Review of Olive Garden

Olive Garden could do much better.

You basically get this menu (there may be more, doubtful, but this the basic):

Salad- no croutons or cheese, yes cheese! and watch your dressing.

No bread, crackers or gluten free flat breads other Italian restaurants are now offering, got a hankering for bread, you're stuck on the gondola.

No appetizers - everything is pre-made and cannot be altered? Yes, I asked.

Only 1 gluten free pasta- sauce- add a meat- NO CHEESE! Eat up, because it falls apart when re-heated.

Why cheese?? I found out that Olive Gardens dusts their cheese in flour to keep it from sticking/clumping together. AND No, I asked, they do not stock an alternative for the gluten free folk, not even a brick of parmesan, to grate fresh, from the local grocer. Grated in the can? that would work!

No dessert

Our server was very informative, (bless her) sympathetic and friendly, that is why OG got a 3*. No other server, we have encountered in the past, has had her knowledge concerning gluten.

I won't be going back until Olive Garden expands their gluten free menu, it's just not worth the money.

Celiac friendly?

Yes