How it works.

Every spot on TheLobsterFinder meets an editorial quality bar before being listed. Each candidate passes through a multi-stage quality filter:

• Minimum review volume, a spot with too few public reviews doesn't have enough signal to be evaluated fairly.
• Rating threshold, average rating must meet a minimum bar, calibrated per category.
• Category match, the spot must explicitly offer lobster, not just mention it. Off-topic listings are excluded.

After quality filtering, each city page is reviewed for name errors, mistranslations, photo quality, and category fit.

Ranking within a city is automatic: sorted by rating, then by review volume. Featured listings appear at the top, clearly labeled.

Ranking is automatic and transparent. Each spot is scored by its Google rating combined with review volume , the rating weighted by the number of reviews , so a spot that is both well-rated and well-reviewed rises above one with a perfect score built on a handful of reviews.

To be listed at all, a spot needs a minimum of 20 Google reviews and a rating of at least 4★. Below that, there isn't enough signal to rank it fairly.

Payment never changes the ranking. Featured listings appear at the top of a city page, but they are always clearly labeled , they don't displace the rating-based order of everything else.

What this is NOT

Not a measure of food quality or taste , that's subjective and personal. It's a transparent summary of public Google signals: rating and review volume, nothing more.

Spot an error?

Public data moves. If a listing is wrong, owners and readers can use our contact form , we fix it, usually within seven days.

The directory is refreshed on a rolling monthly cycle. Ratings and review counts are updated; stale entries are removed; new spots that pass the quality bar are added.

If you spot something out of date, get in touch. Corrections are usually applied within one refresh cycle.

This directory does not license or inspect spots. It does not guarantee outcomes, safety, or price. It surfaces public signals, rating, reviews, presence, photography, and explains how they are weighed.

Treat TheLobsterFinder as a starting point, not a substitute for your own judgment. Always call the spot before visiting to confirm hours, prices and availability.

We work from public data, and public data moves. A rating shifts as new reviews land; a spot changes its hours, its name, or closes; a Google listing merges or splits. Between our monthly refreshes, what you see here can lag what's true on the ground, we don't pretend otherwise.

So the most useful thing on this page is the correction loop: if a listing is wrong, stale hours, a closed spot, a misattributed rating, the wrong photo, tell us and we fix it, usually within seven days. Owners can claim their listing to keep it accurate. Trust, for a directory, isn't claiming to be perfect, it's showing the method, admitting the limits, and correcting fast.