Olive Garden Italian - East Brunswick

Absolutely beautiful! looks really nice and with comfortable parking. the service surpasses all my expectations, they can even change their order if they are not satisfied with the food. but eating is great, I really love their broth sticks and garnelen scampi is my favorite attizer!

My husband, son and I had dinner here. It has been a long time since I had dinner here. I have met a friend here for lunch a bunch of times but all we got was the soup and salad. Tonight I was able to try some of the other entrees. We got the fried calamari appetizer. That was very good. Fried perfectly and the seasoning in the batter stood out. It came with two dipping sauces. A typical marinara sauce and then the nice surprise was a spicy ranch dip. Both went really well with the calamari. My favorite is the soup salad and breadsticks unlimited lunch deal and I was hoping they had that option for dinner time and they did! I had the salad and chicken gnocchi soup first. That is my favorite soup. The gnocchi is perfectly cooked and it is a nice creamy soup. My husband had the shrimp scampi that came with asparagus mixed in. He does not like asparagus so he requested on the side and it did come out separately. I was able to enjoy that. The asparagus was Steamed cooked crunchy and sliced. I like how we were able to request that on the side. Already paying for the meal so might as well enjoy it if they put it on the side. My son chose the Mac and cheese kids meal. He had grapes and French fries. A nice balance ha ha! The Mac and cheese was really small shells and he enjoyed it. We had a great dinner here.

The only criticism I have is for a restaurant of your name you could serve better shrimp. Our local pizzeria serves bigger shrimp on their Shrimp Scampi. Your popcorn size shrimp isn't worth the price on Shrimp Scampi or Shrimp Alfredo dishes. The picture is the left over shrimp where I had for lunch over broccoli. The other picture is my local pizzerias Shrimp Scampi. I think you can do better.

I went here around 2pm on a Friday and was told there was a 10 to 15 minute wait. That was a bit of a surprise but it was awhile since I visited this restaurant. We were seated and a server came to our table in a reasonable amount of time. We got our drinks quickly and received our breadsticks. No complaints about the service at all, compared to my last experience eating out it was great. The food was good and portion were decent. My only complaint was that the tables seemed kind of close and it was busy. It was a little disconcerting when a elderly couple who were seated at the table next to us during our meal were staring at us, mainly the women. We weren't talking loud really. Except for the diminished atmosphere, everything was good.

Worst Salad they serve. It has nothing but only leaves and one OLIVE in salad. Worst place,