Posted on 11/03/2014 1:57:16 PM PST by C19fan
I worked in Portland Maine for a while. One of the women who worked with me had a couple of her own Lobster Pots. For about five years I never had to pay for Lobster. Every time I went up there, she had a couple for me.
I got spoiled.
Red Lobster may be seafood in Nebraska.
It is not.
Hurry! Endless shrimp was in October, I think it ends November 4. I went twice,already.
I stuff mine with crab and broil it.
I was a Manager at a power plant in Boston and a couple of the troops got a license to run a couple of traps in the out falls from the condensers.
I remember them sucking down the stuff they pulled up. The place was a hazardous waste dumping ground on the reserve channel for well over a 125 years.
Red Lobster is reasonably priced and decent enough. We appreciate seafood places that serve non-seafood entrees - I love seafood, but my wife can’t eat it. Hadn’t been in one in a long time however - too many better options available.
As of a few months ago...Darden certainly is responsible for the current state of affairs.
Yes.
Probably a lot of these old chains were originally designed to give middle-class people back then a taste of something exotic. As the U.S. has lost its provincialism & the younger generation has acquired more sophisticated tastes, these restaurants may have lost their relevance. Even a facelift may not help. Why bother going there when plenty of places around, especially in urban areas, offer far better food? (Or hipper-style chains like Chipolte?)
I see these chains as useful when traveling on the road somewhere on the highway, or maybe schlepping a child or elderly person. But when I live or travel in a city with so many options, I want to enjoy unique restaurants.
I like Red Lobster. Sure there are better sea food places, but none so “everywhere”.
Places like Joe’s Crab Shack are great but too pricey for my pocket book to take in very often.
Rockin’ Baja Lobster is fantastic, but I am not lucky enough to be near one that I can partake in more than once in many, many a blue moon.
Red Lobster has the right mix for me.
Red Tofu didn’t seem appealing??
Red Lobster is expensive for what you get. We no longer go for that reason.
LOL Capt Jerry’s is good.
Just so you know Bonefish Grill is not a small chain, its a nationwide chain.
I think it started here in Florida, but I’m glad to hear that it’s expanded.
The food is actually not only edible but good, after the menu revision they did a couple of years ago. I used to go there for appetizers and drinks and then have dinner elsewhere because they were kind of “Red Lobsterish” at the start, but last year I was trying to get out of the Orlando Airport (all the roads were torn up and I was trapped) and I decided to stop there and discovered that the new menu was really very good. Hope they keep it up!
Yes! The Bang-Bang Shrimp is great!
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