Tobacco Road - Best Meal in Miami?

[Miami Danny]

I have kept it to myself too long, and for that I make amends. Every Tuesday night, you can get a $10.99 Lobster Dinner at TR-comes with garlic mash and slaw-who cares it is a freakin lobster for 11 dollars! Peroni and Bud be $3.50, Photosfor photos of Senior Pinchy, and what I did to him for breakfast the next day. I also compared him to another lobster dish I had eaten recently at Vita, and found the $28 Vita Lobster Salad more than lacking Lobster Cage Match If anyone knows of a better meal in Miami, please, please, post it here. And remember, CALL AHEAD!!!!

Edited June 11, 2008 by Miami Danny (log)

[docsconz]

Do you mean better meal or better value meal? It strikes me that that is likely a great meal for the money, but I would imagine that one can eat better food if price is no object, no?

[Miami Danny]

Do you mean better meal or better value  meal? It strikes me that that is likely a great meal for the money, but I would imagine that one can eat better food if price is no object, no?

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As I said, best meal in Miami. That I've ever eaten. In a restaurant/eating establishment (it's hard to call T. Road a 'restaurant'). Perhaps others would choose something else?

[docsconz]

Do you mean better meal or better value  meal? It strikes me that that is likely a great meal for the money, but I would imagine that one can eat better food if price is no object, no?

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As I said, best meal in Miami. That I've ever eaten. In a restaurant/eating establishment (it's hard to call T. Road a 'restaurant'). Perhaps others would choose something else?

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Wow. That's a pretty strong statement. I just wanted to be clear. Sounds like it would very much be worth a try! Thanks for sharing it.

[robyn]

We used to have the $7.99 whole Maine lobster special at a hole in the wall on - if I recall correctly - Blue Road (or maybe it was Red Road) - north of Bird Road. Forget the name of the place. It was a great value - and a good lobster (especially if you had it whole and steamed - it is kind of hard to mess up a whole steamed lobster) - but it was hardly the best meal available in Miami (and I thought it was better than Tobacco Road - which has been around for ages - almost 100 years).

I would consider it a sad commentary on Miami if Tobacco Road were the best restaurant in town - but - luckily - I don't share that opinion (although - at this point - I can only say what my favorite restaurant is on a particular trip - since I no longer live in Miami).

BTW - I assume the lobsters at all places like this now are Canadian lobsters - which are considerably less expensive than Maine lobsters from the US. And that they are "chicken" lobsters.

And FWIW - our favorite meal last trip was at the Four Seasons - trips before that - in no particular order - were Mosaico (chef no longer there - maybe restaurant is closed?) - dining room at the Ritz Carlton Coconut Grove (again - chef no longer there - lunch this trip was mediocre) - and Casa Tua (which I think - surprisingly - is pretty much the same). You get the point. Dining in Miami is very much a rapidly moving target. One thing I will say about Tobacco Road is it is consistent - which is more than you can say about most places in Miami. I have sometimes made reservations at new places in Miami which were closed before I even got to Miami 3 months later. Robyn

[CaliPoutine]

BTW - I assume the lobsters at all places like this now are Canadian lobsters - which are considerably less expensive than Maine lobsters from the US. And that they are "chicken" lobsters.

Whats a chicken lobster? Is it the same thing as a Canner? We get those in Canada starting in early May.

[robyn]

"BTW - I assume the lobsters at all places like this now are Canadian lobsters - which are considerably less expensive than Maine lobsters from the US. And that they are "chicken" lobsters."

Whats a chicken lobster?  Is it the same thing as a Canner?  We get those in Canada starting in early May.

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I looked up "canner lobsters" (didn't know what they are). Apparently they are small lobsters which grow in particular relatively warm Canadian waters. A "chicken" lobster is basically a small lobster. So all "canners" would probably be "chicken lobsters" - but not all "chicken lobsters" would be "canners". In any event - the lobsters places like this serve are pretty small (although the taste doesn't suffer if they're cooked properly). Robyn