Is Olive Garden budget fine dining!? Meatballs Parmigiana, Carbonara and Brownie Lasagna Review.

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  • Is Olive Garden high-class for penny pinchers?
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  • @SJohnsonVoiceOvers
    @SJohnsonVoiceOvers  Рік тому +24

    Be sure to give this video a thumbs up! I appreciate you all.

  • @MrNatetimm
    @MrNatetimm Рік тому +21

    Fast casual is a great middle ground when you want something quick but a little more elevated than fast food without breaking the bank. These type of restaurants are crucial to the every day ecosystem so to say lol

  • @DJ-mu3ev
    @DJ-mu3ev Рік тому +11

    That was our college budget eat out. We chowed down on breadsticks and soup, then packed up the entree to go. We could get a couple of meals out of the entree later.

  • @MusicManSeanB
    @MusicManSeanB Рік тому +9

    There's an Olive Garden around the corner from my house my wife and I frequented when we were dating back in the early 90s. We still go there occasionally now, and I believe prices are decent. For a little more upscale casual dining Italian experience, I'd prefer Maggiano's Little Italy.

  • @ShadaeMastersAstrology
    @ShadaeMastersAstrology Рік тому +22

    I like Olive Garden they are one of the few chains that haven’t gone down the trash can the past decade. I love their imported wine, the Chicken Marsala, salad, their appetizers. If you don’t want to spend $300 bucks on a Ruth Chris date, Olive Garden is a nice date option for under $150. Fellas you can get some loving after an Olive Garden date as long as it’s a quality location, my husband always does 🤭

  • @TiffTALKS22
    @TiffTALKS22 Рік тому +2

    Im hooked on their alfredo. Used to be anyway. My sis and I would call breadsticks and dipping sauce in and THAT'S IT. 😊

  • @ryrydag
    @ryrydag Рік тому +67

    Olive garden is the mcdonalds of italian restaurants

  • @TheAmcpherson
    @TheAmcpherson Рік тому +6

    Top tier struggle palate Italian food

  • @HotAcidicDiarrhea
    @HotAcidicDiarrhea Рік тому +50

    Olive gardens sauces and soups are made from scratch, believe it or not. I was the sauce And soup guy for 6 years. They use barilla pasta and everything comes in frozen, minus the veggies and breadsticks

    • @ernestvernon9658
      @ernestvernon9658 Рік тому +5

      I used to jerk my fresh white sauce onto the plates of rude customers.

    • @Spingerex
      @Spingerex Рік тому +9

      ​@@ernestvernon9658 So you're one of Yelper's special blessed...
      You demand a restauraaant's very best...
      Well they're gonna treat you special,I'm telling you chuuum...

    • @justinseyler
      @justinseyler Рік тому +3

      I currently work there haha

    • @Dime_time333
      @Dime_time333 Рік тому +6

      So is it made from scratch, or comes in frozen?

    • @stkbloc9717
      @stkbloc9717 Рік тому

      @@Dime_time333you aren’t serious are you?

  • @Bezuss
    @Bezuss Рік тому

    Keep up the Great Content Brodie one love‼️

  • @jaylene.turner6524
    @jaylene.turner6524 Рік тому +7

    Great and honest review as always,
    Stefan!

    • @geoDB.
      @geoDB. Рік тому +1

      Wtf that's man's name

  • @smallmilo2078
    @smallmilo2078 Рік тому +4

    The Alfredo was always my go to there since I was a kid, plus some in a dish for the breadsticks ( honestly not sure how my body manages to process it )

  • @marcelljonesjr.96
    @marcelljonesjr.96 Рік тому +1

    That table sounded like velcro when he lifted the menu lol

  • @laurenschenck5355
    @laurenschenck5355 Рік тому

    LUV U!! ❤❤

  • @GL1TCHED9
    @GL1TCHED9 Рік тому +2

    Took my son to the one in Mentor recently. Our waiter was awesome,The food was delicious. But someone brought their baby in at 10pm and he screamed his freaking head off!!! It was that awful toddler screech, and the mom just kinda sat there and let him scream. We packed up our stuff to go, and they even gave us a free dessert. I love olive garden! Also, ask for Alfredo dipping sauce for your breadssticks.

  • @VeVeJustMe
    @VeVeJustMe Рік тому

    All the Granny’s out to get their bed sticks….lol!!!!

  • @michellehooks2030
    @michellehooks2030 Рік тому

    I love Olive Garden. Their calamari and fried shrimp with the fried vegetables is sooo good. And their Shrimp scampi. And not forgetting about that salad and those breadsticks!!

  • @seijuruhiko
    @seijuruhiko Рік тому +1

    I love the fettucine Alfredo. At one point you could pick from a few different pastas and I used to love the Cavatappi but things can never stay the same. Highly recommend the Alfredo sauce dipping sauce for the bread sticks too. Also for desert only the Tiramisu. Oh yeah the best appetizer is the Bruschetta. My friend got me loving that. Its basically just little pieces of toast and you spoon tomatoes, olive oil, and herbs over it. Its amazing.

  • @karmas_coming
    @karmas_coming Рік тому

    I loved the Olive Garden. There arent any more here in Toronto but when they were here it was good. Usually got a pasta dish. Lasagna of any kind is always my go to.

  • @tmackie79
    @tmackie79 Рік тому

    Haven't been to Olive garden in a few years but when I did go, it was toasted ravioli for appetizers then it could be the tour of Italy, chicken Alfredo or chicken Parm for the entree and for dessert, they used to have these petite desserts in a glass, I used to get the amoretto tiramisu

  • @jonnyunitus7166
    @jonnyunitus7166 Рік тому

    Woah a traditional UA-cam video from Stefan??? No way! Side note i need more Ohio specific recommendations. I'm trying to pull up lol

  • @laurenschenck5355
    @laurenschenck5355 Рік тому

    Happy Memorial weekend Stefan 😊

  • @PERFECTDARK10
    @PERFECTDARK10 Рік тому

    Never been to the Olive Garden before. Always heard about it. I remember it came out in the late 90’s and my best friend always asked me if I’ve ever been 😂.

  • @realprincessg
    @realprincessg Рік тому

    the chicken and shrimp carbonara w no red peppers is my favorite thing from olive garden, it’s so good 😊

  • @DScott-bp4vu
    @DScott-bp4vu Рік тому +1

    You gon take this KFC chicken little and like it! 😂🤣😆😂🤣😆

  • @CredituR
    @CredituR Рік тому +1

    Haven't been to Olive Garden in years but back in high school when they had the never ending pasta bowl my friends & I would get baked & go couldn't beat it for $10.99 or whatever it was lol

  • @MrOisJustLiving
    @MrOisJustLiving 4 місяці тому

    Hard to watch the long form content when the shorts are so fire

  • @TiffTALKS22
    @TiffTALKS22 Рік тому

    "Be still my fat a$$ heart"🤣🤣

  • @cbjofficial3006
    @cbjofficial3006 Рік тому

    KFC “Chicken Little”😂😂😂😂

  • @joemoney1396
    @joemoney1396 Рік тому

    From a small town in WV, the OG was the fanciest spot in town 😂😂

  • @JeannieHart
    @JeannieHart Рік тому +1

    I liked it as a college student, went there often with friends. Now, it would be a plan B or C. Lol The salad was always good and Tiramisu wasn't bad.

  • @jazzmyn5804
    @jazzmyn5804 Рік тому

    Bro, I LOVE Olive Garden

  • @evendur7162
    @evendur7162 Рік тому

    I love my loval Olive Garden, they have amazing fried calamari, very crispy snd nice crunch, some shredded parm on it goes so damn well, and the souo oh god i love the soup
    I know its not authentic the restaurant but damn, it taste good for me lol😊

  • @lavacakecutie4738
    @lavacakecutie4738 Рік тому

    Boy you’re supposed to order the “Tour of Italy”

  • @BrandonWilliams8923
    @BrandonWilliams8923 Рік тому

    At 3:03 to 3:06 I knew something was up lmao

  • @billwill7383
    @billwill7383 Рік тому

    Love their calamari

  • @joshuaarroyo7235
    @joshuaarroyo7235 Рік тому

    I always enjoy their whenever we go out to eat there. It's alright for what it is, but i normally go back for the salad and bread sticks.

  • @taisontran4727
    @taisontran4727 Рік тому

    Not even the beach wood Cheesecake Factory but the Olive Garden 🤣

  • @yunglo9394
    @yunglo9394 Рік тому

    I’m from Youngstown and despite my name being Carlos, I’m African American, not Italian or Hispanic. I never went to Olive Garden until my 20s mainly because my grandparents didn’t think it was all that. Hell I remember my grandma saying, “There’s too many Italians and Italian places in Youngstown for us to go to Olive Garden.”

  • @jm2307
    @jm2307 Рік тому

    The only thing at Olive Garden I like are the soups. Especially when you have a bad cold. Life saving.

  • @KingMikeHall
    @KingMikeHall 10 місяців тому

    Them lasagna fritters are a thing of beauty

  • @FuckYourPage
    @FuckYourPage Рік тому

    You should try doing Hood Plates 👌👌

  • @Jenni_H
    @Jenni_H Рік тому

    I usually get the minestrone soup and black tie mouse cake and an Alfredo of some sort either chicken or shrimp whatever I'm feeling. Or if they have like a pick 3 or something. I haven't been their in years.

  • @KcsFinest1
    @KcsFinest1 Рік тому

    I love Olive Garden. Lol! Gotta get the Chicken Gnocchi soup instead of salad and the Tour of Italy.

  • @AntiOTRS
    @AntiOTRS Рік тому

    We need a Daym Drops colab !

  • @maiyajones5814
    @maiyajones5814 Рік тому

    Chicken Scampi and Tour of Italy are my faves

  • @user-qt8ko4gm2k
    @user-qt8ko4gm2k День тому

    Olive garden meatballs are frankly goated.
    That being said, I understand the dissent towards this statement.

  • @Tey816
    @Tey816 Рік тому

    I haven’t been to O.G. in a decade or so. I’m better off anyway. But this review was official as always.

  • @derrickbird9676
    @derrickbird9676 Рік тому

    Me and my buddies were just talking about. We all agreed unlimited soup and salad is the only thing worth a damn at OG. Having said that I live the soup and salad

  • @TopDawgUchiha
    @TopDawgUchiha Рік тому +11

    Can’t go wrong with the chicken alfredo with broccoli & the warm doughnuts for dessert!!!

  • @seantrimble269
    @seantrimble269 Рік тому +1

    The Italian Dennys.

  • @MzKaylcC
    @MzKaylcC Рік тому +1

    In the late 90'd early 00's Olive Garden was that girl frfr... But then it changed and now it so nasty idk how they stay open

  • @linzeeerinwoodz
    @linzeeerinwoodz Рік тому

    “all the grannyz out here 4 they breadstix“ ☠️ 2:56 👵🏼🥖🥖
    p.s - 3:09 + 3:13 sticky menu peeling haz me howling - lmfaoooooooooooooo

  • @pandora7727
    @pandora7727 Рік тому

    That carbonara 😭😭

  • @NotMeGworl
    @NotMeGworl Рік тому

    "It's chocolate and cream"
    Yes, yes you are

  • @SuprGaming
    @SuprGaming Рік тому

    As a Italian we do not acknowledge the Olive Garden

  • @saphiffertalbert1322
    @saphiffertalbert1322 Рік тому

    The last time I was at the Olive Garden, I ordered shrimp scampi. I never remember the shrimp scampi that I got that time having asparagus they told me that asparagus always was in my shrimp scampi. I certainly did not remember I ordered small plates and I remember saying to myself, if I live, and nothing happens when I leave here I won’t be back to get to it as a Christmas present last year one of the coworkers gave me an Olive Garden gift card😂😂😂😂😂

  • @georgedamianakos1047
    @georgedamianakos1047 Рік тому

    I would probably endeavor in a cosmic brownie.

  • @weem7
    @weem7 Рік тому

    I like olive garden. My husband and I go from time to time but we also don't consider it Italian food so that helps 😂

  • @sychobones3788
    @sychobones3788 Рік тому

    You should review happys pizza. The catfish is surprisingly pretty good

  • @Wayno216
    @Wayno216 Рік тому

    You gotta do a review on polish boys you know it’s a Cleveland thing the world doesn’t know about

  • @yakbills
    @yakbills Рік тому +2

    Bro i just had surgery yesterday, lower abdomen, when you said that meatball tasted like fox meat i almost lost it and busted these damn stitches. Freaking hilarious

  • @awguitarroom8033
    @awguitarroom8033 Рік тому

    Olive Garden is always packed

  • @HandsomeMofoJo
    @HandsomeMofoJo Рік тому

    You should have tried Juicy seafood boil right next door🤔🍽️

  • @YoFreshWiggy
    @YoFreshWiggy Рік тому

    Gotta convince your Paytron to send you to Noma

  • @drewzy2008
    @drewzy2008 Рік тому

    Chicken gnocchi 🍲 vs getting a🥗... Then the tour of Italy. Olive garden isn't the absolute best... But I enjoy it.

  • @slimrozaye9
    @slimrozaye9 Рік тому

    I luv olive garden

  • @michellehooks2030
    @michellehooks2030 Рік тому +2

    The fox meat took me out 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @robertevans1343
    @robertevans1343 Рік тому

    👍🏾 👍🏾

  • @malissagaiter6111
    @malissagaiter6111 Рік тому

    I always get the Tour of Italy

  • @adamhopkins1421
    @adamhopkins1421 Рік тому

    I always get the stuffed ravioli

  • @blankcheck2276
    @blankcheck2276 Рік тому

    You should go to Mia Bella’s in little Italy for that real Italian food

  • @taijandockery9783
    @taijandockery9783 Рік тому

    Their gnocchi soup makes me moist like extremely moist

  • @Christine_1075
    @Christine_1075 Рік тому +1

    Fox Meat😂

  • @ericartson393
    @ericartson393 Рік тому +1

    Only meal I order is the Tour of Italy

  • @rickydavis2749
    @rickydavis2749 Рік тому

    If that sat you at a dirty table I would be a little hesitant eating from their kitchen. However, I've never eaten at an Olive Garden. So I can't really speak on them.

  • @4Kisha80
    @4Kisha80 Рік тому

    Soup salad and breadsticks ONLY.

  • @mikescorpio1108
    @mikescorpio1108 Рік тому

    Carbonara sauce is supposed to be cheese, eggs (yolks particularly), black pepper, rendered pork fat, and pasta water.

  • @blankcheck2276
    @blankcheck2276 Рік тому

    The fried lasagna and the zuppa are the best thing on the menu and the zeppolis with the raspberry sauce are solid just don’t let them put a pound of powder sugar on it

  • @karenolayinka9605
    @karenolayinka9605 Рік тому

    Tour of italy

  • @mysticstylez19991
    @mysticstylez19991 Рік тому

    Here is what you do:
    Get the chicken parm but with the side of pasta get angel hair + alredo sauce
    Best meal there

  • @rainofda0w024
    @rainofda0w024 8 місяців тому

    olive garden is.....idk it always felt like extra upstanding, like I was coming to the place to compensate while my tastebuds went "we could have had this at home", and yeah the breadsticks are tasty to me but by the point I finally picked something on one of their menu's it felt like I was taking my worries onto my food and they served up my own worries at times

  • @HyperKing128
    @HyperKing128 Рік тому

    Olive Garden is good for how much you pay for but they give you so much food. It’s a meal for a king.

  • @Richmills23
    @Richmills23 Рік тому

    😂

  • @toby8814
    @toby8814 Рік тому

    salad n brownie are alright... carbonara is an egg pecorino cheese and bacon (kind of) based sauce

  • @babymama77
    @babymama77 Рік тому

    Omg I loved there alfredo pizza but they discounted it 😫 nx To that I would get tour of Italy but it is so small and not worth it so I just get alfredo n salad

  • @lloydmatthews4223
    @lloydmatthews4223 Рік тому +1

    Fox 🦊 meat 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @cannottrust3710
    @cannottrust3710 Рік тому +1

    The vlog/story was better than the food

  • @88Shawty
    @88Shawty Рік тому

    Carbonara is not supposed to be oily it should be creamy since it’s binded in term of sauce with egg yolks and the starchy pasta water

  • @tsetensun5449
    @tsetensun5449 Рік тому

    Olive Garden is trash. The small base I was stationed at in Germany had an Italian restaurant on it. It was owned by Italian immigrants. Amazing food, great people. They are the measure of Italian food to me. The patriarch’s name was Guido; awesome dude.

  • @masmaslil
    @masmaslil Рік тому

    50 dollars aaaaay

  • @Eb0nK1ngG4mes
    @Eb0nK1ngG4mes Рік тому

    $48 for tv dinner food. Nice.

  • @Christine_1075
    @Christine_1075 Рік тому

    KFC chicken little and like it😂😂

  • @KIrvin_The_Scholar
    @KIrvin_The_Scholar Рік тому

    Bro you are hilarious. Great review as always. At olive garden do the taste of Italy, the eggplant Parmigiana or the mushroom, spinach & cheese ravioli

  • @thejtd21
    @thejtd21 Рік тому

    Ever thought about doing Stand Up Comedy?

  • @TheeSimoneB
    @TheeSimoneB Рік тому

    They have herb grilled salmon with broccoli which I thought was pretty good. I’m not a big fan of pasta and tomato sauce.

  • @cyruscesar2818
    @cyruscesar2818 Рік тому

    I loved Olive Garden as a child, but children don't know s*** lol. It's a guilty pleasure if you want rich, buttery, not-too-good for you food at a reasonable price. I don't hate it, but Maggiano's Little Italy is better IMO. That said, the Tour of Italy will do you right

  • @michelleduncan3456
    @michelleduncan3456 Рік тому

    I ONLY order the chicken Parmesan and the fried mozzarella from Olive Garden. I eat a lot of the salad and breadsticks. Only good things there, IMO.

  • @bsmoov83
    @bsmoov83 Рік тому

    I don’t have an issue with Olive Garden but it’s not like it’s any good either.

  • @PuffalosFinest
    @PuffalosFinest Рік тому

    Fox meat 😂💀