Olive Garden Dolcini Chocolate

Olive Garden Dolcini Chocolate is one of those things that people complain about with Olive Garden. It is just too bland to be a reasonable dessert. 

Olive Garden Shrimp Scampi

So, when I read the menu it said that Olive Garden Shrimp Scampi was tossed with asparagus, tomatoes, and angel hair pasta. There are may be two whole spears of asparagus in this which is not enough to really mention. 

This is more pasta than it should be for the vegetables, but the shrimp is shrimp. It has that much going for it. 

Olive Garden Salad

As you can see, Olive Garden Salad is served in a bowl way to big for itself to give it more confidence. As salads go this one is good enough, but I sat at a table with two people who rarely eat salad and we ate at least two bowls full.

I'll grant you that munching on this is a good thing but keep in mind that this salad is all iceberg and no dark greens. It really isn't that great for you. I would give it more points if it came with kale or spinach. 

Olive Garden Pick Three Appetizer

 Olive Garden Pick Three Appetizer is one of those things I can't stand. You get less than you would if you just ordered an appetizer and fewer people can get the whole experience. Order this if you can't commit. 

Olive Garden Mixed Berry Sparkling Water

Olive Garden Mixed Berry Sparkling Water is an oddly unsweetened beverage that infused the flavors of all kinds of stuff that will fail to infuse for any number of reasons. Those leaves need to be in the water longer. The blueberries won't infuse unless they get cut and I don't even know what that red stuff is at the bottom.  

In the world of epic fails I have to say this is high on the list. I should have just ordered water which would have been better for me and would have cost less. 

You could say that this has antioxidants but why not just eat a salad? you could say it has nutrients not found in other foods you buy, but not in large enough amounts to make a difference. 

All in all, this just looks pretty. 

Olive Garden Andes Mint

So they took and Andes Mint and put an Olive Garden wrapper on it. Fool me, Fool me, just try to fool me.

Olive Garden Zoppoli

These come with two kinds of sauce, chocolate and raspberry, and reminds me of funnel cake. I love funnel cake so if this wasn't like 1200 Calories it would be great.

Olive Garden Citrus Chicken Sorrento

Meh, the vegetables are not good. The chicken was passable, but the vegetables left me flat. I know that this dish is chicken, but the vegetables take up more than half the plate so they should be good.

Olive Garden Calamari

Calamari should not be chewy, and this was not chewy. I love it when the Chewy stays in the Star Wars and the Calamari is crisp. This is one of those cases. I really liked this stuff.

Olive Garden Toasted Ravioli

These were the best thing on the appetizer menu so far as I can see. I have never had toasted Ravioli before but this was good. It was also loaded with sodium fat and terrible for me. I shared these and you should as well. Eat in moderation.

Olive Garden Bread Sticks

I googled these things and found that a bread enthusiast (that's a thing!) website came up before the Olive Garden website did, and that should tell you something. 

Now these are addictive, 140 Calorie, fat glazed, diabetes sticks. You kind of need to have them but you should only have one or two. 

Olive Garden Strawberry-Passion Fruit Limonata

The things I do for a review. I would never have thought of getting one of these but I wanted to grab something that only Olive Garden sold.

This took a long time to be ready and tasted like it was made of powder when it came.

I will admit it was elegant but looked much better than it tasted. Stick with good old water unless you have money to burn. 

Olive Garden Minestrone Soup

Minestrone Soup may very well have its origins in the world of "this is what we have so cook it" predating the Latin tribes that eventually became ancient Rome. That means that there is no wrong way to make Minestrone Soup.

Keeping that in mind, there were a lot of tomatoes in this soup. If you don't like tomatoes you best give it a pass, but I have to say that as a starter this did okay.