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The name means just "lobster in/on a roll" - with roll meaning " a small bread" rather than the act of rolling something. This does look delicious, but it is also somewhat atypical of the dish as I know it. The bread looks underdone and untoasted and the lobster is just sort of sitting on top, weirdly. Typically, the lobster is loaded into a slice in the roll and there is much more of it. Paradoxically, you can eat a proper lobster roll without a knife and fork, but this one seems to demand that you use utensils.
A google image search will demonstrate more clearly, but I could describe it as "an unholy amount of lobster salad in a hotdog bun."
Also - worth noting: you can make a lobster roll with the shellfish dressed with either butter or mayonnaise/lemon. Differences are regional and although it causes mostly good natured fights, I think both are nice. This one appears to be of the butter variety.
This looks almost identical to the lobster roll I ate earlier this month in Portland maine at Eventide. Eventide came highly highly recommended as the best lobster roll in town but personally the pale fluffy bun and pile of mayo gooped lobster on top wasn't my favorite combo. I think I would have much preferred the bun to have some color/texture and to have buttered lobster.