OLIVE GARDEN – The Affordable Italian-American Dining Experience – Or is it??

Founded in 1982, everyone has either heard or eaten at Olive Garden at one time or another. But, is it still affordable and as good as you remember? We’ll bring you along and you be the judge.

Olive Garden, 20532 Avalon Blvd, Carson, CA 90746
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Good evening everybody hello we are here in Carson California for I’m not sure if it’s considered nostalgic e kind of I I it’s been around ever since I was a kid you know it could be it could be for some people then we are here at Olive

Garden I know a lot of people saying hey that’s not a real Italian restaurant but we like it it’s good I mean who I mean everybody knows I mean who doesn’t know about their bread sticks the never-ending salad bowl and bread sticks and soup that tour of Italy tour

Of Italy everybody likes Olive Garden and we’re going to show you why everybody likes it yes and my sister Linda and our son Christopher is here with us so we could order a little variety of foods yes and uh we’ll try it out yeah but there a bit camera shy but

We’ll show you what they got yes look at the good deal here so this is the menu here you start off with the appetizers and here are the super salad it’s pretty cool and your Entre also come with soup and soup or Salad here’s this is really

Cool it’s a take home entree so if you order one of the classic Entre you can take one home any of these three for $6 and here is the Entre classic right there the tour of Italy is popular the chicken parmesana there the Alfredo good stuff you can make your own pasta

Here you see it bab Y and some desserts as well mhm and it is a full bar so they have their specialty drinks but again it’s a full bar so you can pretty much get and here are the wines pretty much get whatever you want them so it’s a

Fullon rest yeah so we did order a couple appetizers and our main so we’re looking forward to that we got a couple appetizers here we got the toasted raviolis they’re supposed to be filled with like ground beef and seasoning it looks really good and we got the fried

Mozzarella usually it sticks right but these are little little square square uh I know Domino looking things yeah so that looks really good we’re going to go ahead and open this up and see what it looks like of course we’re looking for that stretch hopefully it gives you that

Stretch oh yeah look at that they give you the stretch so you know it’s good and I’m going to go ahead and dip it in this sauce right so here we go yeah tast taste that and I’m going to try the toasted Ravioli this I think is better than a stick because the spreading is very light and it’s mozzarella cheese all the way how sometimes when you get a mozzarella like sticks mozzarella sticks they have a heavy breading this is perfect I love that it’s pretty much cheese with a light breading but goes

Really well with that marinara that looks really good yeah and it’s sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and this toasted ravioli you can see it’s filled with ground beef it’s very good I love the fact that they toasted it this is really good too very light breadcrumbs on it so

Well I think both of these we could recommend these appetiz so far so far we’re off to a great start oh we are oh yeah you know how you usually get the salad and the dressing is already mixed in there what I like is we wanted different dressings for this salad so

They put their house dressing on the side and then everybody else wanted Ranch and so they put that on the side which is nice I didn’t know they did that I thought it always came with the dressing in it so you can see Fresh Salad you know they go through this

Salad like crazy because it’s all you care to eat with your entree salad soups all you care to eat so we’re going to get our good portion of salad look at the beautiful tomato you got to love their NeverEnding bread sticks they always is served hot and you can see

It’s got like a Sheen of butter on there it’s always good it is it is and it’s something new what they have now with the bread sticks they have dipping sauces so you can get never ending dipping sauces for like $5.99 or something of the marinara the Alfredo

And there was one more dipping sauce too but that was something a little different cuz everybody loves the bread sticks they are with your entree unlimited bread sticks which is amazing and you can have those dipping sauces with it so I mean just that alone is a

Meal yeah I always love these with the the salad and with my spaghetti and lasagna it’s a must yeah salad is nice and fresh ranch dressing very good I usually get the house Italian which I got yeah so this time I tried the ranch it’s very good

Yeah Fresh Salad they go through the salad every day so you know whatever salad you’re going to get it’s going to be fresh oh yeah we got here the chicken parmesan with the sadus spaghetti look at that cheese all over the place this looks absolutely delicious that’s the spaghetti even

Gives you a spoon to do your little rolling up try this out right marinar sauce very light tasting let’s try this chicken parmesan right here if you’re a cheese lover these are definitely the dishes for you look at this that looks Good very good the chicken is still a little bit crunchy which is really nice very cheesy this is a good dish Hi I ordered the cheese ravioli and here it goes that’s a good size serving right yes look it’s a little Big really great it was very cheesy inside on the outside they put extra parmeson in it so it was like really good so very cheesy U marinara sauce and it was very tender so something that I would recommend if you love cheese I love cheese so there you go cheesy

Ravioli okay what we have to share is the Tour of Italy which is the classic lasagna fetuccini Alfredo and the chicken parmesan then you got the NeverEnding soup soup salad and bread sticks so I’m starting off with the pasta V they have a chicken and Nookie

They have a Tuscany one and they have a Minon one I’m usually a two Bowl person this is I’m starting off with my my favorite but that chicken one sounds interesting so this I love the noodles in here he put cheese on top of it and

You can see the lentils in there let’s try this one Out perfectly cook doesn’t need any seasoning no extra pepper or anything and of course everybody takes their bread and dumps it in the oh that’s like a pro tip right that’s a pro tip yeah mhm this is my goto yeah when I come here to Olive G now this Trio is perfect

For someone who can’t decide what they want so it gives you the best of they have what they offer here you know lasagna the fetuccini and the chicken parmesan lasagna here is one of my favorites if I don’t get the trio I just get the full serving of the lasagna

It is delicious look at that nice little cheese stretch right there it is consistent it’s always delicious over here and I always save the bread sticks to eat with the lasagna of course with the other two as well this lasagna is layered perfectly the cheese is nice and melted on there

And that Marinaro sauce it blends perfectly with the ground beat in here Genie Alfredo baby we’re both going to try it out we have a cameraman yeah this is the advantage of having a cameraman yeah cam cameraman Chris Christopher huh baby yes yes oh I got a half a noodle go ahead

Baby yeah here we go this is one of their signature dishes this is one of the dishes you can take home for that $6 right Andre thing delicious creamy good cheese flavor it is it’s very good the noodles the noodles are cooked perfectly as well and

The only thing is missing like for me it would be some some grilled chicken but really for a meatless dish this fet chedo is perfect delicious yeah because it’s really being flanked by two meat options here the uh chicken parmesan in the ground beef lasagna so again this is perfect if you

Can’t make up might what you want here perfect thank you this is the chicken and noie so it’s noie is is like little potato balls in here and it has good pieces of chicken and he put some extra cheese on top of that look at that I had to try this one

Out even though plasta visual is my absolute favorite cuz it has that little bit of spice in it let’s go ahead and try this out got celery here’s a little potato Noki that nooky is like extremely soft it’s almost like a potato pasta which is really good it’s creamy very it’s

Hot let’s go ahead Andy try this chicken good pieces of chicken in here the noi is nice and creamy on the inside so far happyday pasta V is my favorite so far it’s dessert time yes and so we got two cakes this one is the strawberry cream

Cake and we got this one because it is Linda’s birthday so it’s a complimentary one and we ordered the chocolate lasagna yes this is uh labeled new so this a new dessert yeah new on their menu It’s supposed to be chocolate with chocolate mousse and Wafers wow so that sounds

Good so we’re going to try these out yeah let’s try it I’m going to try the oh cheers I’m going to try the chocolate one out I’ll try the strawberry oh wow look at that oh wow it goes on really smooth there got yours look at that oh that looks good here we

Go this is a good cake it’s not extremely sweet it’s just sweet enough good flavor of strawberry in this cake now delicious mine is sweet that’s sweet and it is definitely chocolatey does it have the wafer is it crunchy with the wafer in yeah there was a slight little

Crunch to it but the chocolate mousse and the chocolate cake it’s delicious wow wow try this one out huh yeah if you’re a fan of chocolate you don’t want to miss out on this one this is full of chocolate goodness right here and you’ll like the strawberry cream one it is

Delicious yeah we’re going to do a little switch and see how it how it is we got our cameraman back so here we go let’s uh try this one out this is a strawberry it looks really good let me put a little bit of the uh of the sauce

On it and that’s the chocolate Mose one yeah here we go B Mhm this uh strawberry chocolate cake uh strawberry cream cake is a lot lighter than the chocolate one right there this is a lot of cake it is on the sweet side I definitely need some water or some coffee with it but it is delicious if you are a chocolate lover

This is the cake for you oh yeah yeah yeah yeah this is this is your everyday strawberry cake you can’t go around with this one and really this is perfect for sharing these are simple servings but two or three people easily can share these cakes yes

Mhm it’s a good one that wraps it up from our neighborhood Olive Garden yes says so if you’re looking for Italian a really like classic Italian food some of the dishes are here are the very classic ones but it’s just really good food yeah now is it going to be like an authentic

Italian probably not uh but but to to us it it tastes good very tasty didn’t they send these chefs to Italy from Olive Garden I think if they said I don’t know if they said chefs not everybody maybe the test kitchen chef yeah yeah that’s what I thought so something like that I

Thought I I read somewhere that Olive Gard that could be you know what I like about the Olive Garden is it makes it look very homey it does like Italian home it has a fireplace nice artwork pictures on the wall just has that home feeling I like like the little plates

They had plates on the wall baby and they have wine hanging with glasses you know it’s very Comfort it’s very comfortable in here yes yes so you know if you haven’t had Olive Garden in a while it may be worth a try to check it back out yeah yeah and the and the

Plates were very reasonable yes they weren’t too high at all that’s what I thought pricewise yes so do we shout out I do I have a little a little list Irene happy birthday Jamie happy birthday and Brandy we just saw you at a Chinese restaurant thank you so much for saying

Hi yes yes all right well uh yeah happy birthday and thanks for saying hi and that wraps it up here from Olive Garden in Carson and until our next adventure I’ll catch you guys on the next one