Red Lobster - Independence

Red Lobster - Independence reviews from people who’ve dined at this restaurant. Based on recent rating.

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   Terrence

   Kansas City17 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 14 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Great place when you are hungry for seafood. Leanne is a wonderful server, checked on us frequently and confirmed that our needs and expectations were met.
   

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   Terrence

   Kansas City17 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 1 February 2025

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Leanne provided great service to our family celebrating a birthday. Food was delicious and seafood was a nice treat.
   

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   Cindy

   Kansas City10 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 31 December 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 4
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Very happy with the service at this location and friendly hostess and server. The grilled shrimp was good. Overall a very good experience.
   

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   Terrence

   Kansas City17 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 15 December 2024

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Great food and service as always. Enjoyed our celebration.
   

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   CarlaM

   Kansas City2 reviews

   1.0

   Dined on 17 November 2023

   1. Overall 1
   2. Food 1
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 1

   Took 30 minutes for server to arrive and drinks to get ordered. We all ordered salads with our meal - but meal came out 30 minutes after ordered and all food came at once. I tried to explain to the person delivering the food that our hot food will be cold before we can even get to eating it - and it was. The server tried, but with kitchen not sending out salads first, no way to eat hot food, as a result my crab legs were stuck to the shells and tore up and fell apart in shreds coming out. I ordered lemon wedges with crab legs and they came out when I was finishing. My husband is allergic to seafood so he ordered a steak. I asked him why he didnt ask for steak sauce and he stated he waited 40 minutes for sangria cocktail and didnt want to wait. It was getting late. We came in for my birthday, but it was disappointing and sad - no service.
   

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   renate

   Dallas46 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 1 January 2023

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   Food was tasty, came out fast, and service was awesome!
   

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   volman

   Kansas City27 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 28 December 2022

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 5

   Awesome evening and food
   

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   MarshallS

   Kansas City1 review

   3.0

   Dined on 5 August 2022

   1. Overall 3
   2. Food 3
   3. Service 3
   4. Ambience 3

   Had to wait for over 10 minutes for a server and had to go back to hostess desk to have one sent to my table(Which I didn't care for the location but better than the bar where she wanted to seat us.
   

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   OpenTable Diner

   Kansas City6 reviews

   5.0

   Dined on 19 May 2022

   1. Overall 5
   2. Food 5
   3. Service 5
   4. Ambience 4

   My best experience at Red Lobster, maybe ever—lots of food and just enough service. If there was any noise problem it was my group who hadn’t been out to lunch in at least a year.
   

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    OpenTable Diner

    Kansas City1 review

    1.0

    Dined on 10 May 2022

    1. Overall 1
    2. Food 2
    3. Service 1
    4. Ambience 3

    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.
    

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