Olive Garden: South Slope Restaurant Rumor is BS
The rumored opening of an Olive Garden at Isaac Katan’s humongous (135 units, according to DOB filings) under-construction building at 500 4th Avenue is just idle chatter, according to a rep for the restaurant chain. In fact, no neighborhood in our fair borough is likely to see unlimited pasta bowls any time soon. “We’re not…
The rumored opening of an Olive Garden at Isaac Katan’s humongous (135 units, according to DOB filings) under-construction building at 500 4th Avenue is just idle chatter, according to a rep for the restaurant chain. In fact, no neighborhood in our fair borough is likely to see unlimited pasta bowls any time soon. “We’re not currently looking in Brooklyn,” says Mara Frazier, Olive Garden’s media relations manager. Good news or bad?
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Hilarious 12:08 and on the money, just one thing u never see the 5 star restaurants as busy as the olive gardens, and thats a fact
I’d like to get a BJ at La Villa also but they don’t offer that – doesn’t mean it is bad.
Can we STILL call it the Olive Garden Building?
Please!
I’d like to be able to get a vegetable at La Villa. Other than some crap salads and cheese and oil covered asparagas, they have no vegetables.
I’m a snob and not ashamed of it. If I liked generic chain food and stores, I’d move back to the midwest. For reasonable Italian, I like Ponte Vecchio and Red Rose on Smith.
I have to say, of all the chain-restaurant nightmares, Olive Garden comes out on top in terms of tastiness. I’ve eaten at Megu, le Bernadin, Essex House. All great stuff, but really, theres nothing bad about Olive Garden food. Its not like its godawful dry Applebees nastiness or tough-as-leather Red Lobster.
I have to say, of all the chain-restaurant nightmares, Olive Garden comes out on top
Marco Pollo–they make great chicken!
Give me a break – La Villa is fresh made stuff and pretty good (I think it gets a 22-22 in Zagat);
Olive Garden is mass processed frozen food and tastes it.
To compare the 2 indicates that your taste is no more sophisticated then your description of the public’s