Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

The sever came and introduced herself then asked what she get me beverage wise. She then left to get the unsweetened tea. Came back probably ten minutes later with the drink. Took my order and returned with the bowl of pasta fagioli which looked bad from the start. Looked watered down and just didn't taste good at all. When the tour of Italy was brought out. The tea glass had been empty for quite a while. And she was back and forth helping other guest. But never offered to refill the tea once. Let alone the empty bread stick bowl. I love olive garden. One of my favorite restaurants. But this time was a big failure on there part. I let the hostess know to be careful about sitting people in her area. I normally leave a decent tip. But this waitress needs to be retrained on how to do her job better.

The two stars is for the lacking menu. I always used to love the Olive Garden, but not anymore. Don't get me wrong, the food was good, but the menu absolutely sucks now. I had the shrimp scampi with angel hair pasta, the fried calamari, and the gnocchi soup. It was all good. My complaints are that they changed the menu way too much and hardly have any variety anymore. They used to have so many different dishes like the mussels, the bruschetta bread, steak gorgonzola Alfredo, seafood portofino, seafood linguine, a steak with Tuscan spices, cappelini pomodoro, etc. They got rid of all these delicious dishes that they used to serve for a watered down American friendly menu. I hope that they will eventually bring some of these dishes back, but I won't hold my breath.

Our food was super good and came out nice and hot. However the best part was our waitress. I accidentally forgot her name but she was so efficient, thorough, fast, remembered everything the 1st time, was very polite and accommodating. We meant to leave you a nice note on our bill but since we forgot here is our thanks!!!