Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

One of my fav restaurants loved the fried shrimp and scallops with noodles absolutely delicious

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We had Soup, salad, and bread sticks. And shrimp scampi. As always the chicken gnocchi was great. The shrimp scampi was underwhel.ing but still good.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Gnocchi Soup

Great food and the waitress was great

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Marsala, Tiramisu

WOW! Went at about 3pm December 6th, Kyle was our waiter. The experience has changed sooooo much. We have been here 3-4 times before and decided we only wanted to go to the cities for our Italian cuisine because this Olive Garden used to be sub par. On a whim we decided to give it a try again and we were not disappointed. Not only was our waiter Kyle absolutely phenomenal with his service but the menu, experience and taste have improved 10 fold. By far some of the best tasting food in St. Cloud now. If you are debating on what to get, you have to try the steak Gorgonzola Alfred! It’s soooooo good! I don’t know what they changed but keep it up!!!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Server was super nice.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Tour of Italy, Calamari, Chicken Gnocchi Soup, Shrimp Alfredo Fettuccine Alfredo Tossed with Sautéed Shrimp

Came and celebrated my 22nd birthday here. The staff was so nice and sweet, the food was delicious and my waitress brought me out my birthday dessert and it was so cute! I highly recommend coming here to eat! The manager was also super cool and also checked on us periodically during our dinner :)

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Gnocchi Soup

Great food and exceptional service.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Spaghetti and Meatballs, Angel Hair

Waited for our food for 45 min. They stated our order got taken off the computer by accident. Then we were told we would probably get a discount on our bill and never did.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 2

Went in today to celebrate my birthday and our server was Amanda! There isn’t enough good things I can say about her! She was friendly, kind and was on top of everything! Just wanted to let her know how great we think she is! Thank you for the wonderful service today!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

I went in with my girlfriend yesterday, we got a pasta and a medium rare steak. We both had a Zuppa soup, and my girlfriend's soup was half kale and mine was half potato.
We had to scoop the excess of both into each others bowl.

The steak was very dry, and worse than well done. I would have been fine with medium, or even medium well, but the hockey puck I got was not close. It honestly looked like a Banquet salisbury steak, but even those taste better.
Our server Caitlyn, was the worst server I have ever had at a restaurant. The first interaction we had was her throwing the menus down on the table and asking us what we wanted to drink. We gave our drink order, and she walked away without saying anything. We didn't get breadsticks brought to the table, and our server was nowhere in sight to try and get some. The other server in our area (I can't remember his name but he was lovely), came by a couple times and we had to ask him for breadsticks. He brought some over and apologized. When our waitress came by with our food, she set the plates down on the table and just walked away. We were done eating our food (I didn't finish the steak) and needed a to-go box for the pasta, so we were waiting for our waitress to come by again. She came back in around 25 minutes and we eventually got our to-go boxes. We didn't want to click the "call server" button because we were afraid it would make her more upset. She was audibly more friendly to the other tables, like the one right next to us. I have never stiffed a server before, and I hated doing it but after the experience I had I wasn't even comfortable paying what I paid for the meal. We don't know why she was acting the way she was towards us because we were very quiet and polite, we didn't ask for anything extra. We didn't even want to ask for a refill on our drinks.

To end this on a note of positivity, the restaurant was beautiful and all of the other employees were very polite and helpful. But the ambiance of a restaurant doesn't mean much when the service is poor.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 1

Service: 1

Came here for lunch on a Friday. Pulled into the parking lot around 12:30 and there were no open spots! We parked in another lot on the side, expecting there to be a wait to be seated. Not only were we seated right away, but it might've been the best service I've gotten at a restaurant ever in my life. Our drink and food order was taken right away, and it came out shortly later. This place was PACKED and the workers/management had it all under control. 10/10 will return.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Enjoyed the evening.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Chicken Marsala

In and out super quick. My waitress was the best! Food was delicious, as always! You can't go wrong with soup and salad combo!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Tour of Italy, Calamari, Spaghetti and Meatballs, Angel Hair, Meat Sauce, Chicken Gnocchi Soup, Shrimp Alfredo Fettuccine Alfredo Tossed with Sautéed Shrimp, Steak Alfredo, Shrimp Carbonara

We waited to it seemed to be forever for our food to get there, and the excuse was cause they were busy We've never had that long to wait and it was the never-ending pasta dishes that they could easily bring out. Even the waiter was confused on why it was taken so long.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 5

Service was outstanding. Our waitress was the best we've had in a long time. Also, the manager there on the evening of Nov 5th, 2024 was also outstanding and went way above and beyond. He should get a raise.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5