Certe’s Lobster Roll is $9 (For One Day Only)
I had heard about the mysterious take-out only lobster roll offered as an occasional lunch special at Certe (on 55th btw. 5+6th), but at $11.75 it’s usually out of the Midtown Lunch price range… except for tomorrow. We’ve gotten word that for one day only (Friday, May 22) Certe will be offering their lobster roll for $8.95 (take out only.) There is nothing like a lobster roll to get your Memorial Day weekend kicked off right… except maybe the bacon implosion. This could be a really tough decision. Anybody had the Certe lobster roll before? Let us know in the comments if it’s worth it.
Posted: 3:00 pm, May 21st, 2009 under Certe.
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I’m assuming the bacon implosion will still be around next week, so tomorrow is a good day to try the lobster roll at Certe..
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i’m all over this business. full report tomorrow.
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Zach – the new site is shaping up nicely…very nicely. Congrats!
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The Start of half day Fridays—and lobster for lunch—I am a Goat in a field (Rather than a pig in sh*t)…AWESOMENESS!
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i’d definitely try this if i wasn’t off tomorrow. full report please!
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oh no! look at this twitter post: “@MidtownLunch Our lobster roll is $11.75 when ordered at the counter or for take out”
does that mean, no 9 buck lobster roll!!??
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@Gustad – No! That was from a few weeks back, when I first heard about it. Sorry to confuse… today only they’re selling it for $9.
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excellent. glad i asked. see ya’ll there
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I called to triple check. Its ON!
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I’ve got a feeling that this line is going to be epic.
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Just had the Lobster Roll..
They really shouldn’t call it a Lobster Roll since.. well… there’s NO ROLL! Maybe you guys knew this already but I didn’t realize that it was a wrap.. and not an actual roll..
the lobster mix was fine… nothing amazing.. but nothing bad… it wasn’t too overloaded with mayo as fillers…. and there was a decent amount of lobster.. but having to eat it in a wrap.. just ruined the whole thing… i placed the order from my office to pick it up.. and I couldn’t turn back since they had it ready for me right when i got there…
In any case.. it was pretty good for what it was.. but I was looking forward to biting into a roll.. and having the wrap was disappointing…
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I agree with sushiburger. IT’S A WRAP!!
Totally weak and underwhelming, and not worth $9. Unless you’re really into leg- and occasional-knuckle-meat, for some reason.
Apart from being served on a fucking wrap (uncool, unacceptable), Certe somehow saw it fit to include CORN and RED ONIONS in their lobster salad. These foolish ingredients totally overpowered whatever small amount of actual lobster flavor that this “thing” was packing.
Bonus Fail: they put RAISINS in the coleslaw that came with the lobster “roll.” What the hell are they smoking over there.
Never again. If you’re on the fence and haven’t left yet, don’t bother.
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Definitely.. I actually ended up taking everything out of the wrap.. and just eating the lobster..
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right right to everything the last 3 said… i just had it too. a lobster roll should be 95% lobster and 5% butter or other yummy fat.
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I think I may have been one of the first to order it today and when I saw them go into the back and bring out about 10 premade wraps, I immediately said “uh ohhhhh”. So you can add another “what Chip Beef said” from me. All in all I did “like” it I guess, but the f-ing onions destroyed any chance of tasting lobster.
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yeh, the onions totally overpowered cloppy, errrr i mean the lobster
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I saw sushiburger’s comments about it being a wrap, and asked for it on a roll. It was tasty and fresh, but didnt really qualify as a lobster roll. I’m not sure the roll improved it at all either since that was just abother thing drowning out the lobster.
Expect a corn salad sandwich w/ a little lobster as a garnish.
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oh and one other thing…. by the time i was done with the “roll” its self, half of the contents fell into the tupperware. haha
ok, enough bad comments about these guys.
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Thanks to the early adopters I asked for my lobster on an actual roll and they obliged and had a chuckle ‘ one lobster roll on a roll ‘ – it was just ok, very meh: it is really a lobsterish salad on a roll (or wrap) and the lobster meat (what little there is of it) is totally overpowered by the onions.
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Ugh.
I convinced two of my usually uncooperative coworkers to venture out with me–after ensuring them it wasn’t yet another sketchy cart.
The “roll,” if it could be called, that is certainly full of filler. Dominating red onions. A bunch of corn. Blasphemous tomatoes. Even a hint of parsely.
All of that said, I still enjoyed it. I was let down, to be sure, to find that it wouldn’t be served on a buttery warm NE-style roll. But once I was over my initial dissapointment, I unwrapped it, emptied it into the container and made a serviceable lobster-on-a-sald lunch out of it.
Maybe worth 7-8 bucks. 9.40 (with tax) was a tad much.
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Props to those who benefitted from our collective misery, and upgraded to the roll. Knowing this, I feel that the unfortunate early adopters have not toiled in vain.
The mere fact that they laughed about serving a “lobster roll on a roll” makes me think they knew exactly what kind of shit they were pulling, here. Bastards. Now I’m going to have to hit Fairway this weekend for a proper under $10 lobsta roll (and coleslaw with no superfluous ingredients).
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We would like to apologize to everyone who was disappointed by the Lobster ‘Roll’ Special. In the future we hope to prevent this by providing a more thorough explanation of our food items when featuring them as specials. The special was done to honor loyalists of the sandwich- we have regular customers who order it every Friday. In this assumption, we isolated new customers and neglected to familiarize you with our style of the sandwich.
It is a lobster salad and it is a wrapped sandwich, we make it with our home made flat bread. We had no intention of being deceptive in this manner. In terms of ingredients, corn is often used as a compliment to lobster. In the future there will be no onions in the ‘corn salsa’ that is put in the sandwich.
As always, we appreciate feedback from the Midtown Lunch Community. Please e-mail your favorite lobster roll from the area to Marketing@certenyc.com, we will duplicate the most popular sandwich and offer a “classic version” on special, this July 3rd for the same price of $8.95
Please continue to visit our café, share your opinion and as always- be passionate about lunch!
Thank You,
Chef Edward and the staff at Cer te -
It’s cool that Certe cares enough to participate & respond to ML blasting. Good on ya, Certe
Mmm…must try.
Hopefully it’s not cut too badly with starchy/mayo filler.