FoodPrint-Boston: Legal Sea Foods(Prudential Center)

Restaurant: 

Legal Sea Foods

Address:

Prudential Center

800 Boylston St

Boston, MA 02199

Back Bay

Category:

Seafood

Average:

$45/person

Review:

Summer is always a good time to enjoy seafood. As I spent the summer in coastal city Boston, there was no way that I would miss seafood there. 

Legal Sea Foods is the first seafood restaurant I explored in Boston. I tried this one first because some friends of mine introduced me here. As a chain seafood restaurant, Legal Sea Foods offered me a decent lobster meal, which really surprised me based on my low expectation and past horrible experience with chain seafood restaurant.

We tried two dishes from the menu. The first one was Baked Stuffed Lobster for two (about 2 lb). Based on the menu, the lobster was from crisp, cold North Atlantic waters, which did not matter that much to me since I have no clue where produced the best lobster. Anyway, the lobster was served with a small cup of butter. The stuffing of this lobster was definitely the most amazing lobster stuffing I have evert had. In the lobster, scallop, shrimp and buttery crackers magically mingled together with the help of cheese. The taste was absolutely amazing. However, if I have to name one weakness, I had to say that the stuffing of this lobster put lobster itself to a minor role, which kinda made this dish more about the stuffing but not about lobster. 

However, after a fairly satisfying lobster dish, comes a disappointing Nutty Faroe Island Salmon. This is my first time trying the combination of almond and salmon and I have to say that the result is not promising. Almond was sliced and put on salmon. Even though the  slight hint of lemon did improve the taste of salmon, I have to say that in my opinion, nuts don't go well with salmon in this way. The spinach was decent but the mushroom ravioli had a weird taste in the sour sauce and I couldn't even finish tho dish.

In general, if you just come to Boston and don't know where has the best seafood or you don't want to wait in line for over one hour, Legal Sea Foods offers you a decent lobster dish and a not so disappointing meal.