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  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    They opened one of those here about 25 years ago. Five miles from the Atlantic ocean and all the fresh seafood you want. I think it lasted less than a year.
  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290
    edited November -1
    Tried a lobster sangwidge for lunch one time, expecting something kinda like the ones I got in Maine; not even close! Too much mayo, cabbage & bun to even taste the infinitesimal shards of overcooked, stringy, tough shellfish; gotta wonder if it wasn't really Monkfish.
    Since they fry everything, even the "scampi" was greasy.
    Maybe Dead Lobster-like unknown Seafood would be a better name.
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I like their cheese biscuits. The rest, not so much, but the linguini and shrimp is passable.
  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511
    edited November -1
    I've ate there a few times. First time I ate there, it was real good. Always go for a lobster tail and a steak. Lobster had the sweet taste that a lobster is supposed to have. Next couple times, the lobster tasted more like a crawdad than it did lobster. After that, I decided that kind of money was best spent elsewhere. Mind you, in Kansas, seafood places are limited.

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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A place in Oceanside Calif in the Marina has ruined any other seafood place for me.

    There the stuff was fresh off the boat.

    http://www.harborfishandchips.net/

    Surf and Turf.

    Also is a stop off for may Actors who stop in the Harbor with their boats. The walls are lined with photo's.
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by grumpygy
    A place in Oceanside Calif in the Marina has ruined any other seafood place for me.

    There the stuff was fresh off the boat.

    http://www.harborfishandchips.net/

    Surf and Turf.

    Also is a stop off for may Actors who stop in the Harbor with their boats. The walls are lined with photo's.

    http://www.harborfishandchips.net/media.html
  • cmancman Member Posts: 276 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    not a place i would ever pick to go but my wifes kids love it. when we go for their bdays or something the bill for 5 of us is over $300 bucks!
    its crazy they are still in business
  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    had one in central kansas..used to get the sampler plate and a vodka collins....each helped out the other...they closed...also to expensive
  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    if you like overpriced boil in the bag food they are great, they are an olive garden that serves seafood [xx(]
  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In Destin, Fla. there's a restaurant right on the dock we use regularly, they'll take your catch off your boat, clean what you want to eat, cook it, they furnish all the trimming....."real" seafood eating at reasonable prices.....nothing better [;)]. They'll also pack & ice down what you take home in your coolers too [:)]

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  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by cman
    not a place i would ever pick to go but my wifes kids love it. when we go for their bdays or something the bill for 5 of us is over $300 bucks!
    its crazy they are still in business



    What the hell did you eat or drink there??? I'll call BS on that especially eating with kids. My wife and me ate there Friday night and our bill was less then $40 with a $4 off coupon. We go there 5-6 times a year for birthdays and with 11 of us 7 adults and 4 kids we've never had a bill over $200.
  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We do not do Black Lobster.
    We live on the Atlantic and the Gulf- way too many great locals to do otherwise.
  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I envy you guys with access to fresh seafood. I love it but in NM we have miles of beach and no ocean within 800 miles. Seafood places come and go, but Red Lobster stays in business. I go about once a year.
  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's been several years, but I recall Long John Silver getting themselves in a bind over offering what they called 'Lobster Bites' that were actually langostino.

    The feds spanked them because their regs don't allow this stuff to be marketed as simply 'lobster'. It must be referred to as 'langostino lobster'.
  • 320090T320090T Member Posts: 2,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ate at a place near Anna Marie Island that had fishing boats unloading. I asked the waiter how fresh the fish was, he looked over to the boats and said "bout 45 minutes"
  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is fairly inexpensive food that is consistent and dependable.

    The two local ones are always busy, and as I do not like to wait, we don't go there very often.

    It is like a Outback for seafood. You don't go there expecting the best, but you don't pay for the best either. IMO, it is good for what it is, and I don't ever remember being disappointed with the food or service.
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  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    edited November -1
    There's always mcdonalds if that is more your speed? Personally, I like Red Lobster... but I realize what it is: a chain restaurant that serves medium priced fare for medium quality fare.
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,496 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We had a Red Lobster and a McGrath's fish House on opposite corners of a freeway interchange here. My wife and I liked the McGrath's because the quality of the food was so much better. Naturally, that's the one that closed...

    I've only eaten at a Red Lobster once in the past few decades. We ate in one near Las Vegas because it was near our hotel. I cannot believe people flock to them. But it's likely that a lot of people have never had really fresh, really good seafood so they think RL is just fine. Boy, if they only knew.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Flying Clay Disk
    Been chuckling over this post for a couple days now. Just the title would make me grin.

    Probably the highest density of cars and SUV's with 30" rims per acre is in...Red Lobster parking lots!

    Brush up on your Ebonics before going...you'll need it.

    Oh, and bring ear-plugs too! Red Lobsters are LOUD inside with all the smack talkin'!!







    Nothing like that in my neck of the woods. I've been going to the same one for about 47 years.
  • armilitearmilite Member Posts: 35,490 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
    We had a Red Lobster and a McGrath's fish House on opposite corners of a freeway interchange here. My wife and I liked the McGrath's because the quality of the food was so much better. Naturally, that's the one that closed...

    I've only eaten at a Red Lobster once in the past few decades. We ate in one near Las Vegas because it was near our hotel. I cannot believe people flock to them. But it's likely that a lot of people have never had really fresh, really good seafood so they think RL is just fine. Boy, if they only knew.




    You can't beat my neck of the woods for fish fries. How ever Lobster and other fine crustaceans is a whole different story. Wisconsin is not prime Lobster territory. Like I said in an earlier post the Mrs and me ate there last Friday night for $46 including drinks and the tip. We came home happy and full that's all that counts.
  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Flying Clay Disk
    Been chuckling over this post for a couple days now. Just the title would make me grin.

    Probably the highest density of cars and SUV's with 30" rims per acre is in...Red Lobster parking lots!

    Brush up on your Ebonics before going...you'll need it.

    Oh, and bring ear-plugs too! Red Lobsters are LOUD inside with all the smack talkin'!!




    My above post seconds that big time!
  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mrmike08075
    Google "Darden group"

    I recommend avoiding the chains associated with them.

    For you own health and safety - as well as quality and value concerns.

    Mike
    You are so correct!...I have been in the seafood business 47 years...I sold RL back in the '70's.....they went away from wild caught shrimp , and started using farm raised or foreign product...if you could see how this product is farmed,you would think about what you eat...the farm raised shrimp are loaded with antibiotics..
  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
    We had a Red Lobster and a McGrath's fish House on opposite corners of a freeway interchange here. My wife and I liked the McGrath's because the quality of the food was so much better. Naturally, that's the one that closed...

    I've only eaten at a Red Lobster once in the past few decades. We ate in one near Las Vegas because it was near our hotel. I cannot believe people flock to them. But it's likely that a lot of people have never had really fresh, really good seafood so they think RL is just fine. Boy, if they only knew.


    At Valley River Center its the same Exit and almost the same Parking lot.
  • steve45steve45 Member Posts: 2,940 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I always considered them the "Dennys of seafood". Still they fly fish in fresh every day so I order that and its good. Stay away from the overcooked shrimp and lobster.
  • reload999reload999 Member Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I ate at a Red Lobster in Aiken, SC, once back in the early 1990s I believe it was. I don't really recall the food, but it seems I never had the urge to visit another one. I now live on Florida's Gulf Coast, so fresh seafood is everywhere.
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