THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED
If you missed the Butter Cream Chicken I posted yesterday, you may want to take a look. Comfort food, plain and simple. 🙂 Now let’s chat about The Olive Garden, shall we?
And I don’t say this lightly. It really is one of my very favorite restaurants, always has been. The fresh breadsticks win me over ever time. Dip those babies into a steaming hot plate of Chicken and Shrimp Carbonera and life is a beautiful thing, I tell you.
I recently had the opportunity to eat at good old Olive Garden with my family. My husband and I eat there about once a month with friends, but we’ve never taken ALL of our kids to eat there together. Have I mentioned I have just under five thousand children? Ok…not really. Just 5. It seems like five thousand sometimes, alright?
We had a great time at dinner. We were very well taken care of; the staff there is so friendly and attentive. Our drinks were always filled, the meal was presented in a timely fashion, and no one asked me to do the dishes. Come to think of it, they never ask me to do the dishes.
No wonder I like it so much.
Olive Garden is running a great special right now through March 18th. You can get a 3 Course Italian Dinner for $12.95. It comes with all-you-can-eat Breadsticks, Soup or Salad, one of five new entrees, and one of five Dolcini desserts. That’s a lot of food for the price, my friends.
The portion sizes were very large; we ended up taking a lot of it home and had it for lunch the next day. My little boys ordered from the kid’s menu, and also had plenty to take home for later. That means not only were we fed for two meals, but I got to skip out on dish doing, twice.
The food was absolutely wonderful. All in attendance gave it two thumbs up. I especially recommend the Creamy Parmesan Portobello Mushroom Fettuccine as well as the Limoncello Mousse. Pure bliss. Loved every single bite.
Olive Garden and BlogHer would like to give a $100 Olive Garden Gift Card to one of you lucky readers. That’s good news, isn’t it? To enter the giveaway leave me a comment telling me your favorite Italian dish. It can be an Olive Garden dish or another Italian recipe you love.
Rules:
No duplicate comments.
This sweepstakes runs from 2/21/12 – 3/18/12.
You may receive (2) total entries by selecting from the following entry methods:
a) Leave a comment (see question above in bold)
b) Tweet about this promotion and leave the URL to that tweet in a comment on this post
c) Blog about this promotion and leave the URL to that post in a comment on this post
d) For those with no Twitter or blog, read the official rules to learn about an alternate form of entry.
This giveaway is open to US Residents age 18 or older.
Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail.
You have 72 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.
The Official Rules are available here.
Also, visit the Olive Garden page on BlogHer.com to check out the other blogger reviews and more chances to win!
I love anything with alfredo sauce and shrimp or chicken! It's been a long time since I've been to Olive Garden but you are making me hungry! 🙂
Pizza!!
I love their lasagna!
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I have to say that Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo is my all-time favorite!!!
Like you, we don't take the whole family out often. When the check comes, you would think we also have 5,000 kids and not just 4.
Love, love, love the breadsticks and salad. The smoked mozzarella chicken looks amazing. Hope to try that soon.
The nice thing about Olive Garden is that it is one place we can go, and everyone can find something on the menu.
My family loves Olive Garden! It would be hard for me to pick ONE favorite dish. YUMMY!!!
Wendy Hall
It's gotta be the tour of italy when I go to Olive Garden. You get three yummy Italian dishes all on one plate – YUM!
My favorite is fettucine alfredo!
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We love Olive Garden, we were just there. I almost always order the Seafood Alfredo and ask them to prepare it with just the scallops on it. I love shrimp but it is wonderful with just the tiny scallops! Thanks for the chance to win, my mouth is watering already! ! !