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Red Robin Burger & Spirits
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- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
9 reviews for Red Robin Burger & Spirits
I remember being in high school and going to Red Robin all the time thinking this was what a great burger and fries tastes like. Thankfully I matured and realized Red Robin has ridiculously sub-par food but where else can you get huge burgers, bottomless french fries, an atmosphere that's supposed to get you happy and excited, and a bird mascot that scares the shit out of little kids?
Today, after not being in one of these eateries for a while, I decided to grab some lunch before a doctor's appointment. I walk in and sit in a booth at the bar. The bartender didn't notice me. After about 5 minutes I get noticed and she brings over the huge menu and apologizes for the wait. I take the enormous menu from her and look at my options. Meat, meat, meat. Damn, it was much easier to eat here when I consumed cow. The waitress came back and I asked if it was possible to get a gourmet burger and substitute the meat patty with a gardenburger. Sure! Awesome! I get the mushroom swiss burger with a gardenburger. Shortly after it arrives and its piled high with mushrooms. I sink my teeth in and it was...uneventful. The gardenburger was hard in spots and the mushrooms weren't all that soft. No problemo. This damn burger was almost $10 so its getting eaten. I took advantage of the bottomless french fries and got another fill.
For my burger and my Bud Light it came to $14. 54. Yikes. Was this place always this pricey? If only my memory of a stoner would let me remember.
If you've been to one Red Robin you've been to them all. Take your kids so they can get a free balloon, have indifferent waiters and waitresses sing a song for their birthday, or so they can cringe in fear at the mascot.
When you are hungry and the roommate has given up fast food for Lent you may think this is the place to go. No. Let me clarify again, No, the sober brain says.
We sit in the bar. We are of age after all. We get menus and our drink orders taken almost immediately and then it all goes downhill from there. First we order beers, a Mac and Jack's and a Manny's. The roomie is starving, but I know a beer will hold him over for 2.2. It took way too long to get those beers.
I order the wings; he gets a guacamole burger. The wings come WAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY before the burger and the server pretended like there was nothing wrong with this. What?! (At other locations- I have been comp-ted drinks, the burger, or at least an early tray of fries! Not so at this location!)
So I demolished a coop of chicken legs when the roomie's burger finally arrived.
The food was okay, it was the lack of attentiveness of service that got me. The server knew everything was not okay, yet decided to play the drive by role of. "Everything is good. Right."
Me. in most pleasant tone ever, "Nooooooo."
Server, "Okay. Gooooooood."
Just bring a basket of fries earlier and comp a beer. It is really that easy. And just for the record I have worked as waitstaff in a chain restaurant and it is that easy.
Personally, I really like having dinner at Red Robin. Its a good combonation of family-friendly comfortability and tasty eats. One of the few restaurants that I actually enjoy bringing my toddler, they have kid sized everything and roomy tables and walkways. But not just for the kids, Red Robin has one of my favorite dishes, the BLTA crossoint sandwhich. And the novelty of their specialty drinks and towering onion rings is fun at any age!
Try Butler's bar a grill that is just North on Marine View Drive instead.... the burgers are much better. Red Robin = cheap food & cheap quality The quality is much better at Butlers.
No matter how many exciting, delicious, classy, funky, amazing restaurants I eat at in my life this one will always hold a large chunk of my heart.
The large chunk of my heart belongs to the Royal Red Robin Burger, with both tartar and ranch to dip my amazing fries into. If you really want to watch me have a foodgasm right there at the table lets go super crazy and start with the artichoke dip......
Just thinking of this makes me wet... in my mouth, get your mind out of the gutter!!!!
Having just moved to Washington state from New York was a surprise but even bigger still was how awesome the food at Red Robin was. I was expecting a dive but wow was I mistaken. The outside was gorgeous and inside was clean and you could see the kitchen (we were by the drink station but could still catch a glimpse as the kitchen was toward the far wall). I had a special item on the menu called the Brie Burger (no longer there unfortunately) :( and it was SO good! Then they asked me what dipping I wanted for my fries! (Who knew fries got dipping sauce? lol) Anyway, the servers were incredibly friendly (in fact all the staff was nice). We're definitely going back again. And again... and again!
When you go to Red Robin - you pretty much know what you are walking into. Clucks and fries, burgers, milkshakes - you get the idea, your standard American fare.
The Des Moines location seems deliver the formulaic menu better than most and offers several other perks. One, ample parking. Two, is rare that you have to wait (long) for a table. The slightly out of the way location helps keeps the crowds at bay and make it easy to get a table.
Staff is friendly and willing to accommodates. Additions and substitution's don't seem to bother them and they are able to split checks without challenge.
Do not go to this Red Robin. It's dirty they have limited staff and don't clean the tables up. Staff is unfriendly and burgers are not the red robin quality. Drive to the Southcenter Red Robin instead.
Our family comes here at least twice a month, if not more. Good burgers, all-you-can-eat fries. Our kids always order the macaroni and cheese with cantaloupe. Why is it that our kids only like the Kraft mac and cheese, but when you go to a restaurant that makes their own really good mac and cheese, they refuse to eat it? Anyway, it's good, reliable American food. They sing you a silly song on your birthday--why is it that waiters and waitresses are totally tone deaf? Do they not know that they're singing completely off key? Now Macaroni Grill--they can sing there (they have a opera-singing waitperson sing you Happy Birthday).
