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| - Green Olive is a small family owned restaurant located in a strip mall. The menu is quite extensive and features mostly pasta dishes - pretty standard "Italian fare". I ordered a seafood dish from their "specialty" section, and it included mussels, shrimp, scallops, scampi, red peppers and mushrooms on fettuccine - all swimming in a thin, white wine sauce.
The pasta looked overcooked and it was all served on a shallow plate which threatened to spill over when the ungraceful waitress brought it out to me. I also noticed at this moment that the only napkin I had was a thin paper one.
Pasta: cooked right, but difficult to eat because of the shallow dish. Mussels: tasted okay. Not rubbery which is good. Shrimp: cooked as expected... Nice and fleshy. Scampi: I made a mess eating these since a small fork was not provided. Overcooked and flaky.
Our waitress was not very polite... she was very gruff. When we ordered a bottle of wine, she did confused Chardonnay with Zinfandel, and she said, "Three glasses okay with you guys?" instead of something like, "How many glasses would you like?" It was busy in the restaurant, but it doesn't matter - she should have been pleasanter than she was. Her attitude suites a burger joint diner, but not an Italian restaurant.
My partner ordered breaded veal cutlet with spaghetti in tomato sauce, and he mentioned that the veal was nice and tender but the pasta was overcooked. It was more like a big mushy pile than spaghetti.
Would not eat here again.
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