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Most tools hand you a ranked list of thirty restaurants, which moves the work rather than doing it. Savor Scout takes your craving and location and returns one restaurant, showing its match score, what it beat, and the evidence behind the pick.

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How is Savor Scout different from Google Maps or Yelp?

Maps and Yelp are directories that rank everything and leave the deciding to you. Savor Scout makes the call. It reads menus and reviews for the specific dish you asked about rather than ranking places by overall star average, and it shows its reasoning. Its place data comes from the same public sources, so the difference is the selection, not the data.

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How to find good lobster

Lobster is expensive enough that you should know what you are getting — and the best lobster is usually the simplest, steamed whole and served with butter at a place that cooks hundreds a day.

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What separates a good one from a bad one

Live tanks — Lobsters kept alive until cooked. Pre-cooked and reheated lobster is tough.
Priced by weight — Market price per pound, with sizes you can choose.
Cooked just through — Tender, sweet meat. Overcooked lobster is rubbery and stringy.
Simple preparations — Steamed with drawn butter shows off good lobster; heavy sauces can hide bad lobster.
Hard-shell vs soft-shell explained — New-shell lobsters in summer are sweeter but have less meat. A place that tells you which you are getting is honest.

What to order

Whole steamed lobster — With drawn butter and lemon.
Lobster roll — For the meat without the work.
Lobster bisque — Rich and creamy.
Baked stuffed lobster — A New England special occasion dish.
Corn and potatoes — As sides.

Where to find Lobster

Lobster is mostly found at seafood restaurants, so that is where to look. Open listings put 20,139 of them across the US, and these are the cities and campuses with the most.

Cities with the most

New York, NY 254 Houston, TX 209 Chicago, IL 199 Philadelphia, PA 154 Los Angeles, CA 153 Jacksonville, FL 132 Dallas, TX 126 San Diego, CA 120

Campuses with the most within a mile

NYU 61 New School University 57 Touro University 53 Emerson 53 The Graduate Center 53 FIT 51

A few to start with

Terrace Fish and Chips — New York, NY
178 Church St, New York
Massa's — Houston, TX
1160 Smith St, Houston
Coco's Famous Fried Lobster — Chicago, IL
426 S Clark St, Chicago
Oyster House — Philadelphia, PA
1516 Sansom St, Philadelphia
The Oyster Gourmet — Los Angeles, CA
Grand Central Market, 317 S Broadway, Los Angeles
River & Post — Jacksonville, FL
1000 Riverside Ave #100, Jacksonville

Counts are listings in Overture Maps open data (September 2026), counted by the town in each address. Independent places only in the examples above, and they are a starting point rather than a ranking.

How Savor Scout looks for it

The search reads for live tanks, market price, fresh and steamed, and favours seafood restaurants over steakhouses that list lobster tails as an upgrade.

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Looking in a particular city?

Each of these opens Savor Scout with the location already set, so you can say what you want and it searches from there. It covers 1,000 US cities in total — these are simply the largest.

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