Red Lobster-W Markham, LR

About this place

Dine at the Red Lobster in Little Rock or the Red Lobster in North Little Rock, and you can pretty much count on the same experience any day of the year at either place.
That'd basically be true as well at a Red Lobster in Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri or Montana - in fact, at any of the seafood behemoth's nearly 700 locations in the United States and Canada.
But being highly dependable can gradually fade into being too highly predictable - inducing a "been there, done that" enervation along the lines of "deja vu all over again" among jaded diners.
Even an operation as successful as Red Lobster, whose two central Arkansas locations are perennially atop the restaurant gross-revenue lists hereabouts, needs to freshen its act periodically or risk eventually sleeping with the fishes.
Red Lobster's latest novelty, introduced here last month with a flourish of television commercials, is wood-grilled dishes. A passage on the printed menu waxes almost lyrical: "Grilling seafood over a wood fire takes extra care, but it's worth it. The wood adds its own subtle flavor, and our grill masters sear every skewer and fillet to juicy perfection. We think you'll agree - we've elevated grilling to an art form."

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