How and where to eat lobster !

We%26#39;ll be staying in Bar Harbor ,Portland and Oganquit at the beginning of October and have never eaten lobster before! There seem to be topics about lobster but none telling the easiest way to eat it.Probably a silly question but how do you get all the bits out of the shell? i have seen someone%26#39;s mention of lobster crepes which sound good %26amp; easy to eat.

Help please! What is the best way to eat it ,maybe just try them all!

I have seen places mentioned in Perkins Cove but any other recommendations please?

How and where to eat lobster !

Just a warning - last I heard, there was a shortage of lobster. So you might find lobster to be very expensive. You can probably get help if you eat at any local lobster pound. In order to get the good stuff, there is no ';easy'; way to eat a lobster, but for me, ripping into a plain boiled lobster (with butter to dip in) is the fun part. With that said...

I%26#39;m from an old Maine family, so here%26#39;s how I was taught: you can get meat from almost the entire lobster. Don%26#39;t just eat the tail! And wear the bib provided. First, you twist off the legs and suck out the meat (or bite down and the meat will squish out). For the body, you flip over the lobster so it%26#39;s upside-down. You can sort of break the tail off - it will just get in the way because it%26#39;s curled over. For the tail, you insert a fork between the meat and the shell and hold the tail as straight as you can. Jam the fork as far as you can and pull. If you break off the little flipper things at the end, the meat should just slide out. For the claws, break them off and (I%26#39;m serious here) tilt up the claw and drink the juice that will come pouring from the end of the claw. You can use the crackers to break the claws and extract the meat. The final part (this is what distinguishes a real Mainer from a tourist): Holding the body upside-down so that the underside is up, grasp the body inside the shell. Give it a twist and the midsection (I think of it as the ribcage) should break off from the shell and head. Discard shell and head. You%26#39;ll see all sorts of icky green stuff (tamale). If it%26#39;s female (which you shouldn%26#39;t get), you%26#39;ll have red stuff, which is the eggs. That%26#39;s all edible - my grandfather loved it - but I personally wash it off with the butter. The last edible bits are inside. So break it apart (don%26#39;t eat the stringy hard stuff on the sides - it%26#39;s edible, probably, but not what you%26#39;re after) and you%26#39;ll find white, tender meat in between the ';ribs';.

And that%26#39;s it! Lots of fun, but do expect that the rest of the people NOT eating lobster will have finished their meal a good 1/2 hour before you finish rooting around. I%26#39;m sure there are other directions out there online as well.

How and where to eat lobster !

You can always order the ';lazy man%26#39;s lobster'; which is when the kitchen crew does all the messy work for you. If this is your first lobster, eat it in it%26#39;s natural state, not as an ingredient in another dish.

Try a ';shore dinner';. You will get a lobster, steamed clams, corn on the cob, and potatoes.

Getting messy is part of the fun of the meal!