Olive Garden

I can easily say that my favorite Italian restaurant used to be Olive Garden until I discovered Carrabba's. 
Olive Garden does still have a few good things going for it:
The bread sticks - unlimited and delicious, these are coated in butter and garlic.
The house salad - (unlimited in some cases) full of iceberg lettuce, red onions, black olives, tomatoes, carrot shreds, and covered in their Italian dressing, it's pretty good.
Minestrone soup - is traditional and a bit boring, but reliably good.
Chicken Alfredo - passable, but nothing special.
The best thing that's ever happened to me at an Olive Garden, is the discovery of Moscato wine.  It's a dessert white wine and very good.  You can find Moscato's anywhere, but the brand that Olive Garden introduced me to is sold at Bevmo, if you have one close to you.

Things that aren't so good there:
I can't recommend the Artichoke-Spinach dip because mine was wayyyyyy tooooooo salty and it ruined everything about it.  If you want a good dip go to the California Pizza Kitchen or Carrabba's.
Obviously you should not be ordering their pizza, if you do, don't say I didn't warn you.  It doesn't matter what kind you get, it will not be tasty.
Spaghetti's and lasagne's there are also not so good.  I find that those dishes are always best made at home. 

They have a ton of food on their menu, but honestly you have to know that this is a very Americanized version of Italian, and it's all passable food, but overall, nothing special.

If you want good pizza, go to Uno's, and if you want good Italian, go to Carrabba's.

I give 'em 2 out of 5 forks for being just ok, but not much of anything special.