{"id":8248,"date":"2025-02-03T10:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2025-02-05T13:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:45:54","slug":"capt-kats-grabs-lobster-roll-title-for-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2025\/02\/03\/capt-kats-grabs-lobster-roll-title-for-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Capt. Kat’s grabs lobster roll title for third time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wendell McKay and Victoria Hopkins of Capt. Kat’s Lobster Shack in Barrington Passage display their winning lobster roll on Sunday. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n

Simplicity and consistency were the secret ingredients for Capt. Kat\u2019s Lobster Shack on Sunday as it grabbed the title of best lobster roll on the South Shore.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the third time the Barrington Passage restaurant has topped the competition in the annual Lobster Roll-Off as part of the Nova Scotia Lobster Crawl. They won the first roll-off in 2018. And it’s always the same recipe, said <\/span>Wendell McKay, the kitchen manager at Capt. Kat\u2019s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the same cold lobster roll that we\u2019ve been making since before I was at Capt. Kat\u2019s,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels good to be back in the winner’s seat for sure. We don\u2019t want to stray from what works. And we like to focus on the lobster and not adding too many bells and whistles. Sometimes the lobster gets left in the back of the palate that way.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The winning entry featured lobster meat, green onions, celery, mayonnaise, a bit of spinach on a buttered toasted bun.<\/p>\n

Victoria Hopkins made the winning lobster roll.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am the cold roll mama,” she said. “And I am the one that makes the cold roll with lots of love.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Eleven restaurants from around the South Shore competed Sunday afternoon in a blind tasting for the title of best lobster roll. They ranged from the traditional, like Capt. Kat\u2019s, to the elaborate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some rolls included Nova Scotia smoked salmon and pepperoni, or deep fried lobster macaroni and cheese in addition to lobster meat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four travel writers from outside Nova Scotia served as judges.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stephanie Miller Vincent, the co-ordinator of the South Shore Tourism Cooperative which organizes the lobster crawl, <\/span>said they bring in a new group of judges every year. And none of them eats a lobster roll at any of the competing restaurants before the big day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe judges come in through Tourism Nova Scotia. They\u2019re completely different every single year. So it\u2019s pretty unique that one restaurant\u2019s won three times honestly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Second place went to the Quarterdeck Resort, which hosted the event this year. And Osprey\u2019s Nest Public House in Petite Riviere finished in third.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lobster lovers can vote for their favourite lobster roll for the whole month of February. Details, including the 11 participating restaurants, are on the Nova Scotia Lobster Crawl website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/lobsterrollofffinalfeb225.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Simplicity and consistency were the secret ingredients for Capt. Kat\u2019s Lobster Shack on Sunday as it grabbed the title of best lobster roll on the South Shore. It\u2019s the third time the Barrington Passage restaurant has topped the competition in the annual Lobster Roll-Off as part of the Nova Scotia Lobster Crawl. They won the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[2863,2862,68,2861,2850,1719,2864,2788,1707,2866,2865],"class_list":["post-8248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-barrington-passage","tag-capt-kats-lobster-shack","tag-lobster","tag-lobster-roll-off","tag-lobster-rolls","tag-nova-scotia-lobster-crawl","tag-quarterdeck","tag-restaurants","tag-stephanie-miller-vincent","tag-victoria-hopkins","tag-wendell-mckay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8269,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions\/8269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}