Olive Garden - Mesa

Can?t go wrong with never ending salad and breadsticks! Lunch specials that fit your budget with great atmosphere and service! I personally love the appetizers along with soup and breadsticks. Entrees are filling with enough to bring extra home with you. Lunch specials have smaller portions and it?s perhaps better to just get the full entree and have extra. Excellent waitstaff ensuring my drink was always full and that I never went without or waited for anything.

7/7/22 update -Another great dinner with amazing service. Met all expectations, and the complementary birthday lasagna cake was a nice gesture for my son. Fantastic service and food. Met up with out of state family and our party of 7 was seated at a quiet table that enabled us to socialize. The strawberry passion fruit drink was perfect. Our great server kept our drinks and breadsticks refilled. Their chocolate after dinner mints were slightly chilled which is a nice touch so they're not melted and messy. 5-18-22 Edit. Another fantastic meal with great service and great food. The salad was wonderful and was properly drained, with no water left at the bottom of the bowl. The stuffed zitto appetizer was a nice treat, with nice soft warm center that is nothing like pizza pockets. Perfectly prepared with no cold or burning spots. The salmon and chicken were very tasty. Service was great despite a full restaurant on a Wednesday evening

Good Italian place to try out. I loved the marinara here and egg plant too. So good. The salad dressing is perfect and comes with every entree ordered. Should give it a try. Prices are a bit on the higher side.

Every time I've gone here for the last 10 years, the food has been messed up. I've had spinach and artichoke dip so over microwaved, it was rock solid. I've had seafood so overcooked it was inedible. Last night I ordered a sirloin at medium well and it was so overcooked, it was completely dry. The only reason I keep going back is because my dad proposed to my mom here. I don't think this place will ever get it together. Fazoli's has better food at half the cost. It's honestly sad to see these guys never get it right in the kitchen when the wait staff is always so on top of things. It can't be that difficult to get the kitchen staff some real training or to at least page a high enough wage to attract a person who respects the craft.

Olive Garden offered a Veteran's Day meal which was an incredible value! The wait staff was speedy, kind and easy to work with! The only tiny complaint was my table's proximity to the extremely busy and chilly front door. Still, zero complaints for such a great meal!