Olive Garden
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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.
Reviews for Olive Garden
We were at Olive Garden last sunday with friend and what a awsom experience it was!Me and my husband are new here in Phoenix and absolutely love the food and service.
Posted 11/21/05 | Report Abuse
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I love this place! They have the most wonderful pastas, soups, salads and breadsticks. They are Italian food and are just delicious. I have always recieved great service at this location. I love it when they have their specials! Sometimes during special times they have all you can eat pasta bowl or all you can eat lunch soup and salads. When they have these specials they are great deals! Sometimes there is a wait to be seated since they are pretty popular. Restaurant is always nice and clean.
Posted 08/30/05 | Report Abuse
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The people at the Garden are well trained. there very polite and mannered. The food is doe great with little room for desert.I would recomend trying it it's a great family night out or a first date. Try the Soups you will be inpressed.
PROS: Staff is great
CONS: NONE AT ALL
Posted 07/20/05 | Report Abuse
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Excellent food along with friendly service. The restraunt has a good atmospher to it. The waiters were all we'll mannered each time I have visited and appeared to really enjoy their job. I particularly enjoy their Brocolli con Garlic Chicken on Angle Hair paste.
Posted 07/13/05 | Report Abuse
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This is the best resturant in the world! They have the best food the best service and they best bread sticks. I am always going there to eat! I would not go to any other Italian resturant!
Posted 05/12/05 | Report Abuse
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this is a very good resturant their servers are great and their food the same now there is a wait on fridays and saturdays but i'll wait for good food and service like that this place is excllent go and eat there when you get a craving for italian.
Posted 05/12/05 | Report Abuse
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I've heard many times that Olive Garden doesn't serve authentic Italian food. Who cares! The dishes are still yummy. I was dining with my friend once and she recommended ordering the chicken alfredo. I thought 'geez, that sounds so simple' and ordered another dish that sounds more exotic. Her chicken alredo came out and I was given a bite. Wow! These stuff are made from scratch, they don't taste like the ones you get from fazoli's or other american restaurants that serve some italian dishes. Also, the soup with sausage is so good there, I recommend trying it out in replace of the salad they serve.
Posted 11/12/06
the breadksticks and salad are a good start of they give u a good apetite for your food. they have allot of nice enthusatic waiters that check up on you to make sure your food is to perfection.
Pros: good service good food
Cons: long waits a lil overpriced
Posted 10/31/06
I always have a great time at this restaurant. The food is great and the staff is amazing. They always strike up great conversations.
Pros: atmosphere, friendly, great food
Cons: a little busy, parking is tight
Posted 10/27/06
Food is average at best, italian only in that they have pasta and wine. Dumbed down and sanitized for our safety, I guess. The waitress hovered to the point of being a nuisance--maybe I should have gone when they were busier. The wheels on the chairs scream "Sun City". Really, there are many better choices out there for the same money.
Pros: location
Cons: mediocre food, pesky waitstaff, italian for dummies
Posted 03/10/05
Received a gift card for this place for the second year in a row. Again, very underwhelmed. Strangely, they pack the people in every night. The wheels on the bottoms of the chairs scream "Sun City". Wine was actually decent, food was below par. Safe, pseudo-italian food for the undiscerning masses. Waitress was an annoyance: "Have you eaten with us before?", as if I was in for some delightful adventure, then intruded way too many times to check in. My advice: head for the Roman Table on 7th Ave for similar prices and a wonderful, genuine italian dining experience.
Cons: Hovering waitress, mediocre food, cafeteria atmosphere
Posted 02/26/05
Being Italian this is the best to my own cooking. The service is always excellent. The cost is very affordable.
Pros: Reasonably priced, Excellent food, Excellent service
Posted 02/19/04
Went there to eat with an aunt and uncle. First time and last time. Food had no taste, we had 3 different platters. It was like they forgot to put in the seasonings. I'd choose Carraba's over Olive Garden if you want a chain restaurant. If you want a nice family owned place, I also enjoy Giordano's in Mesa, southeast corner of Dobson and Guadalupe.
Cons: Food had no taste
Posted 01/25/04
The fact that this made the Phoenix top 10 Italian restaurants has convinced me that the true natives of Phoenix have now been eclipsed by those from other places who have brought their cheap palates with them. Olive Garden is a sad excuse for Italian food. The reason people like it is because you can get unlimited salad and breadsticks. Ooo! The excitement.
I remember going into one a short time ago and wanting a glass of wine. Upon tasting it, I said to the waiter that it was extremely bitter. "Everyone says that," he said. "If you drink it really fast, it isn't so bad."
Bon Apetit.
Pros: Inexpensive
Cons: Quality of food, Bitter wine
Posted 10/09/03
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