Thursday, April 10, 2014

Lobster Night Spectacle at Le Petibonum

...Chef Hot Pants personally selects the live largest lobsters, plucking them from their cage and collecting them in a large tub for each patron to inspect before making their own personal selection.

Petibonum lobsters waiting for your selection | SBPR
Petibonum live lobsters waiting for your selection | SBPR
Further up the beach, assistant chefs get an enormous pot of water boiling atop searing hot coals. Just as the sun sets and the first lobsters are selected, the spectacle begins…

Boiling Lobster at Le Petibonum, Martinique | SBPR
Boiling Lobster at Le Petibonum, Martinique

Sparks fly from beneath the bubbling cauldron as your lobster meets the initial phase of his or her doom. I can’t stress enough just how how that fire is. Seriously, I have no idea how the chefs were able to stand so close and complete their work.

It takes but a few moments in the boiling pot before the fresh lobsters are ready for phase two of their preparation, their bodies split down the spine and placed shell side down directly on the roaring-hot grill…Continue

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