Is it better than Olive Garden?...Yes. Is it better than what you get in Italy?...no, not even close. I only point that out because of how much they push their authenticity. I've tried it several times over the last 5 years and I can never find something that is simply and honestly authentic... it's always off in some way. For example, the pasta is always swimming in sauce, like soup amounts of sauce... why can it not just be dressed in sauce as you finish the pasta in the pan like it should be? The bread... why is it so cheap and crustless like you buy it at the grocery store? There are good purveyors like MJ Bread, just buy from them and charge me more so that I can say, "this is such good bread"... that is what happens when I go to legit Italian places.