Restaurants, Italian Restaurants
Carry Out, Date Spot, Family-Friendly Dining, Group Dining, Lunch Spot, Special Occasion Dining
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.
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by Anonymous
Olive garden has good food. I ate angel hair pasta last time and was pretty good. I liked it...I would recommend this place to many people. Over all, the food was great!
Posted 08/29/07 | Report Abuse
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the food is excellent, plus the service is top notch. the prices are a little high, but you definitely get what you pay for. it is worth every dollar you spend.
Posted 05/16/05 | Report Abuse
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I think this place has a pretty good menu but alot of the food is similar in some ways so i wouldnt compliment them on variety. However, the quality of the food is good i would recommend the Three Cheese Ravioli which is so good and comes with soup and garlic bread. The one problem with this place is when you order take out make sure its not a long trip home because the food tends to get good really quick. Overall the prices are pricey but the trick is to eat there at lunch because the prices are lowered.
Posted 03/19/05 | Report Abuse
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Burbank Patrons
by FedupBurbankPatrons
I am so tired of you Burbank trash complaining about the Olive Garden. You had to wait.... so don't....Wendy's is right next door go there, its apparent you really want fast food. Also, you complain about the quality and the price of the food, the menu is not overpriced and the quality of the food for the cheap price your getting it for is fine. If you want fine dinning go get fine dinning, the Olive Garden a chain restaurant which is a step up from McDonald's so quit complaining. Oh and you complain about the wait staff and the hosts when really you have no idea what their jobs are. They can't just seat the whole restaurant at once or the servers wouldn't be able to get to you and the kitchen would get overflowed with orders that there is no possible way to get all the orders. You complain about your salad,soup, and bread not coming within two minutes of you putting in your order well here is a news flash the servers also have to wait for those items to be prepared. You complain about your servers, well here is another news flash you are not the only table in the restaurant, they have other tables and other job duties besides you. Its clear that you whiny, complaining Burbank patrons don't understand how a corporate restaurant is run. Servers are treated poorly and are paid poorly (8.00 an hour and they claim all the poor tips you give them) . So before you sit down at your computer and go bashing PEOPLE think about what your complaining about. Servers are mostly students, starving actors, or mothers/fathers who go there everyday hoping to make ends meet, it seems you people have never had to work a hard day in your life, waiting on people, having managers treat them badly, getting paid barely enough to survive.
Pros: The service
Cons: The patrons
Posted 04/20/08
Outrageous wait times~ always!
by txs1472
Is waiting 3 hours for a table even an option??? Who would wait 3 hours!!! I've been told more than once at dinner time that there is a 3 hour wait!!! LOL no thanks!!!! I can be a third of my way to Italy by then & I would have had been served a meal on the plane!!!
When you do get a seat you get a meatball thats as edible as a little rubber bouncing ball....seriously my mother was served the grossest meatballs ever, Other than that I haven't had a bad meal there. But Like I said you cant get a seat. ANd if you peek in the restaurant you will see they are barely half full. aparently they don't like feeding people or making money.
Pros: salad
Cons: 3 hour wait~ you must be crazy
Posted 03/08/07
Too expensive and not very good
by dmenkes
Where I grew up, eating out at Olive Garden was "fine dining." I freely admit that with so many excellent Italian restaurants in LA, I was skeptical about eating at a chain restaurant. What I didn't figure on was how expensive it would be. For two people, two main dishes and iced teas, it came out to $58! The food was nothing to write home about but I was almost offended to pay so much for such mediocre food. It's just...bland and generic. Don't they microwave all their dishes from frozen mixes?
Cons: too expensive for bland, pedestrian "italian"
Posted 10/29/06
Mass market food/service
by netter1
Generally, you know exactly what to expect from the Olive Garden. You get in line with all the other diners and wait your turn to order the known entity of "never-ending pasta" and have your soup, salad and breadsticks. In a place like this, the only things that distinguish it from other restaurants is the service. This location had good service. Much better than the Arcadia location and slightly above the Glendale incarnation. Otherwise, they're pretty much all the same...
Posted 10/09/05
WORST RESTAURANT EXPERIENCE EVER
by fjannej
If you like being ignored by over made up children for mediocre food well than maybe you should try this Olive Garden. Otherwise stay far away....I spent an hour sitting in a hard wooden chair while waitresses stood ten feet from me and discussed thier nails, their boyfriends and the spat they were having with their OH MI GAWD former best friends...I never got my food or even so much as water...
Posted 04/09/04
