- We're at Red Lobster in Times Square.
And I'm gonna try all the most popular menu items.
Be like.
(cracking) (laughing)
Really excited, mainly for the cheddar bay biscuits.
I'm gonna try and eat those in between
every single meal possible.
I feel all this energy and I'm ready to go.
Let's fast forward and see how
I really feel in a like few hours.
I'm telling you, we are going to walk out of here
as 90% butter, 10% seafood.
I'm looking at the menu, and we're doing
a lobsterita, which at first makes me think
there's gonna be a lobster tail in it.
But then at second I'm like,
it's probably just a pinkish color.
And then we have cheddar bay biscuits.
(screeching)
No, no, no I'm not done.
Did you follow along, I didn't.
Holy (bleeping).
(upbeat music)
Oh my god.
It's like the eyes water before the mouth does.
This is the lobsterita, which is approximately
the size of my entire face.
And me holding it with one hand
feels very precarious right now.
You drink one of these at your happy hour
and you're definitely spilling like all
the company trade secrets by the end of the night.
I love me a cheesy dip.
That's actual little lobster bits on there, isn't that?
There you go, you're getting the real deal here.
This is insanely just comforting,
cheesy, savory, lobstery.
We have to do the cheddar bay biscuits
because they are a classic here.
They are the staple.
They're garlicky, they're salty, they're fluffy.
You just can't stop eating them.
They truly have some sort of like addictive quality to them.
Although, fun fact, they haven't always had
cheddar bay biscuits, before they had hush puppies.
And then in '92 they introduced the cheddar bay biscuits.
They also go through almost a million biscuits a day.
Oh.
I've actually never had their like veggie sides
or appetizers here, so I'm pretty interested.
I have never had broccoli taste like this before.
It's really soft, and just the right amount of fried.
The sauce on it is like the perfect amount
of spiciness for me.
I have a pretty high tolerance for it,
and this is actually spicy to me.
You have one and you just keep popping them in.
It's almost like popcorn to me,
I could just keep on packing them down.
That broccoli was indeed a little spicy,
so I'm cooling off.
I think we've all had this before,
but you just got your fresh shrimp,
you dunk it in here.
I think like giving you six big ones is pretty good.
I feel like you have to have you pinky out while you do it.
Like that.
You could kinda like sip one and eat the other.
Seafood stuffed mushrooms.
And these are not just stuffed, ooh.
(laughing) (silly music)
Man down!
Let me try it again.
These are like really fancy, rich stuffed mushrooms.
I know there's six of them to share,
but I feel like I would want this almost as a meal.
I would almost take the biscuit
and dip some of it into this like sauce down here.
Um-hm.
It looks like it's a tartar sauce?
It's like coconutty.
It's like fruity tartar sauce?
(smacking)
Pina colada sauce.
See I knew it wasn't tartar.
How did they come up with that?
That's so fancy, very intriguing.
Big momma.
Woo!
That's a whole hunk of lobster right there.
I thought that was just like a baby shrimp.
Oh I like this one.
I've had a PTSD moment.
I ordered shrimp pizza one time
and I got very sick after.
So sometimes when I see seafood pizza
I get really nervous, but I'm happy to say
I'm not nervous about this one.
I'd say the sauce is actually pretty light
compared to like your typical white seafood pizza.
Bring on round two.
(screeching)
(laughing)
Could we get some more cheddar bay biscuits?
Thank you.
I have to say, I love this cup.
I would love to take one home for my apartment.
Again, you can't taste the alcohol in these.
I like the tiki passion drink more than the lobsterita.
I've actually never had anything
like this at Red Lobster before.
And it has like blueberries, we got some beans,
we got some strawberries.
They're really like going the healthy route on this one.
You stop into Red Lobster for lunch,
I feel like you would eat this
and it'd be like your healthy option here.
I'm really excited by this one because one,
you get a little baby baked potato for yourself.
And this butter sauce right here, it reminds me,
Delish has a Tuscan butter salmon recipe,
and it kinda looks the same.
Mm.
I don't personally see the point in baked potatoes.
I'll take a bite out of it,
but I also only like the skin of baked potatoes.
The inside really could go elsewhere.
I don't like.
It's nothing against Red Lobster,
I'm just not a baked potato fan.
I'm a broccoli fan though.
I'll eat the broccoli.
Holy, this just looks beautiful.
If I tried to recreate this at home
it would not look like this.
This is luxury in a bite.
Holy.
And you get like a lobster tail.
I don't know if I can do this on camera.
I think I'm really bad at it.
You gotta work for it sometimes.
That is made with love and a lot of butter.
If you love seafood and you never can pick
between a bunch of different items on the menu,
I think this one's a real good mix of
a bunch of different seafood items in one dish.
I like this one a lot.
If you don't get to eat that much seafood,
depending where you live, I feel like
this is the way to try it and experience it all.
You have your little fried shrimps right here.
Then we have them tossed in a bunch of butter and garlic.
Then we have the lobster over here.
If you order lobster it's like cooked live.
They don't cook it until you get your little ticket.
And then you have, of course, our beautiful crab.
It's like my hands.
I grew up in Hawaii.
We ate a lot of king crab and snow crab.
And one of the only places you could get it was Red Lobster.
I love crab so much.
It's so good.
And then everyone has their own way of cracking the crab.
I choose this method.
But I'm gonna get critiqued so much
for doing this not the way other people do it.
Honestly, it really doesn't matter how you open it
as long as you get the meat out.
I like being kind of like a cave woman while I'm doing it
and like I feel like I'm discovering my food
and hunting for it.
I'm very happy, this is so good.
Oh my god, I've already decided I'm being gross about it.
This is a lot of lobster.
This is crazy.
I don't want this round to be over.
I feel really happy.
I feel like I'm at home on this one.
(upbeat music)
It looks like I haven't eaten any of them
'cause we keep replenishing them.
So it's like kind of my own little secret over here.
I'm expecting this to be extremely extremely rich,
extremely creamy, and most of all very cheesy.
Let's see.
I'm gonna learn how to eat pasta correctly, at least once.
It truly hits the spot.
You definitely aren't looking at the nutrition count
on this when you're eating it,
you're just enjoying yourself.
I don't even wanna say goodbye.
See you later.
I am not an admiral whatsoever,
whoever the admiral's named after this
this looks like this would probably be very fitting.
Dunk.
I feel like this is a seafood version of a chicken tender.
Doesn't that look like Florida?
No?
Did you know that Red Lobster started in Florida?
I did.
No one cares about my fun facts.
I would almost consider ordering this as an app,
and then having everyone from the table
get a little bite of everything.
This is the first place at a beauty pageant.
That looks like a little dress.
If you don't have the steak and lobster on the menu
are you really a seafood place?
Also, I'm not cutting this with a steak knife
and that cut really well.
I think I would cook mine a little bit more rare
'cause I don't like to chew ever.
You really don't need more sauce
or more anything on the steak.
And I feel like when you can just eat the steak
with just a little bit of seasoning
and it's still good, I feel like that says a lot.
I think by the end of today
I'm gonna be 90% butter, and 10% seafood.
I seriously don't even think you need the steak,
I think you just need the lobster.
But if you're someone who likes both
you might as well get both, you deserve both.
A snow crab is more delicate.
Not as intense feeling.
(laughing)
As a kid that always gave me delight.
I'm gonna try to crack it.
Although these, I haven't had
good success with cracking these.
(cracking) Oh, hey.
Hey.
Look at that.
(gasping)
For what I can't do with lobster, I can do with crab.
So I feel like I've made up for it.
Depending on the season you come in
you can kinda get different things on here.
We have lobster here, but you got the skewer of shrimp.
And then you have your little filet of salmon,
broccoli, and then a bed of rice.
It kinda looks like the rice is on top of it,
but maybe not.
Let me see. I don't know what that is.
Ooh, like a bruschetta almost.
But a cheesy one.
A cheesy garlic bruschetta.
There's still like sauce in the actual,
I hate to call it this, but carcass.
You can drip it on top.
I like that this one has the seasoning on it.
It reminds me of like a cheesy bruschetta.
That's what I'm gonna call it in my mind.
I feel like I want this topping on all of the seafood.
I have never been friends with a skewer.
Mm-hm.
I'm pretty sure it's about to be dessert round.
After this cheddar bay biscuit break.
♪ For seafood lovers too ♪
- [Announcer] Now, about that craving for...
- Dessert.
♪ Red Lobster for the seafood lover in you ♪
(upbeat music)
- Wow.
I'm not sure where I wanna start.
Let's just start with the vanilla bean cheesecake.
I like that you can actually see the little vanilla beans,
I feel like that's a nice little touch.
Mm.
It's light, it's not that dense.
I feel like sometimes cheesecakes can be
really thick and creamy.
♪ Warm apple crostada ♪
I'm hoping this tastes like a deconstructed apple pie.
Mm.
It tastes (laughing), did it sound like I had an accent?
It tastes, a warm fall day.
Out picking apples.
It's like warm, and caramel-y, and vanilla-y.
The perfect amount of sweet but not too sweet.
That's a good way to end your meal.
This looks beautiful.
Wow.
Ooh, look at all those little baby chips on the side.
If the icing is good enough,
you should be able to eat it on its own.
I think.
Oh my god.
I don't know why I bother going to the gym
the days before these shoots.
I mean, it doesn't even matter.
It truly doesn't matter 'cause then I just do that,
I just eat the entire thing of icing on the side.
And the last but not least.
This is my last thing I'm eating at Red Lobster.
And I feel like this seems right.
I'm kind of sad.
But I do need to leave, I do need to get out of here.
Alas.
♪ Touch me ♪
♪ It's so easy to leave ♪
Tastes like a Snickers.
Very much like a Snickers.
Are there nuts in here?
Is it a nutty brownie?
I don't know.
No, it's chocolate chips in there.
Little fudge chips.
I thought it was nuts.
Fudge chips, just more chocolate.
This is the first time, I think,
in a long time on these shoots
that I've ended not feeling completely destroyed.
What have I gotten myself into?
I need a moment.
This is the face of joy.
You're laughing at me.
That might turn into a dark slumber.
So I'm just gonna continue working on my brownie overboard.
And we're packing up all the rest of the food.
Bringing it back to the office.
If there's anything that I forgot to order
or that you feel like I truly missed out on
let me know and I'll make sure I make a trip back.
Until then.
(upbeat music)