Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

Friendly and excellent service! I’m not gonna say anything about the food since everyone has different tastes and already know how the food is here but still, i loved what I had :)

Got food to go and the girl that took my order and gave me my food was super nice. Order was correct and on time. Love their soup and salad

Been here on Halloween night and I’m not pleased at all. It wasn’t even very busy we got our table immediately when arriving. Our waitress was very out of it. She didn’t speak up clearly and blamed us for not hearing her, she forgot to bring us our waters until after we finished our meals, she told us our food was still cooking and brought it out to us like warm not even hot which means it’s been sitting in the kitchen. She didn’t stop by the table frequently enough to check on us. Very bad service.

The service I got was absolutely horrible. My first mistake was going there on a Saturday night. My first Saturday off in months so it was my own fault for going here. It was busy but we opted to wait 30 – 35 minutes for a table. We sat outside and after almost 45 minutes we knew we had been looked over. Went inside only for them to tell us we’ve been calling you 20 minutes. No they weren’t we were right outside the door! No apology to us or anything the women behind the counter just smirked. Went to our table and the put us in the most cramped section next to a family which I normally wouldn’t mind but there wasn’t even enough room for us. I said no that’s okay and walked out.
If you want to actually go to this place drive an extra 15 minutes to Solomon Pond Mall location.

Chain restaurant so nothing earth shattering.
Bread sticks are phenomenal, their salad is excellent, and I loved the ziti.

Came here the week prior with my husband and we had a terrific dinner all around. Then I came here with a party of approx 35 for a wedding dinner. It took approx 2 hours to get dinner and almost an hour just to put in food orders. The group called in advance of about a month so the staff could be prepared. The food was not good, the drinks were not plentiful, but the two waitresses assigned to our tables were very nice, it just seemed they may have also been assigned other tables, leaving our big party sitting with empty drinks for a majority of the night. Would recommend for a couple but do not go with a big group, this restaurant isn’t able to handle a party more than five or so.

The Northern Tour of Italy was great. My wife liked her lasagna. The kids liked their pizza. So it seemed the food was all coked properly and the taste was great. The staff was very polite and quick for refills, but at times we would get a different server, understandable, but did happen more then a few times. I was going to get wine, but the wine glasses where dirty and when I asked for new ones, they where still dirty. The price was a little high, but the servings where decent so it may have balanced out.
I only put four stars, not because of the food or staff, but because there was this God awful smell while we where eating, not sure if it was even coming from the building or if it was someone inside the restaurant. But. they could have thrown the air on the circulate the smell out of the building. It smelt someone pooped in there pants. It was bad, but did go away. Over all it was a good stop and good food, would go back, just hope that smell is forever gone.

The service was great, food was cooked to perfection. Would highly recommend, and will return.

I come here all the time and the servers I get are always super nice and the food is always great. Especially the bread sticks!!!

The waiter Shannon was absolutely phenomenal. We had the soup and salad for lunch. The reason for the three stars: because 90% of the salad was made of croutons and not lettuce. The salad was served in a huge bowl but only a quarter filled and extremely unimpressive with iceberg lettuce. The soup however was delicious.

Service was not the best

I used to love me some olive garden. I haven’t made it to one in years so I met up with family here and was sadly disappointed. The prices have gone up and the quality down. Thankfully the salad and breadsticks were still delicious. The service was also great but spending 15 – 20 on a so so entrée from Olive Garden? Seems crazy. I’ll stick with the salad if I go back

I just want to say that anyone walking into this building should know right off the bat that this is a chain restaurant and chains have policies on how much food they give. For those complaining of «skimpy» portions of breadsticks and Alfredo. do you realize that you can ask for more breadsticks? Also, you shouldn’t need more than one side of Alfredo sauce. It’s made from heavy cream, butter and salt. it will kill you. But alas, this country has an outrageous problem with obesity. The last time I went to this Olive Garden, I literally saw someone licking a boat of Alfredo sauce for dipping. He had no shame licking that bowl in public. The place is filled with Worcester’s finest and I feel terrible for the staff that have to deal with those people. The place is next to the Worcester Wal-​Mart for God’s sake.
The food is good, I’ve never had a problem. I mostly go for the soup, salad and Italian margaritas. The staff is very friendly and patient. I have a secret to avoid long waits for food: go at a time that is NOT dinner rush. I don’t know why people are complaining about how their meals took forever on Mother’s Day. Every restaurant in the US is packed on mother’s day. Common sense, people. Common sense. Anyway, I recommend this Olive Garden if you want huge portions of good food. I always have half of my food left over for the next day and if you’re not a complete jerk to your server, he/​she might give you a couple breadsticks to go too.

I know it’s Mother’s Day, but my god this service is so awful! But this is not the only time, I’ve gotten 2 meals comp’d because of horrible service, nasty food! & no, I didn’t complain, or insist on any special compensation, management did it all on their own!

Updating review. we did take out… the girl who took the order must have been new .so we will cut some slack… we ordered and she did not know the menu very well. .
We picked up and wanted to use a gift card and put the rest on our bank card… she put the whole thing on the bank card and tries to keep the gift gard… maybe she was hungry ;)…
Got the dinner home… the sauces were skimppier than the ladies on main south… for the first time ever the quality of the chicken was not good… it had grizzle and dark meat in it… almost as if they got the chicken from walmart next door… the highlite was the new shrimp app was delicious

chicken parm was pathetic. chicken was about ¹⁄₈ of an inch thick and fried to a hard crust. the ziti was not drained and i scaled my chin with hot water.
my kid wouldn’t eat the pizza.
is the salad all you can eat? because even tho it took forever for our meals to arrive, the salad bowl sat empty on the table the whole meal.

The fact that people eat here is a testament to the fact that most people are lazy when it comes to restaurants! There are literally dozens of better choices with actual chefs making authentic Italian food within a 10 minute drive. The salad is bland, the breadsticks are disgusting and the food is poor. Eat at a real Italian restaurant and leave the airline food to the airlines.

not my go to OG… drive a little ways out to a much better organized and clean facility. This place is near ghetto and is ghetto. loud, hectic, busy, and just all over the place. I’d much rather go to a mom and pop place near by with great italian food. or drive to another OG just to have the soup, salad and bread sticks and know i won’t walk away with a belly ache…

I know I have something of a tone issue when speaking that makes it difficult for people to tell when I’m being serious. This is a problem I’m currently working on with my therapist, but I do have a host of other psychological defects, so it will probably take some time for before they’re all addressed. My life is a perpetual uphill battle, but one thing (aside from Bagel and Friends) that takes the edge off is the Olive Garden, and I would never joke about that.
My great grandmother came to this country from Italia on a boat when she was a teenager. Some of my fondest childhood memories are sitting at the table in her Shrewsbury Street apartment with «mi familia», and listening to everyone speak in our native language while we dined on the finest homemade Italian food in all of Worcester. When I sit down to lunch at the Olive Garden right off of 146 and in the shadow of a Walmart Super Center, I feel like a tiny «bambina» surrounded by my loving family all over again.
The Olive Garden is the perfect place to meet a couple of your best gal pals for lunch, split a bottle or five of wine (amirite ladies? lmfao), catch up on all the latest gossip, and enjoy authentic Italian cuisine. I don’t care who you are or what your background is, those unlimited breadsticks and bottomless salad never disappoint. There’s always this one moment where we all reach for that single translucent jalapeño at the same time and things get tense for a few seconds until we remember we can have as much salad as we damn well please, and die of laughter. This has been my typical OG expirence for years, until my greatest friend had her bachelorette party there last weekend.
I feel like most women start their bachelorette parties off with sushi or tapas, before jumping on that party bus to the dueling pianos bar, but things are a little different here in Worcester. A bunch of us girls surprised my friend Katy at the Olive Garden, and it was the perfect start to a night filled with male strippers and designer drugs. The prosecco was flowing, every time my vino started to get low, our waitress was right there filling my glass, and the food was incredible. A few girls got the Tour of Italy, which was «delizioso» and definitely did not come back to haunt them a few hours later at a shitty karaōke bar.
Our waitress was super fun too, I honestly don’t think we’d could have gotten better service. She was patient, had a great personality, and didn’t mind all the dick straws and colorful gummy penises littered across the tables. If we had gotten some old prude, the expirence might have gone a little different. My favorite part of the whole night (not including the mountains of coke we snorted in the strip club) was when she helped us prop a flesh toned, three foot, veiny dick cake up on a tray so we could all huddle around it for a picture. She didn’t even care that a family with children and grandparents were two tables away. To be fair, there was a spaghetti sauce covered baby in the other room sitting on a high chair in JUST A DIAPER, and nobody seemed bothered by that either.
Up until Katy’s bachelorette, I thought the Olive Garden was only good for lunch and small «celebraziones», like good grades or negative pregnancy test results. Now I realize this is the spot to rip it up for major life events. Everything was top notch, and if our bachelorette party at the Olive Garden is any indication of the Katy’s future, I think it’s safe to assume she and her hubby will share a life filled with «amore» and «bueno fortuna».

Olive Garden — you know what should be there and this doesn’t disappoint. The food is great, served by more than competent staff. The seating is roomy and the place is huge.
We had soup and salad and breadsticks for lunch. The soups are just simply incredible and my daughter had a refill on hers, I was full with the first. The salad is served with a tangy dressing that satisfies but isn’t heavy.
It was fun hearing a Boston accent at this Olive Garden, but other than that it was like almost all of the other Olive Gardens I have been to. Going there after the lunch rush probably helped reduce the time it took to be seated and served, which was well appreciated as we were hungry.