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6 reviews for The Olive Garden Italian Restaurant
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The Olive Garden Italian Restaurant
6/23/2010
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Reasons I go to Olive Garden:
There is only 1 in CGY and it's in the NE
Waiters are nice and cute to look at
Unlimited breadsticks and Salad
I like Italian food
My current fave is Eggplant Parmigiana - comes with 4 strips of eggplant and a side of spaghetti with tomato. I can't eat too much tomato so I order Angel Hair with Garlic Cream sauce.. ohhhhhhhhhhh so yummy!
Desserts are to die for: I went with 4GF's and we ordered 4 desserts. Check out my pic:
Zeppoli - Italian Donut
Tiramisu
Lemon Cream Cake
White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake
My favewas the Zeppoli
The Olive Garden Italian Restaurant
6/20/2010
A - List. Rating 3.5 to 4. Great food, lively atmosphere, good service. I have been to this location several times. The quality of food is consistent. The place is always busy (expect to wait; they do not take reservations). The service is hit or miss. The menu is interesting and there is something for most everyone. I have not experienced the issues others have reported here. There must be a reason people keep coming back and lining up for?
The Olive Garden Italian Restaurant
2/7/2010
My Hubby and I went to the Olive Garden for a treat. I love this place!
We had to wait about 30 minutes for a table on a Sunday early evening. Usually the waits here are long on the weekends and they don't take reservations during those times.
Once seated our server came promptly and took our drink order. I find the staff here usually are friendly and have a fun attitude. I had gotten a glass of wine, their glasses go for around $6 or $7. You get free refills on their pop and iced tea. We got our drinks quickly and he took our food order. My Husband got the tour of Italy and I got the chicken con broccoli, but with whole wheat linguine instead of the normal pasta. It was no problem for me to substitute.
We were brought our garden salad and bread sticks while we waited. I always binge on their bread sticks, which is silly because then I don't have much room left for my pasta. But they are so good, I'm pretty sure they coat them in some addictive substance or something. Needless to say we enjoyed them thoroughly and got a couple refills.
Our food was really good. I could tell the chicken in mine was frozen, it didn't have much flavour. The broccoli was a bit crunchy, but I didn't mind. My Hubby had no problem stuffing his face with his massive platter of food.
When we got our bill, I asked the server if I could have extra chocolate mints that they give you. He came back with a whole big handful! So that made me happy! This place isn't super cheap, you are looking at $13 to $16 a pasta, but the portions are big.
I like this place, we had a good experience and our food was pretty good. If you haven't been here it is a must go, at least for the bread sticks and mints!
The Olive Garden Italian Restaurant
10/17/2009
Oh yes, the Olive Garden. I think that place is fan-freakin-tastic! And everyone I talk to about it seems to agree.
I used to go to the Olive Garden almost every year for my birthday, but haven't been back in a while. When I found out I'd be having dinner there this evening, I was so unbelievably excited! All day long all I could think about was going to this place.
Guess what? I was not disappointed when I left! It was exactly as I remembered it being, and I totally loved every minute of it. My fettuccine alfredo was just perfect; not too much garlic, not too runny. It took a little longer for the extra mushrooms I ordered to come, but it was definitely worth the wait.
And believe me, there was wait. When we arrived at 5 PM we were told it was going to be an hour and a half wait. I couldn't believe it, but there really was a lot of people in the place. We decided to wait it out and have a couple of drinks at the bar before we ate. We were all happy when, 50 minutes into the wait, we were seated. It didn't even seem like we were waiting for that long because we were talking and laughing and having a good time still. I stand firm on the fact that it's worth the wait.
Did you know that at the Olive Garden you get unlimited fresh bread sticks and soup or salad with EVERY meal?! Yeah! Isn't that awesome? The only problem is that I usually fill up on the bread and salad before my meal even comes! It's okay, I still manage to scarf down most of my pasta because it's so darn good!
The Olive Garden Italian Restaurant
5/6/2009
I have always enjoyed Olive garden in terms of the food and the ambiance.
The food has to be out of this world to make me wait for more than 20 minutes for a table. The food is good ..... but far from O O T W.
I have not been back for ages and likely won't be any time soon.
Build more restaurants!
The Olive Garden Italian Restaurant
2/10/2009
What can I say. They have reached a new low.
My wife and I use to go to the Olive Garden every couple of months, for years. The food was always what you would expect and was very consistant ,on the mediocer side ,at best.
When we arrived it was an 1 hour wait, which is normal at 6pm on a saturday. no problem, we wait for our table for six.I noticed other large groups that came in after we did getting in before us. I do a quick recon of the hostesses clipboard and sure enough, no less than 5 partys of 6-8 ppl got in ahead of us. Sorry they say....it will be just another 5 minutes.
We ordered drinks and they did'nt have the advertized special. Mint lime fresco something. No problem, it must have been so good they sold out. We did get the breadsticks( cold and way undercooked)
The food ,when it arrived,was obviously sitting under the heat lamp for waaay to long. Everything was dry dry dry.
Our friends young son order pepperoni pizza. It came with no pepperoni .
Dessert time. Hmmmm what to have? Nothing of course because its still all frozen!! ( insert apology here)......ha ha ha , NOT!
They normally do better.
This time , however, they completly failed on so many levels I was embarassed for them.
