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The Olive Press Italian Restaurant
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The Olive Press Italian Restaurant
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Chain restaurant, average food at best. One small step up from East Side Marios.22 Apr, 2015I visited the Olive Press on a Monday night at 7 PM. After…
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9 Reviews on “The Olive Press Italian Restaurant”
Chain restaurant, average food at best. One small step up from East Side Marios.22 Apr, 2015I visited the Olive Press on a Monday night at 7 PM. After waiting a few minutes by the door, we were greeted by the manager who then took us to our seat. The restaurant was maybe one third full. He offered us a table at the back of the restaurant which was quite small and up against the wall. We asked him if we could sit in the booth instead. He told us NO. When I questioned why he said that it was reserved for larger dining parties. I looked around the restaurant and said, but it’s not that busy. He again looked directly at me, and said no. I was beginning to become annoyed at his rudeness and then I asked if we could have a different table as the restaurant was not busy and we didn’t like this particular one. He then brought us to the front of the restaurant and put us in an equally bad table, when there was a second smaller both available. I asked if we could have the booth instead. Again, he said no because that table needed to be cleaned. My husband and I said that we would be happy to wait for someone to clean it. He then walked away with no comment or answer to us left standing in the middle of the restaurant until another server came up to us and asked us if there was something they could help us with. A server did come over and start cleaning the booth for us to sit in, however by this time my husband and I were pretty fed up with the managers rudeness and his lack of customer service skills. We had earlier explained to the manager that we had actually driven a half an hour specifically to come to this restaurant, as we were craving Italian- this didn’t make a difference to him and it certainly didn’t change his snotty rude attitude. Needless to say, I will never go back to this restaurant, the food is mediocre at best, but the prices are somewhat reasonable if you’re in the mood for spaghetti and meatballs. Someone needs to tell the manager that if I want mediocre food and poor service, I’ll simply stay at home.
I have been going since it opened. Good prices, food is good and so is the service. Their bruschetta is delicious.
Good Italian Community Eatery. I have been going here since it opened (can’t count how many times), great food, atmosphere, and good service – even with large parties.Food: GREAT ingredients; Usually food is seasoned properly and the flavours are usually balanced perfectly, a couple of times they used more garlic than normal which I don’t mind personally, but if you don’t like that just tell them to go easy on it. Presentation is nice but simple.Portion sizes are ample.Wine: Amazing wine selection. They have a great Italian Chianti, and the Masi Soave goes well with their seafood dishes.Price: Good pricing roughly $12.95 – $23.95 for an entre depending what you get.Service: Usually prompt and the staff is typically friendly. I only had one poor server in the years I have been going, but I haven’t seen that server again so I chalk that up to a one-off because it’s not my regular experience.Atmosphere: Modern/rustic home Italian type decor, nice feel, great community spot always packed and buzzing. Smart-Casual dress is typical but I have gone there in yoga pants for lunch and wasn’t out of place.Take-out: Good but I prefer eating there. If you take-out call in advance it takes about 15-20 minutes for the food to be ready – but if you walk-in you can sit at the bar and have a drink while you wait.I have eaten almost everything on the menu this place is a favourite of ours. Dishes that stand out in my mind when I think of this place are the mussels in the white sauce, tomato bruschetta no cheese, the calamari, the seafood chopped salad, the lamb entre, the spaghetti prima vera, the shrimp linguine, the honeymoon pasta, and the Mediterranean pizza.I would more than recommend this place … if you are in the area you have to try it!!!
After reading the mostly negative reviews I was skeptical about trying this place out but I had to see for myself. The service was excellent. Our waiter was extremely knowledgable and very kind and polite as well as the food was awesome. For the price point I would recommend this place 100%. The cheese cake is incredible as well if your going for desert.
We went for our anniversary and felt it was so bad we should write about it.We didn’t like the food and the service was really bad. There was hardly anyone there but the staff preferred ti chat at the bar than serve us. The tomato sauce was like burnt tomato paste. Terrible.
Never again, been three times. Got the order wrong twice. Food and drinks took forever to come the last time and staff was RUDE. No thanks.
On the decline. I used to love this joint, but over the last few years the quality has gone down tremendously. However, pizzas plus the pastas are still pretty legit. Service is always good but the quality of the food has declined.The atmoshhere, setup and location are great. I hope the food quality goes back up. I’d still reocmmend it for anyone who wants italian food. Try the sausage penne or the meatball sandwich