How To Eat a Lobster

Want to learn how to eat a lobster? Lobster is New England's signature delicacy, but eating a whole lobster can be a bit intimidating for first-timers. If you've never eaten a lobster, or if it's been a while since you tangled with a crustacean, here is your step-by-step, visual guide to how to eat a lobster. Follow these pictures and instructions, and you'll learn how to eat a lobster like a New Englander.

Before we get started, be sure to tie on your lobster bib. Eating lobster can be rather sloppy business.