Let's see who gets an A+
Olive Garden is to Italian as:
A) Taco Bell is to Mexican
B) Lindsay Lohan is to sobriety
C) Kim Kardashian is to real boobs
D) All of the above
If you answered D, you get a gold star. The only reason I ever go to Olive Garden is soup and salad for lunch. They have a pretty decent chicken caesar and I really like the pasta fagioli. The breadsticks are their claim to fame and they are certainly addicting. Everything else on the menu bears little resemblence to anything that ever came out of any kitchens inhabited by my relatives (aand we are not that far removed from Sicily) and I never saw anything so cheese smothered and cream laden during my travels in Italy. I also get annoyed by the names they randomly make up for their faux Italian dishes. Rollini. Seriously? Aside from the cheesey atmosphere, the service is usually pretty good but one section of the dining room butts up to a kitchen wall and you keep getting slammed everytime the dishwasher on the other side is opened/closed...it's loud and jarring, not fun.