Red Lobster Menu With Prices (Updated October 2026)

Red Lobster Menu Prices at a Glance

Red Lobster is the largest seafood restaurant chain in the United States and it has been through the hardest few years in its history. The company filed for Chapter 11 in May 2024, closed restaurants in waves, and came out the other side under new ownership with roughly 540 locations left from more than 700. Closures were still happening through 2026, including a Tallahassee restaurant that had been open 56 years and the chain’s only Manhattan location.

The menu itself is in reasonable shape and the food is what it always was. What has changed is the price. An Ultimate Feast is $54.99 and a live Maine lobster is $51.49, which puts Red Lobster firmly in the special occasion category rather than the weeknight one it occupied twenty years ago. The value is in the lunch plates, the biscuits and knowing which entrees are priced sensibly.

Check Your Local Red Lobster Is Still Open

This is the first practical thing to know and no menu page leads with it. Red Lobster has closed more than 160 restaurants since filing for bankruptcy in May 2024, dropping from over 700 locations to around 540, and the closures did not stop when the bankruptcy ended. Restaurants were still being shut through 2026 as the company worked through individual leases.

The closures have not followed an obvious geographic pattern, and long established restaurants have gone alongside newer ones. Before you drive across a metro area for dinner, check the location page or call. It costs you thirty seconds and it is the difference between a table and a locked door.

Cheddar Bay Biscuits

These are the reason a large number of people walk into a Red Lobster at all, and the important thing about them is that they are free. Every table gets a basket with any meal, and refills are unlimited and unlimited means unlimited. Nobody counts.

The paid half dozen and dozen are for taking home or for takeout orders, not for the table. If you are dining in you do not need to buy them.

Ultimate Endless Shrimp

The most famous promotion in casual dining and the one that helped push the company into bankruptcy. Red Lobster ran Ultimate Endless Shrimp as a permanent everyday offer in 2023, priced around twenty dollars, and it was reported to have driven roughly $19 million in losses because people ate considerably more shrimp than the model assumed.

It is back. The company tested it again in 2026 and returned it as a limited run promotion rather than a permanent menu fixture, which is the sensible version of the idea. Pricing and the shrimp preparations included change with each run, so the restaurant or the app is the accurate source rather than any page.

If it is running when you go, the preparations usually include Walt’s Favorite fried shrimp, garlic shrimp scampi, and a rotating third and fourth option. The rules are one plate at a time, dine in only, and no sharing across the table.

Appetizers

Appetizers at Red Lobster are priced close to entrees at some other chains, so the decision is whether you want one at all rather than which one.

The shrimp cocktail at 180 calories is the only starter on the list that will not reshape your evening, and it is the same price as the popcorn shrimp at 820. If you want something to share before the entrees, that is the one worth ordering.

Soups, Salads and Bowls

The lobster bisque is the one people come back for and a cup at $9.99 is a reasonable starter on a menu where most starters are not.

Worth noticing that the salmon Caesar at 1,070 calories is heavier than most of the fried entrees, because the salmon fillet and the dressing stack up. The shrimp Caesar at 740 gets you a similar plate for three dollars less and three hundred fewer calories.

Lobster

This is the top of the menu and the prices reflect it. The live Maine lobster is exactly what it says, selected from the tank and cooked to order.

Maine lobster is the cold water clawed lobster and it is sweeter and more tender. Rock lobster is warm water, has no claws, and gives you a bigger, firmer tail for six dollars more. Neither is better, they are different animals, and the choice is texture rather than quality.

Crab

Crab Your Way lets you pick your crab and your preparation rather than taking a fixed plate, which is where the wide calorie range comes from. The same price buys you something around 910 calories or something around 1,510 depending entirely on whether the butter and the fried sides are involved.

Shrimp Classics

This is the most sensibly priced section of the menu and where most people should be looking. Walt’s Favorite Shrimp is the oldest dish on the board, named after founder Bill Darden’s business partner, and it is hand breaded and fried.

Garlic shrimp scampi at $20.99 and 440 calories is the best combination of price and lightness on the whole menu, and the shrimp is cooked in garlic butter rather than batter. Coconut shrimp at 940 calories costs two dollars more than Walt’s Favorite at 520, which is a large difference for a similar plate.

Fish and Salmon

The gap between the two salmon dishes is worth reading twice. Plain Atlantic Salmon is 510 calories at $33.99. Salmon New Orleans is 1,160 at $37.99, because the sauce and the shrimp topping carry 650 calories on their own. Same fish, four dollars apart, more than double the number.

Feasts and Combinations

The feasts are what Red Lobster is known for and they are the most expensive things on the menu. Every one of them can be built as a Create Your Own, which costs five dollars more and lets you pick the components.

The Admiral’s Feast at $32.99 is the cheapest way into this section by a wide margin, and at 1,670 calories it is also the heaviest of the standard feasts because everything on it is fried. The Lobsterfest Duo at 610 calories is the lightest thing costing over fifty dollars on any casual dining menu in America.

Seafood Boils

The boils arrive in a bag or a pot rather than on a plate and they are the messiest and largest thing Red Lobster serves.

Pasta

Crab Carbonara at 1,730 calories is the heaviest single entree on the menu outside the boils. All four of these are alfredo or carbonara style, so there is no light pasta option here.

Steak, Chicken and Sandwiches

Ordering steak at a seafood restaurant sounds like a mistake and at Red Lobster it genuinely is not, because the filet is one of the lightest entrees on the menu and priced below what a steakhouse charges.

A 6oz filet mignon at 260 calories is the lightest entree Red Lobster sells, lighter than the grilled shrimp and lighter than the plain salmon. The 7oz sirloin at 320 is second. Those figures are the steak alone, before sides, which is where the rest of the plate comes from.

Sides

Entrees come with a choice of sides, and the side moves the plate more than most people expect. Asparagus at 90 calories against bacon mac and cheese at 600 is the whole decision.

Kids Menu

Desserts

Every dessert here is over a thousand calories except the key lime pie, and the whole cakes can be bought to take home.

Key lime pie at 580 calories is roughly half of anything else in this section and the only dessert on the menu that is not a full meal on its own.

Drinks

Red Lobster also runs a full bar with beer, wine and cocktails, priced by location and by state. A smoothie at $9.49 costs more than a kids meal, which is worth knowing before the table orders four of them.

How to Order at Red Lobster for Less

Go at lunch. Red Lobster runs a separate lunch menu with smaller portions of the same dishes at meaningfully lower prices, and it is the single biggest saving available without a coupon.

Eat the biscuits, because they are free and unlimited and they are also the best thing on the table. Order from the shrimp classics rather than the feasts, since garlic shrimp scampi at $20.99 gets you a proper seafood dinner for a third of what an Ultimate Feast costs. Take a cup of lobster bisque at $9.99 instead of a $17 to $21 appetizer if you want a starter.

Join My Red Lobster Rewards before you go rather than after, because it sends offers and a birthday reward and it costs nothing. And if there are two of you, one feast split with an extra side is often more food than two separate entrees for less money.

Red Lobster Nutrition Notes

Seafood at Red Lobster can be very light or very heavy and the split is almost entirely about whether it was fried or sauced. Grilled and broiled dishes sit between 260 and 520 calories. The same protein battered and fried, or covered in an alfredo or a New Orleans sauce, lands between 1,000 and 1,700. To see what a 1,000 calorie plate means for your own day, check our calorie calculator.

The genuinely light orders are the 6oz filet at 260, the 7oz sirloin at 320, a classic lobster tail at 420, garlic shrimp scampi at 440, grilled shrimp at 500 and Atlantic salmon at 510. Add roasted asparagus at 90 or broccoli at 190 rather than Chesapeake fries at 510. The heaviest are the Sailor’s Seafood Boil at up to 3,040, the crunch-fried flounder sandwich at 1,690, Crab Carbonara at 1,730 and fish and chips at 1,660. On sodium, the boils, the sausage, the chowder and the fried breading carry the most.

And count the biscuits. Four of them is 650 calories before the entree arrives, and they are the easiest thing on the whole menu to forget about.

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