Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

Everything you need to know about the "Never Ending Pasta" promo.First, a caveate. I rarely patronize sit-down chain restaurants. Probably the last time was Sweet Tomatoes in early 2020. I'm also not going to rate it against Tito or Rene's or Tumerico. This is chain-restaurant comfort food and to that category, it's a decent 4-stars.I've got a 6'2" teenager who downs a rotisserie chicken about every two hours. Enter the Never Ending Pasta bowl. We visited this past Saturday around 3:45pm with the hope of catching them in between crowds (and me nailing a two-for with a buffet "linner" for the boy). Surprisingly, the establishment was still 3/4 full and picking up clients by the minute as dinnertime approached. The promo includes all you can eat bread, salad, and pasta for $15. You have your choice from among 4 different styles of noodles and 5 different sauces. We quickly settled on the angel-hair and rigatoni pastas with the five-cheese sauce which resembles a tangy vodka sauce and was not bad. The first bowl is huge and the refill bowls are half-sized (but unlimited). You can also add unlimited protein for an additional (one time fee of) $5 and the selections are 3: breaded chicken cutlets (diced); sausage; or meatballs. You can mix/match AND you can request "double" protein too -- all included in the $5. We discovered that double option when the large/first bowl of pasta only came with 3 meatballs, albeit pretty big ones. The meatballs became our favorite mostly because the chicken is very thinly sliced and heavily breaded, such that they are probably 60% fried/breading and 40% thin cutlet. The breading was also too salty. Given how long the first bowl took to arrive (25 minutes from sit-down), we ordered the next two (smaller) refill bowls back-to-back. That definitely helped as the second refill came out just as we finished the first refill. Note: for whatever reason (waitress couldn't explain) the kitchen delivers the extra meatballs in standard marinara sauce, regardless of which of the five sauces you order with your pasta. Staff was always attentive and ambience was clean and not too loud, despite the full house.All told, the meal is $20 + tax/tip, bringing our total to just over $50. In hindsight, for that kind of mullah, we frankly would have had a better meal, just as filling, at literally any of the amazing food trucks and local eateries in this extraordinary town of gastronomy (think: Amelia's; Cool Runnings; Carnitas Los Reyes; Rollies; Zayna's; Samurai Sombrero; Zayna's; etc., etc.). What Olive Garden aims to provide is consistent familiarity and a place to sit in a/c with big bathrooms - in other words, something ideal for families with children or out-of-towners. And to that extent, it largely delivers.

Came here with my son for Veterans Day and it was packed! I will say though that everything was done as expected with food being hot and not skimpy at all. The servers thanked each vet for their service and made rhem feel great with a free lunch! Great place!

Good service and very nice love the game on the table very good food super nice love them

Mom and son date for an early dinner at Olive Garden. I had the sirloin and lasagna. My son had the chicken fettuccine alfredo. Our waiter was very kind and prompt with our food. For dessert we had the chocolate lasagna cake yum!

We decide to go to Olive Garden for dinner. We ordered our two pasta dishes along with soup and breadsticks. The food was fantastic. So tasty and creamy and plenty as well, enough to take home for another meal. Our server, Sue, was awesome. She was always there to bring us drinks, breadsticks, and even more soup. Now the other side why I didn't give them a five. Our food took 30+ minutes to get to us and just an FYI they raised the prices by about 10% right before Thanksgiving. Most dishes now are about $22. That seems like a lot for a plate of pasta. Be prepared for about $30 a person with sodas and tip.

Great food, clean environment, and friendly staff. Drinks came out correct and food came out quickly.

We had a party of 10 put on the waiting list in the morning for a 6pm dinner. It helped us to get seated promptly as there were many customers that night. Instead of ordering 10 individual entrees, we decided to go family style and share everything. From the appetizers, salad, bread sticks, entrees, and even dessert. My compliments to our server who took the food order perfectly and kept the delicious variety of food constantly flowing. What made this even more special is the warmth and positive dining experience extended to this party celebrating their 1-year anniversary of immigrating to the US. This was also the first time eating at an Italian (American) restaurant. They enjoyed it so much all said they will be coming back. Graci!

On 28 May 2024 we ate at the Olive Garden restaurant on 5410 E Broadway Blvd, Tucson, AZCiCi was our server and she was fantastic! It was our family outing with my brother, his wife and my Mom. CiCi was so friendly, just perfect to make our lunch a hit! The food was tasty as always and the restaurant clean. We'll have to remember to ask for CiCi in the future. We talked with hermanager (Caleb) and he was just as nice, good job!

Phenomenal Olive Garden. The service was so quick and friendly. Out sever, amanda, was very helpful and nice. Our food came very very quick and was delicious. Best Olive Garden I've been to.

Found their website on Google advertising two for $25.00. Not so! Fortunately the manager agreed to extend the lunch menu time for us. Not a full plate of food, but with salad and bread was enough to fill us. My suggestion is to only trust their website, not Google.I do thank their e manager, Mo, for working with us.