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| - This Olive Garden just moved across the way to a brand new building located at 2710 W North Lane Phoenix AZ 85021. it's been open about a week. At first we couldn't find it with our GPS since it is so new. We went there Nov 27 (tues) 2012
We arrived around 1pm as a party of 4 adults for lunch. They sat us on the left side near the entrance at the 1st booth. Thought it would be noisy, but overall it was okay.
Our Servers were friendly, attentive and very conversational, one of our members is a talker and our server enjoyed chatting with him.
They had a special 2 for $25, but we weren't that impressed with the special. We ordered off of the lunch menu. we ordered the following
CYO appetizer sampler 3: Calamari, stuffed mushrooms & Fried Zucchini
Main lunch courses:
Lasagna Classico
Braised Beef Tortelloni
Linguine alla Marinara
Chicken Caprese Panini
Dessert: Zeppolis
We also ordered two dishes to go, even though not on the lunch menu, they were accommodating and prepped the to go items for us from the dinner menu.
Chicken Parmigiana with [Fettuccine Alfredo (substituted)]
Chicken Marsala
We first only ordered the sampler appetizer, and after it came out is when we ordered the rest of our meal. That made the lunch more enjoyable, not rushed and our main meals were piping hot.
The Salad came out cold and crisp as usual. Bread sticks were a little delayed about 5 minutes, they ran out, so we got them fresh out of the oven when they were ready. Our servers were very good at refilling our drinks.
The whole lunch experience was very good, food tasty. First time I tried their braised beef tortelloni and was delicious. Wasn't sure what to expect. The Beef about 4 or 5 slices is served with the tortelloni. By the way, I always thought it was tortellini. The server told me Tortelloni is bigger size wise.
We also had Zeppoli with chocolate sauce. They sprinkled liberally the powder sugar on the Zeppoli. These Zeppoli were rectangular and texture is more firm than doughnuts. We enjoyed them immensely and will order them again in the future.
As Olive Garden restaurant, it was a good experience. I think being a new building everyone was excited. Go and enjoy yourselves, we did.
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