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
Been to this restaurant several times and the food is excellent if you like Italian. Really nice decor inside also that is relaxing and makes your experience there very nice. The food and the staff are very attentive and come with extra cheese and bread and drinks. They have a great wine list too for any pasta that you order. Also it is in the middle of a shopping center so lunch there is to do when shopping.
Posted 09/07/05 | Report Abuse
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The Olive Garden is a classy five star restaurant. I love getting dressed up and then going out to the Olive Garden. The restaurant is very classy. The food is also amazing at this restaurant. Ther service is great. Also the parking is great because I can always find a spot. The only bad t hing about the Olive Gardenis that I always have to wait a long time to be seated. But the wait is well worth it.
Posted 07/27/05 | Report Abuse
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It's Olive Garden, so everyone probably knows what to expect, but this location is always quick to get you seated, even on busy nights. I love the food, and the service is decent to great.
Posted 06/06/05 | Report Abuse
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Latest reviews from Citysearch.
My husband and I love Olive Gardens food, but have had HORRID situations come up while trying to eat in the restaurant. We got sat next to a family with several young children, one screaming at the top of their lungs "caaa caa poo poo peeee peeee" and stomping their feet while running around the restaurant. We requested a different table and got sat next to, or practically in the kitchen. Had waiters and waitresses running past us the entire time and the sound of dishes clattering and the chefs talking was soo loud we had to yell to try and talk to eat other. Another time tried to eat in the bar, thinking it would be a slightly more adult atmosphere, and people sat their kids in the bar area as well. Good food and will continue to use pick up service, but will search for a more private quiet restaurant, if it exhists for a night out.
Pros: good food
Cons: loud, obnoxious, atmosphere
Posted 05/01/09
I appreciate the Olive Garden offering a great variety of food, but to call it Italian is like calling Taco Bell authentic Mexican. Olive Garden is an Americanized commercialized version of Italian food, and isn't even really Italian at that. For a real Italian meal, try another restaurant, or better yet, take a vacation to the motherland. Buon Appetito!
Posted 04/16/03
We just went, no reservations, but it wasn't too long a wait. The food was delicious and the sevice pretty good. However, I wish we should have been sat away from little children.
Pros: good food, pretty good service, very friendly
Cons: had to wait for order, had to wait to get in
Posted 10/03/02
Olive Garden is a place to relax and enjoy your favorite foods and wines. It is a must for everyone to try what is offered. The price range is okay. What you order comes in abundance.
Pros: great food, excellent service, romantic atmosphere
Cons: crowded
Posted 08/12/02
Whenever my husband and I go to Olive Garden we always get a quality meal. The food is always hot and fresh and the salad is always crisp and never limp or brown. They bring you enough food so that you can take half home with you and the prices are reasonable.
Posted 08/11/02