Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

Italian restaurant
Accommodating gluten-free
Lunch
Dinner
Italian
Mediterranean
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Casual Italian eatery offering a gluten-sensitive menu with attentive allergy accommodations.
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Accommodating

Some risk of cross-contamination

Trained staff
Checked by Atly
Always inquire directly about health and safety.

Good to know

1

They have a limited time special for $14.99 buy one, get one.

2

To-go orders may be pre-made and chilled in advance.

5529 S Lindbergh Blvd, Affton, MO 63123, USA
2.4km

People are saying

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First off I like your response!! Must be a prefilled response because I see it for about every bad experience. Anyways, well we attempted to dine in with myself, wife, son and mother. We came in and asked if they could seat us at a table because my mother had hip replacement surgery and booths are too hard for her. After waiting a bit which didn't make any sense because I walked through the restaurant and seen 9 different tables open yet here we sat waiting. Finally got sat and wouldn't you know we were taken to a booth. When we brought it to sheree the servers attention she blankly looked at me and said I guess we could wait another 20 mins or so before they could get us a table, even though there was at least 6 open tables in sight. By this time my mother just insist we go ahead and get our food and she will wait in the car where she can actually sit. So now I decided to get two of the orders to go while my wife and son eat. Well as soon as sheree seated us she handed us a menu and asked if we were ready to order, wait what?? What's the point of handing us the menu if we just know what we want. I asked her for a few minutes to actually look at the menu, literally 62 seconds later she's back asking us yet again. So I asked if we could actually have enough time to look over then menu.btw never asked us if we wanted something to drink, or asked us about tasting any wine or start a appetizer. Just right to us getting our main course and getting out the door. So all in all she came back 5 times to rush our order. Never have I ever felt so rushed or pushed so hard to get out the door. I have worked in the food industry for 18 years and this is absolutely a unacceptable way to conduct business. You should arrive to make the customer feel great about the transaction and walk away feeling like their money and time we're well spent so they not only come back, but also tell others about their great experience. Well by this time we all just want to get the food and enjoy whatever we could put of this trip. We were in town for a couple days helping family adjust to losing someone close. It had been a terribly long day and no one was up to cooking. While taking our order I was chastised for asking to put two of the orders in for take out and getting them to go at the end of the dinning in. After some debate and trying to talk me out of it, sheree rolled her eyes and walked off. Not 3 mins later both orders were brought to the table in bags and I was told I could open them or definitely couldn't eat them while I waited. Wow. I'm paying and being told how and when I could eat what I'm paying for. I picked the bag up and moved it out of the way, the bag felt ice cold like it had been in a fridge all night. I finally got a waiters attention and asked if he could find our waiter. 7 mins later she came to the table and told me I got my food so what's the problem, I am paying for what I thought was fresh food not some frozen left overs from God knows when. I told her it was unacceptable and that I wanted fresh dishes.she informed me that this was Olive garden s practice to make and chill dishes that are ordered to go?? What?? That makes less then sense! I say no way paying for frozen food. She tells me I ordered it so I must pay for it. After debating it with me for several mins without me accepting her lies she went back and brought me the same bag she took to begin with and told me yet again it is how it's done here. At this time I asked for the manager, she said she would get him but just like our drinks,he never came. My wife is pregnant with our daughter and has food allergies, so we ordered the gluten sensitive menu. We were VERY CLEAR and had her repeat back to us the order just to be safe. Well the salad had everything on it we asked for it not to have, the pasta only comes in one gluten free pasta and it isn't rigatoni. So not only was the service absolutely terrible, this server almost poisoned my wife and unborn daughter. We more then understand how it works with it being out of the kitchen , but we never expected to get plate

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