Belle Isle Lobster and Seafood: Bummer

Belle Isle Lobster and Seafood

1267 Saratoga St

Boston, MA 02128

(617) 567-1619

 It was too cold to ride over on my motorcyle, but I did anyway.  I froze for  the most expensive lobster roll I have eaten yet, but still waiting to have Neptune's 25 dollah roll.  It was expensive to start, at $18.99 base price, but with all the add-ons like: $3.50 for the return trip in the Ted Williams Tunnel;  the $3.00 surcharge at Sovereign bank because I couldn't locate a Citizens ATM in East Boston; our City's  meal tax of 6.25%. The roll was $26.68. 

Despite its hefty size size, boasted at a half pound of lobster salad, the meat was flavorless. Even worse, the entire 1/2 pound appeared to consist of one claw from some prehistoric leviathan- homarus gigantus.  I have a theory that enormous live lobsters (5 pounsds and up), wind up in lobster salad more often than we think.  Take a 6 pounder at hardshell winter prices and you are easily talking about a fifty dollar crustacean.  I may travel in the wrong circles, but I don't know too many people that are seeking out a live lobster of that value in the dead of winter. They can't live in  the tank forever and they are not fed, so into the salad they go. They don't feed them because then they turn the tank into a toilet- bad.  See link on tanked lobster care: Tanks. 

Back to the roll- unbuttered and literally grilled- the bun had bbq grill marks.  The roll was poorly constructed with the bun flayed flat into essentially a bread slice. The plank was littered with some iceberg shreds and then down came the half pound of ancient claw.  Only once have I not finished an entire roll in my quest for the holy roll, and now twice.  The meat was too chewy and tasteless.

On the up side, the jets coming in to Logan use this as an approach. A British Airways 747 flew just a few hundred feet over the place while I was waiting.

Sorry Belle Isle, but you are a bummer.   BTW: some Yelp or Chowhound reviewer said that Belle Isle is not accessible by the T. It seems very possible and simple to walk there from the Orient Heights T station on the Blue Line.

It's seedy and not in a charming way