Checking Out Urban Lobster Truck’s Linsane Roll
Last week we announced the exciting news that Urban Lobster Shack launched their new truck, which has been hitting up Midtown pretty regularly since. Although we pretty much know what to expect from their lobster rolls, one item on the truck menu stood out as unusual: the Linsane Asian lobster roll. An Asian lobster roll? All my favorite things! Clearly I had to try it.
The Linsane Asian Lobster Roll ($14) was topped with wasabi, soy, sesame mayo and scallions. I have to say, it was a nice change of pace from the very good, but standard options around town. Really, the roll has only a hint of the Asian flavors described on the menu, but they are all there in their subtlety. I appreciate a reason to seek out the Urban Lobster truck over Luke’s or Red Hook.
I also sampled the Chef’s Scampi Lobster Roll ($14), which is served on garlic bread and topped with scampi sauce. Like the Asian flavors in the Linsane roll, the garlic flavor here was surprisingly not that strong, considering the garlic bread and scampi sauce. In fact, it smelled more garlicky than it tasted. It’s a solid lobster roll, but the Asian one was decidedly the more interesting choice.
As I mentioned, they’ve been in Midtown a lot lately but be sure to check the ML Twitter Tracker before heading out or follow them for yourself on Twitter: @urbanlobster.
Posted by Rachel Goldner at 11:30 am, May 2nd, 2012 under Urban Lobster Shack.
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12 Comments
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This isn’t on the bench.
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Is the Linsane lobster roll on Time Magazine’s top 100 most influential sandwiches?
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Don’t you mean “linfluential”?
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Your joke is bad and you should feel bad.
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Sounds great. But I’m over unfilling $14+ lobster rolls (Red Hook, Lukes, etc.).
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Is the fried clam roll using whole belly clams?
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I wonder if Kobe Bryant has ever heard of this lobster roll….
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So how long until people flip shit about this being a “racist” lobster roll? Didn’t Ben & Jerry’s eat crow and backpedal on their Jeremy Lin flavored ice-cream?
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Ben & Jerry’s made an ice cream that tastes like Jeremy Lin????
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No. Ben and Jerry’s threw some fortune cookies in ice cream and called it “Lin-sanity Flavor”.
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Would you consider the lack of garlic flavor to be the chink in the armor?
They should make this 75% off like all the Lin items being sold at Duane Reade.