A chain, so what do you want? Nothing super special; run of the mill seafood place, run of the mill people line up for seafood, and the shrimp (all farm-raised) are edible.. The ONLY reason I have been there in past 6 months is when they have had some "fest." It is all quantity of over quality except for their biscuits, which are still good, and they have changed everything including the quality of their salads which used to be a LOT better. If you want special seafood, or a real seafood dining experience find somewhere in Florida or the East coast to dine at. read more

The bread sticks took a long time to come out and had to wait almost an hour until our food came. We have had better experiences at McDonald's than this dump. read more

My wife & I are regular Red Lobster diners. We're concerned that the recent purchase & reorganization may have left Red Lobster vulnerable. Yesterday we had lunch at Red Lobster in WBL. Everything was impeccable. We both ordered shrimp platters and the food was wonderful, hot-light-crispy-tasty and fairly priced. Couild not have been better. The server did an outstanding job. Yes we give Red Lobster 5 stars because it is as good as it gets! We hope to dine with you for years to come. by Les N. 02/26/15 read more

Ate there last weekend during endless shrimp. Waited over a half an hour for our table even though it wasn't very busy and we had called ahead. When we were finally seated, noticed there were several empty tables in the dining area so not sure why we had to wait so long. Took almost an hour before we finally had our first order of shrimp. Subsequent orders were a little quicker but it was obvious they were delaying between orders to slow down how much we ate (since it was "endless"). Food quality was shockingly poor (oil obviously was old, salad was brown, etc.). The biscuits were good at least. We haven't been to this specific location in at least a year (Maplewood) but the quality has really fallen from what I remember in the past. Management was nowhere to be seen and the staff were talking and standing around a lot. Will not be going back, ever. Makes me sad because I grew up with Red Lobster and have fond memories of going there as a child. read more

Would not take a reservation, refused call ahead and hung up on my girlfriend when she disagreed with this. The manager refused to help her when she called back and said it was my girlfriend's fault that the employee hung up on her. read more

I go to red lobster at least once every 2 weeks it's so good and the servers are awesome the biscuits are out of this world

Easily the worst dining experience of my life. We had a group which warranted two waiters. They were unable to coordinate between themselves. One person did not have their order taken. Another did not get their salad. Another got the wrong entree. Yet another got no entrée at all. The wait staff tried up selling to larger portions. The food had big chunks of unmelted cheese in it, the crab pasta had a big ball of crab in the middle, even the salad seemed half assed. Requests for another napkin took three tries before a pile materialized. The waitress boxed up meals by shoveling the leftovers into a container at the table awkwardly. The sauces were nearly entirely butter. The menu was about 14 pages long. Another piss poor microwave based chain. I'll never go to red lobster again. read more

Another tasty meal at our local Red Lobster. We like the make your own lunch option. I usually pick the fried clam strips for one of my two choices because I can't get them most places. They were crispy brown and a little chewy, just right. Of course, their Cheddar Bay biscuits are too good to practice restraint on. I try to ignore my knowledge of their calorie and carb count. We both set aside a good portion of our meal to take home so we would be able to do justice to the biscuits. The broiled scallops were a little bland, so I'm taking them home where I can add some herbs or hot sauce. My husband's two shrimp choices were excellent as always. I wish I wasn't allergic to shellfish. Sigh. read more

Ate there on 9/10/13 with family. Service was very good, wait staff was very good. The food, so- so at best. Started with the muffins, way to oily, but I will say they were at least ok. Cesar salad was fine. Mahi-Mahi itself was cooked well but had a very gross mango salsa poured on top of it. The mango salsa tasted like it came from a jar, not good. Came with a shrimp skewer, shrimp seemed over-salted. The worst part was the rice pilaf, it was just plain not good. I make many variations of rice pilaf at home and could do much better. The spicing in it was weird and the vegetables inside the rice pilaf seems over-cooked and tasteless. The final weird part was, the side dishes offered with rice pilaf were a baked or mashed potato, fries broccoli or green beans. So if I wanted a potato, I would have two starches on my plate. read more

I'm just trying to figure out how to get there at this point. I'll write a review later. However, I am a lifelong Alaskan and am hoping that Red Lobster has fresh seafood. I've always heard good things about it and am looking forward to it. read more

It's only good for ordering steaks. (Literally) if you ain't white, you're sitting in a hidden area.

This Red Lobster has been here for as long as I can remember, and I grew up about 8 miles away from Maplewood Mall. I have come here for various birthday celebrations (Mom and one aunt choose this Red Lobster almost every year) and the occasional dinner throughout the many years. I have been consistently happy with the food here- I often order shrimp mix-n-match- and the service (coming with 6-8 folks for a birthday dinner might get us better service) is usually great. I have been to other Red Lobsters throughout the Twin Cities and sometimes they are dumpy; this one is always clean and the food has always been excellent. I think that the worst family review I can remember about this place was that a piece of fried fish had been 'okay'. Although, on the last couple visits, my BF said the salad had been pre-prepared and left in a fridge~ it is uniformly freezing cold and doesn't seem to have any fresh breaks on the lettuce. Occasionally the drinks are below par but I won't mark it lower than 5 stars for 'sometimes' when the food has *always* been great. read more

What in the world happened to Red Lobster? I remember it being such better quality. After not having been there for close to a year or so, we took my mom there for dinner when she was in town for a visit. HUGE disappointment. I was pretty shocked to see the big jump in prices. There used to be decent options for a 'create your own' kind of deal where you'd get to pick a few shrimp options and this would come with a side - it used to be reasonably priced. Now the pick-two option is almost 19 bucks. This wouldn't be so bad if the quality matched the price, but it absolutely did not. My meal, the Chesapeake Shrimp, seemed like something that came frozen and was reheated. But the kicker was my mom's meal: She ordered a salad that, on the menu, indicated it came with dried berries, pecans, and a blueberry-balsamic dressing. The menu said (and still says) "blue cheese available upon request". This would indicate you can have it with the cheese if you ask for it. However, my mom's salad came with the cheese, which she didn't like. When she mentioned it to the waitress, the waitress made her feel like she (my mom) was in the wrong because the menu says it comes with it. We reiterated what the menu actually said and she just said "oh I'll have to check that" but didn't offer any other solution. My mom just worked to try to pick off the cheese. In addition, the salad came with a lot of cucumber, tomatoes, and shredded carrots - not a big deal, but none of these things are indicated on the menu. It made us wonder if they'd messed up the salad order altogether. When we asked, we were again made to feel like we were the stupid ones because "those veggies automatically come on all of our salads and are included in the pre-made mix of iceberg lettuce". Again, the menu description didn't indicate any of these things came on the salad. I realize this place is a national change and they can't control what the menu says, but it didn't excuse the way she responded. It would have been nice to acknowledge what we were saying. The manager came out and did offer my mom a free dessert, but he excused it all by saying that's what comes on their salads. All we were trying to do was point out the inconsistencies with the menu description. He was a little condescending. The icing on the cake: my mom got the "warm chocolate chip lava cookie" for her free dessert. It was frozen solid in the middle. We couldn't even finish it. We didn't bother telling the waitress - it seemed beyond ridiculous by this point. We are not picky people - I've actually never given a bad review of a restaurant in my life. But I felt strongly enough this time. We don't plan to go back to Red Lobster. The prices are much too high for the quality of food you're given, and the service in this particular experience was less than satisfactory. read more

The food was great, service not exceptional, our waiter hung all over us so that our conversation was constantly interrupted. After leaving a generous tip on the table, our waiter added another 20 percent gratuity to the charge card. read more

Booth smelled, so we moved. Flies and gnats visited us during dinner. Salad lettuce was wilted and the lobster tasted old.

My Mother in law chose Red Lobster for our evening out. We were greeted promptly by the manager and then escorted to our table. The hostess left us with menu's and said that our server would be with us shortly. And so we waited. They were not overly busy, it was a Tuesday evening. Our server arrived and apologized noting she was busy... didn't even bother to introduce herself. At one point she was taking our order and my husband says "excuse me, you are stepping on my shoe". She completely ignored him and continued to ask for our orders. No apology to him or even an acknowledgment of her foot being on his shoe. When she arrived with our salads we asked for them to be boxed up, wanting to save room to eat our main dinner. She brought her portable table over and asked for a knife to box our salads up. She started with my mother in law's salad and then proceeded with scraping my husbands bowl with the same knife. She then looked at me and asked if it was ok to use the same knife on my food? I replied "yes, it is fine, I know we all look different, it's ok, he is my husband, and she is his Mother" ( by far the most ridiculous question I have ever been asked) Our server arrived with our main entrees and seemed to want to leave in a hurry. I had to ask her to take away some of our drink glasses and empty appetizer dishes. When we finished eating, she arrived to take away our empty dishes. She asked my husband if she could take away the smaller dishes and he said ok. She quickly grabbed the bowl with melted butter and the juices flew out in a giant wave, I waited about 5 seconds and she did not say ONE word. I said, "excuse me, you just doused my husbands clothes with the melted butter." Her response was "oh" My husband said to her that understood she was busy, and it would be nice to have her slow down so she doesn't continue to make so many mistakes. She quickly walked off and we asked for the manager. The manager arrived to our table, we told him what happened, he first responded by apologizing, 2nd stating his last day was going to be the following Saturday (which I didn't understand why it was mentioned) he then offered to pay for the dry cleaning and gave us 1 free desert. (great customer service enticing us to return) We still paid our $98.50 bill. Considering all that happened, there clearly is no excuse for the bad service, bad behavior and extremely poor management. Side note: We called Red Lobster to confirm who we ask for in reference to the dry cleaning and was told that the complaint was never logged. Stephanie, the new manager assured us that she would take care of it. We have decided that it is too painful to endure another BAD trip to Red Lobster. NO LONGER OUR FAVORITE SEAFOOD PLACE! read more

awful food after finding a white spider in my food, and one coming down from the ceiling needless to say i didn't finish my dinner got the you know what out of there, and will not be coming back. thank you so much for the awful dish, and the not so fun time!!!!! and they call this food...................... gross.............. read more