Olive Garden

Attention to Detail. Baltimore's Olive Garden on Perry Hill was very dissapointing! Looking for a nice evening of takeout on a Sunday night. No other Italian restaraunts in the area like Olive Garden, so we drove the 25 minutes thinking that it would be well worth it.

Not only was the order wrong, but the pasta was overcooked too! We ordered pasta with meat sauce, but got pasta with marinara sauce - the family meal. What a bummer to get all the way home and see that the spaghettit had the wrong sauce.

We are so tired of having to check our food when we have been assured that everything is fine (e.g., counting nuggets, checking sandwhiches for meat, etc). Sometimes you want to get what you ordered and pay for, but I guess that is too much to ask -- but we got plenty of salad dressing, like 8 containers for a small salad!

We won't be back to this Olive Garden and consider our $45+ wasted, as well as, dinner for tonight. The take out really sucks!…

Ridiculous wait times. Walked out of this Olive Garden once again, as it was by far the worst experience I have ever had at this particular one. We like the food. We like American Italian, and I don't care how many people want to ridicule us for it.

But every single time you go here on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, after 4:30, you are looking at wait times of over an hour and if you come at 5:30 - ?, you can be prepared to wait at least 2 hours. If it was one weekend where you had to wait 2 hours, that's going to happen, but it is literally every weekend you come here, you can be prepared to wait for 2 hours, and I think that is ludicrous. It is not like Olive Garden is a fancy, upscale restaurant that warrants this type of wait.

To make matters worse, the Lobby of this place is extremely cramped and nowhere near designed to handle the amount of traffic waiting to be served. You must literally stand shoulder to shoulder with fellow strangers all waiting to be served. Getting through the crowd to the restroom is a chore in its own right.

To top it all off, we had an extremely rude hostess snap at a person in my party, named Michelle. When he asked how long the wait was going to be, she snapped at him "You WERE TOLD when you got here it was going to be a 2 hour wait. You've only waited an hour." At which point after a testy exchange I had with her for being rude and disrespectful, we walked out.

Until Olive Garden understands that they are not meeting the demands of its customers in this particular market by refusing to build another restaurant in Harford County, which is where I am convinced accounts for a significant amount of the traffic at this restaurant, it will only result in upset guests who will simply stop patronizing them, such as my family.

Between the wait and nasty service people who are not customer-oriented, we're just not putting up with it anymore.…

Traditional dishes and all -you-can-eat salad, soup and bread sticks are the draw at this upscale-casual Italian restaurant.. In Short
Established in 1982, this chain gained a following for its laid-back atmosphere and generous portions. Patrons settle into comfortable booths and tables in dining rooms with plants, artwork and décor reminiscient of the villas in the Tuscan countryside. Starters include scampi, sausage or pepperoni pizza, and several soup choices, as well as a signature seafood dip (crab, shrimp, cheese and marinara). Entrees include classics like lasagna, fettuccine Alfredo and chicken parmigiana. There are also "Garden Fare" options, which promise 30 percent fewer calories.…

marge. If you want the all you can eat salad and bread sticks but better Italian food try the Olive Tree in Aberdeen, Md. They have larger servings and the food is great especially the crab alfredo. The put in large amounts of lump crab meat and it is delicios. If you have tried the Olive Garden and then go to Olive tree you will never mix them up.…