Olive Garden: South Slope Restaurant Rumor is BS
The rumored opening of an Olive Garden at Isaac Katan’s humongous (135 units, according to DOB filings) under-construction building at 500 4th Avenue is just idle chatter, according to a rep for the restaurant chain. In fact, no neighborhood in our fair borough is likely to see unlimited pasta bowls any time soon. “We’re not…
The rumored opening of an Olive Garden at Isaac Katan’s humongous (135 units, according to DOB filings) under-construction building at 500 4th Avenue is just idle chatter, according to a rep for the restaurant chain. In fact, no neighborhood in our fair borough is likely to see unlimited pasta bowls any time soon. “We’re not currently looking in Brooklyn,” says Mara Frazier, Olive Garden’s media relations manager. Good news or bad?
Streetlevel: Olive Garden Coming to Lower Slope [Brownstoner] GMAP DOB
11:33 – He dont pay me nothing – Just do it out of my gratitude for bringing a little gentrification in my direction.
Thanks Katan!
Hey 10:03 AM,
How much does Katan pay you to clean his ass for him?
That place Olive garden is Gross. I would never ev er go there unless i was in Florida and there is no good food to eat there so what choice would i have.
Ever notice the wide-assed, rolling chairs at Olive Garden? Made for current and future fatties?
Finally someone else thinks La Villa is crap. It’s as trashy as the Olive Garden. Totally tasteless, generic, OILY food. Can’t for the life of me understand the crowds. Although, most of them look like they’ve driven in from Long Island or the far reaches of Mill Basin or something. Strange indeed.
Olive Garden/Red Lobster are not any more affordable then their non-chain equivalents here in NYC and in many case are less so.
Notwithstanding that chains often do very well here.
Who cares where they put any chain restaurant? With all of the choice here in the city, no one is forced to eat where they don’t want to.
Newsflash – most of the population of this city has never eaten in a Zagat rated, foodie-approved, restaurant. Like fine wine, opera and French antiques, a discriminating palate is an aquired taste of the nouveau riche. Taking the whole family out to eat, from Grammy to the toddler, is only affordable once in a while, and a place like Olive Garden fits the bill for most.
The OG and Red Lobster in Gateway Mall are ALWAYS packed. Only the steak place is less crowded (it’s hokey as hell, but the food’s not bad, either), ironically enough in our beef loving society. If I had the bucks, I’d buy a franchise in Brooklyn in a minute. Olive Garden, Red Lobster and IHOP – a money making trifecta.
La Villa: good pizza, terrible everything else.
And yes, we can and will still call it the Olive Garden Building.
desireable, Asparagas – please learn to spell before you turn restaurant critic or neighborhood critic. This site is overrun with trolls.