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The Lobster Shop on Fore Street, Johnshaven, its blue windows under a lobster sign.
Aberdeenshire

The Lobster Shop

Lobster and crab from the Johnshaven boats, dressed and eaten on a bench by the harbour.

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Johnshaven's boats land lobster and brown crab, and at the Lobster Shop you can eat them a few steps from the harbour they came into.

It is a family-run seafood shop on Fore Street, and most of what it sells comes from the local fishermen.

Everything is ready to eat. Ruth's lobster salad is the family favourite, and in summer the lobster rolls can sell out. There is homemade crab and leek quiche and crab pâté for a picnic, and hot dishes too: half a lobster and chips, and lobster toasties. Eat it on the creel bench or at the rustic picnic table outside, looking over the boats and along the coast.

For a special occasion, sharing platters and dressed lobsters can be ordered ahead online, and there is home delivery for anyone further away. Walk it off along the coast path, or round the harbour, where the live lobsters wait in their tanks before going to the continent.

A short drive awayQuayside Restaurant & Fish Bar, GourdonFish and chips with a view over the harbour at Gourdon, from a fish bar on the West Quay, open Wednesday to Sunday from four until eight.7 min by roadSee itBattered fish and chips with lemon and tartare sauce from the Quayside.
Before you go

On Fore Street by the harbour.

In summer the lobster rolls can sell out. Platters and dressed lobsters can be ordered online.

Where
Fore Street, Johnshaven.
Where it is

Johnshaven.

Close byAround Johnshaven.
  1. The old lifeboat house in Johnshaven, its tall blue doors open under the museum's sign.Johnshaven Heritage MuseumThe village's own museum in its old lifeboat house of 1891, with a new exhibition every summer.Under a mile1 min by road
  2. The old stone mill buildings of Benholm among autumn trees.Mill of BenholmA restored watermill near Johnshaven, with a café baking its own patisserie.2 miles5 min by road
  3. Sillyflatt Farm ShopA family farm shop above the North Sea between Inverbervie and Gourdon, selling its own lamb and food from within a hundred miles.4 miles6 min by road
  4. The blue surf boat Maggie Law on display inside the museum at Gourdon.The Maggie Law Maritime MuseumA little museum on Gourdon harbour built round the Maggie Law, a famous rescue surf boat.4 miles7 min by road
  5. Grassy dunes overlook a wide sandy beach with distant figures walkingSt Cyrus National Nature Reserve5 miles8 min by road
Directions
Battered fish and chips with lemon and tartare sauce from the Quayside.RestaurantsQuayside Restaurant & Fish Bar, Gourdon4.1 miles
The Grassic Gibbon Centre's gabled front beside Arbuthnott Hall, picnic tables outside.AttractionsLewis Grassic Gibbon Centre7.4 miles
RAF Tornado ZD744 stored in a hangar with squadron crests on the wallAttractionsMontrose Air Station Museum8.5 miles
AttractionsMontrose Playhouse9.2 miles
Tables and shelves of books in Ink & Quill, Montrose.ShoppingInk & Quill Bookshop9.3 miles
The painted front of the Funky Wee Teapot ceramic painting studio in Montrose.CafeThe Funky Wee Teapot9.4 miles
Two golfers on a coastal tee, one mid-swing overlooking a sandy bayAttractionsMontrose Golf Links9.5 miles
The shopfront of Lilybank Bakehouse on Montrose High Street.CafeLilybank Bakehouse9.5 miles
Restaurant tables laid with cutlery beneath hanging plants, overlooking coastal dunes at duskRestaurantsRoo's Leap9.6 miles
Stay nearby

Places to stay near The Lobster Shop, and when each is next free.

Timber cabin with metal roof and decking surrounded by woodland treesNorth Lodge and River Cabin
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Banchory
  • 15 miles from The Lobster Shop
Free 11–13 NovA stone farmhouse covered in climbing ivy stands behind a gravel drive, seen through overhanging pine branches.Cuttieshillock
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Strachan
  • 15 miles from The Lobster Shop
Free 16–18 OctA stone cottage with dormer windows sits behind a low blue gate, a rose-covered archway framing the front door.Gamekeeper’s Cottage
  • Sleeps 6
  • In Strachan
  • 15 miles from The Lobster Shop
Free 2–4 NovA stone steading with a slated pyramid roof and a chimney stands behind a green nameplate sign, a chair visible through the window.No 2 Steading Cottage at Glendye
  • Sleeps 4
  • In Strachan
  • 15 miles from The Lobster Shop
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