First, you park at Abbott’s and see this.  It’s a helpful hint that you shouldn’t order the chicken.

Then you walk up and check out the Galley Menu.  Get there early, lines get long otherwise.

Walk up to the window, and order.  Take your blue ticket over to The Long Red Counter.

This is The Long Red Counter.

Grab your chow before any other hungry daytrippers try to nab it.

Sit and have some mussels.  I love mussels and these were pretty good - small, clean, briny and easy to pluck out of the shell using another shell.  Good deal, too, this whole bag could have easily been split between three or four hungry folks.  Oh, the murky broth-style chowder was also excellent.

Contemplate what you’re about to eat.  The “Lobster Roll” requires those quotation marks around it, I feel.  It seems every place has it’s own idea of what a “Lobster Roll” actually is, but here at Abbott’s it’s a hot, buttery, toasted hamburger bun with a gargantuan puck-like formation of lobster meat in between.

Let’s get this straight, there is no way for this to not be delicious.  For many of us though, it must be asked, “Is it…14 dollars delicious?”  And in that case I say, “perhaps.”  If you’ve never been to Abbott’s before I think it’s certainly a sandwich worth buying once, and of course if money is no consideration feel free to order two.  Otherwise, compared to the tightly compacted patty of Abbott’s lobster roll I’d probably prefer to just order a real lobster next time.  As I picked at the last of my mussels I watched plenty of people greedily rip apart bright red lobsters at other tables and none of them looked disappointed in the least.

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