Olive Garden
When You're Here, You're Family
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Message from Olive Garden
Olive Garden is a family of local restaurants focused on delighting every guest with a genuine Italian dining experience. We are proud to serve fresh, simple, delicious Italian food, complemented by a great glass of wine, served in a comfortable, home-like Italian setting where everyone is welcomed as family and friends. Olive Garden's menu features a variety of Italian specialties, including classic and filled pastas, chicken, seafood and beef. Enjoy our freshly baked garlic breadsticks and your choice of homemade soup or garden-fresh salad with any entree. All menu items are available for take-out, and our Parties To Go! menu offers generous family-sized meals for your next family gathering or office party.
Editorial by Citysearch
In ShortEstablished in 1982, this chain gained a following for its laid-back atmosphere and generous portions. Patrons settle into comfortable booths and tables in dining rooms with plants, artwork and décor reminiscient of the villas in the Tuscan countryside. Starters include scampi, sausage or pepperoni pizza, and several soup choices, as well as a signature seafood dip (crab, shrimp, cheese and marinara). Entrees include classics like lasagna, fettuccine Alfredo and chicken parmigiana. There are also "Garden Fare" options, which promise 30 percent fewer calories.
Key Points
- Fresh, delicious Italian food
- Variety of wine and beverages
- To Go ordering available
The Inside Scoop
- What to Drink - What's spaghetti and meatballs without a glass of wine? You'll find vintages here from Italy, Australia, California and Washington.
Insider Pages Reviews for Olive Garden
I love Italian food. What I dont love is having to drive to the North End to pay such high prices for it!
I come here instead (or Vinny T's), close to my house and both very good. Olive Garden stands out because of their free salads! THEY ARE DELICIOUS! The food is always great and service is always friendly and efficient!
Posted 01/10/08 | Report Abuse
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olive garden has excellent food they have very good itlain food and lots of warm fresh bread good freshly made salads and so much more i really enjoy their food.
Posted 07/22/05 | Report Abuse
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Latest reviews from Citysearch.
It seems that everyone wants to eat there.
I have always had to wait 45 minutes minimum/.
Once even 2 hrs. ( I went somewhere else)
Pros: Good food
Cons: Very long wait for a table
Posted 08/26/09
How Olive Garden could make the top 10 Italian in a city with so many great Italian restaurants, is beyond me! Even at a low price point I can think of many that are better..... Massimino's, L'Osteria, Pomodoro... for starters...
Posted 06/25/03
This OG tends to be a little better than the OG in hyannis.They really out to close the two of them. Cheap food does not automatically mean bargain. as low as the prices are the quality of the food is lower.
Cons: loud, bland, POOR QUALITY
Posted 03/16/03
This restaurant does not deserve to be mentioned under Italian restaurants. It's a chain and you can taste it in the food. As well as see/feel it in the environment.
Cons: bland menu, just a chain, unpalatable food
Posted 01/08/03
This italian food chain does not belong, never mind deserve, to be in the same classification as the other italian restaurants. For authentic italian cusine, you need to go to the North End (although, there are places outside of the NE that are comparable). Otherwise, if you're looking for cheap, disgusting italian food, OG is the place to go.
Posted 12/11/02
The Olive Garden?
Obviously rated highly by those who have never actually had italian food!
Did you just move here? Go to the Fleet Center and take a right, you'll find somehting called the North End.
I'll give it all 5's because its extremely average in every respect.
Try Joe Tecce's!!!!
Pros: Inexpensive, Quick
Cons: Not really authentic, fast food ital. style
Posted 10/06/02
Great Italian food for people who think that McDonald's is a great place to take the family for a special night out.
Posted 09/19/02
Love the sauce, love the breadsticks, love the house salad, love the cappucino, etc. It does get crowded and noisy (like any restaurant on the weekends) and the service isn't always top-notch, but we look forward to our meals at Olive Garden, nonetheless.
Pros: great food, good piped-in music
Cons: crowded, ok service
Posted 08/25/02
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