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| - One of my coworkers tried to convince me that this Red Lobster is in a different league than all the other Red Lobsters, and that this one is "actually nice!".
So when my husband suggested that late last night (9:30 pm on the Thursday of Easter Weekend) I was willing to go.... but begrudgingly, because I really wanted to go somewhere fun downtown. Anyway, Red Lobster it was, and Red Lobster it will never ever be again.
First, they told us it would be a 10 minute wait, which was fine.... until we realized that the place was full of empty tables!? My only guess is that maybe they were short staffed, and trying to stagger the crowd a bit. But it seemed very odd.
We both ordered fish & chips, figuring you can't really go wrong. It comes with a salad - we both opted for Caesar. I couldn't get over how obscurely perfect the shredded cheese on top was; it obviously comes out of a package and probably never expires. The whole salad was also so heavily dressed that I didn't finish it - which is saying a lot coming from a girl who likes a LOT of dressing on a salad.
When the fish & chips arrived, I kept getting whiffs of soap, and I still haven't figured that out. But I definitely wasn't smelling fish, and when I did smell fish, it just didn't seem appetizing. There were two pieces of very soggy, limp fish, sitting on top of a medium-sized arrangement of fries that didn't seem memorable at all. There was also a side of coleslaw that looked so wet and tired that I didn't even touch it. In fact, I didn't touch much of anything, and couldn't wait to just get home. I
There wasn't so much something wrong with the experience, but there was just nothing right about it either.
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