Olive Garden
When You're Here, You're Family
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. But got very upset with them. Went there for husbands birthday and ordered fettuccine alfredo and started to dig in when I found a whole piece of chicken at the bottom of it not cooked. UGHHH!
Posted 11/12/05 | Report Abuse
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The service is outstanding and the food is the best !! The servers are very knowledgeable about the menu and eager to make recommendations and discuss ingredients and preparation. The soups are to die for!!
PROS: Great food, great service!
CONS: Long seating wait at times.
Posted 09/06/05 | Report Abuse
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The best! any italian dish you would want. wonderful breadsticks that keep coming. Their salad is so very fresh,worth the trip just for the salas!
Diane
Posted 09/03/05 | Report Abuse
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Beautiful atmosphere, great food. We could live on the salad and bread sticks alone! The service is always top notch here, always a pleasant experience!
Posted 06/10/05 | Report Abuse
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Latest reviews from Citysearch.
Shameful
by mimi444
My family is Italian, and moving here was quite a culture shock. Thank goodness my relatives do not want to eat Italian food when they visit -- other than the Macaroni Grill, we would be hard-pressed to find a decent place to eat Italian food. The Olive Garden is the McDonalds of Italian food - the utter disregard for actual Italian recipes makes me so angry. Italians enjoy FLAVOR and NOT SPICE unlike the advertisements - and you certainly would not consider taking your relatives to eat the pathetic offerings that are passed off as "real" Italian cooking. GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!
Pros: Rabbit Salads
Cons: Tasteless foods, Horrible Sauces, Overcooked pasta
Posted 02/14/03
This place is a joke
by aapoole
If you want real Italian food do not go to Olive Garden. If you want to eat semi-Italian food, the Garden is your place.
The thing about this place is that I could out cook any one these people. Although I don't think it is the cooks making the decisions. On the corporate ranks I believe these guys have their hands tied and simply aren't given the flexibility to create good Italian meals.
Pros: It is a restaurant, People eat there
Cons: Poor Food, Poor Service
Posted 07/31/02
good food, good service
by texeric
I'm from Houston. I ate at the Olive Garden because I just saw a commercial for the broccoli and chicken and some kin of pasta and it looked so good. I had that and the turning leaf merlot, which was also good. I ate at the bar which had a cute girl working it, which doesn't hurt if you're dining alone. I barely ate the main course as I was so full I was about to burst.
Pros: plentiful food, cute faces
Cons: hot temp indoors
Posted 05/31/02