Red Lobster Pembroke Pines

I love seafood but let's face it: finding good seafood in this COASTAL state is like finding a unicorn. It's always overcooked and rubbery, like eating an old tire on a bed of regret. Enter Red Lobster, the reigning champ over TIRE-inspired cuisine. But, with their recent revival of Endless Shrimp, the hubbs and I decided to give them one more chance to prove us wrong. In the past, when we've gone there to indulge in their bottomless enticement of shrimp, they were always out of most varieties. This time, however, they utterly bounced back from the 7th ring of overcooked seafood h*ll. Their lobster mashed potatoes was the stuff of dreams. Creamy and tasty, but sadly, not much lobster and the little bit it did have was chopped so small it could have been mistaken for leftover crumbles. But the sauce on the potatoes was amazing, so I looked past the lobsterless promises of lobster. We also had the seafood stuffed mushrooms. WOW!!!! If you like...no, no, if you LOVE mushrooms, you have to try them. I mean, even if you don't, you HAVE to try them. Then there was the shrimp. One of my RED LOBSTER favs has always been their coconut shrimp, so when the server told me they were out, I almost left. But, I had her ask to be sure, and after a ten minute trek to the kitchen, she told us they'd just gotten a shipment of my favorite oceanic friends. Naturally, we ordered them, along with the the dragon shrimp and the tequila lime shrimp, which left us asking if they'd forgotten to add tequila, lime and salt. The coconut shrimp and the pina colada sauce were amazing! The sauce made me a little sad that the condiment cup was so small because honestly, the sauce so good, I wanted swim in it. The dragon shrimp was outstanding, a little spicy, sweet and outrageously incredible. Of course there was their cheddar bay biscuits, which need no description, only moans of joy and pangs of carby guilt. My one complaint was that the server, though nice, was so slow in getting to us for anything that I truly felt like we was being served by a sloth, which was frustrating because it was just after 2pm, and the place was nearly empty. That said, we loved the food so we will definitely be going back to the Pines location. On another, both the sauces were so incredible that the minute I got home, I looked up copycat recipes, AND FOUND THEM!!! YAY!