Lobster Season, All Year!
Rolling with Montauk Lobster House
One of the fixtures of South Gables has been Gringo’s Oyster Bar, for years the go-to place for fresh seafood and (of course) oysters (and especially at happy hour). The bad news is that they are gone. The good news — especially for lovers of lobster — is that they’ve been replaced with Montauk Lobster House.
We recently visited and chatted with the new owners, Diego and Priscila Flores. As it turns out, this is not their first lobster rodeo. For the last eight years they have been running the original Montauk Lobster Houses in (you guessed it) Montauk, New York, along with another one on Long Island. “We close for the season [up there], and we needed a project for the winter,” quipped Diego.

As for the lobster itself, we tried three variations: their Montauk Lobster Roll ($34), which is cold lobster meat tossed with mayo, celery, and fresh lemon juice in a brioche bun; their Lighthouse Lobster Roll ($34), with warm lobster in butter in that same brioche bun, now toasted; and their Surf & Turf Burger, a great mix of a half-pound burger with chunks of lobster meat ($29). A big thumbs up for all three. And for all lovers of the pink crustacean: their lobsters are flown fresh from the cold waters of Maine all year, so they don’t depend on Florida’s lobster season.


Montauk Lobster Roll (left) and the Surf & Turf Burger (right)
Montauk Lobster House
1549 Sunset Drive
631.808.3639
mtklobsterhouse.com