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
Had a gift card and ordered Venetian Apricot Chicken. The service was good, the plate was beautiful (veggies good), big salad bowl had ONE olive, and worst of all, the chicken was rubbery--the frozen kind, overcooked.
Overpriced. . . .
Posted 07/18/09 | Report Abuse
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The Good: It is nice to have all the salad that you want.
The Bad: The food is average and its prices are inflated.
The menu-ignorant and inattentive college-student servers laughing and talking loudly in alcoves between attending to diners are a real delight. But they do seem to be having a much better time than most patrons.
The cooking is as authentic Italian as McDonald's is authentic home cooking. It is inconceivable to me that a restaurant that purports to be serving Italian food does not even have a dessert cannoli on the menu!
Like their competition on the east side of Cooper, this is just another corporate entity pretending to be what it is not to try to get your money out of your pocket and into theirs while delivering as little as they can get away with. Better to find a family-owned, real Italian restaurant that cares about its food quality and its customers--and where you can get cannoli for dessert...
The Funny: People wait in line to get fleeced by this place! And then they say it was great! ROFL!
Bon Appetit!
Posted 10/28/07 | Report Abuse
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I have not given a 5 star yet but this came so close. It was happy great but not just great plentiful Italian food for your money. When ever I want real food I go here, no questions. The price is worth it, it is not too costly though. The food itself covers everything; nothing is better than taking a while from drive thru and eat real food.
Posted 11/10/05 | Report Abuse
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This is one of my favorite places to eat at. the food is great and the waiters keep checking to see if you need anything. And the breadsticks are by far my favorite.
Posted 08/01/05 | Report Abuse
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One of the finest chain restaurants in the country. I have never been disappointed, and the neverending salad is the best! Dinners have a wide selection to suit any taste. I go as often as I can
PROS: Fine food and atmosphere
CONS: None
Posted 07/19/05 | Report Abuse
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The waiters always check on your table, even if they are very busy! They also always know the menu backwards and forwards, and will tell you the days best sellers or the best sellers in general! The manager is also a very nice person. I love eating there, the food is mouth-watering, and delicious!
Posted 06/02/05 | Report Abuse
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