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I will NEVER return to this establishment! IF this is how ALL Olive Garden's operate then I will never eat at ANY Olive Garden again! This whole meal was a joke and disaster from the start. My roommate and I only ordered water with lemon to start our meal along with the two choice appetizer option for around $10. We received our water and then we ordered lunch. I had ordered the classic lasagna for $8.99 and my roommate ordered the Shrimp Scampi for $15.99. Pricey but we have eaten at Olive Garden before and you do have to pay a little more for Italian food in some restaurants. This was NOT worth it. It was not worth the price for anything we ordered. We actually received refills of our water before we actually received our appetizer and "endless" salad. When the appetizer arrived, we were speechless and not in a good way.
Our endless salad bowl was barely half filled and there was hardly any leaves of lettuce, probably a WHOLE onion sliced, several dozen croutons, a few olives and a few grape tomatoes covered and smothered in the saltiest Italian dressing that seriously could not have been their signature Italian salad dressing as I have purchased the bottle from the stores and actually enjoy that. Our endless bread sticks? We received 3 bread sticks for 2 people. Not a big deal but if they are ENDLESS then give us an even number if there is an even number of people. This didn't make any sense to either of us. Do we split a bread stick and ask for more??
Our appetizer wasn't much better. It was the two choice appetizer option. I chose mozzarella sticks and my roommate chose the calamari. What we received was an absolute disgrace to what Olive Garden used to serve. The calamari was so small, it resembled crumbs and the rings wouldn't even fit around my little finger. I received three mozzarella sticks. Yes, THREE. They resembled three thin slices of mozzarella cheese coated in breading. THIS WAS $10! Not impressed. We waited another 15 minutes for the rest of our food. My roommate received her shrimp scampi and immediately saw something was wrong. The noodles were drowning. My roommate began to eat her food and it was worse than it looked. The noodles were extremely soft, drowning in a sauce that was too salty at first taste then an overload of pepper. The shrimp tasted like it was cooked an hour ago because it was warm at best but edible. I know this because she had me taste her meal because: 1. My food still had not arrived and 2. She couldn't finish it and she had me try it. I almost wish I didn't.
My Classic Lasagna arrived. Well, to describe my lasagna I have to make a comparison. Just about everyone here knows the size of the SMALLEST frozen lasagna you can buy from Stouffer's in the frozen food section of any store. It's approx. 4 inches x 4 inches in the plastic and costs around $3, give or take where you shop. What I received from Olive Garden was even smaller than this and cost three times what Stouffer's is. I had to move my fork over to take a picture of the "whole" lasagna because the fork covered it almost completely! Before this, I can honestly say that upon receiving this bowl of the world's smallest lasagna that I have never had a true moment in my life where I had to blink a few times to believe what was in front of me. Well, I had that moment here. This particular Olive Garden actually has a special sized dish/bowl for this "piece of ravioli" they call lasagna in a bowl for a lunch special. Well, there was nothing special about this lasagna or meal at all. The sauce was bland and I actually wished it was Stouffer's lasagna. We just wanted to leave. Well, the price for this catastrophe? $37 total!! Keep in mind, we only had water and this does not include tip! We should have gone to Bob Evan's half a mile down the road from this disaster and that's where we will go next time.
Overall, I don't recommend this Olive Garden to anyone and I will NEVER return here! Beware of the ridiculously small portions that are overpriced combined along with very poor quality for Olive Garden that is either bland or salty. I hope all Olive Garden's have not turned into this but this is one I will avoid. Plenty of other choices in the area.
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