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| - The Red Lobster is currently running a menu special where for a mere $18, you can get a full 4 course meal (soup, salad, entree, dessert). We went for a late lunch at 3pm, Saturday, when there wasn't any lineup and it was not busy. We each ordered the special. I had clam chowder, caesar salad, jumbo coconut shrimp with baked potatoe, and chocolate fudge brownie with ice cream. My friend ordered the exact same except her entree was blackened tilapia with a side of broccoli. The salads all come with all you can eat cheese biscuits. To keep our budget in check, we didn't order any cocktails or beer. Just water. Lucky for us, because after the soup and salad and a few biscuits, we couldn't eat our entrees! We each had a couple of forkfuls of our mains and were stuffed! I think it was the biscuits. So we asked the waiter who was very nice, to bring us containers to box up our entrees to go. Then he asked if we wanted to still have our dessert or to box that up too? Ha ha... we totally forgot that we had dessert coming. The chocolate chip sprinkled brownies were served hot with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. We ate the ice cream and had the brownies boxed up too.
Now that I am home and working on my doggie bag, I think the best thing about Red is the service and the ambiance. It is a relatively comfortable downtown space that is not too pricey with pleasant wait staff who don't put pressure on you to order drinks and meal extras, if you don't want it. That and their Cheese biscuits, they were delicious. The soup and salad was ok, the mains we had, I don't recommend.
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