Red Lobster

First of all the wait staff is fabulous. Red Lobster food has gone downhill and this is my last time going to any of them. The piece of stuffed flounder I got was smaller than a deck of cards. The baked potato smothered in salt and shriveled up dry as a bone. The waitress brought me a new one but with Health being on most everyone’s mind. Point of the matter don’t smother my food in salt. So farewell Red Lobster I use to LOVE you.

On my trip to Starved Rock, we stayed at a hotel nearby. My now ex and I came to eat here, and were treated very well by a beautiful waitress. Food was great, and service was stellar.
Wish I could say more, but unfortunately, this is just another chain. Sigh.
But the service… yeah, very superior, they know how to treat people well.

Pretty good quality and service. very consistent. Nice place for a date or any occasion. Plenty of good choices on the menu. Me likes…

We had dinner there Monday night around 6:30 PM on January 4 2016.
The Calamari was so salty we could not eat it. Told the server that she could take it back, that we could not eat it. Started to order one of the new promotional entrées but they did not have any salmon. Ordered the New England clam chowder and it was fair. In all the times going to red lobster I have never had bad biscuits but these were bad they just did not taste right to either of us. I settled for shrimp linguine and took most of it back to the room at the Hampton Inn. After getting back to the room I got sick and threw it away. I paid for the calamari along with my dinner and it was near $ 60. I hope this review will help someone from making the same mistake I did. What a horrible experience for both of us at a restaurant chain that we both like.

The service was great. If we would to ever go back it would be because everyone was so friendly. We usually go to the Joliet location. Witch we love but is so busy all the time. At Peru location. The food is just not good. I always get the four course meal Cajun chicken pasta. It’s my favorite. My salad was brown and old. My soup was potato it had a brown tint and was thick was not soup. My husband couldn’t even eat it. Then his soup was lobster bisque it was water. My pasta was dry. It barely had Alfredo on it. The whole thing was just disappointing and they weren’t very busy. We will definitely be making the extra long trip to Joliet. Lessons learned.

Very fantastic service and food, never had a bad experience. The seafood is fresh and if it isn’t the servers are more than willing to let you know what you should or shouldn’t order, love it!

I am a sworn enemy of chain restaurants so I have been impressed by the quality of service

Wife went out of town with the rest of the family leaving myself and son to fend for ourselves. So we went to Red Lobster. My son never picked out a lobster to eat before so it was pretty exciting.
Lobster was cooked to perfection. And the waiter hung around and patiently advised him how to crack it open and eat it. Kudos to him for that! It was busy and I’m sure he didn’t care whether my kid knew what he was doing or not. Very nice!
I had the Salmon New Orleans. A kind of blackened salmon. It too was very good. The sauce is excellent and goes very well with the garlic mashed potatoes.
The lobster was the small one. A little over a pound. And nowhere near big enough to fill up a teenage boy. We wouldn’t order it again for the size and the price ($ 30) but it was a new experience for my son. He just had to fill up on the wonderful cheddar biscuits. Served warm and fresh!
A very expensive meal for just the two of us but a great place to go for those special occasions and a well appreciated treat. If you like lobster and don’t mind the price, it’s really good! Well recommended.
And the waiter was extremely friendly. A great plus!

I let the photos speak for themselves. Lobster topped lobster, wow! Lobster mashed potatoes, shrimp linguine pasta. I spent a lot of time on the East Coast and didn’t have seafood this good. Go early between 5:00 PM and 6:30 PM. On Fridays. No lines and you also get the best service!!!

I found two hairs in my side salad. The manager came out to apologize to us and while she was there another hair was found in my girlfriends scallops. Besides the hair, the food was pretty good. I will probably never go back though.

Clean, friendly, attentive, great atmosphere, everything you want in a dinner out. I know it’s a chain, but the people make this place amazing. Staff was friendly and accommodating. When our kids meal came out with an error, they corrected it right away and threw in some sides. My kids aren’t big on seafood but gobbled up their dinner and proclaimed it was the best restaurant, our youngest claiming it was her new favorite. Keep it up!

I must preface my review with the fact that I travel to Maine so often I am thought of as a local. So my 1.25lb. lobster dinners are $ 3.48 a lb and come fresh off the boat. So I am biased. Here we go:
Good food as far as a red lobster goes. I have eaten at a handful of different locations about once a year. Cheddar bay biscuits are usually the best part. However the house salad had a bright, clever presentation with chopped cukes and sweet romas. The chowdah was actually not bad. This is saying something because roadside chowder houses in Boothbay harbor give you a quart of chowder with golf ball sized chunks of oysters and fish for about five bucks. Generally Maine new England clam chowder is a little on the runny side, like whole milk consistency, with a stronger flavor of fish, bay, and celery seed. This was better than canned. The salmon was overcooked, but in a way that most people would find just fine. It had the skin on and was grilled skin side down with a roux on top. Pretty darn authentic actually… felt like our waitress just grilled it over a good grill. The linguine with scallops and shrimp were pretty good with a med amount of bay scallops (really little but tasty) and cocktail shrimps (that were amazingly prepared properly, which means over cook the little buggers to get them some texture). Thumbs up and good job. The pasta was a tad past al dente, but again more common to have the «new-​dalls» on the average Maine household table. The appetizer was stuffed mushrooms and they were tiny, pathetic button mushrooms. Here is where we divert. Mushrooms in Maine are huge and hunted in the woods. They have texture and are the size of a half dollar. These were scarcely as large as a nickel and one could not actually say they were stuffed as much as they were «topped» with too much cheese, and whatever else. The best part of the experience was our waitress «Sharlene» She took excellent care of us. Even wrote what was in our to-​go clamshell and gave us Iced tea to go. It was easy to tip her the standard %20 and I regret not leaving her %30. But we will make up for that when we return. It felt like it was Shar’s cooking at her home in Maine and we were house guests.