Red Lobster

I must say since COVID a lot of the food places have gone completely down.
Red Lobster used to be my favorite place to go too.
I haven't been in a long time and decided to take my hubby for the first time.
We went yesterday around 12pm and had to wait over 20mins just to be seated.
The young lady said it was only 3 servers and that might be including the bar.
I was already kind of annoyed by the wait on a Monday afternoon.
The server was rushy I assumed because she had so many tables at one time to wait.
My hubby ordered the Filet Mignon Medium Rare and wanted the sides but the server made him feel like he had to have sides, even though I insisted he didn't want any.
I definitely didn't like the way she made him feel pressured to have sides.
I ordered the Grilled Lobster, shrimp and salmon.
I asked the server can I change the lobster tail to the Caribbean Rock lobster tail, she acted as if she didn't want to go ask for one I told her I didn't mind waiting for her to go ask to see what the price difference would be, again she was hesitant to go ask and again I asked can she go see.
The difference was $8 which I said fine too again I didn't mind because I wanted the other lobster tail, but she made it seem like such a big deal.
Anyway I ordered it and the lobster dip.
The lobster dip was horrible, chips were wrong and it tasted weird like fishy more than it should be.
I sent it back couldn't eat it.
My sides were broccoli and the loaded lobster baked potato.
Didn't eat the potato sent it back, it was so basic, no flavor and the lobster didn't taste right.
My husband hated his food.
He said it had no seasoning, it was worse than Outback and he even added his own salt n pepper and drown the steak in A1 sauce which he doesn't even use.
He only ate it to not be rude and didn't want me to make a fuss about it.
However the manger did come over extremely nice and understanding.
Forgive me I forgot his name.
I voiced my concerns with him about the quality in food and how it was my hubby first time here and he didn't like it at all.
My meal was actually good and full of flavor minus the potato.
Overall no good.
His first time here was aweful and he didn't like it at all.
We had Long Island and Mango Lemonade for drinks that was good.
We usually eat at Morton's Steakhouse or Hell's Kitchen but I wanted to go to Red Lobster because I love seafood, I hought it was still good how it used to be and it was Lobster Fest which I always miss so finally caught it but it was definitely not worth over $100😖🤦🏽‍♀️.

Owner response

I used to come here as a kid and wanted to try this place after all these years.
We had the nicest lady seat us at our tables and we were pretty excited.
We sat down…and no waiter or waitress came.
For more than 13 mins we waited.
No server came to us.
As we were about to leave a server said they would get to us.
Sitting inside looking at new places to go to.
Then we decided somewhere else in Mira Mesa to go to.
So we got up and left.
We really wanted to try the unlimited shrimp :( Edit: 3/31/24 Gave this place another try.
Here’s my detailed review.
The place was a bit busier this time around 5:30pm or dinner time.
Nina, our server, was fantastic.
She had the biggest smile on her face and was so friendly.
She took our orders and brought over those patented delicious cheddar biscuits.
We ate the first three and Nina happily refilled us with more.
We each had ordered 3 of the shrimp dishes.
I ordered the upgraded baked potato for $2.50.
We waited for 20 mins for the food to come.
The place was a little busier so we kinda understood.
Fair warning to go easy on the biscuits as they can fill you up.
We put in another order of shrimp dishes as soon as our food came mouth because we knew we would have to wait.
We finished the 3 shrimp dishes.
The biscuits were amazing and I liked the shrimp linguini.
After we finished our food, we kinda just sat at the table. So there’s a bit of a wait and a limit of 3 dishes for the endless shrimp.
Since the time we sat down and ordered, finished out first round, an hour had passed before we received our next round.
Keep that in mind as you are ordering! The second round we ordered took longer and I don’t touch the second round because i was already full Overall, it was a nice childhood place to visit again.
All of the workers were very friendly and it makes a.
Solid option to visit with the family.
I’m not sure if I’d order the endless shrimp again due to the order time.

Owner response

Amazing experience...
My group and I came out to eat at this location the food was delicious The service was awesome and pretty fast customer service was everything...
Have the endless shrimp and oh my God the salt and vinegar was amazing...

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