The breadsticks were soft & warm with the right amount of garlic & salt, the salad was ok- they only gave me one pepperocini : ( and the tomatoes were a bit soggy, the zuppa toscana had a nice flavor, & my fried eggplant was decent. My cousin took a culinary class in Italy and she learned how to saute eggplant & wrap it around mozzarella cheese & cover it with sauce to make eggplant parmigiana. The flavor of the eggplant is much more pronounced this way- Olive Garden's taste is good, but all I could taste was the batter, I felt the thinly sliced eggplant inside, but there was no eggplant taste. The service was excellent, even though I wanted some more of the chocolate mints in the end *waaawaaa. I hadn't been to Olive Garden in a few years and I thought the prices had risen drastically for all of the entrees ($13 & up) and the rest of the menu- I didn't factor this into my rating, but for me its reason enough to wait another couple of years to go back or find somewhere else.