Red Lobster Menu – its target market is more for the people who want mid-level cuisine that is called “casual dining”. Starting in 2004, the Red Lobster menu upped the ante when it introduced healthier options in their dining choices called the Lighthouse Menu, widening their market to include health conscious, mid-level consumers who want to maintain a certain lifestyle. The food that was included in the Lighthouse Red Lobster Menu are all only 500 calories, which has 15g of fat, 5g of saturated fat, 750mg of sodium, and 75g of carbohydrates. Some of the awards that Red Lobster have received are “#1 Best Seafood” by the 2009 Zagat Consumer Survey, and “Healthiest Sit Down Chain Restaurant in America,” from the 2010 Eat This Not That Guide of Men’s Health Magazine.
It was in 2008 that Red Lobster introduced the Today’s Fresh Fish offering in the Lighthouse Menu, which featured fresh fish options that had never been offered before, such as Tilapia, rainbow trout, mahi-mahi and other species that are native to the restaurant’s location. This addition to the Red Lobster menu garnered a lot of attention, especially because 2008 was also when the chain introduced the use of a wood-burning grill to cook all their food, assuring the health factor in the food they offer.
Here are some of the offerings on the Lighthouse Menu:
- The Live Main Lobster, which is a steamed lobster that weights 1 ¼ pounds
- Grilled Salmon
- Grilled Tilapia
- Grilled Rainbow Trout
- Chilled Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail
All the grilled fish entrees in the Lighthouse Red Lobster Menu include a side of broccoli, but you can choose from other seasonal side dishes such as fresh asparagus, garden salad or a petite shrimp salad offering. You can also choose among the available dips and dressings, which are balsamic vinaigrette, pico de gallo or a cocktail sauce.
Aside from these heavy entrees, the Red Lobster menu also has lunch offerings that are quick and easy to order for busy people who are on-the-go.
The Quick Catches Lunch Menu have light but filling options, such as the following:
- Coastal soup and grilled shrimp salad – fresh salad with wood-grilled shrimp and the soup of your choice in a sourdough bowl that is toasted to perfection. You can choose between New England Clam Chowder or Creamy Potato Bacon Soup.
- Wood-grilled salmon BLT – grilled salmon with lettuce and tomato on a toasted sourdough roll, and freshly cooked potato chips
- Shrimp and wood-grilled chicken – grilled chicken perfectly paired with a shrimp offering of your choice, served over healthy rice pilaf. Your choices of shrimp are wood-grilled shrimp skewer, hand-beaded shrimp or garlic shrimp scampi
- Shrimp jambalaya – this is shrimp that is tenderized and served with roasted sweet peppers, onions, celery, andouille sausage, and spicy Creole sauce over wild rice pilaf.
- Chef’s signature lobster and shrimp pasta – this is a wonderful concoction of white wine and lobster butter sauce over linguine pasta with Maine lobster, tenderized shrimp, fresh asparagus, and tomatoes.
- Sailor’s platter – if you’re looking for something in the Red Lobster menu that will feed two to three people, you can order the Sailor’s platter, which is hearty servings of hand-breaded fried shrimp, garlic shrimp scampi and fish fillet that were cooked in the special Red Lobster broiler.
If your mouth is already watering after reading all of these selections, then it’s definitely time to pay a visit to your local Red Lobster restaurant. Not only will you treat yourself to an amazing meal, but you will also find all the healthy options you will ever need, right in the Red Lobster menu that you will hold in your hands.