Brown's Lobster Pound wins best seafood crown by 2.6%

Brown’s Lobster Pound in Seabrook, New Hampshire won a “best seafood” vote by a narrow margin of 2.6 percentage points, taking 51.3% of the votes versus Markey’s Lobster Pool’s 48.7%. The contest pitted the two long-running summer restaurants located across Route 286 from each other. The submission portal opened July 20 and closed on Tuesday. Both eateries have served classics such as clams, haddock, and lobster rolls for generations. Brown’s traces its roots to Hollis Brown and Louis Violette, who began shipping lobsters from Maine, opened a lobster pound in Hampton in 1948, and later expanded to Seabrook. The restaurant is cash-only and allows customers to bring their own beer and dogs, with lines often stretching from takeout windows into the parking lot.