Red Lobster

Ask for Belinda! She is the best. Great food and outstanding service. Great way to start the new year. NY Steak and mashed potatoes were fantastic. Shrimp is, delicious. Definitely coming back.

We had an excellent meal. Our appetizer came after our entrees & the manager delivered it stating he was taking it off our bill. This wasn’t an issue for us. After 2 baskets of biscuits, salad & chowder, we really didn’t need the appetizer anyway. Our entrees were prepared perfectly. Our waitress, Megan, was sweet and attentive. I didn’t catch the manager’s name, but he was proactive with immediately noticing the appetizer coming out after our meal before we even had the chance to say anything. I can see an improvement since they have parted ways with Darden Companies. We love this Red Lobster.

My hubby ordered a steak & a lobster stuffed potato. He was very happy with both. I got the Seafood Trio and chose the almond-​crusted salmon, lobster Mac and cheese, & shrimp scampi.
The salmon was dry and over-​cooked. Instead of being crusted with almonds, a few slivers of toasted almonds and a handful of panko crumbs were scattered over top of the fish. Not sure what purpose the breadcrumbs were supposed to serve. The salmon came on a bed of tasteless pilaf. Yuck.
The lobster mac was… weird. Not bad, exactly, but I doubt I’ll ever order it again. The cheese sauce was runny and lacked flavor, though the lobster pieces were yummy and cooked properly.
The scampi is one of my favorite items on Red Lobster’s menu and it was predictably good tonight. Yummy!
For dessert we ordered a chocolate chip lava cookie/​cake combo. There was a lot less chocolate in the middle than the picture on the menu led us to believe, but wow was that thing good! I’ll go back sometime just for that dessert!

The best thing about this evening was the bread. I have been going to Red Lobster since I was 5. This meal was inedible. My mother actually got sick at the table after eating the Bar Harbour Bake. Service was very slow. Food was under cooked. My husband had the Admiral’s Feast. Could not eat it. I had the Ultimate Feast and my lobster was not cooked properly. Mom worked in seafood restaurants for 20 yrs. Said the lobster was under cooked and didn’t taste right. No discounts off the meal. The manager requested my mothers name and phone number for «legal» reasons. PLEASE call her tomorrow. I’m sure the 81 year old would LOVE to tell you what she thinks of your food.

Eating here was one of the worst experiences I have ever had at a restaurant. The initial wait for a table was about 45 minutes when we were told 15 to 20, and things only got worse. While being seated my coworker sat down into a pile of ice, to have the hostess respond, «That’s free of charge» and walk off. The sad thing is that was the best service we got all night. The waitress failed to get us drinks in the first 20 minutes. After ordering we were bought biscuits but they failed to be warm, as was the case with all of the food. The when the food arrived my dish was cold, and my coworkers dish was wrong. What they brought him wasn’t even on the menu. When he asked the waitress responded that it was what he ordered, rudely. My other coworker asked how we had ordered something that wasn’t even on the menu. She then agreed to fix it. At the end of the meal, she brought three separate checks as requested but she charged me for the dish to fix my coworkers problem. Then to get this fixed took an additional 20 minutes. To say the least, not only will I never eat at this restaurant again I may never go back to any Red Lobster again.

If you have Lobster in your name you better know how to cook one. Not only can this bunch cook lobster but if my meal was any indication, there is not much seafood they can’t cook. My wife and I went to this restaurant knowing full well that it is a chain and not expecting much more than an «OK» meal. From the greeting at the door the the delightful waiter to the cheese biscuits all the way through dessert, the entire experience was stellar. We both got the lemon butter trio with lobster, scallops and shrimp, all grilled and each was perfectly cooked, no small feat, and sauced with a spectacular lemon butter concoction that put an already great meal over the top. The langostino baked potato was great too. For dessert we picked the trio of apple crostada, brownie with ice cream and cheesecake. the brownie and apple crostada were hot and the ice cream was cold and the cheese cake was perfect. Lunches don’t get much better than this. I knocked off a star because I have a hard time giving any restaurant a perfect score and to be honest, the bill for lunch for 2 was over 90 bucks and we only drank water and didn’t have an appetizer. But all in all it was at least a 4 ½ star experience and we can’t wait to go back.