Red Lobster

Went for Valentine’s Day dinner. Waited 1.5 hour to get a table… They weren’t accepting reservations. The wait was worth it. Food fantastic, super rich and tasty.
Ordered a shrimp platter and salad. Big portions! Great biscuits! Price reasonable considering its seafood and large portions.
Waiter super nice and attentive. I’d def go here again for another special dinner!

Prices have increased and quite a bit even when they have specials going on like the lobster fest. Good food but I wish it wasn’t that expensive.

Haven’t encountered any problems with the food or service here. On the contrary, service is great (especially when King is your server) and meals are quite delicious! I usually order shrimp and lobster specials (ultimate feast is super yummy!). Their latest shrimp special was mouthwatering. Between two people, we ordered four varieties; argentine shrimp, coconut shrimp, garlic skewer (came with rice) and shrimp scampi. By far, the two best kinds were the argentine red shrimp and jumbo coconut shrimp! So good, I’m salivating just thinking about. Portions are huge. Each dish is served with unlimited cheddar bay biscuits and a starter salad (or soup) and a side dish (steamed broccoli, fries, mashed or baked potato, etc). I will definitely return for those shrimp specials before this deal ends!

Awesome food, terrific servers, many are long-​term! Richard, the manager is fantastic and goes out of his way to be helpful. Red lobster management, don’t you DARE take Richard away from us… I know how you looove to move your managers around! Not this one! Okay?
Can’t wait for lobsterfest… coming Feb 1. Haven’t even seen any ads to show what’s coming. That’s disappointing!
Great store. Keep up the great work. Also, LOVE the new booths, very comfy.

Ded Lobster-​why do I keep doing this to myself? Ordered the Garlic Lobster Linguini for $ 24.50. A healthy portion of tough, flavourless lobster on a thin bed of soft, over cooked linguini, floating in a slough of melted butter or oil (about ½ cup of liquid).
The garden salad was fine, and the best part of the meal was the biscuits. The main course is basically a sodium bomb. Thankfully Chatime is next door so I can dilute the saltiness.
Next time I better re-​read my past reviews to remember.

I really liked the food, the service was good, I didn’t like how you have to pay for refills other than that it was good.

I have not been to Red Lobster since the late 1980’s and was really expecting low quality pre-​cooked microwaved heated food. To my surprize the food was actually quite high quality, cooked and seasoned well if not a bit too salty. My wife, daughter and I had the triple seafood dish which consisted of salmon, shirmp and lobster tail. My son had a large combo consisting of steak, lobster tail, shrimp and snow crab legs. I did not find the cheese biscuits that great but everyone else seemed to rave about it. I never really like buiscuits though as I find them too dry for my taste. I ordered a sunset pina coloda which was just okay and not overpriced. We had stuffed mushrooms as and appetizer. The bill for the four of use came to $ 170 not including taxes which I felt was kinda steep but I was okay with it because I enjoyed the meal, thought it was high quality and our waiter and service was great. We went early though and the place was mostly empty 5pm on a Friday.

Our server Rachael helped make our dining experience great! Cold crunchy salad, & a piping hot seafood entry made my day!
Awesome food coupled with an excellent server equals a fabulous evening!
Thanks Red Lobster!

My family normally comes here for small celebrations. Most of our non immediate family and friends are not keen on seafood, this in combination with price is reason we come on certain occasions.
The place is dark and the décor is outdated, I am not sure if the other chains are the same.
The handful of times my family has come, the staff has been friendly greeting, seating us and waiting our table.
The food has always been good and we never had a problem getting our endless supply of biscuits. I am sucker for biscuits, the biscuits are light in the inside and crunchy on the outside. We have always gotten them hot.
The pastas are well cooked but like a lot of items on the menu, they can be very rich with the quantity of butter and salt.
The only time I was disappointed is when I ordered fresh lemonade I was not impressed.

I came to red lobster for the first time with my boyfriend. Our waitress Barbra B was amazing. She was very knowledgable of the menu walking me though it. She kept checking in to ensure we are good. Her services was truly 5 star and we will be back to this location for sure.
Great food great service!

My parents have basically been regulars here since ’97, so I go here much more frequently than I care to admit.
Every once in a while, I get the urge for some Red Lobster grub, and I blame it all on the famous cheddar biscuits. They’re not always consistent, but when you get them fresh out of the oven, they are amazing.
I’m not a fan of their salad (they come included with most mains).
The food is ok. I’ve enjoyed the fried shrimp with marinara sauce, as well as their lobster pizza appetizer. The alfredo pasta is DOUSED in alfredo sauce, so I now ask them to provide the sauce separately. Fish tacos and fish & chips have been disappointing.
Their chocolate cake with ice cream dessert is truly decadent and satisfies my sweet tooth (and then some) — it is super sweet, basically must be shared.
Note: they do not take reservations *update — just checked other reviews, apparently they take reservations if the group is 10+ people*

Can’t go wrong I love red lobster! Big restaurant with a friendly environment. Got myself assorted seafood and I believe the drink I got is called mud slide.

We came in on a whim at a peak time. We were seated in 10 minutes and followed by an excellent meal.
The staff is great, quick and friendly.
I ordered the 4 course feast, And upgraded to the Lobster bisque.
My meal was the Cajun chicken linguini Alfredo. Which was amazing and left me so full.
I finished off the meal with a caramel cheesecake.
Which was good because I didn’t have room for any more.
Amazing meal and would recommend to anyone who is hungry at a peak time and looking for good food and service.

Horrible Experience, and I am never going to eat at Red Lobster again.
We didn’t have any dinner plans so we decided to go to Red Lobster for dinner with the family.
This Red Lobster is so incredibly cheap that the «Unlimited Biscuits» were non-​existent. It was so bad that the other 10 or so tables in the area were all looking around and you could hear people complaining about their being no biscuits.
You know, people go to Red Lobster just because the love the biscuits and they go good with the smaller portions of horribly prepared food they serve.
ANYHOW, I have to ask my waitress as she is pushing me to buy alcohol and appetizers where my biscuits are and on the menu it says unlimited biscuits and within the first 20 minutes of being there no biscuits. So this waitress starts looking at me like I just killed her family and pissed on them, like she was so offended that I asked if they still serve biscuits and if so, can we have some. I swear to go this woman looked so pissed off about having to give me biscuits that I felt as if I just killed a hooker and asked her to help me hide the body.
I finally get my biscuits, only one biscuit per family member. I swear to god I will never eat at Red Goddamned Lobster again. After we managed to eat our 4 biscuits, It’s now about an hour into us being there and we are still waiting for our food.
So I ask my waitress, since we finished our biscuits, and the kitchen can’t seem to figure out how to cook a meal in a decent amount of time, I dared myself to ask for more biscuits despite feeling that I may be murdered because this Red Lobster obviously does not want to give anyone free biscuits.
I get 4 more biscuits and finally the food arrives.
Bland, overcooked food, in small portions. Steak as hard as a rock, even the alcoholic drink we paid $ 8 for had NO alcohol in it.
I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE DISAPPOINTED AND DISGUSTED AT HOW CHEAPLY THIS RESTAURANT OWNER IS TRYING TO RUN THIS PLACE.
I wouldn’t even take my dog to Red Lobster for a free meal even if I was personally invited by Jesus. Never, Ever again. Biggest waste of money ever. I have been to this location about 4 times, and this is definitely the last.

⁴⁄₅!
I really never have a bad experience at this location (mind you, I’ve never been to another Red location), but it was awesome. This restaurant is definitely a family favourite!
We were a party of four and went around 7pm and we were seated within 10 minutes. Once seated, we were greeted by a very kind, young waitress for drinks and shortly, she came back for our main orders. We were really indecisive with our orders because we wanted to make a few switches but all throughout, she was very patient and extremely helpful. Three of us got the Lobster trio (with different side orders and quite large portions) and one of us got the lobster and shrimp bake (cooked with butter and white wine and the portion is pretty big). Three of us got caesar salads to go with our meals and one of us ordered lobster soup (extra charge but after tasting it, you’ll wanna pay for it lol). And of course, their infamous biscuits (they’re literally the greatest biscuits you will ever taste… think a classier and more elegant version of the Popeye’s biscuits).
Around the time we were eating our main meals, a big party came in and our waitress was helping them as well so we completely understood and were pretty patient with our bills, etc but she was still on top of her game and did everything in good time. We cleaned up our table and piled the plates on top of each other just to give her a head start and she really appreciated it so she gave us an extra bag of biscuits to take home and extra dips (one of us really enjoyed it with their meal.
I always see poor reviews for this location but I’ve always had awesome experiences and will definitely keep coming back. Recommend :)

The staff at this location is mistreated and the management needs an overhaul, I saw the manager fire this poor girl and yelled at her in front of the customers because she brought the wrong order to the wrong table. I can understand cutting someone loose because they can’t do the job but to yell at them in front of the customers is another thing. I will never return to this location for the rest of my life.

This was my first time at Red Lobster (omg, i know, unbelievable!). I’m not a huge fan of seafood… aside from sushi (yum).
Anyways, I was here last weekend for our friend’s birthday event. Our friend mentioned that he attempted to book for reservations for 7pm for 12 people, but they wouldn’t allow it — they said they cannot guarantee a spot, and suggested to come earlier. He asked for 5:30pm, and they suggested they have other groups around the same time and suggested to come at 5pm to help ensure a spot will be saved. To me, having to deal with this big headache to reserve a spot for your bday at such a widely know restaurant chain is absurd. We ended up waiting for over an hour before being seated.
Once we were seated, i was overwhelmed with all the seafood options available and immediately looked for the non-​seafood portion of the menu. I saw everyone else got seafood, so i decided to change up my order to the Salmon New Orleans with Caesar Salad, mashed potatoes and broccoli.
After waiting for another 20 – 30 minutes, our food was finally served. The food was actually tasty. It was topped with a few tender shrimp, in a spicy Tabasco-​like sauce. I was satisfied with every bite. I haven’t tried the other food yet, but i would be interested to find out if it’s all just as good.
To sum up, the service for large groups was terrible, but the Salmon New Orleans was satisfying. I give it 3 stars.

Yesterday my friend held his birthday dinner at Red Lobster. We were all excited to celebrate his birthday here by eating yummy seafood… BUT! Red Lobster messed up his reservations. Initially he booked for 7 pm and got a call back saying that they don’t take reservations past a certain time on Saturdays. When we got to the restaurant we found out that they had triple booked three parties for the exact same time, which was 5:30 pm. We had to wait over an hour for a table and by this point we were getting quite frustrated.
Dinner went smoothly and everyone was happy with their meals. The only thing that I didn’t like too much about the lobster was that it was quite salty and petite. We pretty much got anorexic lobsters lol.

Seriously, I’m not sure exactly what happened to Red Lobster over the past twenty years, but they’ve gone so far downhill that I would honestly rather have the seafood at swiss chalet or Kelsey’s… or basically everywhere else.
Twenty years ago Red Lobster was very expensive in comparison to the competitors, so it was always reserved for special nights out. Perhaps because they’ve made their meals cheaper they’ve also cheaped out on the quality of their food? Not sure, but if that’s the case, I’m sure everyone would rather either pay more, or get a slightly smaller portion, and get fantastic quality instead.
In any case, over the past 5 years, I gave been to Red Lobster over a dozen times, and each time it’s been progressively worse. The only thing they seem to make well every single time are the garlic shrimp — their little biscuits, when done right are absolutely to die for– unfortunately they are hit and miss, so either you get a delicious little bundle of garlicky goodness, or you get a bland, salty, or undercooked blob.
My last visit sealed the deal this past Canada Day. I will not be returning to any of their locations unless it’s under duress. While the servers are always very nice, service is terribly slow, and it took almost an hour for our waitress to return with our bill, after a series of epic failures that meant after our two hours there I didn’t even get a chance to eat my meal there– it only arrived when the check did!
Our mussels came out so scorched and overcooked they were literally textured like paper. There wasn’t even any liquid in the bowl– apparently nobody checks on even visible quality control issues in the kitchen. I ordered an eggless meal (due to allergy), and then she sent me the egg option… after making us wait twenty minutes so she could confirm allergy information. My boyfriends lobster tail was actually rock solid– to the point where you literally could not even stick a fork into it– no matter how hard you tried.
When we brought up the toughness of the lobster to our waitress she said «well that’s because it’s not regular lobster its rock lobster– not everybody is a fan of its different texture». Ummmm no. So we handed her the fork and knife and asked her to cut it — she couldn’t, of course, and at that point she apologized profusely, because this was the second thing we had received that was so overcooked it was literally inedible.
Oh and that eggy meal that took an hour and a half to finally be replaced? Yeah, when I finally got to eat it after we got home later that night, there was grit, sand, and shell in every bite, the majority of the shrimp still had poop sacks, and the shells of the mussels were still dirty (I had ordered one of the seafood boils).
The only thing we got all night, and actually generally another thing that is consistently made well, is the stuffed mushrooms. For a $ 100 bill, I expect to eat more than a few baked mushroom caps and soggy biscuits.
Dousing food in salt does not fix the issues it has. Sigh. Get your act together, R.L. the least you could do is make the lobster right… IT’S IN YOUR NAME!!!
All the good reviews it has gotten really makes me worried for the palates of Canadians. It really really does.

Wonderful service and excellent seafood !
A great place for a romantic dinner .
Happy Valentine !