When I was young girl, many moon ago, living in Bum-tucky-nowhere, going to Red Lobster was a real treat. The fine dining establishments in my suburb was Red Lobster, Olive Garden, or Black Angus (can I get an amen from my California peeps? you know what I'm talking about!) And Red Lobster was the best out of them. \n\nWow... they say you can never go home. (for me, that's a good thing, food is bad there). My, oh my, how Red Lobster has changed. In all fairness, I don't know if it's me or the chain, I think it's both. \n\nThis particular location is a real stinkbomb. I mean, why is a Red Lobster even here? It's in the middle of little Mexico, next to Mariana supermarket and McDonald's. I love little Mexico (Tacos al pastor, anyone?), I live in little Tijuana myself, but I don't see why a Red Lobster would do good here? Maybe that explains the sub-par service, our server didn't seem the least bit excited about her job. But she was okay. Onto the food... \n\nMaybe not eeewww, maybe more, snoooooze. The only good thing was the cheddar biscuit, as fluffy and tasty as I remember. But everything else was so uneventful, the salad, the scallop and shrimp pasta, the fried shrimp and the dessert. All blah. Same quality and taste I could find in a corner fry-shop. \n\nFor one thing, everything is over-salted. EVERYTHING is salty, I mean everything. The fried shrimp was salty, so I took a bite out of the broccoli, which was salty, then took a bite out of the biscuits, and THEY WERE SALTY!!! The fried shrimp are bigger than the ones you'll find at a fry shop, but not the $17 price tag. They also revamped their menu, there used to be a pasta dish that had lobster, shrimp, scallops and asparagus(?) in a cream sauce. It was bomb. Now it's shrimp pasta, or crab pasta, or lobster pasta. Weird. How about combining them all together again? \n\nIf my memory serves me correct, the food was never fresh at Red Lobster. I think everything is frozen, that's why they can have Red Lobsters in Kentucky. BUT... it was tasty frozen, not Gorden's frozen fish tasty. Now, I can't tell the difference between this stuff and the stuff I can buy from the Walmart freezer for $4. \n\nI can also buy the Chedder Bay Biscuits in a mix too. Hmmm... the reasons to return to Red Lobster are diminishing. I wonder if they're headed to the graveyard of restaurants, just as Black Angus and Bob's Big Boy did. Sad.
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