Oliva’s Bar & Restaurant

We have had Oliva’s pizza before. Several times. This time we ordered one with tomato as a topping. Big mistake. The sauce is great. Excellent crumbled sausage. Good pepperoni. But they put sliced tomatoes all over the pie. This is not good. There is too much moisture when that is how the tomatoes are added. Pretty much ruined it for us. Made it the messiest pizza I think I have ever had. They should dice the tomato and let it drain through a sieve first.
That said, we will definitely get more pizza from Oliva’s. Just not with tomato!

Very relaxed friendly atmosphere. Co-​workers and I go every Friday for fish and chips and often find ourselves there for drinks as well. Great prices and amazing food. Calamari is awesome. The prime rib is amazing on Fridays and Saturdays and my ribeye steaks are always a perfect medium rare with a nice char on the outside. It’s one of those places you drive by and think «I should go there sometime.» Trust me, you’re right!

We celebrated my moms 85^th birthday here. The staff was friendly and attentive throughout our meal. We started with Brie and it was delicious. The Italian dishes were superb and the tiramisu with chocolate drizzle was the perfect ending. They play 70/​80s music which was a trip down memory lane for me! Highly recommend this restaurant.

Family owned Italian restaurant. Good food and friendly servers. Ordered a glass of their house cabernet with their version of bang bang shrimp. Very good. Ordered the eggplant parmesan which was also tasty … sauce was tangy. Pasta could have been more al denté…it was a bit mushy which oftentimes happens when its made in volume. This would be the only improvement I could say, but it won’t keep me from returning. The décor is modern Italian. nice touch. Wish it were NON-​SMOKING. Hate that it isn’t. That would be the main reason I wouldn’t return because I don’t like my clothing and in this case, my winter coat smelling like smoke.

Look online for Olivia’s restaurant found a website with their menu want to get their pizza for five toppings is $ 28 is a thin crust and nasty nasty nasty. The menu prices that I saw was 1975 for a Four topping pizza when I get there it ends up being $ 28.45 topping pizza. Get home and hubby grabs a piece of the box I take it inside to go get plates And napkins, take a bite out of one piece of pizza and I spit it out. The sauce tasted like water Down tomato paste. Very bitter very nasty immediately took the pizza back. So the guy sitting at the bar which I’m going to assume was the owner says to me, I take it you won’t be back. I said no I don’t think so. He said good glad to hear it. And the place came highly recommended which I will not recommend this place to anybody and any website and I find with Olivia’s information on it they will be receiving a very bad review for me

This is a little hidden place just north of the train tracks in downtown-​ish Mishawaka. It feels more like a bar than restaurant. It is comfortable either way. The service is also fast and pleasant.
I ordered a mushroom and sausage pizza… It tasted good, distinct, and above average for all the pizza places I’ve had in the area… However, they do use canned mushrooms (I don’t approve of such a thing) and the sausage had some hard grizzle stuff in there (It annoyed me but I’m not picky about that).
It was just different pizza in a different kind of place.

We are big supporters of the local, Mishawaka restaurants and businesses so when we heard Oliva’s had just opened last week, we had to give it a try.
They have done a great job renovating the building and they have a bonus of being located on a dead end street so it is nice and quiet right around the restaurant. The outside is very attractive and despite a big crowd, we didn’t have any problems finding a parking place.
However, to our dismay, we were met with the information that Oliva’s is a smoking establishment and over 21 only. We are totally down with no kids allowed but since we aren’t smokers, we usually steer clear of all restaurants and bars that allow smoking. We decided to give it a try anyway.
In their defense, they have done the absolute best job to control the smoke they could. There is a big sucker on the ceiling that draws all of the smoke straight up but it isn’t enough to save this place for non-​smokers like us. While we loved this place, we won’t be back.
So, let’s get down to what we loved. The place was utterly PACKED yet everyone working there was good natured about the chaos and everyone waiting seemed to be having a good time. We lucked out and got the last two seats at the bar while we waited for our table and enjoyed the house Chianti. While we waited, we noticed it was definitely an older crowd — the majority of the people there were probably in their 50s.
We were finally seated at a small, 2 seat table in the bar area — bring your patience with you for a crowd because everyone waiting for a table was crowded around us. The bar is very nice, beautiful wood and very well stocked but narrow and not much standing room around it.
We ordered two of the speciality dinners — I got the spaghetti with marinara, which 5% of the proceeds from this meal are donated by the owners to breast cancer research while my husband got the red pepper chicken pasta. Each meal comes with a tasty Italian broth soup, a generous Italian salad with wonderful cheese and salami strips and warm rolls. The salad is brought out in a big deep bowl with tongs for you to dish onto your own plates to your heart’s content.
We both loved our dishes and have plenty of leftovers — our incredibly nice waitress even boxed up the leftover salad, which could be a meal in itself.
So, we would definitely recommend Oliva’s for those that don’t mind the smoke but for the rest of us, I would stick with carry out.