Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

Terrible. I ordered chicken alfredo to go and eat at the bar until it was done. When I got home, I was less than pleased. My pasta was fairly dry and there was ¹⁄₃ of the alfredo sauce that should have been on the pasta.
Word to the wise… Check your food before you leave!

One is being nice… If it wasn’t for Stephanie the most wonderful server, I would not go back. Food is always Luke warm or cold. This place needs a qualified kitchen management staff .
Host staff needs better training on proper customer service. I’ve been going here for 7 years and it has gone down hill in the last year.

Great meal and excellent service. Angela, the manager, was awesome. She came by several times to ensure we had everything we needed and just to say hello. The food was fresh and treated great. Thank you.

I was kind of disappointed in this visit to Olive Garden.
A group of eight of us went to dinner on a Thursday evening. We were seated quickly and since someone in our party could not walk very far they offered to sit us in the very front in the room somewhat sectioned off. Our service was AMAZING! since we were a larger party they had two waiters helping us. They were very attentive, constantly refilled our drinks, brought our food out quickly and had the unlimited salad/​breadsticks constantly at our table.
You can’t go wrong with the salad and breadsticks!
As for some of the issues we had, I ordered the rosemary and garlic chicken and the chicken was lukewarm. The potatoes and spinach were pretty good.
My grandma is not able to eat anything spicy whatsoever and can not eat any black pepper. We figured she could eat some grilled chicken with vegetables. However this was not an option. The waitress claimed everything is already pre marinated and the only sauces that didnt have pepper was a garlic, butter sauce. I was completely shocked that they couldnt even make some grilled chicken that wasnt seasoned. It was pretty evident that all their food must come pre packaged and not made in house. My grandparents had to stick to the salad and breadsticks and were not able to eat anyting else. (partly because at this point they were kind of frustrated)
I recommend picking somewhere else if someone in your group has any issues related to this.

First of all let me start out with I love olive garden, but lately not so much. My husband and I were staying in the area over night and we had a large lunch and thought a salad and a drink would suffice. We sat at the bar and the bar was a disaster. It was messy, plates were all over the back bar area and it was epic chaos. It wasn’t terribly busy but the waitress and waiter were running around like they had not a clue what they were doing. On top of them needed the manager for everything they did on the computer due to manager voiding and entering, are drinks were not what we were expecting but decided to have them watered down a bit due to the strong lemon taste (it was a long island). Overall we left and hope they can get the staff a bit more together on things. As we left we werent even acknowledged. Poor service.

Meh not my best experience at a OG.
Sat at the bar. Service wasn’t quite the best. We ordered soup, salad and breadstick combo. We had to flag someone down to ask for more (it’s unlimited). We also got calamari. I don’t mean to be harsh when I say it was the worst calamari I’ve ever had … Ever. It tasted like it wasn’t cooked. I also got a drink off the happy hour menu, don’t do that either. To be fair I know many restaurants pre-​make their happy hour drinks; it just tasted like I was drinking the bottom of a concentrated juice container. I suggest getting a different happy hour drink like wine or beer .
I did learn you can sample wine for 25cents before you commit to a full glass .
The original soup I got seemed to be the last bowl of the pot, not so good but my second bowl was much much better .
All in all I think it was a awkward time to come. It was 3pm so the switch between lunch and dinner was prolly happening. I suggest coming during lunch or as dinner is starting.

Olive Garden is nothing special. The only thing I come for is salad and breadsticks, I just wish once they’d shock me with a great meal. Tonight was not that night. The middleburg location just always seems to disappoint. I ordered cavatappi with 5 cheese marinara it tasted fine, but it was luke warm at best. Waiter seemed like he was in a rush, after we waited 10 just for him to initially come over. My bf order soup instead of salad and we had to remind him, as well as ask for dipping sauces they forgot to bring out with the appetizer. We won’t be back to this location any time soon.

i wouldn’t normally even review an Olive Garden. everyone’s been to one and you think you know what you’re going to get. however…
we were seated and waited 10 minutes before Hakim came to get our drink order. since we’d had plenty of time to look at the menu we ordered our dinners too.
we ordered a sampler w/​fried ravioli, calamari and stuffed mushrooms. i ordered spaghetti and chicken meatballs w/​pasta fagiole soup. Danielle got a build your own pasta w/​salad. Hakim brought the salad out but didn’t bring my soup so we had to remind him to get it. then our sampler was brought but without any dipping sauces, so we had to ask for those also.
the dinners were fine, though i didn’t care for my meatballs at all. i ordered them because i’d had them at the Montrose restaurant a couple weeks ago and thought they were real good. these were just not good. don’t know why. just a different taste.
i sense that Hakim began to notice my utter disgust w/​our experience so he started to be a very little more attentive though not much. he was slow to do anything. drink refills took long enough that he could have gone down the street to refill our drinks at a gas station.
the one thing i’ll give him credit for is that he didn’t charge me for the chicken meatballs since i didn’t finish them. that was nice of him.
we won’t be going back to this location again, though, as we’d had another bad experience here a number of months ago and the staff and management just don’t seem to care about making customers happy.

Awful experience here last night. I sat at the bar around 8:00. After waiting for 5 minutes with no service, I asked a hostess if someone could take my order. Another 5 minutes go by and a an annoyed waitress ends up taking it. When I hadn’t even received my beer 10 minutes later, I simply just got up and left.
Terrible experience – will definitely not be going back.

I came here for lunch with a co-​worker last week and we both enjoyed the unlimited soup and salad for only $ 7.50. You can’t beat that deal. Our waiter was very friendly and attentive. He happily split up our checks for us and boxed my food to go.
The sausage soup is by far the best (Zuppa Toscana). It has kale, potato and sausage yum! And I absolutely love love love their homemade salad and their garlic breadsticks. The salad dressing is so good and you can buy it at the store now too! I’ve always loved coming to the Olive Garden and they are always consistent. Great service and great food. You can’t go wrong coming here for lunch or dinner. :)

When I tried their new menu, I really love the new kale salad topper salad and the strawberry panna cotta. Best of all the tastings. I am not sure when I will be back but I would love to try the dessert again.

For the longest time, I’ve always avoided going to Olive Garden due to a bad experience. I finally decided to give Olive Garden another shot a couple months ago & I’m so happy did! Pretty much every dish I’ve order here have been really good. I’m a fan of the lasagna & the smoked mozzarella chicken. I just tried the gluten free rotini with roasted garlic alfredo & chicken meatballs today… totally found my new favorite dish from there! The only thing I don’t like is the fact the breadsticks always look so pale but they still taste good regardless.

Ordered trout and gave me white fish. Good appetizer, salad and breadsticks as usual. Good service. I wish I got real trout.

The new menu items were delicious and absolutely re-​invigorated my attitude towards Olive Garden. Can’t wait to go back and have some more of my favorites. Loved the risotto balls and the artichoke fritta for appetizers and the Pappardelle Pescatore is a great take on a seafood pasta. And don’t hesitate to try the salad toppers, they really livened up the salad.
The service was excellent. The servers really made sure our dining experience was as good as it could be. Will return to this location for sure.

My sister and I came here the other day for a delicious birthday lunch. Of course we went into this with the intention of demolishing the soup, salad, breadstick meal and calling it a day. However, there is a fancy new additive for a couple bucks… a small plate of pasta! WHAT?! Although in heinsight, it really was to much food. I barely finished my meal. Oh I finished it don’t worry, but barely.
We both had the Zuppa Toscana soup which was delicious. Potatoes and sausage, what’s not to like? Then I added the five cheese ziti and my sister had the chicken meatballs. Wow… it was so much food but oh so good. I honestly couldnt tell you the last time I was at Olive Garden before that, but now I’ll be keeping it on my suggestion list.
Our waiter was awesome! Such a good sense of humor (which you need with the two of us), and he was on point with beverage refills. Very impressed. I will definitely be back here again soon to try some more of the new menu items.
A small P.S.
This review was going to have four stars until my Unilocal event last night. After trying the new menu items and having, yet again excellent service, I immediately bumped this up to a well deserved five stars! Great work Olive Garden!

Very good service. Always making sure if we needed any drinks or anything else that we got it right away.

Coupons work with take out orders here. The take out orders seems to be slower than the restaurant! I tried keeping it simple with classic lasagna. The to go comes with more sauce, than eating there and the soup is extra too. So it seemed like a better deal.

3.5 stars. Very friendly staff along with standard OG fare.
Who doesn’t like endless soup or salad? Who doesn’t like the ability to get one entrée for dinner and one to take home for just $ 12.95?
Hey, OG will never be confused with Carmine’s in NYC, but it’s reasonably priced pedestrian Italian, good enough for the entire family.
The best part about this store is the friendly, helpful staff. Un buon posto per gustare un pasto Italiano medio a Cleveland!

I usually like eating here, and maybe it was an off night, but really the only thing enjoyable was the dessert. Parking on a busy night sucks, luckily they have 5 acres of parking lot spaces to accommodate.
We opted for the 2 for $ 25. The salad was hardly a salad-​white, whilty lettus, exactly 2 olives for two people, exactly 2 slices of tomatoes… I mean come on, the end of the world is tomorrow and i can’t get just a couple more items to color my salad?
Although busy, the first round of breadsticks were barely warm, dry, and ends crunchy. The second round was better, fresh from the oven, but very salty.
Got the eggplant parmesan. Too much cheese and marinara sauce on the eggplant, which made it very soggy.
Ok, enough, what was good? The service was great, the spaghetti with the parmesan was great. The dessert… the tiramisu was excellent! As pricy as it is, it is well worth the $ 6 something if that’s all you get there!

«Welcome to the Olive Garden what can I do for you!?»
This is the first thing the family heard as we stumbled through the door at our nations capitol The Olive’s Garden Food.
«Ok I’ll have a brown soda» I said. «Ok hunny bunch» She said. «Unlimited refills?» I said. «You bet, snuffelupigus» She said. «And bottomless breadsticks too» She said. «You gonna dip the sticks in yer soda?» She says. This went on for 7 minutes until the wife says «listen, darling you gotta get those breadsticks warm and hot and them sodas ready for my husband». After the killer lasagna and mashed potatoes we drove out to the car and headed home with our brains fulla sodas.