Red Lobster - Columbia

We enjoyed birthday party here. Always love enjoy seafood at my wife's birthday at red lobster. Great lobster dish and snow crab legs. As birthday gift, feee dessert. So good.

So we finally decided to go to the red lobster in Columbia. We were immediately greeted and sat. Being a Friday going into dinner the restaurant wasn?t to busy. The server was a little slow getting to us, it took about 10 minutes before a the server came to our table, which normally at that point we would have walked out. To start we had a couple of cocktails and a couple of apps. We ordered the seafood stuffed mushrooms and bacon wrapped scallops both were on point and flavorful. Entree?s we had the New Orleans salmon and the admirals feast. Now the Salmon was 10/10 great flavors nice portion as far as the admirals feast which we heard was the must try was no so great, fish was dry and salty, clam strips were bland, the shrimp was good but not so much everything else on the plate. The fried Brussel sprouts were amazing but a little to heavy on the balsamic glaze which was a little to sweet. Overall the experience was good, service was a bit slow at times, but the Manager Nikki made our first visit amazing. Nikki would probably be the reason we give it another try. We definitely aren?t ones for chain restaurants but this was okay.

Had an extremely unpleasant experience with their wait staff. Had a $100 gift card, dinner pictured was around $68, I signed off and tipped $15-17 in cash and card showed balance of $30 left on the receipt. Next time we came in, the gift card had only $0.07 left. I just now spoke with the manager and they were accommodating to give me a $50 gift card. I still don?t understand how the waiter first boasted how he?d made $500 that day, then said he had forgotten to punch in our order so we got our food 42 min after we placed it, and then proceeded to collect $50ish in tips on our $68 dinner.

Staff is friendly and waiter was attentative. Appreciated his recommendations. The food was good for the price but the rice was a bit under cooked. The seafood was cooked well.

Best Red Lobster accros Maryland, in customer service, in food detail and accuracy. I have gone to the one une Anne Arundel and Annapolis but this is by far the best. Beautiful Grilled Salmon ? with mashed potatoes.