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The Olive Garden is an Italian-American resturaunt chain. This specific resturaunt has tables, booths, and a bar. Mostly booths, though. It has takeout but no delivery. The Olive Garden's bar and tables are not like ordinary resturaunt bars and tables. While there are some dinner specific tables in the resturaunt itself, there are several "cafe" tables right near the bar. The bar and these tables are both waited on. You can order your food while sitting at the bar or at the tables! This being said, if you can compromise slightly fancier dinner tables for a "cafe" table, you can save yourself quite a long wait. I would suggest that if the place is crowded, you ask to get a table near the bar.
The Menu:
At the Olive Garden, they serve mostly American dishes with Italian accents. However, I decided to skip all the fancy Italian crap and go straight for the meat! A wonderful 12 oz. steak with "Tuscan" potatoes and bell peppers under the menu name "Steak Toscano." You might be thinking: "Where can you go wrong with steak?" Well, you can't really, but I have had better. I wouldn't advize Olive Garden to pride themselves on their steak, but it's certainly nothing to be ashamed of. The potatoes weren't outstanding either, but they were definately a good complement to the steak. Being the picky eater I am, I held off on the bell peppers. For every meal you can have either soup or salad and breadsticks are delivered as a default appetizer. The breadsticks are unlimited, but I'm not entirely sure if the same goes for the soup or salad.
If I went again, I would try their "Mixed Grill" which consists of "Skewers of grilled marinated steak and chicken with a rosemary demi-glace, served with grilled vegetables and Tuscan potatoes." Sounds good to me!
The Wait:
If you are hungry and need food NOW, don't come here. Since it's located in rural Pittsburgh, which has an enormous rate of Italian descent, the place is always busy. Maybe I'm a little bit biased, but why do people need their food RIGHT AWAY anyway? I'll be happy to stick around for up to an hour to recieve my food. In France people go to a resturaunt at around 8:00 PM and eat around 10:00 PM. For them eating is an experience, not just a way to fill your belly.
Overview:
All-in-all, the Olive Garden gets 4 stars out of 5 for their slightly over-standard food and on-par waitress/waitoring. I've been visiting this resturaunt throughout my whole life and I can't say that I've ever had a bad meal here.
Sorry for the boring review, I'm just too lazy to really spice things up today.
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