Red Lobster - Federal Way

The service was friendly. The food was okay in general. Shrimp and lobster was a bit salty. The lemonade also tasted like powder lemonade. If you have to have it go for the strawberry flavor. Fish and chips was pretty good (and mot salty). The steaks were also pretty reasonable as well.

First off the servers and front house associates were all exceptional. However, the food was very salty, and it's probably some of the worst seafood I've ever had. I see why it's been over a decade since I've been to red lobster... The exceptional customer service can't make up for how terrible the food was. And the decor is very dated, 1994 called and want it's fish patterned booths back. Not to mention it's also so expensive. If you want to spend $125 on two plates of mediocre shrimp and a lobster tail or steak, a couple of drinks, and an appetizer, by all means have at it. I'd rather go to black Angus, or Salty's if I want pricey seafood that's at least a fair quality for the price. Hell, I'd even rather eat at a Chinese buffet to get some seafood before here.

Ordered stuffed mushrooms and lobster dinner number one in lobster dinner number two, on this day the food was decent however one of the lobsters looked a little old and it was replaced. Overall it was a decent experience.

Slow service. Seaside shrimp trio was ok. The shrimp were pretty small. Pasta could use more cheese. I didn't even get the biscuits with my meal. The servers kept on saying it's still in the oven. I had to asked for it after I saw the people next to me got some. Caesar salad was good.

Update: 6/2/23 Service was EXTREMELY SLOW after my first round of so called unlimited shrimp. What 's the point of an unlimited entree when it takes 30 50 minutes to finally eat it. I believe they intentionally take long to give you any unlimited dish so that you end up only having 1 round but more than 2, which really, beats the purpose of unlimited. It was not even busy at all. We will not be returning to this location (Federal Way) until management does something about the slow service, especially when only half the restaurant is used and 20 30% is filled with customers! I will also be contacting their customer service about this. Update 12/28/22: There were so many empty tables tonight (around 6:10 pm). We waited a little more than 20 minutes to finally get a table. The table we had was not 100% clean. Lately, the overall service since October 2020, has been less than par at the Federal Way location. The price for their food when there 's no specials continue to get higher far too many times in a short period. _______________________________________ We 've only dined here once but have wanted to come back many times over the past 10 plus yrs, but couldn 't because we thought our son was allergic to seafood. Fortunately, over the years, he outgrew most of these allergies and had the biggest seafood feast on his 19th birthday! What a blessing to have dined here with all his grandparents. The expected wait time when I checked in was apprx. 20 25 minutes. When I called in to change my , the hostess said that we could be seated already. So at most, our wait time was 7 8 minutes. We were split into 2 separate tables because there were 7 of us, but fortunately, the grandparents were seated behind us and everyone else was far enough for safe social distancing. Our server, Semara (spelling error, I 'm sure) was absolutely wonderful. She was polite, accommodating and attentive. Her pacing was on point (from checking in on how we were doing to bringing food to both tables). Some of the menu prices are kind of high, but the taste/flavor makes up for the others. The buttery flavored sweet and spicy shrimps are a must have! The fried fish, not so much. It 's so nice that their bread is unlimited and delicious. We enjoyed our time dinner for sure (October 2020). Parking on a Saturday (the night we dined) was packed. There 's no advance reservations walk in only reservation where you give your name , which they 'll text you when your table is ready. Pet peave I just want to make known is, the tank is too small for all those lobsters!