Last Sunday, I took the F train to Dumbo to check out Bridge Flea, the new flea market started by the same people behind Brooklyn Flea in Ft Greene. My visit was not bargain shopping orientated, it was food motivated. I went to try the lobster roll that the Red Hook Lobster Pound was selling.

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The Red Hook Lobster Pound has only been open a short while but their lobster roll is as good as Brooklyn Fish Camp’s which usually is my one lobster roll per summer (at $26 can only afford one/summer). According to their website the lobster rolls are made from their homemade mayo, and JJ Nissen Top Split Rolls (the original lobster roll bread that they truck down from Maine). Even though the line was long (the lobster rolls were $13.00, half the price of what you would find anywhere else) it moved fast. It was great to see the rolls brushed with butter and placed on the flat top grill. The lobster salad was extremely fresh and each sandwich was made to order. This is one fine lobster roll.

I need to make it out to their store in Red Hook at some point.

Red Hook Lobster Pound
284 Van Brunt Street
Brooklyn
646.326.7650

Oh if you want another reason to go, the booth around the corner had made to order fish tacos as well. Take the trip to Brooklyn this Sunday, have some lobster and fish tacos. You’ll wonder why you haven’t done so already.

Other goings on in the foodie-verse this week:

Terroir announced on their twitter feed that Pig Roasts are taking over Hearth on these Tuesdays: 7/21, 7/28. 8/4, 8/18 http://bit.ly/cyJHI Pig stuffed w pork sausage/3 course menu/$42 pp +$18bev. (I already called for reservations.)

READ ON for the rest of this week’s goings on in the foodie-verse…

If you live in or near San Francisco, Brews on the Bay takes places this year September 12th & 13th. Try over 30 beers brewed in San Francisco and meet the folks who make them. (via Alcademics).

If you are a rum aficionado, check out the 3 part interview that Refined Vices did with Lorena Vásquez, the Master Blender of Ron Zacapa Centenario.  This rum has been voted the “Number One Premium Rum in the World” for the last five years at Caribbean Week’s “International Rum Festival”. (I had the chance to visit the Distillery in 1998 when I lived in Guatemala.  It is truly a great sipping rum).

Ed Levine Eats once again posted both their weekly NYC Food Events for the Weekend (and Beyond) and Learn It, Don’t Burn It: NYC Food Classes, 7/16 to 7/24.

Yes, there really is a Bacon Camp (via The Kitchen).

Gourmet magazine named their 8 favorite barbeque places in New Jersey.

Hamburger America wrote up 67 Burger in Ft Greene Brooklyn.

A few food related items from my twitter feed

MetromixNewYork Now: Enoteca on Court. $8 Giro di Bianchi flight, why not? Nice people. Wood fired meatballs, salumi and porchetta panini on the way.

antoinette_b Food Porn of the Day: Mixologist Jackson Cannon of Eastern Standard – Boston, MA http://bit.ly/5LPQu

findyourcraving Oyster sliders @ Ed’s Lobster Bar are to die for. Cyn already mentioned it but bacon wrapped in sesame buns w/ tartar is just delish!

eaterny RT @kiirabritt: what??!! Una pizza napoloeana closing???

foodwineclassic RT @platypuslove3 Blood sausage and white corn grit corndog- Paul Kahan. http://twitpic.com/ale9i #fwc

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer.  Great food out there folks.  Hit a neighborhood you don’t normally go to, try a place you haven’t been to yet.  You never know…