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With picnic tables perched just above the crashing surf of the Atlantic, The Lobster Shack is a must stop on your trip up through Maine. Named for Elizabeth of Bohemia, King Charles I’s sister, Cape Elizabeth is close to Portland and easy to access. If you’re headed Down East, the Lobster Shack makes a great pit stop.

Fresh off the boat seafood is the fare, amidst the rocky shoreline within view of Portland Head Lighthouse, you can hear the foghorn as it sits right next to the restaurant. Traditional lobster roll, New England clam chowdah, Haddock plate, shrimp… The Lobster Shack has all the best Maine has to offer and extremely well priced.

The award winning restaurant has been a landmark since the 1920’s and still remains one of the Portland area’s best stops. Not into sitting out at the picnic tables? That’s quite alright, with indoor seating that faces Portland Harbor, you can watch the fishing boats coming and going with the finest seafood on deck.

Reaching iconic status in 2019, celebrating 50 years of business, the Lobster Shack is currently run by the third generation of the Leadbetters. Purchased in 1969 by Ruth and James Leadbetter from two women who sold lobsters at the site, the Lobster Shack has retained all the charm of a typical Maine lobster shack but with modernizations that only the progress of technology could provide.

John Ford and Bette Davis were both born in Cape Elizabeth, as if that wasn’t enough to make The Lobster Shack well known, you can purchase lobsters from them and have them shipped directly to your home! No better way to enjoy Maine lobsters if you can’t make it to the state where life is the way it should be.

Lobster Shack, Cape Elizabeth,Maine
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