Red Lobster Independence

Eat was delicious, quickly came out and service was great!

Had to wait for over 10 minutes on a server and had to go back to the Hostess desk to have sent one to my table(that I didn't care about the situation, but better than the bar where she wanted to put us.

My best experience in red lobster, maybe even – a lot to eat and just enough service. if there was a trouble, it was my group that had not been lunch in at least one year.

Scheduled a reservation for 6:15 pm. Arrived on time only for management to tell me that they do not accept reservations only “call ahead seating” and there would be a 20 minute wait because 7 parties were here before us. Finally got a table after waiting about 25 minutes. Waitress was nice but would disappear for roughly 10 minutes at a time so drink/ bread refills were not consistent. When the waitress would return they had the aroma of heavily sprayed Japanese cherry blossom (the one from bath and body works) as if she had taken the time away from us to smoke. This occurred at least 4 times. Even when waiting for the check it seemed to take forever. Food quality was alright, my fiancé and I both took advantage of the tuesday special which was 2 mariners feast for 45.99 (not a bad deal). My fiancée requested to have the langoustine sauce on the side, well, when the waitress finally returned with our food she says “ I told him not to put the sauce on the side but he doesn’t speak English well”. I guess blaming the cook was the course of action she decided to take after she decided to still bring us our food instead of correcting the mistake beforehand. Overall we had a great time due to celebrating another year of life and we’re with great company. Overall the experience was terrible for a regular occasion but for a birthday dinner I’m absolutely dissatisfied. I do not believe I will be visiting this location again.

Seated promptly, food ordered brought to table in a very timely manner, but the inability to use my Darden gift card balance was denied. Waitress indicated she put in the code twice, but account was inactive. Went home was able to clearly see the balance on the card so felt we were not told the truth. This Darden gift card was indeed active.