Toss in some chopped parsley at the end and serve. Don't eat the ones that don't open. Drink white wine with the dish and mop up the briney wine and shallot broth with hunks of baguette. Lobster is prohibitively expensive, especially the langouste sort which comes in from the Antilles. Small, frozen Canadian lobsters are available in good supermarkets at very reasonable prices.
Smoked salmon is abundant and excellent.
To avoid the very high prices, you can opt for the less expensive sea trout, which resembles salmon in color, texture, and taste. Anglophone S.A. Permission is granted to make WWW links to this page. All other rights reserved.