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| - I haven't had Red Lobster since my first year in college. I learned there are more awesome restaurants out there than to pay $30+ dollar on entrees in a chain restaurant especially in the city. Perhaps the rest of the America is learning too which explains why Red Lobster is closing its door soon.
After hearing the news that Red Lobster might be no more in the near future, we decided the cheddar by biscuits were enough to worth one last visit. We arrived around 9PM and although the restaurant was half empty, the manager came to the hostess and specifically requested her to make our party wait because the kitchen was backed up. So our party waited by the freezing entrance for a good 15 mins - not quite sure why they couldn't just seat us and perhaps allow us to order drinks. And when it was finally our turn - although my soon mother in law was in crutches hopping through the dining room and there were many available same size tables towards the front , they decided to seat us far into the back corner. (On management alone, no wonder they are closing.)
The working environment seemed quite hostile. Our table could hear workers bickering over who should get which table and manager talking down to the servers. Our poor server seemed extremely anxious/nervous. From explaining the specials to pouring our water, he seemed very fidget-y.
4 of the party went with the $18 four course special (soup choices of clam chowder, broccoli + cheese, minestrone, house/Caesar salad, the Habenaro fried shrimp, 2 shrimp + scallop linguine, and chicken in mushroom sauce, dessert - 2 caramel cheese cake, (traded the last 2 desserts for 1 molten cookie a la mode), and an added side of snow crab legs. I love my share of seafood so I went with the fire grilled seafood entree (lobster tail, garlic shrimp, and scallop).
Our basket of warm, buttery, fluffy biscuits was served soon after. They were much better than I last recalled (more herb, less salt)... And that was basically the highlight of our meal. Soups- the clam chowder and tortilla chicken were overly salted. The cheese and broccoli looked much more like a dip. Salad - thank goodness I asked for my dressing on the side, everyone else was drenched. Entrees - should come with a warning of hypertension - what? there are other seasonings aside from salt? someone should inform the chef. $30 dollar seafood entree, I was only able to eat the roasted veggie medley, steamed broccoli, and 2 scallops. None of us could even stomach the lobster tail. Desserts - my fiance and his brother shared the molten cookie but were quickly sweetened out. The cheesecake was your generic store bought cake. Overall a very disappointing meal.
I guess I didn't miss out much the last 7 years; there are many many much better seafood restaurants out there. Also, I recently learned that you can actually buy the cheddar bay biscuit mix from the grocery store! Now I definitely don't see why anyone would want to dine in Red Lobster. Food? service? ambiance? it offers none of the above.
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