These Italian chains pair comforting ravioli dishes with warm, garlicky bread and cheesy sides.
If you are craving a nostalgia-sparking Italian meal, you can’t go wrong with ravioli and garlic bread. Ravioli is comfort food for anyone who grew up in the 1980s, when it was a staple in many households. For whatever reason, my kids aren’t fans of the pasta pillows, which aren’t quite as mainstream these days. Where can you get a ravioli dinner, complete with butter and garlic-soaked bread? Here are 5 Italian chains with the best ravioli and garlic bread, according to diners.
Maggiano’s Little Italy
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Maggiano’s Little Italy’s Four-Cheese Ravioli is a culinary delight, served with a pistachio pesto and parmesan cream sauce. The menu also features mushroom ravioli, made with balsamic mushrooms and garlic breadcrumbs and tossed in a marsala cream sauce. One TripAdvisor diner calls the mushroom ravioli “fantastic,” adding that it offers “great flavor and the sauce was superb.” The chain’s garlic bread is legendary. “Fun Fact: our Garlic Bread is filled with truffle butter & cheese which makes it 100% delicious,” the chain recently shared on Instagram.
Carrabba’s Italian Grill
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Carrabba’s Italian Grill has an indulgent Lobster Ravioli, “Ravioli stuffed with lobster and romano in our white wine cream sauce topped with diced tomatoes,” the menu reads. A Tripadvisor reviewer shared, “As for the lobster ravioli…wow! Super fantastic. My only regret was that there was not enough on the plate.” Get it alongside the chain’s famous Italian bread with a garlic olive oil dip, allowing you to make your own version of the classic.
Olive Garden
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One of the Italian chain’s trademark dishes is toasted ravioli, featuring lightly fried pockets of beef-filled ravioli served with homemade marinara sauce. One Redditor shared, “I had the Olive Garden toasted ravioli appetizer months ago and cannot stop thinking about it.” There is also the Ravioli Carbonara, “Cheese ravioli baked in a creamy sauce with bacon, topped with a blend of Italian cheeses,” and Cheese Ravioli, “Filled with a blend of indulgent Italian cheeses, topped with your choice of homemade marinara or meat sauce and melted mozzarella.” Eat it with the trademark never-ending warm, garlic, buttery breadsticks. “The breadsticks are elite. Warm, soft, garlicky, and they just keep bringing more,” a diner states.
Buca di Beppo
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Buca di Beppo is an old-school family-style restaurant serving up traditional options. The menu features jumbo cheese ravioli baked under layers of mozzarella and meat sauce, which diners say is perfect. “It’s very tasty, and the sauce is not bitter. Very generous with the meat,” says a TripAdvisor diner. The garlic cheesy bread is also legendary. “The cheesy garlic bread was a slow winner. It was pretty unimpressive at first, but as the dinner carried on, it started to shine. And the portion was, of course, gigantic. We had enough between 3 people to eat our fill and take some home. It was a pretty simple recipe – small loaves cut in half and brushed with garlic butter with a slice of mozzarella,” a Redditor says.
Old Spaghetti Factory
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The Old Spaghetti Factory offers two ravioli dinners: a classic spinach-and-cheese ravioli topped with marinara sauce and the “Founder’s Favorite” Gourmet Jumbo Crab Ravioli, stuffed with crab meat and ricotta cheese, topped with a pesto Alfredo sauce. The Sicilian Garlic Cheese Bread, an appetizer featuring fresh bread topped with garlic and a melted three-cheese blend of Monterey Jack, cheddar, and mozzarella, toasted golden brown and served with homemade marinara sauce, is indulgent and delicious. Some diners even drive hours for it, and a Facebooker says they get “MULTIPLE” orders.
