Red Lobster

SURF AND TURF.
I only get the surf and turf.
I never have to pay for it and it’s always good. And Beyonce likes it.

Been here many times with my coworkers. Love their lunch time specials. Don’t like the fact that their debit machine won’t let you use %for tipping. If only they’d change that!

I’ve been to Red Lobsters the world over and none come close to the Atrium (Bay/​Dundas) location. Heralded as «David Harling’s Baby», this location delivers consistently high quality service and fare. Senior server, Jorge, is speedy and gracious, makes excellent recommendations and is always up for some lively banter. David, the location’s manager, is a consummate hospitality professional, always going above and beyond to ensure an awesome experience. This season’s Lobsterfest was not a disappointment. The Duelling Lobster Tails were equally delicious and filling, giving a great variety of flavors while highlighting the fresh richness of the featured clawed crustaceans. The piña colada was exquisitely concocted and the mushroom caps did not disappoint. Unbeatable service, food and value. A+++

As I sat alone at home recently on a dreary February day staring bleakly at the Television screen a Lobster Fest commercial started to play. My mood immediately elevated as I thought about summer and to me summer = seafood. And with the recent Beyonce reference in Formation I knew this had to be kismet. I had to redeem myself for missing «Endless Shrimp» earlier, and the only thing to do this would be to take my Wife here for Lobster Fest. Mission accomplished. Yes we spent Valentines dinner here, and yes it was pretty amazing.
The service was efficient and hassle-​free and the dueling lobster tails hit the mark. How can one not enjoy a lobster tail topped with lobster mac n cheese, this just seems impossible to me. We finished off our dueling lobster tails with the warm chocolate chip lava cookie. This was the perfect choice for two, as it would have been a bit overwhelming for one of us to handle. This is as it sounds, a giant warm chocolate chip cookie filled with chocolate and topped with ice cream. Red Lobster you have done it again. I apologize for waiting 5 long years to visit you. Our next visit will be so much sooner I promise.

Friendly staff, and very short wait time to be seated and to receive my meal. However, I was stricken with a violent case of food poisoning after dining here. Beware.

I visit this location from time to time. On our last visit, we were celebrating a birthday and our waiter was neither interested nor attentive. We figured he was having a bad day.
Food was good. Had plenty of leftovers for the following day, which was great.

Ordered coconut shrimp, crab legs, mojito, pint of beer. Everything was very tasty, mojito seemed diluted and not much mint (I prefer more mint in my mojito). My snow crabs were to come with potatoes and corn, but sadly didn’t. My friend had ordered crab legs as well and did not want her potatoes and corn so I grabbed them from her.
Service was good, but the server kept asking my sober friend if she were drunk and heading to a party, which was a bit odd/​rude.

I love to go to this restaurant when they have one of their national specials advertised, otherwise it’s a bit too expensive for what you get. The food is very tasty, altough I expect that they put a lot of salt in to make it so yummy. The fact that there is also non-​seafood items on the menu too like pasta and chicken means that everyone can find something they will enjoy.

Red Lobster has always been on my ‘To-​Eat’ list only because I’ve never tried it before and their commercials always make their seafood look amazing. People told me to have no expectations going in because it’s not as great as it seems. And that their cheesy appetizer biscuits are the best thing on the menu. Since I was on a work trip in Calgary and had a daily allowance for food, of course I took advantage of that opportunity and went to Red Lobster! *Yes, those are teenage girls taking selfies in front of the restaurant… * To be honest, their menu looked amazing. I wanted to get everything on the menu so it took me forever to decide on a dish. For drinks, I ended up getting a Virgin Peach Mango Slush of some sort. It was ok. My friend was starving his butt of so he got some Mozzarella Sticks and Chicken Tenders to start. They were very average and quite frankly looked like the frozen stuff you’d make at home. I don’t know what these cheesy biscuits are called, but they are complementary appetizers and my friends were right! They were absolutely amazing. It was cheesy, buttery, and everything that’s bad for your body but good for the soul. If I’m not mistaken, my friend got the Cheese Crusted Tilapia which came with a heavy dose of breadcrumbs, cream sauce, broccoli, and pasta. I went for the Bar Harbour Lobster Bake which had Petite Maritime lobster tails, split, and roasted with shrimp, sea scallops, and mussels. Served over linguine in a garlic and white wine broth. There were ample amounts of seafood and I was pleasantly surprised by their rather large sea scallops. It would’ve been even better if the scallops were slightly seared. Nevertheless, I quite enjoyed this dish and had TONS of leftover to pack home. All in all, Red Lobster didn’t quite wow me with its dining atmosphere or ‘fresh’ seafood selection. I would have to side with all my friends and say its worth a try.

You better drink lots of water, because your sodium level will skyrocket while dining here!
Red Lobster reminds me of a casual restaurant similar to White Spot. You have to a wait a few minutes in line, but the staff seat you politely and generally they have a good attitude. The food comes up pretty quickly– salads first, apps second, entrée last– so you won’t be left hanging.
I found the food to be unmemorable but decent. The seafood is very salty, as other reviewers have mentioned. The apps are fried quite thoroughly and have an acceptable taste. Salads are incredibly ho-​hum considering that they are really just leaves + dressing; no fancy embellishments here!
If you’re a Red Lobster member you get deals and coupons via email sometimes; otherwise Red Lobster isn’t bad but isn’t that good either.

Lets start with this: I am addicted to sea food… and I mean — I eat it at least few times a week.
We finally visited Red Lobster, and We tried soo many shrimp dishes.
The shrimps come from the cheapest quality & smallest in size of those frozen bags!!! So, they do taste like frozen shrimps (Baaaaad)…
At the entrance, you can see live lobsters, which gives you the impression that you are in for a fresh sea food experience… Noooo… they prove you wrong after just few minutes.
On top of that, me and my gf both felt bad later at night — as if we were getting mild symptoms of poisoning… not severe ones — nothing soo serious — but just mild… Barely annoying…
The decoration and setting of the place is nice… but —not coming back…

Good food, very good service
Not very tasty though, but the ambiance is nice

My friends and I decided to try their Endless Shrimp for dinner. The flavours they offered are Pineapple Habanero Coconut Bites, Teriyaki Grilled Shrimp, Hand-​Breaded Shrimp, Shrimp Linguini Alfredo and Garlic Shrimp. One of us did 100 and I did 70, the rest didn’t count. We ordered a few round of Garlic Shrimp and one time, it came dry (without liquid) with rice in it. The shrimps were smaller than I would expect — and you could buy them at the grocery store for approximately $ 10 for 30 – 40 shrimps.
I would suggest avoid the Shrimp Linguini Alfredo if you wanna eat more shrimp. The Alfredo sauce itself — lets just say I could do it myself at home with a store bought sauce.
So overall, the experience was meh. I’d rather got to a Japanese restaurant and get the AYCE buffet and order shrimps and fried scallops.

Ultimate feast is really delicious, enough for one person
Biscuit is as amazing as always!
lunch 9 $ special is really good, especially the taco and hamburger, would not recommend the seafood linguini, not enough salt

As a student renting downtown, Red Lobster has always been out of my budget.
However, it had caught my attention not too long ago that they offer $ 8.99 lunch specials Monday — Friday from 11am-​3pm. So for post-​exam celebrations, this place has now risen to one of my go-to’s (my friends and I are getting tired of always going to Pickle Barrel)! The dish that I almost always order is the shrimp tacos which come with three generously loaded tacos + a side of seasoned rice. Not to mention, this IS Red Lobster after all and you can get unlimited signature biscuits for free! The biscuits may be a little on the salty side but they’re buttery, smell great, and are served immediately after seated which is great for satiating any initial starvation. The atmosphere is great, the servers are always cheerful and polite, and the location is indoor/​close to the downtown core.
The only thing I would advise against is the shrimp nachos. My friends and I split for it and although yes, there were many shrimps, the shrimps were tiny and didn’t give that fulfilling crunchy mouthfeel that you get from larger shrimps (like the ones they put in the tacos). Also, the nacho chips that they used were not that tasty. Quite bland and not crunchy enough. Worst of all was the cheesy. They used the melted processed cheese that you get when you order nachos in the movie theaters. Yuck! At a place like the Red Lobster where almost all of their seafood is doused in melted high quality cheese, you would think they’d use it on their nachos too!
Anyway, knowing not to order the nachos again, I would definitely come here again no problem!

I love Red Lobster. There I said it. This one is roomy with big comfy booths and apparent they have expanded the menu to include shrimp tacos (which I ordered with broccoli on the side). It’s well priced. Some of the items (like the potato and bacon soup I started with) are on the salty side. But you can’t beat those cheesy biscuits they bring to the table that go right to my hips. The staff is super friendly and it’s close to other restaurants that are small and crowded compared to this one. Recommend it.

Red Lobster brings back a lot of nostalgia for moi. My older brother tried it first time before I knew what this place was and said oh one must try the admiral’s feast and I made sure I tried it on my next visit to North America. I recall liking it as my palate hadn’t developed much at that time and food was mainly fuel and my idea of seafood mainly consisted of everything deep fried. When I moved to North America I did go back to this chain mainly to try their stuffed lobster (note the stuffing in lobster for Canada is different from the one in US) as it was decent. Another charm for me is their Signature Margaritas which are good and once one adds a shot can be quite potent so I do come here for those once in a while as apparently hard to get a good margarita in town.
This spot is what one expects from a chain offering i. e consistent. I think they are reasonably priced if one doesn’t order the whole lobster (go figure) service was decent. I can’t really say the lobster I had here was bad as it is just plain steamed. The biscuit were decent so was clam chowder. Service was attentive.
Exactly what I expect from a chain restaurant.
3 Stars and recommended for their margaritas.

Love this Red Lobster. I have gone here maybe 10 times or so and have been delighted each time. It’s great food and great service. I usually get the Lobster and never get the various fish. Ultimate feast is a winner.

Had the Ultimate Feast on Valentine’s day, and it was delicious. Went in to answer the hard-​hitting questions like, is it worth S29.99 or nah? Was it as salty as all the Unilocalers have been saying or nah? It turns out the infamous cheese biscuits are in fact as salty as you’ve feared, but they’re delicious. The shrimp was delicious too. But something about the lobster tail wasn’t cute. It was rubbery. The crab legs were good too but somehow they were too salty. The broccoli was even salty. Who the fudge is goofin around with the sodium chloride in the kitchen? When you come to this establishment, make sure you are armed with two weapons: cash money and the phrase, «easy on the salt.» Oh, and yes, everything did smell fishy. When I read that as a complaint, I thought, well duh seafood is gonna smell fishy. but it IS weird. The fishy smell is not cute.
3 stars and a big fat MEH.

The food here is ok and I think the best is steam fresh lobster. Occasionally I came for fish of the day. Also they offer lobster or crab fest from season to season but I wouldn’t recommend those. It’d be better to stick with grilled fish and fresh lobster. The portion is quite filling and entrée comes with 2 sides and salad. The baked biscuit is yummy and tasty. Service wise is not bad but varies from server to server. I also like the ambiance and décor here as the ambiance is quite warm and comfy. It’s also one of the very few restaurants I had had when I first arrived in Canada, so it holds a special spot as well.