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I dont know why there are so many bad reviews about this place. I work in the neighborhood and I often have lunch there. Awesome cobb salad, lobsters are cheap, wonderful service, and the location is just perfect. The only thing that I have noticed is that it can get very busy and therefore, the food takes longer to come out. Other than that, I love the place!

The food are very good but the waiter served us it seems he didn't want us there. We are really dissapointed. We were dress and nice too. The waiter looked 50 years old and look like Italian or Greek. He only nice to us when he saw the good tip. Really dissapoited.

Lunch for party of eight - everything took forever - food was not hot or old and was as best mediocre. Service is dismal. Trust me - AVOID - these sorts of establishments have no place in NYC.

Omg, we had a good time. I work in the area but never dined at City Lobster before today. I've heeard one of my co-workers about their lobster festival and decided to give it a shot. The lobster was amazing. sweet and tender. Should have gone for a 3 lbs. which cost only $39! Best lobster prices in NYC. Don't think-Go!

The food was excellent, the lobster or the fish preparation everyone ordered was fantastic (4ppl). The service was terrible, the wait person we had, did not have a good knowledge of the menu or the wine list. We ended up poring the wine and having to flag someone down whenever we needed something. This is a great place for really good lobster at a reasonable price (for Manhattan) just don't expect much after that.

Real bad... real big disappointment. We waited forever for our food and when it arrived it was sub-par. Save your money and go to a real seafood resturaunt for lunch. We didnt even test the culinary skills of the kitchen with our super-easy to prepare orders... but if they couldnt get those right, I'd be affraid to see what they produce for dinner entrees. Some other highlights of our experience... (a) they changed the pre-fixe menu for resturaunt week on us -- which was the main reason we came -- from very alluring entrees to unappealing, unoriginal dishes. (b) the price of regular menu items were changed on us, after we decided to work off of the regular menu as opposed to the resturaunt week "recently revised" options. (c) Calamari appetizer-- about as good as calamari at a big chain. Small, masked with breading and spices, and chewy. (d) Lobster Brioche -- decent lobster meat stuffed onto a tiny slab of over-buttered bread, served with a side of soggy fries. Coming to you at the very reasonable price of $25!

Some of these review must have been written ages ago. I've been to this place (near where I now live) a few times now and each time I walk away I'm like, dang, that was pretty impressive. The fish is ofcourse fresh, it is at most nice places, but they always cook it perfectly. I had grouper a couple weeks back, and you know, now I like grouper. Whoever the chef is actualy makes me like food I've never tried before. I really, really, like this place for brunch though. Every other brunch you go to in the city has the same ten things to order from, check out their brunch menu...its insane. Heuvo Rancheros with shrimp, Egg's Benedict on crab cakes, an omelette with crab and artichoke hearts.