Reviews for Olive Garden Italian Restaurant in Hayward, CA

Tonight I met a friend for a quick dinner. we ordered an appetizer - delicious! I only wished I could say the same for the main... entrée. I was served salmon that was cooked as though one would fry a hamburger. It was hard, smelled fishy and on the insidehad an off coloring. This entrée comes w/broccoli - that was cold & more than obvious, had been setting out for sometime. Also,I ordered a cup of tea (she never brought - until I asked the front greeter why) and sparkling water which arrived with a limewedge, when I attempted to squeeze the juice of the lime into the water, my lime wedge had already been squeezed on somethingelse (?) I compared a lemon wedge (from another water glass) to the lime. The lime pulp vesicles (membrane) were dry and frayedlike in appearance whereas the lemon vesicles were moist and juicy. We sent back the order and waited, and waited and waited forour check. Finally, we put coats on and walked to the front greeter asking for our check. While waiting there I personallyobserved that the telephone/internet orders were lined up one after the other. Which I believe these orders were given priorityover ppl dining inside. I would not have let my dog eat what I was served, seriously! Also, I traveled from Solano county (1hr24 min) to meet my friend for this big disappointment. This was hands down the worst OG dinning experience I've ever had in thethe many years I've dine at one of their restaurants. BTW, the bread sticks tasted like (I would guess) what a "fake bread prop"would taste like. The texture was of very poor quality, almost, like a necessary ingredient was omitted(?). PLEASE SEE THEPHOTO OF MY ORDER! D I S G U T I N G !!! Read more

This has to be the best experience I’ve had at a chain restaurant. We came to celebrate my husbands birthday. Andrew our... server made the experience amazing, he was very attentive, helpful in assisting with our selections, and just a positivewelcoming experience. The food had so much flavor and cooked to perfection. I’m happy we chose to come to this Olive Garden onthis occasion. I can’t wait to come back! Thank you, Andrew! If you like sweet wine, try the Primo Amore Moscato, mmm!.Chicken/shrimp carbonara with marinara sauce was amazing. Dessert needs to include the strawberry cream cake. You won’t regretit! Read more

Outstanding.... it's been a while since we last Dinned here but it was Well worth the wait... Food was Fantastic and the Service... was Excellent... Great Food .. Great Drinks .. Thank you so much guys for taking care of us ... CHEERS and SEMPERFIDELIS.....!!!!!! Read more

5/5 stars for our two FANTASTIC servers, Trevor and Christine. However if I could give the management a rating it would be 0/5... stars. Our family had Father’s Day dinner around 8:45pm, and our original server Trevor was doing a great job of helping ourfamily. We were very disappointed that he said he’d be going home and transferring our table to another server; Christine.When we had asked why, he did not elaborate in much detail, but the brief details that were mentioned, did not call for him tobe sent home. Christine took over our table and was very kind and transitioned over to us quickly! At the conclusion of ourdinner we had asked Christine to grab the manager so we could tell them how FANTASTIC, both of our servers were (consideringwhen most people request a manger it’s to complain, we were excited to leave an awesome review with the management team). Wewaited for 20 minutes after the check was paid and the mangers had still yet to come. When we checked in with Christine, she wassurprised the mangers had not come, because she said that she had asked them MULTIPLE times to come over. It sucks that themangers could not have the courtesy to value their customers experience and thoughts. I hope the mangers can learn how to dotheir job, and value feedback. Read more

We came in for fathers day and just bad service from the time we sat down....they ran out of salad. Didn't even bring us our... drinks or bread...didnt enter our order until we seen the server (after our main server had already asked for what wewanted)...he took off and never came back...and the cream cake which was suppost to have strawberries didn't have ???? sincethey ran out or what ever they just ran out...why wouldn't they just order enough or let us know when we sat down...so we didn'thave to waste time eating here instead of many other places near by...i wouldn't return here ever again...soup and salad all ucan eat is not they...they don't even ask if we wanted more or just brang more after the fact...this place has very minimal typeof foods and couldnt up keep the slightest orders they have...i know places are short handed but please stop taking in people ifur short handed period.. Read more

Very good food, servi e seemed a little of but was still good.

First time I go and I am satisfied with the food, the place and Viviana's attention. The good price in relation to the food, in... addition to the salad, soup and bread that they give. I will return another time. I went at night and there were a lot ofpeople, I had to wait 45 minutes. But it was worth it. Read more

The service was pretty good. We were checked up on mid-way through our meal and we asked multiple times for the more bread or... soup and were given the food quickly. The main course, however, took a pretty long time to come out. The food on the other handwas pretty mediocre. All the appetizers (bread, soup, and salad) were all way too salty! I had to rub the bread sticks on mynapkins to get rid of extra salt. I got the build your own pasta and had chicken spaghetti with 3 meat sauce. It was okay -nothing special or out of the ordinary. Read more