The Lobster Box Restaurant is featured in Volume 5 of The Ford Times Cookbook, 1968. Here is a drawing based on the painting by Harvey Kidder. The book's entry says that The Lobster Box is in a century-old mansion and is the oldest landmark on City Island, New York, on Long Island Sound. It claims they serve lobster 21 ways, and includes a recipe for Lobster Newburg.
These photographs, taken July 2010, confirm that the Lobster Box is still open every day at 34 City Island Avenue, Bronx, New York. City Island is an actual island, full of fascinating restaurants, and is reachable by automobile bridge. It feels remote and of a different time, yet is only minutes from the city—at least on those rare occasions when there is no traffic.
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