Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

I am 37 years old and on the 10th of February I went to Olive Garden for the first time. Y'all. I have never, in my whole life, been so impressed with a chain restaurant. The food? Phenomenal. I had the ravioli carbonara with the creamy chicken and gnocchi soup. It was borderline a religious experience. The portions were generous and everything tasted great. Bozeman is far from me but I am definitely coming back, come hell or high water. Don't let me forget to gush about the service. Our server was amazing. I hope she has a million good days. All in all, I highly recommend giving this place a go. You'll be glad you did.

We were greeted promptly and offered to follow the hostess as she just took off and I had my boyfriend ask if he could catch her to see if we could sit in a booth in the bar because I am disabled and have a cane currently due to a recent accident. So she did, whew! The first waiter was very excellent but had to leave right after he served our food and we never saw his replacement until I had to flag her down for some to go boxes.nTo be honest, the ONLY reason I wanted to go there was because of the CURRENT commercials on TV advertising the stuffed chicken Marsala for $12.99, oh they had it, but charged me $21.99. It looked like it was a $12.99 dish at best and came out with cold mashed potatoes and the rest of the meal was room temperature. I was very disappointed. If I go to a restaurant, I expect it to be hot. But if I saw a waiter to say something to, I would have. The chicken gnocchi soup didn’t taste right, the broth, the gnocchi was good. The bread sticks were hard on the ends and didn’t taste fresh at all, the first or second time we got a batch of 3. The salad was good and my boyfriend liked the fried chicken on his fettuccine Alfredo with broccoli, but chicken was the only thing hot on his meal. I think our meals just sat until his fried chicken was done. Then to top everything off, I only ate about 3 to 4 bites of my chicken because it tasted that bad and violently threw it up that night. It was the worst eating experience at an Olive Garden ever. We had been traveling since 5:30 AM and I didn’t feel like trying to go find a manager and wait for another meal knowing we had to get up and leave the next morning to continue on with our travels. I still left a nice tip even though I didn’t want to. I just didn’t want the first waiter who was great to be slighted. I would have contacted the restaurant but when I paid at the table, my receipt didn’t print and the waitress that took over said it would take a few minutes to get it. I was over it. I am adding photos to show the “$21.99 chicken fiasco”

Had a great experience at this location. Alexa the server was extremely attentive and food utility was near perfect. Had the steak and gorgonzola fettuccine $23, make your own pasta $13, and a couple of other pasta dishes $17 each. Portion sizes were very large. Prices were fairly reasonable given the unlimited bread sticks and soup or salad and other options for restaurants in the area. The one thing I don't recommend is ordering the add-ons. My son ordered the add-on chicken for $4 and it was just four small pieces of chicken, totally not worth the price. I cook Italian food at home and have taking cooking classes in Italy and elsewhere and these dishes were spot on. Free dessert on your birthday. Son had the chocolate lasagna, which was a chocolate layer cake with crispy layers between chocolate and cake. I am veryy happy with the overall experience except the chicken bit. Went on a weekday holiday, and there was no wait time and plenty of parking.

I was not impressed from the time I walked in the door. I guess when you're traveling and you're a little worn they don't respect the customers coming in and they don't treat them like they would. Anyone else they come in with the suit on? They think that restaurant there thinks the kind of upper class because they were in the movie. Yellowstone but what you don't understand is when people come in to eat, they want to be treated. Just like everybody else. You don't treat people different from anybody else you treat them all the same. You're nice. You're courteous and you make sure they're taken care of well. I can't say that for this restaurant and it's it's a shame cuz I love the Olive garden

Got the unlimited soup, salad, and bread sticks. Everything was good especially the bread sticks and the chicken gnocchi soup.