Red Lobster vs. Olive Garden

[Otter]

So, you're walking down the street minding your own business and I come up behind you (lets pretend I'm 6' 6" 260 and not 5' 9") and get you in a rear naked choke.

I say you have to have dinner with me and I'll take the cuffs off I bound us by the ankles with with my magical extra set of hands if you promise not to have food on lip that makes me uncomfortable and spoils an otherwise fine dining experience.

There are only two options: Red Lobster or Olive Garden. Where do we eat?

[Nzoner]

I'm allergic to shellfish and I love OG's Pasta Fajioli I know it's spelled with a g but CP doesn't like that spelling.

[Fire Me Boy!]

Originally Posted by Nzoner

I'm allergic to shellfish and I love OG's Pasta Fajioli I know it's spelled with a g but CP doesn't like that spelling.

That soup is good. If you haven't tried it, the zoopa toscana is super tasty, too.

[alpha_omega]

FLAVOR FLAV
Red Lobster Deal Cemented
... SIGNATURE MEAL ON THE MENU!!!

Flavor Flav and Red Lobster are trying everything to save a sinking ship -- including a new menu addition based on Flav's favorite flavors.

The seafood chain announced the launch Monday of Flavor Flav's signature menu item -- a massive combo meal featuring the Public Enemy rapper's go-to Red Lobster dishes.

Red Lobster patrons can now order Flavor Flav's Faves ... a feast featuring a Maine lobster tail, snow crab legs, garlic shrimp scampi, bacon mac and cheese and a choice of side.

The order won't be on Red Lobster's printed menus, but diners can just ask their server for the Flavor Flav's Fave meal -- kinda like the famed "secret menu" items at In-N-Out.

Seems Flav is determined to keep throwing Red Lobster life preservers as the company goes through Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

As we reported ... Flav went to RL last month and ordered every single item from the menu, explaining he was just trying to save the restaurant and its famed cheddar bay biscuits.

Now, Red Lobster is enlisting Flavor Flav for this new gimmick as it tries to stay afloat -- an all hands on deck situation, for sure!



https://www.tmz.com/2024/07/01/red-l...ure-menu-meal/

[TripleThreat]

I haven’t been to a red lobster in probably 10 years because all the ones closed around me. We recently moved and there’s an Olive Garden up the street and I’ve got to say, hadn’t been to an Olive Garden prior to moving in years either but it wins for me as well.

Their salad and bread sticks seem very fresh and their entrees are good enough for me when dining out.

[kepp]

Originally Posted by wazu

Going with Olive Garden. Gonna take alcohol to get me through this meal. Red wine will make the Italianish stuff taste decent.

I'm not sure any red wine Olive Garden has will make their food taste decent. Maybe if you slam a couple glasses...

[Gravedigger]

I'm sorry but I grew up on Red Lobster and Cheddar Bay Biscuits. Shame what's happened to the company being gutted the way it has. I did go there with the Mrs. a month ago and the biscuits are still amazing and the food was as good as I remembered it, but it was definitely in that Applebee's vibe, where people just didn't care, there was really no garnishments, alot of blank space on the plate where I remember it looking more full, unfortunate. Luckily mine is still open so I intend to go there on my birthday if that's still the case later this month.

[kepp]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I went to Red Lobster last year for the first time since the internet was invented, and it was really good. I was impressed.

I haven't been to Olive Garden since the Soviet Union broke up, so I don't have an opinion on them.

It's the same

[Frazod]

We go to Red Lobster two or three times a year. I like it (love those biscuits) but there are so many better places to choose from.

Olive Garden is okay, but just okay. I'm a pretty good cook, and frankly I can make comparable/better Italian food at home. Haven't been to one in years.

[ptlyon]

Love the RL garlic shrimp scampi appetizer - have the recipe for the knockoff that I haven't tried yet

[ToxSocks]

I don't do Seafood so Olive Garden is the default answer.

With that said, not sure why Olive Garden gets so much hate. They make good food, especially for a chain franchise.

About once a month on a lazy night i'll order their Chicken and Gnocchi soup and some breadsticks for the fam. Cheap, fast and delicious.

[IowaHawkeyeChief]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

if you haven't tried the Portobello ravioli at Olive Garden - it's a lovely entree.

I pictured you saying this in the voice of the Mutant Bikers in Weird Science...

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by MeaTy The Pimp

Olive Garden is disgusting...

You're disgusting.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

The only way this poll makes any sense is if you adjust it for cost.

I'll ban you, bitch, shut up.

[suzzer99]

Originally Posted by Gravedigger

I'm sorry but I grew up on Red Lobster and Cheddar Bay Biscuits. Shame what's happened to the company being gutted the way it has. I did go there with the Mrs. a month ago and the biscuits are still amazing and the food was as good as I remembered it, but it was definitely in that Applebee's vibe, where people just didn't care, there was really no garnishments, alot of blank space on the plate where I remember it looking more full, unfortunate. Luckily mine is still open so I intend to go there on my birthday if that's still the case later this month.

I worked at a bunch of Red Lobsters in the 90s. Great biscuits, good food, and indifferent plate presentation is pretty much how I remember it then.

It was a great place to work. I made decent money, always had hot female coworkers and lots of drunken after-parties.

[Megatron96]

When I was a kid RL was not good food. Edible, but that was about it.


Oddly, the first good RL I ever ate at was here in Phx. OG was never good. Not even before I went to NY/CHI and found out what Italian food was supposed to be like.


Damn shame what happened to RL. Should be a crime, imo.