Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

5 Reviews on “Olive Garden Italian Restaurant”

• Rimpi Mukherjee

  I along with my hubby and friends visited Olive Garden to celebrate my hubby’s birthday. Since we were staying in a nearby hotel so this place was an obvious choice and given to my hubby’s love for italian food we visited Oilive garden. Place had nice location and decent ambience. Loved it. Staff is nice and friendly. We were served bread-sticks and lettuce salad at the beginning. Would have loved if there were more olives in it, Lettuce was crunchy, well seasoned and overall nicely balanced. We ordered calamari, which was served quick enough and we all enjoyed it. Nicely fried and tasted well. Then next was chicken breast in Marsala sauce and pappardelle pasta with shrimps and muscles. Chicken was delicious Marsala sauce with mushrooms and mashed potatoes were just complimenting the chicken. Pasta was good, for me it was little bland given to my Indian taste but other people in my team loved it. So at the end it was a nice lunch we liked it. Would like to visit again before leaving New York!

  September 24, 2015, 5:06 pm

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• Charles Harkins

  Italian Style Preparations for the Masses. Olive Garden’s menu is not what frequent restaurant goers would expect from independent white tablecloth Italian restaurants. I will concede to the critical reviewers that point. But this misses the fact that Olive Garden’s target customers are spread across the entire United States. The idea is to have a broad appeal to a mid-price market of Americans. The dish looks and sounds Italian, it’s Italian. Canada’s Olive Gardens have higher aspirations but that is another story. Knowing this restaurant chain’s approach, I can rate the food selections on their merits and failings while not debating their authenticity as fare served in Italian homes. I requested a Long Island Limoncello as my cocktail. My spouse chose a non-alcoholic strawberry and passion fruit smoothie. We switched soups, having selected Zuppa Toscana and chicken and gnocchi. My main entre was eggplant parmigiana with spaghetti. My wife combined an order of polenta shrimp with an order of angel hair pasta with garlic and oil. Thumb’s up to the Limoncello concoction, the parmigiana, and both soups. I liked that the Zuppa Toscana was spiked with a dose of capsicum. My spouse’s polenta shrimp was tasty even though the olive, pepper, and mushroom topping was excessively salted. The angel hair in garlic and oil was just OK. My caramel hazelnut Macchiato was way over the top sweet, earning a thumb’s down. All in all, this Olive Garden’s food and drinks are worthy enough for the prices charged.

  November 21, 2014, 3:59 am

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• DrBHappy

  Olive Garden for Salads. Hi, Guys. I am a registered reviewer with the Zagat Survey for the last decade. I took a friend to Olive Garden for the 2 for $25.00 deal. We had a lengthy wait, which we shortened a bit by sitting uncomfortably at the bar. We ordered two different pasta dishes, both of which were not what I remember having when last we visited Olive Garden [O.G.]. The service has fallen off, but the food has tanked. The pasta sauces [yes, both] were MUCH too salty. The breadsticks were good, and so was the salad, but I can get a similar salad at McDonald’s for $1.49. The pasta was requested al dente, and was mushy [read overcooked]. I complained and was ignored. I have too much to protect to refuse to pay and cause a riot, so we left quietly, and I vow that I would have to be shown an improvement across the board before venturing there again. I ate in several O.G.’s when I visited Florida, and they were uniformly excellent. This is my local O.G., a mere mile from my house. Fortunately, there are several fine Italian restaurants in Westbury, seven of which are mentioned in Zagat’s 1,000 best Italian restaurants in America, one of those a scant three blocks from my house. If a restaurant offers you a deal, try NOT to look that gift-horse in the mouth. You’ve been warned. No kidding. Cheers, DrBHappy

  April 5, 2013, 3:32 am

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• Ch

  Thats not Italian. I went to Olive Garden in Westbury once. I was going with a friend and they raved about it. Said they had a great soup and salad combination lunch. So I figured OK I will try it. I was very skeptical I will admit since there are so many wonderful Italian restaurants on LI. All I will say is I can make better Italian food at home for a lot less money. Everything was substandard and just a mockery of Italian cuisine.

  September 21, 2011, 2:27 am

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• NS

  It should be illegal to call the olive garden an Italian restaurent. A nightmare! Only eat the bread sticks if you get tricked into going there.

  July 19, 2009, 4:58 pm

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