Imagine crab cakes with fresh dill-tartar sauce, golden fried clams and lobsters dripping with melted butter. The food at this wharfside lobster shack, 13 miles southeast of Bath in the fishing hamlet of Georgetown, is a cut above average – and the view is tops. The shack is named for the islands you can see from your table. BYOB.
Five Islands Lobster Company
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