Red Lobster

It's been so long since I've last been here. Went to Chula Vista location of Red Lobster with some friends...

I was kind of excited because I remember Red Lobster's cheese biscuits...

The Lobsterfest menu looked good but the items were kind of too pricy for lunch as well as too heavy.

I had my eye on  the Shrimp Flatbread on the Lunch menu....

But first, the biscuits....these weren't as good as the biscuits from Urban Solace but they were just as good as I remembered them to be. No butter needed. These were piping hot and nice and flaky on top. Loved the salty and cheesy flavor with the hint of chives.

This was my friend's Clam Chowder in a bread bowl grilled shrimp salad. Now the salad wasn't anything exciting. It was your typical bagged salad mix. She also said there was hardly any soup, like not enough to even be a cup and a half's worth. It looked impressive because of the bread vessel but other than that, eh.

Another colleague went all out and got something from the Lobsterfest menu. She had the Lobster tail with a baked potato (with everything), a skewer of shrimp with some sort of sauce (forgot what kind) over rice pilaf. That was a lot of food. She ended up taking more than half of the skewer home. If I was here for dinner, I would have wanted that.

This was one half of my lunch, the Shrimp on flatbread with chopped tomatoes and three kinds of cheeses. It was like eating a rectangular shrimp pizza. These were cut into triangles, so there were 6 good sized pieces there. The bread was also nice and crisp while the shrimp were on the smallish side.

My salad was the same as my friend's. The lightly grilled shrimp was added last so the salad wouldn't get too wilted. I think there were about 8 or 9 pieces of shrimp in there. It was just okay and again, the shrimp was small.

The salad was run of the mill and the shrimp not as exciting as I would have thought. I liked the flatbread. Seems like the same dough used for the cheese biscuits! Yum!

Who else ate at Red Lobster?

Mary from Foodies - A Southern California Food Blog also raved on their biscuits.

And here is a recipe from the blog Pinch My Salt approximates the Red Lobster cheese biscuit, Sour Cream Cheddar and Chive Biscuit. Ooh, I may just have to try making that myself! It uses Bisquick which I like! Memories of childhood pancakes...