible. Bring it on.
seriously
this just made my day!
Will it be cheaper than Fairway? B/c unless it is by a bit, I don’t know why I’d go to this place instead….
Great news–they’re opening just in time for backyard parties and summer barbecues. Surf and turf, anyone?