It had been quite a while since I had eaten at Olive Garden as my travel patterns went from driving past the place to hardly ever getting over that way. That said, recently a friend who's birthday it was asked that we meet there for the lunch I had promised him. I was pleasantly surprised at the prompt seating, courteous approach of the staff, to the portions, quality of the meal and the "here's some to take home" approach Olive Garden now offers. Clearly they are trying to rebuild their brand locally and good fortune to them. They are back on my radar. The ambiance has improved, though it was good before. read more

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Shout out you Mary and Marissa for waiting our our huge group with multiple tables. Food was on point. Thank you for your patience!!! read more

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant - Chicken and Chicken & Shrimp Carbonara - Italian Near Me - Modesto, California

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Told the girl I wanted a booth. She sat me at a table. Then she walked away very fast. I was not Impressed, I waited over 20 minutes for a water. For a water. Why is it so so so slow here? read more

Great pasta, terrible meat and service resolution. I recently visited the Modesto location and ordered the Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo. While the pasta was fine, the steak pieces saved for the end were inedible, tough, and fatty. I alerted both the waitress and the hostess to the poor meat quality, but both seemed confused and offered no real solution. Because I was short on time, I let it go and left, but I won't be back. read more

food was amazing staff was friendly. took my kids and grandson for dinner. every thing was great and the staff was great with my 3 year old grandson. family friendly atmosphere. read more

Ordered food for curbside pick up. Wait was supposed to be 20 minutes. Turned in to 35. Called to ask if they were short staffed and if I should go inside to pick up my food. The hostess said she would get a manager for me and put me on hold. A manager never answered and my food finally got delivered. The prepackaged salad had old slimy lettuce. The Alfredo sauce was broken. And the chicken was overcooked and rubbery. Easy to do when it's pounded super thin to appear like you are getting more meat. Mashed potatoes were way over salted. How is this place so busy?? Never wasting my money here again. read more

Food was hot and fresh! We did get there right as it opened and our waiter Dave was the best! He was very kind and attentive he made sure our drinks were full the whole time our appetizer came out quick and so did our main meal. But I'm really writing this review about Dave he was the best waiter that I've ever had at this location. He was so kind to show us all of his cool pictures (if you see him ask him i promise you will enjoy) anyways he showed me and my family what a good waiter is. Also the restaurant was very clean and well kept even the bathrooms. read more

Went to Olive Garden for my birthday and had such a great time! The atmosphere was super nice and cozy. Our waiter was amazing -- she kept checking on us and made sure we had everything we wanted. The free birthday dessert was so good (definitely to die for ). The stellar service alone makes me and my friends want to come back! So, my friends and I will for sure be returning soon. read more

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant - Yummyyyyy salad - Italian Near Me - Modesto, California

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I haven't been to the Olive garden in a while but the food was good like always. And the service was great

I love, love, Olive Garden. It's one of my favorite places to go to. I absolutely love their all you can eat salad and / or soup and bread sticks. My favorite drink is the rasberry lemonade, but today, I had their peach rasberry ice. It might be my new favorite drink. Pro tip. I always ask for a dish of extra tomatoes to add to my salad. You can ask for extra olives or whatever comes in the salad. It is all you can eat, you know, haha. It's very hard not to order the chicken fettuccine alfredo. It's my go-to. Love dipping the bread sticks in the alfredo sauce. Trust me on this advice. Save room for dessert. Olive garden desserts are all delicious. When it's in season, I love Pumpkin cheesecake. It's soooo good. Better then any other pumpkin cheesecake I had anywhere else. This night, we had tiramisu and strawberry cheesecake. Both were delicious. SAVE ROOM FOR DESSERT! OK? OK good. Haha read more

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I've been coming here for years & always had great service until tonight. The girl who brought me my dinner was extremely rude & unprofessional. When she gave me my dinner I said thank you so much & she didn't say you're welcome or smile. She walked off with a mad look like she didn't want to be there. read more

Stopped in tonight for dinner with my husband and not only was the food great, but our server (Daniella) hope I spelled it correctly, was awesome. Will definitely be asking to be seated in her section again. read more

We came today for a birthday celebration- our server Aaryen was amazing. Our sodas were always filled and she was super friendly. We had also stopped Tara to ask for a new fork and she was so friendly and attentive too! The environment was quiet but it was super enjoyable. read more

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant - Chicken Parmigiana - Italian Near Me - Modesto, California

So, it has been a while since my last review of Olive Garden. We dine here regularly, more for me than him. He always gets the spaghetti, because it is cheaper and they still give you a decent amount. He says it is not for the flavor. They could season it a bit more. So, he adds salt, pepper, and cheese to it. We both love the chicken gnocchi soup here! It is by far the best soup on the menu. When I overhear customers debating which soup to get, I want to tell them "Get the chicken gnocchi! You won't regret it!" We prefer to come for the lunch special. It is a smaller portion at about half the cost of the dinner. I almost always have the fettuccine alfredo with shrimp. Sometimes I will have ravioli with alfredo. Either way, it is an add on/extra charge (either for the shrimp or the sauce). The ravioli ususally comes with either marinara or meat sauce (I think). I wish they would give standard alfredo sauce as an option in more dishes. It is my favorite sauce of all! Service is always great with the servers we choose. I always ask who is serving first before we put our name down. Eric, Kaylie, Lexi, and Savon (hopefully I spelled everyone's name correctly), they are all amazing!! I'm happy to see them every time! The management is awesome too (Bob and Ben). One more person I always like greeting us is Doris. She is so sweet and friendly! There are a few others that I know I'm forgetting. Oops! I posted a photo of the wonderful job the kitchen did for our son's birthday. They actually wrote happy birthday in raspberry sauce! So sweet and thoughtful. Above and beyond in my book. Sometimes we order the chocolate "black tie mousse cake". It is so good, we forgot to take a photo first! You will see an empty plate in the photo. Lol! I would like to see Olive Garden's lemon cake come back. It was far superior to any other dessert they have. The black tie mousse cake is a close second. I love all those chocolate chips and chocolate ganache!! Yum!! My final suggestion: I used to have their email club, but it became more ads than coupons. Then no coupons at all, just ads! I don't understand it. I would hope they could revamp it and bring back at least a coupon every once in a while for loyal customers. It would bring us in more often. Summary: * more coupons needed * bring back lemon cake * have more dishes with standard alfredo * bring back the early dinner specials * customer service awesome! read more

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Went to lunch yesterday with my daughter. We had a mommy daughter date and this is the restaurant she wanted to go to. We were seated right away in a cute little booth. It was perfect! Our waitress was very nice. She took our drink orders as soon as we sat down. Also gave us some of her recommendations. We decided to go with the lunch Fettuccine Alfredo add chicken. That came with unlimited breadsticks, soup or salad. So my daughter got the salad and I got the soup and we shared . Salad was great! My daughter got ranch on it instead of the Italian dressing. And we loved the chicken gnocchi soup! So yummy! The guy who brought our fettuccine out was also very friendly. He even cracked a couple jokes. I wish I got his name. He was awesome! Our food was actually delicious. Perfect temperature and had a wonderful flavor. My daughter & I had a really good lunch. It was a great deal. You get so much food!! When we were done our waitress packed up my soup for me to take home and gave me a sleeve for my breadsticks. She was very helpful. Olive Garden is a solid choice for read more

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If you order online check your food!! They gave us the wrong plate which we had no problem with because they were so busy but then there was a bunch of hair in the plate, it was so disgusting to see because it wasn't just one piece it was more than one. Never going back i am sick to my stomach. read more

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant - Italian Near Me - Modesto, California

O Olive Garden and it was very surprising how nice the food is presented and the atmosphere nice waitresses and good food tried calamari for the first time and it's delicious read more

My friend and I came here around late afternoon and each got the buy one take one deals. It was delicious, and our server Nora was the best! She was very kind, funny, and was super fast and attentive. We ate so much of the salad, breadsticks and mozzarella sticks that we were too full to finish the food, but now we have delicious leftovers. Thank you Nora! read more

As always the food was hot and delicious. I had ravioli carbonara for the first time and it was fantastic. The zuppa toscana soup appetizer was also fantastic. My wife had tiramisu and I had strawberry cream cake for desert, both kind of expensive but it was our wedding anniversary and we could afford it. We had 8yo and a 6yo grandchildren with us who got free sodas and shared our meals with us, no extra charge at all for them. We really love the OG and it never disappoints! read more

I haven't been here in a while because my sister was pregnant, waiting at the bus stop and she wanted just a cup water. They told her no. I will never eat at place that is unwilling to help a pregnant woman just wanting some water. I heard the location is also opening in Riverbank. I won't go there either. read more

The reason I give Olive Garden a five star review is because they have the best chicken pasta I definitely recommend it when you go. Plus the service is fast but friendly read more

I will say their customer service was very helpful. Called the 800 number and they took care of the awful service and food we received

I just had to do something to compliment our server today! I believe he said his name was Randy. We had a big party of 9 to celebrate my sister's birthday today, she turned 74. Randy was very attentive and sweet, he must be in tune with his guests because as soon as we ran out of bread or salad he would walk up with more salad and bread. We had a very good time; the food was delicious and everyone was so kind! We will go back soon to try other things on the menu! Thank you Olive Garden for making my sister's birthday celebration a success!! read more

Sabrina! was an awesome hostess for me and my fiancée today. She was very welcoming and kind.. I love the fact she was so attentive and went the extra mile to make sure we had everything right on time and we enjoyed our dinner.The food was amazing! Thank you Sabrina! we will be returning soon(: read more

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant - Italian Near Me - Modesto, California

Everyone know the olive garden is great but thumbs up tonight salute to David my waiter tonight. The dining areas was full so I sat in the longe area. Has impeccable service. A warm smile and the gentle offering of things I wanted but had not yet asked you. Would you like some extra dressing for your salad. YES. ! Would you like brother Rita ? Yes ! Every place needs more waiters like David read more

I used to love this place but not any more. I ordered a dish that was new to the menu. It had pasta,shrimp, and something that was supposed to be steak‍. Id like to start by saying the manager did the right thing and took my dish off our check. But im just not sure what that was?? Lab grown beef maybe. It had a purpleish color not pink at all it look like it was old or something. I tried to chew on a piece and almost threw up, so I spat it into a napkin. The waitress offered to bring me more so I agreed to try again.. she brought more of the same weird shaped,an colored substance. It really just ruined my appetite so I told her and she had her manager come speak with me. I showed him the meat an asked if it could be old... he said he wasn't sure but he would go talk to his kitchen staff and have them rotate the meat stock. That was the final straw for me .I will never go to an olive garden again unless I just want some soup and breadsticks read more

My sister took us to Olive Garden in Hayward, for me I haven't been in quite some time. There was 4 of us we all ordered different dishes I got to say none of us enjoyed the meal. There was hardly any dressing on the salad. The waitress was good but the food was not. The chicken on my wife's Alfredo was weird in that it was just weird same with my brother in laws chicken. Not really chicken?? Not sure. Probably never going back. To sum it up OG seems to me like they're cheating customers by not giving us what we're paying for. read more

Walked into the restaurant for lunch. The lobby smelled like Fabulosa cleaning solution. It was overpowering. I don't know if that's an attempt to make you feel like it's clean, but it made me feel like they were covering up some other kind of weird smell. Our salad was overdressed, just swimming in dressing. Soup was watery. It was like they added liquid to make it go further. And ravioli did not have enough sauce. Our waitress was OK. Nothing remarkable either way. I think of Olive Garden like I think of Chili's. It's not the best of the best, but it's better than fast food. read more

Well the manager messed up here. They messed up my order and brought me the wrong dish but they still made me pay for both. Not sure what they expected of this. It's really too bad. read more

We just waited at our table for 30 minutes. The waitress just kept walking by and didn't even offer us something to drink. The hostess (reddish hair) really didn't care when we walked out and we told her we were going to write an honest review for our service. read more

The food was good per usual , the service was spectacular like 10/10 , ambiance well we brought the fun so it was 10/10 time and josh kept up with all the bad jokes we threw his way read more

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant - Moscato, Primo Amore, Italy - Italian Near Me - Modesto, California

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This review is solely based on JONAH THE MANAGER! I had surgery this morning and decided to order take out for kids and I. We got home and my 4 year olds kid meal was wrong. I ordered chicken Alfredo with broccoli and instead I received a chicken with marinara meat sauce. My son does not like marinara and wouldn't eat it. I called Olive Garden frustrated explaining how order was wrong etc. Jonah pulled my order up and seen it was definitely made wrong. He immediately apologized told me he would make a new kids meal for my son and also even give me a gift card for having to drive back which was bout ten minutes away from. He was not only apologetic but very sincere. Great customer service thank you again Jonah my little guy was happy with his new meal read more

This was absolutely a waste of money. I did a pick up two salads what a waste of money $20. Such a joke for what you get. NEVER AGAIN ! read more

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant - Two salads $20. What a waste of money. - Italian Near Me - Modesto, California

Food was ok, it's Olive Garden, so there's that. But the service we received from Savon was PHENOMENAL!! Give gnat girl a raise. She was super on top of everything, ,remembered my kids names, sang happy birthday beautifully, and so kind. She made our experience amazing & we appreciate her very much. Thank you Savon! read more

Don't ever order delivery!!!! This was an argument over text messaging and I swear the driver drive by and saw me standing on the sidewalk because he said I looked "healthy " when I told him I was outside because he said he was having a hard time finding my house and was over an hour late and when I told him I was going to complain only then did he begged me not to and suddenly said he was coming to deliver but was in Oakdale. My food was extremely cold like you could imagine. I will never give Olive Garden any more of my money in my lifetime. read more

Definitely was so delicious!! Food was so good salad was delicious!!! I had shrimp Alfredo and I lived it u just wished the shrimp were grilled in garlic butter but still delicious! My son had chicken stripes with fries from kids menu ! Omg 6.99 kids menu and its a good about about and they were so good ! My friend had a spaghetti chicken and shrimp cream pasta and she loved it ! Her daughter had a kids pizza and side of grapes very good the plus with kids meal is they come with side and a drink for just 6.99! The server was good very attentive patient and kind ! The environment was nice, so peaceful and calm we definitely enjoyed our selfs . It's beautiful in there. read more

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant - Shrimp Alfredo! - Italian Near Me - Modesto, California

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Always delicious food and excellent wait staff. We always leave full. Weekends are really busy, weekday evenings no crowds. read more

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We came after another Dr. Appointment and wish we had not! The "greeter" at the front told us it would be at least a 10 min wait. We saw the bar and asked if we could sit and order food there she said yes. We went to the bar , sat down and watch 4 people behind the bar do nothing. 2 of them looked over . I guess one was the bartender, but she never came over to give water, get drinks or an order...Nothing! After 5 min waiting we went back to put our name to go inside . Took about 15mjn. We were not happy . Lucky the server was good and food was ok. Not coming back. read more

Holley is the best server ever! I come to this location anytime I'm in the area so I can see her. She's knowledgeable, experienced, professional and knows exactly what I need, before I even say it! Of course the food is amazing too. I will be back :) read more

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant - Chicken & Shrimp Carbonara - Italian Near Me - Modesto, California

AMAZING SERVICE AMAZING FOOD Came here with my wife and was not disappointed at alllllll. Definitely twice a month kind of thing loved it what a great experience. read more

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant - Italian Near Me - Modesto, California