Originally Posted by
Nicoolio
Neighborhood Italian restaurants are hit and miss too. Some are amazing, authentic, fresh ingredients but there are also plenty that use frozen and pre-pared foods.
Originally Posted by
tonyrocks922
I've living in NYC my whole life and I have been to at least a dozen local Italian restaurants that are lower quality than Olive Garden. Local doesn't always mean good
Oh absolutely, I'm not saying they are all great, but somewhere like NYC/Long Island there is surfeit of Italian places that you don't have to put much effort into finding somewhere that is far, far better than an Olive Garden.