Red Lobster - Colonie, NY

Restaurant: Red Lobster
Address: 170 Wolf Rd, Colonie, NY 12205
Phone: (518) 459-1040
Web: http://www.redlobster.com/

Review Date: 9/19/08

-Avg. time to be seated: 10min
-Average price: $17
-Free drink refills: Yes
-Portion size: Healthy (or not if you consider the butter)
-Waitress followup visits: Endless
-Avg. time till check brought out (after requested):
-Service: Great
-Atmosphere: Chain family
-Cleanliness: Good
-Restrooms: Not used this time, but other times was clean. Besides any place with the foamy soap, automatically gets at least a "B".
-Kid Friendly: Sure


1-10 Overall rating: 8

Food Taste: Good at first, but don't overstay your welcome.

Notes:
16.99 for Endless Shrimp. Available until 11/13/2008

The first two plates of shrimp come out with 12 pieces, each place afterwards is 10 per plate.

Five types of shrimp...


Cajun shrimp. (Not really that spicy, kinda' bland, skip the rice to make room for more shrimp)

Garlic shrimp. (Great and buttery)

Hand breaded shrimp (excellent at first, has long has they don't over cook it.)

Shrimp linguini alfreado (I loved it, my Doctor, not so much. Get it last so you don't fill up on the linguini. If you don't have room, take it with you.)

Coconut (Not so much, after about four pieces, very spicy)

Best thing about this years is they got rid of the beer battered from last year.

Keep in mind you also get a salad, your choice of fries or baked potato and unlimited cheese rolls. They will try to push the linguini on you at first (since the pasta fills you up), don't fall for it, it's good, but hold off. Ask for it to go, they may sneer but if they've put up with you being a pig for this long, what do you have to loose. If they don't do it, ask for a plate of it, then ask for a box.

My favorites for this year are as always the garlic shrimp and the hand battered, though after a few rounds the garlic shrimp ends up just being thrown on the plate vs. placed nicely back to front and seemed to be spicier then the first few plates, almost like a combination of a Cajun/butter mix; and tbe hand breaded shrimp which started off beautifully dipped and lightly fried, now resembles more of a deep fried browned shrimp. I guess there is a time you can overstay your welcome, especially when your dining alone at lunch time, have been there an hour and each waitress only gets three tables to be responsible for. Anyway, still a favorite for this time of year, if you haven't been yet, update your will, know where the closest defibrillator is and enjoy, it's endless shrimp... or at least 6 good plates and 2 get the heck out plates.