Hello and welcome to the Red Lobster Chef's blog.

My name is Michael LaDuke and I am the Senior Executive Chef at Red Lobster. In my role here, I get to design, develop and, most importantly, taste all the recipes that become the great, fresh seafood dishes you enjoy at your local restaurants.


That is not only the best job I have ever had, it is also the biggest! To get this done I have the privilege of working with a great team of chefs in The Red Lobster Culinary Center. This team combines over 100 years of experience from across the country and around the world, and you can learn about each member of our team here.

I am both proud and excited to introduce the new Red Lobster Chef’s Blog. I want to share with you what I have learned through the years when it comes to preparing great, fresh, healthy seafood. From buying fresh fish in your local market to serving great fresh seafood dishes, I will be providing tips, information and recipes to help inspire you to be a great seafood chef at home!

The Red Lobster Chef’s Blog will be three things: informative, fun and interactive! I, along with the Red Lobster Chef Team, want to share some of our culinary inspirations, and read some of yours. As I travel the country looking for new ideas and meeting new people, I will share these experiences with you in video casts, so you can see some of the “behind the scenes” work that goes into creating great, fresh dishes at Red Lobster. One of the first video casts will be of a recent trip to Boston where I had the pleasure of looking for great fresh seafood and lobster in Cape Cod, as well as cooking on the Coast Guard Cutter Seneca with some of their officers and Galley Crew.

So please email us with any questions or things you might like to see, and we will try to answer as many as possible in upcoming visits to the blog. Thank you for stopping by, and please come by your local restaurant to see what’s fresh today at Red Lobster.