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Originally Posted by Ksyrup
With the wife having had hip surgery almost 2 months ago, we have done very little outside the house. But she got her brace off last week and can start slowly putting weight on the leg while using a walker, so we've gone out a few times.
She decided last night she wanted to go to Red Lobster. We haven't been there in a long time and certainly not since the whole bankruptcy thing. I was not prepared for what that place looked Ike at 5:30 on a Friday night. Ghost town. A few old couples. I joked that I felt like we were on the worst cruise ship in the world - empty and we're the youngest of a sparse crowd eating at dinner.
This place used to be SRO on a Friday night. And the irony is they never used to take reservations, but now that you don't need one, you can reserve a table through their app.
If this is representative of what RL's look like across the country, they won't be open much longer.
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It is. Their prices are ridiculous and the food quality is terrible. I was craving some seafood for my birthday last year, and I decided I was going to splurge and get the Ultimate Feast at RL as a treat. It was like $54 for pathetic little servings of rubbery, low quality shellfish. I don't think the lobster tail tasted like lobster. It was all just nasty.
The only thing RL has going for it is the lunch special where you can get soup and salad for $10. Their clam cowder is still good, and pairs well with a Caesar salad. That with ceddar bay biscuits is the only reason to ever go.