Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

This place is soooo good ,good service 👌🏽 and good food made me really happy 😊. Courtesy of Milan !

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Great dinner tonight. Dawn was fabulous! Thanks!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The service was excellent! The food was good not bad. Our waitress was incredibly nice. Loved eating dinner there.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

“When you are here, you are family”, the old logo retired in 2012. As I entered the restaurant I was told to follow the hostess, an older person that seemed stressed out, and they sat us by the sunny window (4:00 pm). I quickly asked if we could sit in a booth where then sun was not in our eyes. The hostess quickly moved the napkins to the table that was not a window but was not a booth either, then walked off. In my mind I’m thinking, it’s okay, at least the sun is not in my face anymore. I asked someone if they had the never ending pasta deal. They sarcastically replied: “Well yeah, it just started Monday!” I just laughed. I’m thinking why are people so unhappy or stressed out here? I just asked a question. Just answer with a yes or a no please. When someone requests a different table it would be nice if the hostess politely asks, “where would you like to sit?” I was well aware that that logo was retired: Not being treated like family here lol..!! I noticed a family of four (two of them in their 80’s) was being asked to sit super far away from the entrance. The couple’s son asked if there was a closer table as his parents were having a hard time to get to the table using canes. Those are just minor things. Businesses that have politeness and friendliness usually stay in customer’s hearts. Remember that I am giving you a point of you of my experience on that Friday around 4 pm. I am not criticizing or giving this restaurant a hard time. I also want the reader to have this in mind and tell the hostess where the reader would like to sit. We ordered the never ending pasta with a protein. The food was great. The Shrimp Fritto Misto appetizer, the Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, the Chicken and Gnocchi soup, and the garlic bread all were excellent. My waiter did forget to bring me my soup. After my second and final bowl of pasta I asked her if I could have my soup. Her response was that we had all ready had salad and that we could not get both. I responded that I never had salad or soup. Our waiter looked puzzled. I told her well did you write our order down? She immediately said: “oh yes, I’m sorry, I’ll bring it out immediately.” Like I said, I am not criticizing but do sympathize with the workers as it seems that management has these workers under lots of stress. There should be happiness among workers and that will convert to an amazing level of service and a great atmosphere for the best Italian meal. I chose not to complaint when management came out asking all of the tables if their food was hot and good. It shows that management wants to show good quality control. The hot meal is part of the experience. We chose coffee for our drinks. Our first coffee was warm and it quickly turned colder when we added the cold creamer. You tend to drink coffee faster when you drink cold coffee. When our waitress said I will get you more coffee and noticed we needed more creamer she said: “oh you like more cream… looks a like you drank creamer with coffee instead of coffee and creamer.” I have lots of patience and just smiled but I ask you: is that comment necessary? Whether it is a joke or not I believe a waitress should be on top of things to her best gratuity as possible. She still got 20% from us ($24 out of bill $112). I want you to know that while we ate we ordered a Large Pan Lasagna to go for like $65, good size for the price. The food was great! I will definitely come back soon as I loved the food here. I thank the unseen team members, like the cooks, that make this place a great place for a great meal. I encourage you to come to this Olive Garden in Colombia, Maryland and enjoy the great tastes this restaurant has to offer. I explain how my experience went down so that if you have a similar experience you too can practice your patience and understanding with the knowing that your tummy will be happy!!! Everything else that happened is like they say: “Water off a duck’s back”!!! Stay blessed!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 5

Service: 3

I really loved it. Olive garden is my comfort and a tiny bit fancy within budget restaurant list …
This columbia OG will get my shout out..

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I grew up eating at this exact Olive Garden location, I am 32 now. I really love Olive Garden, I am thrilled they have seemed to make a comeback since Covid times when they went down to nearly a few things on their menu for quite some time. They finally brought back the stuffed chicken Marsala with mashed potatoes, I couldn’t have been more excited as this is literally my favorite dish and since they removed majority of their menu, it’s been about 5 years since I’ve gotten to eat this exact dish. The Marsala sauce is to swoon for…. I tried calling to place phone order but waited for 5 mins on hold with no one ever coming back. So I go in person to order, the ordering process wasn’t great, but they eventually figured it out, maybe the person was new. That’s perfectly okay… I get my order, drive 40 mins home, just to see they didn’t put the Marsala sauce on stuffed chicken Marsala…. You can imagine my disappointment. I’m not even angry, I’m just purely sad. That is all.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 2

Excellent Food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

The food was cold and the sauce for one of our appetizers must have been sour

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

A long time Olive Garden customer, and had successfully ordered delivery directly from the restaurant once before elsewhere. However - ordering from this Columbia, MD location this time was a disappointment. I received a message at the time it was supposed to be delivered, that the item I wanted - which included 2 protein items - they were out of 1 of the items. Which - as a restaurant - is never supposed to happen. But - still, I thought I'd just ask for another protein. Yet, then they put me in touch with the manager whose demeanor wasnt really genuinely empathetic and fairly cool - when telling me they were in fact out of the sauce and just couldn't make the dish at all. Only after I told her that I didnt want the dish anymore did she sound relieved - told me she'd refund my money. It felt more like - it was after 8pm and there was likely some reluctance to preparing any new ingredients for the evening. Always nice - when you have mngrs go the extra mile. But you can always tell - when they lean more towards doing less so they can lock up on time.

Love the food

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Nice quiet and relax place. Service was exceptional. Food was great. Only thing we had to wait 32 mins for the bread. I think she forgot about it. But all was perfect.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Salad dressing is extremely salty.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

I hadn’t been to a brick and mortar since Covid, so while I understand the need to discontinue the salad bar when ordering the endless salad we weren’t asked what should be in the salad. Also, because we both ordered salad, there was just one large salad bowl served. I would have preferred separate dishes at least. I enjoyed the salmon but the broccoli was chewy, not crunchy but chewy. The server was excellent in offering refills; however, I’m not certain if servers are trained to pre-bus tables nowadays. I would have liked to have empty dishes cleared to allow for a less crowded dining experience.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Management took time to pay attention to detail, which speaks volumes.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Excellent special dishes. Cheese stuffed tortellini with gilled chicken! Awesome!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5