Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

It was about a 30-minute wait for a table. That being said however once we were seated everything was delicious. I had the five cheese baked ziti. It was hot cheesy and delicious. Our server, whose Name Escapes Me was quite friendly and professional. The breadsticks kept coming my drink was never empty and she was just a pleasant young lady. I can see why there is a wait for a table there it's a good place to eat.

My dinner at this Olive Garden provided the good service and food that I expect from this restaurant chain. It is one of my favorites. Their prices have went up comparable to the prices of everything. However, they kept the value to quality ratio. It is still a good value for the quality and quantity of food. They still have the best salad and breadsticks. I ordered the soup and salad combo, which was excellent. I wish more restaurants had a soup and salad meal on their menus. The service was great. You can tell that they train their servers and other staff.

Food wasn't served hot. I believe there must've been a problem with their oven or who know what? The soup tasted good but it was warm as if it was sitting out for a while, the bread sticks were also almost cold and kind of hard to chew. So I mentioned it to our waitress, she brought me a second plate of soup and it was hot but the new batch of bread was still kind of hard. So for the entries, we ordered chicken Alfredo and your of Italy. My Alfredo was warm enough but dry. The lasagna was almost barely warm in the middle so we asked the waitress if it could be warm up. Well she couldn't take the plate back to warm it up but she offered to bring another lasagna. It took some time to serve us a new one, so by the time we got it, we were getting full with bread sticks, salad and the rest of the food. Although, the waitress seemed to be helpful, she literally brought us the new lasagna saying that she made sure it was very hot this time. I had some mix feelings about the sarcastic comment, because the plate and lasagna were literally extremely hot. it felt as if we were just being annoying to her, so of course my daughter almost burned her mouth taking a bite of the lasagna, which she was craving for that night. So we just decided to just take it to go. I'm sure if other people noticed the food temperature or not, but we did. Our waitress didn't really seemed to be interested in finding out if there was something wrong in the kitchen. Neither she cared to give us a bag to put out take out food (5+dessert). I still left a tip, though I kinda regret it because I don't think I should praise mediocre service. But I did it for my girls who care so much about waitresses. I like Olive Garden, but I'm not sure if I'll go back to this location.

Our kids took us to Olive Gardens on Saturday, March 12 for our 61st anniversary. I was not very hungry, so ordered the shrimp appetizer. It was a half-pound feast, and included salad and bread as sides. A full meal indeed for a bit over $10 and totally delicious. We were all extremely happy with the meal, staff and cleanliness of this fine restaurant. Have been going for years and will continue to do so.