Olive Garden
When You're Here, You're Family
Insiders:
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.
Latest reviews from Citysearch.
I have been to several Olive Gardens, some offering carboard and chalk imitations of parmesan, others seemingly requiring their waiters to take our order back to Naples for confirmation of terms, such was the service, but this Olive Garden was an exception. Although the foodstuffs here are almost brutalized Americanizations of Italian classics, they are tasty, portion quite ample nondescript constructions of pasta, meats and cheese. The soft breadsticks, hot to the table are probably the triumph of the restaurant. Add to this a choice of several chiantis fetched by reasonably attentive servers, and praise is there.
Pros: Large portions, Wine List
Cons: , Standard recipes
Posted 02/07/04
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