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| - My husband and I went here for their all you can eat pasta special. I have mixed feelings about it since there were some good points and some bad ones.
I'll start with the bad points. On my 2nd helping of pasta (I was really hungry), I ordered their new Roasted Portobello Pomodoro on orecchiette. Even though I loved the fact that they didn't slice and dice up the portebello mushroom, the sauce tasted like it was burnt. I took a few bites of it and after I tried to doctor it up with some parmesan cheese and salt, I could still taste the burnt sauce. I ended up not eating the rest of it.
The other bad point about the whole meal was the plates/bowls were so hot, you couldn't touch them and the meal came out like lava hot. My husband and I had to sit there and wait for the food to cool off a little to be bearable.
Now to the good stuff. Even though the hostess was a bit flighty, we did not have to wait long to be seated. We also were not set at a table where my infant daughter would be in the most crowded and busiest section in the restaurant. I ordered the Creamy Parmesan Florentine one penne and it had the right amount of spinach in it and the sauce had the right amount of alfredo and parmesan in it that none of the ingredients overpowered each other. My husband ordered the five cheese marinara on fettuccine and he was quite pleased with it.
The breadsticks and salad were very good this time around. Normally we usually get jipped on the salad dressing and croutons but this time it was fully loaded.
With our meals, we ordered a glass of wine. Normally I tend to stay away from the sparkling wines, but this one was great! The wine was Moscato and it tasted like a sweater Asti (but not too sweat). Each different types of sauce, this wine went quite well with. I highly recommend it!
Olive Garden has a new dessert out called the Pumpkin cheesecake. This was absolutely heavenly! I usually don't order any kind of dessert with whipped cream on it but I decided to brave it. I was not disappointed. It was so rich and creamy and the decoration of caramel drizzle complimented the spice in the pumpkin flavor nicely. The crust was a graham cracker crust, lightly sweetened and they sprinkled more graham cracker bits on the caramel. This was such a great ending to our meal!
I give this restaurant 3 stars because I wasn't completely impressed with our waitress. She kept asking us more than once what we ordered instead of writing it down if she knew she wasn't going to be able to remember it. Also, because of the temperature of the plates and the fact that my meal tasted burnt the 2nd time around. I don't know what it is about NC Olive Gardens, I was never disappointed with the ones in Florida.
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