Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

Columbia, SC · Italian restaurant

Rating
4.2/5
★★★★☆ 4.2
Reviews
20
Rank in Columbia
#425
of 1136 restaurants
City Percentile
48%
rating percentile
Address
Olive Garden Italian Restaurant, 274 Harbison Blvd, Columbia, SC 29212
Phone
(803) 732-0471
Website
www.olivegarden.com/locations/sc/columbia/columbia-sc-harbison/1231?cmpid=br:og_ag:ie_ch:loc_ca:OGGMB_sn:gmb_gt:columbia-sc-1231_pl:locurl_rd:1172
Status
Closed · Opens 11 AM

Olive Garden Italian Restaurant is a restaurant located in Columbia, SC. It is one of 1,136 restaurants listed in Columbia. Its 4.2-star rating matches the Columbia city average of 4.2 stars. There are 10 photos associated with this location.

About Olive Garden Italian Restaurant

All of your favorites are just a few clicks away! View our menu online and Order To Go Now or come in for our famous never-ending first course of freshly baked breadsticks and your choice of homemade soup or garden fresh salad. Enjoy abundant... More

Hours

Friday11 AM–11 PM

Customer Reviews

★★★★☆ 4.0 Helena Byrd · Mar 2026

Went around 8pm for dinner. A little busy but not a long wait. Jasmine, our waitress was friendly and polite. She checked on us often even though she had a large dinner party that kept her busy. The food was ok. I miss the old recipe for the chicken marsala. The chicken breast was a little well done on one side making it tough to cut through. Wasn't impress with the presentation of my meal, but I understand being they were very busy. My daughter said the same with her chicken breast as well...it was cooked too much on one side. Would I go back...yes.

★☆☆☆☆ 1.0 Olaf and Bella · Dec 2025

Seated quickly but waited about 15 minutes without being served. After asking the hostess for help, another waitress took our order. We then waited a total of about 1 hour and 20 minutes for our food and had to speak with the manager. Even after the food arrived, we had to chase down a waiter for a takeout box. Food was okay, but the service was consistently poor.

★★★★★ 5.0 Hope Alexander · Aug 2025

We had a wonderful time dining in at Olive Garden yesterday. It was very busy with several large parties dining in as well. While this may have slightly slowed down us receiving our food in a timely manner, we didn’t mind it at all. When restaurants have people packed in the waiting area and outside that means they are doing something great and that people enjoy eating there! Our waitress, Nellie was phenomenal! She was very attentive not only to us but to her other customers as well! Our food was hot and delicious and we thoroughly enjoyed our time there. I took a few pictures while we were there but took additional pictures this morning to show how spacious the parking lot is. I hope that you will enjoy your experience there too!

★☆☆☆☆ 1.0 cheryl basham · Mar 2026

Went here to have lunch on 3/9/2026. Seated quickly as well as waited on quickly. My husband ordered lasagna and I the fan favorite beef tips tortellini. We knew what we wanted so Shantel took our complete order. She served our drinks, salad and breadsticks quickly. About 5-10 minutes later our waitress returned to tell me they were out of the fan favorite beef tips tortellini. Now some might say “well, it’s a fan favorite and that’s why they’re out.” In my opinion that’s not an excuse. Since it’s a fan favorite management should ensure there’s plenty on hand at all times. They did however, comp the salad and gave us a to go salad with my husband’s leftovers. We hadn’t been to the restaurant in more than 4-5 years because after Covid their menu had diminished drastically. Not re

★☆☆☆☆ 1.0 Thor Goodrich · Nov 2025

Made an order for pickup, bad communication on the pickup servers end. Extra long wait without any notice or telling me anything just actively ignoring me at the pick up spot waited over 45 minutes past when I was told my order would be due. Horrible service will not be ordering again. Expected better from a restaurant like this very disappointed, Austin who I'm assuming is some kind of manager did an absolute horrible job taking care of me. He seemed absolutely clueless as to what was going on or the situation. Horrible customer service on his part. Took forever for the ziti and all we get is horrible ziti the noodles are stale and dry I don't see why this took forever or what the problem was but just very disgusted overall with his experience we paid a lot of money for just horrible garb

Accessibility & Amenities

✓ Wheelchair Accessible Entrance ✓ Wheelchair Accessible Parking Lot ✓ Wheelchair Accessible Restroom ✓ Wheelchair Accessible Seating

Services

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