Olive Garden receives warm welcome

[SBL]

All big brand corporate restaurants are utter garbage. Expensive chow halls. I support only locally owned and operated establishments. Much better and more authentic.

Thanks for sharing, Mr. Bourdain.

[szr]

**** heads are strong in this thread.

There's strong, and then there's **** head Strong.


I've never seen an Olive Garden in NYC so it may well be the case that Grand Forks has us beat.

[FrankBooth]

There's strong, and then there's **** head Strong.


I've never seen an Olive Garden in NYC so it may well be the case that Grand Forks has us beat.

22nd and 6th ave, gotta get out more bud

When you're here, you're family, eh?

Hopefully it isn't the type of family with a funny uncle.

[szr]

22nd and 6th ave, gotta get out more bud

I take the 1 uptown or drive up 8th; avoid 6th like the plague. Traffic blackhole.


The columnist, whose article Ordie posted, has a way with headlines:

Grand marshal has long career studying spuds
Canadians don’t know about the fourth down in football
Professor Frank White of UND turns into bobblehead
National Punctuation Day loses ground in times of texting
Marooned in Merino following ride to town on school bus
Leaf-watching game includes cleaning gutters
Bring sandwich, forget about body search at airport

[pocoloco]

The columnist, whose article Ordie posted, has a way with headlines:

Grand marshal has long career studying spuds
Canadians don’t know about the fourth down in football
Professor Frank White of UND turns into bobblehead
National Punctuation Day loses ground in times of texting
Marooned in Merino following ride to town on school bus
Leaf-watching game includes cleaning gutters
Bring sandwich, forget about body search at airport

Each of those worth a thread of their own!

[Chiptox]

All big brand corporate restaurants are utter garbage. Expensive chow halls. I support only locally owned and operated establishments. Much better and more authentic.

Dunno about that. I've eaten at some pretty ****ty mom & pop diners and restaurants. Seriously, who screws up chicken-fried steak? I'd take rather eat bloomin' onion, unlimited breadsticks, shrimp-fest, with a flair-covered hyper-active server over a place that messes up a schnitzel.

[Partial_Panel]

Being a loyal Montanan, I grew up with the grand tradition of making North Dakota jokes. There's one in here somewhere, I know it. We've had Olive Garden for years, you flatland freaks. I've never eaten at one, so I don't know if that's something to be proud of or not.

(meaningless trivia: The Olive Garden in Billings, MT is supposed to be the busiest restaurant in the state. Long wait for a table, even on a weeknight)

[Navel Lint]

The Italian Denny's

[randir14]

Olive Garden is definitely not the best Italian food money can buy. It's good enough when it's free, though. Buca di Beppo is much better when you do have money.
http://www.bucadibeppo.com/

I've been there once. They have a room dedicated to the Pope, complete with a bust of him on the table.

[C.Puffs]

I'll admit it. I like Olive Garden. It's not the best but some of their stuff is pretty good for the money.

[Trigger]

I'll admit it. I like Olive Garden. It's not the best but some of their stuff is pretty good for the money.

X2
They toss a pretty good salad.
That came out wrong.

[gresh]

I've been there once. They have a room dedicated to the Pope, complete with a bust of him on the table.

Haha wow. I dunno if the local restaurant has that or I just missed it, but that's pretty strange. Which pope was it? The current one?

[Ordie]

Haha wow. I dunno if the local restaurant has that or I just missed it, but that's pretty strange. Which pope was it? The current one?

Pope John XXIII (the Rolly Polly Pope) is predominatley featured.
The Pope Room is a set-aside alcove with a round table that seat's ten with Vatican Kitsch.

Bucca is family style where they serve the meals in huge platters and everyone digs in.

[grindercore]

I admit i loved when my parents would take my bro and i out to Oliver garden for a weekend treat when we were still in school.
Zuppa Tuscana, Tuscan T-Bone, i was down, plus the bread sticks were the ****. now that i dont live with my parents and am single, eating out is usually at the closest taco cart i can find or happy hour at the closest bar. im convinced the PDX-Vegan-mafia really dosn't know how to deep fry anything properly however, and the chinese food out here sucks compared to what i grew up with on the east coast. So maybe i just need to treat myself to a couple pink lemonades and a never ending pasta bowl.

[Ledanek]

The Italian Denny's

sums it up