Garlic Grilled Shrimp — Red Lobster Kids Menu 2026

Red Lobster grills jumbo shrimp with garlic butter and serves the 4 piece skewer hot for only $7.99. You get 80 savoury calories, 19 g protein and pure shellfish flavour perfect add on or light bite. Order now before the grill cools down tonight!

At 80 calories, the Garlic Grilled Shrimp is the lightest item on Red Lobster’s entire menu kids’ or adult. Four jumbo shrimp, grilled rather than fried, brushed with garlic butter, priced at $7.99.

It is an odd standout on a kids menu otherwise built around mac and cheese and chicken tenders. Most children’s menus default to fried, breaded options because they’re a safer bet for picky eaters, so a grilled shrimp dish sitting alongside those choices is unusual but it exists for parents who want their kid eating actual seafood rather than just chicken tenders at a seafood restaurant.

Twelve grams of protein for 80 calories is a genuinely good ratio, better than most adult entrées on a per calorie basis. Whether a given child will eat it is a separate question entirely from whether it’s a reasonable thing to order, shrimp is not universally a kid friendly food the way chicken tenders are, so this works best for families where the kid already eats seafood at home rather than as an experiment on a restaurant visit.

The lack of breading also makes this one of the few Kids Menu items that’s gluten free without modification, worth knowing for families managing that.