The Lobster Trap Restaurant, Vaughan

Visitors to The Lobster Trap Restaurant often find their dinner waiting for them just inside the door. Lobsters are steamed or broiled for grand dinners. The restaurant's fondness for the crustaceans is evident not only in the venue's name, but with a brief glance at the menu. There, diners find lobster bisque, lobster rolls, lobster thermidor, and Caribbean-style lobster tail all arranged amid other seafood delicacies. Whole lobsters are priced according to their weight, and while most measure between one and four pounds, 13-pounders are available by request for birthday parties.

Lobster-less dishes, on the other hand, range from tender New York strip steaks to oysters on the half shell. The oysters are shucked onsite. Other dishes traverse continental boundaries, such as the Alaskan king crab legs and the New Zealand rack of lamb. The dining room's décor isn't married to a particular ocean, though. Its walls boast hanging nets and mounted ship steering wheels, an homage to all of the seas and cranky ship captains that supply its meals.