Red Lobster for the seafood lover in you!

We went out to dinner with my parents and some friends of theirs tonight. We went to Red Lobster. When you live in MN, that is seafood. I realize that when you live on a coast, there are many places that are much better, but for MN, Red Lobster works for me. It was definitely one of the better recent experiences we have had there. Not that the others have been terrible, but it was very good tonight.

I hung out with my mom today, so I was in Waconia. Nick had to work so he came from CG to meet us for supper. I left a bit earlier than my parents and their friends to secure us a table at peak dinner time (6:30ish by the time they got there). When I got there they said 20-30 minutes. About 7 minutes later I was being seated. The waitress promptly took my drink order. Nick arrive about 4 minutes later, and again, very promptly took his drink order. When the rest of the party arrived, drinks were quickly ordered and brought to us. She did take a minute or two longer to get our food order, but still not bad. She brought our salads and the cheddar biscuits in what seemed like a regular amount of time. But no sooner had we taken our first bites of salad our food arrived. Wow, talk about speedy. The problem with this was that our table was pretty small for 6 people, and to have salad and dinner plates really crowded the table.

Everything was brought to us, tartar sauce, extra drinks, etc. Two people ordered the endless shrimp so they placed a second order. About the time we were half way through eating, the waitress came over and explained her error making the food come out at the same time as the salads. It turns out this was Homecoming for her daughter and she stopped in just as she placed our order. So she spent a few moments with her daughter before making our salads. This delay, she said, was totally her fault and she was soooo sorry and she takes full responsibility for it. Since that was the case and she felt so bad, she was giving us a few little extras to take home with us. The guys with the endless shrimp each got a few to take home, and there were even a few extra servings brought for others to take home.

We told her we appreciated her honesty and accepting responsibility, and really, we didn't need the extra servings. She insisted and was grateful we were so understanding.

We ended up with two servings of shrimp scampi and some broccoli and cheddar biscuits. Yummy! I hope Nick is willing to share them with me!

So, we did ask and the waitress's daughter goes to the "new" school that was formed by the merger of Concordia Academy in Bloomington with a few other Lutheran schools in the area. She was pretty chatty, but very nice.

My tummy is filled with yummy shrimpy goodness and a cheddar biscuit to help sop up the butter. It was tasty!