Going to be visiting America soon and I want to stop at one of these to try it because I've heard a lot about them. Should I or is it not worth going?

>>21399528 (OP)
It's great. They train all their chefs in Italy

Take the tour of Italy, because once you are here you are family. And are the chefs and staff trained in Italy?

>>21399528 (OP)
Im done. Im fucking done. Im done pretending to hate this place just to fit in with you autistic faggots. Olive Garden has:

>God tier breadsticks
>God tier Salad
>God tier Pasta
>God tier Soup
>God tier value
>chefs trained in Italy

The OG is great food in a great atmosphere at a great price. They really treat you like family.

>>21399554
How about that wine list too?

>>21399528 (OP)
It used to be good 20 years ago.

>>21399528 (OP)
No, its not that bad. Its entirely overpriced and the diners that seem to go there are usually kinda fat and stupid though. Its basically just an Italian chilis; same fake decorations, and Americanized food to be sold for the greatest profit. Not terrible, but cmon, they're not doing anything complicated.

Anyone can make salad. Anyone can boil pasta and pour jarred sauce with some grated parm on top. The breadsticks are really good only because they have extra oil and salt in them, they've made some odd perfect blend that even McDonalds is studying to make a profit from. But at the end of the day is $1/lb pasta, $3 jars of sauces, and $3 of cheap cheese melted on a plate. The value isn't there because again, its cheap ingredients for $25 a plate. Its fine, but realistically even cooklets can make this shit at home outside of the breadsticks.

>>21399528 (OP)
It's only about as good as an average microwavable entree or prepackaged salad. But you will pay a restaurant price for it.
They're on the same level as a Panera, which is arguably and even worse deal because canned soup is so much cheaper than a frozen entree.

>>21399596
Panera has sandwiches and wraps too not just soup

>>21399528 (OP)
No. As long as you’re not expected authentic Italian or great Italian, you’ll probably be satisfied. They do give enormous portions though.

>>21399560
Isn't it all swill from california?

>>21399532
>once you are here you are family

This. During my last visit I genuinely felt like a part of a familial criminal enterprise.

>>21399528 (OP)
Skip that place and head to Fazolis
WA LA!

>>21399532
>because once you are here you are family
oh yea? then make me a hamburger. i don't want to eat italian

>>21399645
Go down to the burger and hot dog stand pleb

>>21399613
Thats the wine capital

>>21399670
>American wine
>good
I guess if you like shit wine

>>21399681
Never had an issue with Carlos Rossi or Barefoot

>>21399528 (OP)
no for what it is, it's perfectly good.

also BUY AN AD!

>>21399670
Meme wine capital for people with no taste.

>>21399681
The northwest has pretty exceptional wines

>>21399528 (OP)
Take the Tour!

>>21399655
that's not what nonna would say

https://www.macaronigrill.com/
This is the one you want to go to, OP.
You go here,
You get the salad.
You order the Penne Rustica.
It exceeds your expectations.

>>21399528 (OP)
Olive garden's business model is to sell overpriced microwave food to black people who think they're fine dining. I'm not even kidding

>>21399528 (OP)
The only thing I get there is their soup (toscana), house salad, breadsticks, and water. All that is good. I have never had the urge to order anything else there. It doesn't look very good at all.

>>21399726
an Italian would hang himself if he ever saw that being marketed as Italian food

>>21399682
>>21399718
there's a reason why most classy restaurants and people with sophisticated pallets choose Italian or French wines but I guess Cali wines will do in a pench

>>21399877
>an Italian would hang himself if he ever saw that being marketed as Italian food
Italians are mentally challenged if they are committing suicide just because they saw some food. There are people out there in this world that suffer from real problems before committing suicide, like depression. It's like hypochondria for otherwise healthy people.
But seriously, if it was this easy to get Italians to kill themselves, why didn't the Allied forces air drop pictures of the Tour of Italy on Fascist Italy?

>>21399888
>why didn't the Allied forces air drop pictures of the Tour of Italy on Fascist Italy?
because it didnt exist back then. (as did Italian food in today's form). thats the only reason.

>>21399843
Take your hat off, They don't sell hot dogs here. They took the bleachers out two years ago.

>>21399528 (OP)
its ok, its a chain restaurant for italian-american food. It's over meme'd desu.

I wouldn't go out of your way to go to one, but if its close to your hotel and you don't know where else to go for the night, it's fine.

>>21399877
>an Italian would hang himself if he ever saw that being marketed as Italian food
well then we should show that to every italian.

>>21399880
>Cali wines will do in a pench
remember when cali wines were chosen as the best wines in a french wine contest?

>>21399880
*palates
Heat treated pallets are probably the most sophisticated. They're at least the most expensive, anyway... Thank me later

Autism speaks. The thread.

all the food is literally boiled in bags and poured onto a plate
it's not a real restaurant
i'm sure there are more meme-tier american restaurants you could spend your time on, but i guess if you're intent on going there try the tour of italy- it's pieces of 3 entrees

>>21399528 (OP)
I hope they make losta spaghetti

>>21400026
Wow. That is amazing. Thanks for posting this.

>>21400014
>all the food is literally boiled in bags and poured onto a plate
>it's not a real restaurant
I believe that sous vide is a legitimate method of preparing food, you uneducated barbarian.

I want to go back and try my favorite entree from my childhood but I'm afraid it won't taste like I remember

>>21400026
What was wrong with friend 4

>>21400077
>I want to go back and try my favorite entree from my childhood but I'm afraid it won't taste like I remember
It probably won't taste like how you remember it as a child because some time has passed, and you have changed, and the food has changed, and things are just different now. See, over time, things change, and become different. You might still like it, but if you don't that's okay, because the food is different, and you are different, and due to the passage of time, things change. Things are not always the same and they can become different over time.

>>21400091
I'll just have to make it myself

>>21399726
would smash

>>21400097

>>21400026
>Friend 4 smiles wide. Her mouth is full of secret soup.

Uhm …

>>21399528 (OP)
What is this "trained in Italy" nonsense?
Who fucking cares? Education is about the student, not the location.

>>21399612
>They do give enormous portions though.
Are you a woman?
This is not true.

>>21400714
They train the chefs in villages they own in Italy

>>21399528 (OP)
when you're here, you're family

>>21399528 (OP)
Huh? Where did you hear The OG is bad?

Here's an Olive Garden menu from the '90s. Those were the days, huh?

it's only notable because coastalfaggots like to pretend they're the only people who know what "real italian food" is

>>21401339
Tour of Italy for $10.75 is fucking mind-boggling.

Olive Garden is to Italian cuisine what Marvel movies are to cinematography

>>21401339
damn, I remember opening a menu and thinking "$10 for the main, this better be good". what the fuck happened. also WHERE'S THE GABAGOOL

>>21401339
the mozzarella dijon appetizer sounds great

>>21401750
yeah, the traditional Italian mustard from the famous Italian city of dijon

you can tell they were full of shit even back then

>>21399625

comfy :3

>>21400026
>I like my women how I like my pasta nachos

Also weirdly heavy description of the stick.
ALL HAIL THE UNLIMITED STICK!

>>21399528 (OP)
You know those cooks are part black, right?

>>21401893
Which part?

I've only ever seen mexicans working in kitchens of restaurants.

Mine is honestly fucking horrid but the one the next town over ain't half bad.

>>21399528 (OP)
i would say cheesecake factory would be more worthy of a dinner on a trip

>>21401753
Idgaf

>>21399528 (OP)
go to diners if you want the american experience

>>21399528 (OP)
It's basically the textbook example of a mediocre chain restaurant. I go there once in a while because my small city, despite having 5 or 6 fancy "authentic" Northern Italian restaurants, doesn't have anywhere else to get regular Italian-American food and it's decent enough to go back to now and then but man it could be a lot better.

>>21399571
You pay for being there and being family

Not to mention the ambiance

>>21399682
fucking extremely based. barefoot mogs in its price bracket and its not close, you need to spend about 10x as much to get a bottle as good

>>21399528 (OP)
It's not bad, but is definitely over priced. I used to work at one here, all the sauces come to the restaurant premade in bags that we microwave, also any sides you order are microwaved too if not deep fried. We half cook most of the pasta in prep and leave it in a cambro all day until you order so we can get it out faster. The grilled chicken is the same, it's precooked and we throw it in the frier to crisp it up when you order. It's just a small step above fast food, except they charge you double and serve cheap wine to make retards think it's fancy. That said, I still eat it.

>>21399571
None of the sauce comes in jars, it comes in frozen bags that we microwave.

>>21399981
No, but there's a million wine 'contests;' same as beer. Awards/winning/etc. don't mean anything.

>>21401339
Those "Northern" and "Southern Italian" ones sound interesting. I wonder why Olive Garden got rid of them.

>>21400097
finish it off with a balsamic reduction. thank me later

>>21399528 (OP)
IDK. Are you man enough to eat 21 bowls of pasta? Or are you a pussy?

>>21399528 (OP)
Depends on location. My local one is shit, but any other one I have been to was fine.

Bread sticks are great hot - rock hard when room temp.

Salad is fine, assuming they have ranch. Which some apparently don't despite fucking Walmart selling their branded dressing.

Pizza was decent too.

I will say I prefer Carrabbas to OG. Better bread, food, and desserts.

I would say it's not worth going but Europeans apparently love using American vacation as a goyslop tour so if that's your goal, then it might be worth it.

You can get real food at home, slop it up here, man.

>>21401977
Any Italian part.

>>21403653
Most people today don't remember that the Tour was originally just one of a few combo platters that Olive Garden put out.

>>21401339

their caneloni was the best item they had, i miss it so bad bros

>>21399726
I actually gagged looking at this
Also my captcha was GHHHT

>>21399726
That plate took a tour of 3 microwaves, warming up the food

>>21400714
yeah because what I really need in my life is an Italian chef trained in new dehli

>>21400715
You get unlimited salad and breadsticks. If you leave hungry that is your own fault.

Best thing to order?

>>21407592
Fettuccine Alfredo with chicken nuggets in it

when they're grating the parmesan for you say "keep it coming, i'm not driving"

>>21399528 (OP)
Welcome to The Family.

>>21399528 (OP)
I could live off the soup and breadsticks alone.

>>21399854
you're thinking of Cheesecake Factory

>>21407820
Italians would kill themselves if they saw this sold as Italian food

>>21399528 (OP)
I don't really like it but that's only because I find it boring. It isn't bad tho, just not good.

>>21399528 (OP)
The zuppa toscana is still good. Every pasta/entree I've tried was bland as hell.

>>21407839
That soup is the one thing that managed to stay good all these years. It's like they know if they make it bland slop in a bag like everything else they serve it's over for them.

>retards/thirdies on this board actually believe that every single multi-location restaurant microwaves all the food