Flay makes up some great cuisine. His specialty, however are steaks and barbecues (BBQ). He has a couple of restaurants in New Your City, which, I must say, features fabulous food. The chef's therein are personally trained by Flay.

But, but this is where it may stop!

Nothing can honestly compare to the Maine-style of cooking anything! Those restaurateurs whose specialty, like Lynn Archer of The Brass Compass in Rockland, truly holds a lot of experience and credibility over Flay's manner of cook-ups!

Especially when it comes to seafood, and Rockland is one of the seafood capitals of the world, in my estimation. I, along with my newly-married wife, in 1988, went to Rockland as a partial stopover on our honeymoon from out-of-state. We simply had some of the best food we ever tasted there; and I cannot recall if we ate at the "Compass" or not. Flay met his match with this one. I just hope he does not take Lynn's recipe and introduce it under the table (pun) at one of his restaurants in the future. Better keep an eye on this one, Lynn!

Great recognition for Chef Archer, too bad Bobby Flay is such an arrogant a**.

Any Maine chef > Flay.

hope lynn won against flay.. i'll have to watch the episode to find out who won..... another good place to get fresh cooked and fried seafood is the Bagaduce Lunch in Brooksville ME nice view to go along with eatting take out... hope when this episode airs on tv the The Brass Compass has a full house and watchs it..

This is a great way to promote Maine on a national level. I feel whoever won the throw down the real winner is Rockland Maine and The Brass Compass. I am going to be in Camden this weekend maybe I will drive to Rockland and have a lobster club at the Compass! (see the promotion is working already)!

This is cool! I watch Throwdown all the time....it's a cool show...and me and my boyfriend like cooking so it's a neat show to watch together. I think that she will win though. Her version sounds more rustic and toned down to really let the flavor of the lobster shine...it sounds like he has too many ingredients and flavors going on, I think that will cover up the lobster too much.

Also, there's a show on Travel Channel called Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern and they did a Maine show one time, that was really cool. They ate beaver and showcased some authentic Maine cuisine like fiddleheads and such...there was also some other cool stuff...maybe you guys should look it up...I thought it was neat. They could have come farther north though, they stayed pretty close to the coast on it.

Peace.

When you eat good Maine lobster you should be able to taste it. Thats the pleasure of eating them. Try not to mask the delicate flavor with heavy sauces and mayo. Visit http://www.tohellwithhealth.com for recipes, tips and videos for cooking Maine lobsta!

Food Channel and others have visited Maine several times....Dinner Impossible did a benefit supper on one of the Islands a while back. My favorite is DIners, Drive-ins and Dives...They should come to Maine and go to the 'Compass' (Terrific food and service) in Rockland, Rollie's in Belfast (Fantastic food), Angler's in Searsport, (Always fresh and delicious) and so-on....nealy every small town in Maine has a great place to eat seafood the way it should be done. The comment in the article about Flay's sandwich showcasing saffron really threw me...I thought the whole point of the 'Throw-down' was LOBSTER! We Mainer's know when you eat seafood we want to taste seafood....Just remembered, Martha did a lobster roll on her show a long time ago, where she added basil leaves...yucky! Forgive the flatlanders, for they know not what they do! Great exposure Lynn, I'm sure you won that round!

i love Bobbly Flay! He is adorable!

I'm surprised the mid-coast area ALLOWED Flay to come back after the stunt "Throwdown" and The Food Network pulled a few years ago with the Pie Ladies. The "challenge" Flay offered was all on his terms---the pie ladies had to completely alter their technique, ingredients and style to conform to what the network wanted to showcase. The network/Flay told the pie ladies they had to collaborate together to make their pie, but each lady had her own style/ingredients etc., and that's how their pies were served at the Inn their son and daughter owned. The festival that the pie ladies baked for also had to be completely restructured in order to fit into the Food Network schedule to the point of holding the fastival at a completely different time of year than usual. All these changes were made AFTER the Food Network 'set up' the pie ladies in the beginning by claiming they were covering the street festival and featuring the pie ladies creations. Search the midcoast newspapers for The Berry Inn, Thomaston and Pie Moms...it's not right what Flay and Food Network did.

Mainers clearly know how to cook with common sense. Saffron goes for about $150/oz and I'll bet Flays bread wasn't cheap either. His would not be a combination I would go for, not that the average person could afford such a sandwich. I think Lynn Archer should win for her sandwich that doesn't need a stimulus package to make, and doesn't drown out the taste of lobster, but enhances it

we agree....Maine's cooking cannot be beaten..........should i say "new england's"..........

How can people be negative about Flay when he's going well out of his way to promote small businesses in rural corners of the country.

I so agree with Bangorian. As always too many ignorant haters posting on this forum.

Yes, I too am ambivalant about celebrity chef's (and celebrity in general). But I still have no problem using them to imporve my own culinary chops by gleaning an endless litany of concepts, ideas, methods and info about ingredients as well as tips and techniques from them, not to mention stealing recipes (for my own private use and often altering them to my tastes and/or needs). And celebrity chefs do have their purpose and promoting Rockland is a very good one. And if guy can start, run and keep alive many successful hi-end restaurants in some of the most demanding markets in the world, then they must have something and be more than an guy that can BBQ steaks. (but I do tend to loath Celebrity Chef's that really are not chef's but just celebs, like Rachael Ray - whose food often makes me quesy).

Anyway, oh so good to be nationally recognized as a place where truly haute cuisine can be found (and not just in my own kitchen). Go Rockland!

And I hate the tribalism of posters like mariahstorm. We are the best! We are the greatest! Yadda, Yadda, Yadda. Shut the Frig Up! No wonder humans have such troubles getting along.

We in Maine are the best at some things and no so good at others. I sure as H would not come to Maine trying to find the best slow and low cooked BBQ or Cajun/Creole and surely not Dungess Crab. But when it's Lobster, or Blueberrines or ColdWater Fish and shellfish I seek, I sure as H would go no where else (excpet maybe the Pacfic Northwest (but surely not for Lobster -though there is seafood around the world that we in Maine can only dream of, like real prawns and shrimp the size of bananas). And surely when I want sweet and savory baked pork & beans, NE cannot be beat. But for other bean dishes (like pasta a fagioli, cassoulet, red beans & rice, refritos, and so many others) I can name a myriad of other places where they are truly superior. But that would require an open mind and expanding one's horizon's beyond one's own front door and/or local region of habitation.

I am truly surpised that of all the wonderful places to get lobster in any form here in Maine that the Food Network would pick a diner style cook who is truly classless. I guess he wanted someone in Rockland to win after the last time he was here. If that was the mission - well done. Bobby's sandwich was great, though not a lobster club. The best sandwich won, but not the best person.

I, too, prefer my lobster to taste like lobster....that is the point!

Some good restaurants listed here.

People who move from Maine to such places as Fla really miss the seafood of Maine!

Also, New England (and Northeast) has the best pizza in the country!

Troo 'nuf...lobstah should be lobstah!

Flay was also promoting his show, folks.

Lynn won the contest, "claws down".

Seems Flay's sandwich was too "busy"!

"Real" lobster comes from cold, green water; like off the coast of Maine? Huh?

Congratulations to The Brass Compass! Great that a Rockland business is worthy of the attention of a National Star like Bobby Flay. Come back any time Chef Flay, and bring the TV cameras! Did anyone take him on a schooner ride?

Chicago and NYC have the best Pizza. There is no good pizza anywhere around here. Some good thoughout NE but mostly where mediteranean folks once settled.

Some of our seafood is the best but some of what thjey get elsewhere is far better than what we have like crab, oysters, warm water fish and anything else that does better in warm water. But yes, my brother who is a chef in Florida misses our seafood. But anyone that moves from one place to another like that tends to miss what they now no longer have and takes for granted what they have gained. And if youy want seafood that blows anything we in the US have go to Spain, Italy or SE Coastal Aisa. Yes, no Maine Lobster with the big claws there but prawns and shrimp that are nearly as big as 1# lobsters.