What is your honest personal opinion of Olive Garden?

It’s better than most food most people can make at home but it’s not better than what I can make at home. There are of course far superior Italian restaurants, but they are not as consistent. Olive Garden will be predictably mediocre.

The Five Cheese Ziti al Forno is their best dish. Their worst dish is anything that has meat in it as they don’t know how to cook it across any location I’ve ever tried.

Olive Garden is a very American experience because it’s consistently meh — the “cheap slop piled high” model applied to Italian cuisine.