The $23 lobster club at Brinkley's is, quite obviously, a $23 sandwich. This is an absurd price to pay for a sandwich. Then again, this is a pretty absurd sandwich, which frankly justifies the price. In a city where a single lobster roll can push $30, you'd be hard-pressed to find anywhere save a Chinese restaurant serving this volume of lobster for this price. More

If Le Cirque has always felt a little too frou-frou-fancy, but you still want an excuse to experience it, "The Feast: L.E.S. Cirque" pop-up kicked off last night and will spend the next three nights hosting dinners inside the Hotel on Rivington. Le Cirque's executive chef Craig Hopson is heading downtown and wants the menu to be a little more "downtown," too. What exactly does that mean? Cocktail pairings with three-course meals, where one ingredient is spotlighted each night. (It also means more Katy Perry playing in the rooftop penthouse-turned-event-space.) Check out our lobster dinner last night. More

The Red Hook Lobster Pound started out two years ago, with Susan Povich and her husband trucking up to Maine, stocking up on live, freshly caught lobster, and trucking back to Red Hook, where the couple sold them to lucky folk like you and me. In the intervening years, Red Hook Lobster Pound has, in the words of the guy manning the counter when I ordered my rolls, "kind of exploded." More

In this great city of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around New York. Got a sandwich we should check... More

[Photo: Bloomberg] Would you eat an animal that's seven decades old? I've never given much consideration to the age of an animal that ends up on my plate. But Ryan Sutton's story has me thinking twice. He writes about... More

Statue of Liberty photograph from morrissey on Flickr Urban Lobster Shack 15 Stone Street, New York NY 10004 (Financial Dist., b/n Broadway/Broad Street; map); 212-809-2626; urbanlobstershack.com The Skinny: Not the best lobster roll in the city, but as part... More

Photographs by Katia Kelly from Pardon Me For Asking Red Hook can be a pain of a trek for many, but it's probably still more convenient than Maine. Susan Povich, a Red Hook resident who spent many childhood summers... More

Editor's note: It's time for another dispatch from Serious Eats community member BaHa, aka Barbara Hanson, who checks in now and again about the various one-of-a-kind food stores and markets in New York. She told us that this title is... More

Delmonico’s is the oldest restaurant in the country. It is also one of the most expensive. In fact, one of its most expensive dishes, the famous Lobster Newburg, was invented in the restaurant in 1876. A decadent dish of lobster... More

Calvin Trillin once said that he raised his two daughters, Abigail and Sarah, in Kansas City even though the girls grew up in Greenwich Village. I can relate to that, because despite the fact that I am a native... More