"..giving the dining experience an overall great experience."  "...renowned Italian restaurant, Olive
Garden"  "...the food was superb." "...looking for a great Italian
place to eat that had a variety of dishes. A place that we found and
enjoyed was Olive Garden" "This is a "must-eat"
I read
reviews, like those above, and I wonder if these people have ever eaten
in a family owned Italian restaurant or in an Italian family's home.
There is no resemblance between Italian food and what is served at the
Olive Garden!

They do have a good lunch deal with all the bread sticks,
soups and salad you can eat for $6.95 but we are not talking Italian
here.  The soups, like all their main courses, are bland while the bread sticks cry out for garlic. The salad, with oil, olives and peppercinos at least has a bite to it.

We hadn't been there is awhile and since they were offering the salad, soup, bread sticks deal with a panini
with $2 off the latter we went there for lunch. Allen ordered the
chicken ($8.95) and I ordered the steak ($9.95) and we shared them. The
only thing that saved the former was the pesto and the latter had some
taste because of the herb spread but otherwise it was as bland as the
sauces the Olive Garden serves on their frozen dinners.

This
is a chain restaurant and, like most chains, the food is massed
produced and almost spiceless so that they can serve the majority of the
public.

With all due respect, even though they do, please don't use Italian and Olive Garden in the same sentence.

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