Olive Garden has a great promotion that comes around once a year and is guaranteed to satisfy any pasta lover: The “Never Ending Pasta Bowl.” For just $8.95, customers receive unlimited soup or salad, breadsticks, and pasta.For $1.95 more, you can enjoy unlimited meatballs or Italian sausage.
The great part about the all you can eat pasta is that you can choose from 8 different types of pasta (Spaghetti, Whole Wheat Linguine, Linguine, Fettucine, Penne, Angel hair, Orecchiette) and 6 sauces (Creamy Parmesan Florentine, Roasted Portabello Pomodoro, Alfredo, Meat Sauce, Five Cheese Marinara, Marinara), which comes out to 42 different pasta and sauce combinations!
My personal favorite combination is the whole wheat linguine pasta and creamy parmesan florentine sauce. I usually can’t make it past one bowl because I fill up on breadsticks and the delicious pasta e fagoli soup, but if you can make it past the first bowl, you can pick and choose as many different combinations as you wish. Beware, the servings succeeding the first are significantly smaller.
Visit http://www.neverendingpastabowl.com/ to pick out your favorite pasta combo and share it with your friends!
(published August 2009)
2010 Update: The pasta bowl has been revived as of August 2010. The concept is still the same with a few new substitutions.
The pasta choices remain the same, and the Creamy Parmesan Florentine and Roasted Portabello Pomodoro sauces have been replaced with Chianti Three Meat (a slow cooked red wine tomato sauces with a blend of Italian meats) and Creamy Parmesan Portobello (a creamy alfredo sauce with portobello mushrooms tropped with garlic breadcrumbs). I tried the creamy parmesan portobello and it was delicious!
You can still add unlimited Meatballs or Italian Sausage for $2.95 (previously $1.95), but Roasted Chicken is now an added option as well.