What the hell Red Lobster?

[Zeze]

I really wanted to like the restaurant. Their commericals make their food looks so damn purdy with slow-mos butter dunks.

Their cajun sauce tastes like some artificial offputting plastsic-y taste. You can go to any local crab bake joint and they'd have a much better cajun sauce.

Their biscuit is too damn salty. As a matter of fact the whole food is salty. Those delicious shrimps you see on TV? Yea they're penny-sized baby shrimps. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I'm not a food snob. I love chains as long as it tastes good to me. I'm also a sucker for fast food chains.

Red Lobster sucks so bad.

 

[lxskllr]

I only went once. It was alright. I didn't have a miserable time, but I haven't seen any need to go back either.

 

[BoomerD]

Red Lobster has never been good. We stopped in the one near our house a couple of years ago. The waitress introduced herself as “your seafood expert,” only when I asked a couple of questions...she admitted that she had never eaten a single bite of fish in her life...

 

[UglyCasanova]

cajun sauce

An Alfredo sauce or what do you mean?

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

I haven't touched a Red Lobster in... ~10+ years? I honestly can't even remember the last time I went at this point it's been so long.

I mean there are pretty simple rules to live by... One of those rules: Cheap lobster isn't something you should ever go for.

At this point, there are tons of restaurants that I just will never go to anymore unless I have to (e.g. stuck in an airport terminal). I won't touch Chili's (used to go all the time as a kid growing up), TGI Friday's, or Olive Garden. I think it's mostly because the food has gone nothing but down hill - and the environment is just shitty in general. Usually sticky/unkept floors along with folks that are loud, annoying, and stupid tend to gravitate to those restaurants.


I guess part of it is that I just genuinely enjoy brewery / pub places a lot better. I find that they have much better food and (more importantly) good beers.

 

[IronWing]

The hushpuppies are okay. That's about it.

 

[Herr Kutz]

Never been

 

[frozentundra123456]

Used to go fairly often. Food is generally OK, but not spectacular. I think the problem now is that the prices are too high for the quality of the food.

 

[Lanyap]

Have eaten at RL a few times. Seafood not that great and too pricey. But then I grew up in New Orleans - great, fresh, affordable seafood always around the block. Maybe not so much anymore.

 

[sdifox]

I really wanted to like the restaurant. Their commericals make their food looks so damn purdy with slow-mos butter dunks.

Their cajun sauce tastes like some artificial offputting plastsic-y taste. You can go to any local crab bake joint and they'd have a much better cajun sauce.

Their biscuit is too damn salty. As a matter of fact the whole food is salty. Those delicious shrimps you see on TV? Yea they're penny-sized baby shrimps. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I'm not a food snob. I love chains as long as it tastes good to me. I'm also a sucker for fast food chains.

Red Lobster sucks so bad.

You didn't know Red Lobster sucks?

 

[KMFJD]

never been to one and never will, even the smell of the place makes me gag

(I have an irrational hatred of seafood)

 

[FeuerFrei]

I just get the chicken alfredo linguine. Not into seafood personally, but sometimes those I'm with are.
ALways liked the biscuits.

Been several years since I visited.

 

[happy medium]

along with folks that are loud, annoying, and stupid tend to gravitate to those restaurants.

yep!

 

[brainhulk]

I think their biscuits aren't bad

 

[purbeast0]

I can't remember the last time I went to Red Lobster. It was probably 20+ years ago. I've been spoiled by eating at high end seafood restaurants when traveling in the tropics.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

I thought the cheddar bay biscuits were the only reason to go to red lobster. The food and environment are usually crappy.

 

[SearchMaster]

I like the biscuits but I don't particularly like seafood (no fish, I can eat crab legs/lobster but it's far from my favorite). I worked at Red Lobster for a couple of summers as a 17/18 year old as a busboy. So I learned to be absolutely repulsed by the smells as all my clothing just reeked of seafood by the time I was done with my shift. I didn't hate the job altogether as I had some good friends there and one of the hostesses was ridiculously hot. We go about once a year or so because inevitably one of the kids will pick it for their birthday dinner.

 

[Oyeve]

I went once, back in 1984, worse seafood ever. The lobster tail smelled like rancid fish. Put me off lobster for over 20 years.

 

[darkswordsman17]

I find it to be overrated but I'm not big on seafood, especially crab and lobster. Their biscuits are good but not spectacular. That's about all I can say as far as opinions.

 

[brainhulk]

They use imitation lobster!

http://www.businessinsider.com/red-lobster-serves-lobster-substitute-2016-2

 

[nakedfrog]

I really wanted to like the restaurant. Their commericals make their food looks so damn purdy with slow-mos butter dunks.

Their cajun sauce tastes like some artificial offputting plastsic-y taste. You can go to any local crab bake joint and they'd have a much better cajun sauce.

Their biscuit is too damn salty. As a matter of fact the whole food is salty. Those delicious shrimps you see on TV? Yea they're penny-sized baby shrimps. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

I'm not a food snob. I love chains as long as it tastes good to me. I'm also a sucker for fast food chains.

Red Lobster sucks so bad.

Any time I end up at a nationwide chain like this (not often, thankfully) that seems to be a recurring theme over the last 15+ years. The primary flavor is salt. Even some local restaurants are following suit. Of course, I'm in Nebraska, so they may just be catering to local tastes.

 

[ctbaars]

The coleslaw is good. The biscuits are terrible.
The whitefish and salmon are average.

 

[bfun_x1]

I've gone for shrimpfest. It's hard to mess up shrimp.

 

[sdifox]

I've gone for shrimpfest. It's hard to mess up shrimp.

Not true. Very easy to overcook shrimp and the shrimpfest crap shrimp are overseasoned and overcooked.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Used to get a Seafood Marinara fettuchini they used to serve many years ago, which was ok for lunch. Can't believe they are still in business really, portions, size of product and prices are laughable at best.