Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

The best to-go service! The order always matches up to the in-restaurant portions and the packaging is of good quality.

First of all, we LOVE dining at Olive Garden. The Ankeny location off Oralabor Road can get very busy during prime dining times, so I'd suggest you plan accordingly. We arrived on Saturday, April 30th at about 12:20pm and was told there would be about a 30 minute wait, which we expected. Now, here's where I'm going to "ding" Olive Garden 1/2 star for this visit. (You'll see my rating is a 5) ... but let's take off 1/2 for the fact that a bench that could have held 5 to 6 patrons while they waited had a table in blocking it, and servers were putting to-go orders atop the table for people to pick up. Seems to me that these orders could have been placed elsewhere, and more patrons could have had place to sit while wating for a table. But, the GOOD news was that our 30 minute wait was only about 10 minutes! Our server was awesome. My wife had Ravioli with meatsauce, and I had the 5 Giant Cheese Stuffed Shells (pictured.) We each had salad and breadsticks to go along with the meal, and were VERY satisfied with our dining experience. We will certainly return soon! Oh yeah, 5 stars for the condition of the restrooms too! By now, if you read my reviews, I try to include a check on the restroom (well, the men's room, anyway!) as I think it's an indication that the establishment takes the extra step to look out for the customer!

we came here for my girlfriends birthday with her parents, food was amazing as always. kayla was very sweet and attentive, she took great care of us while having a large party table at the same time.

Delicious food with an excelent service.