Ours is always crowded. I don’t like pasta, so we don’t go there hardly at all. The company I work for has a dinner there every couple of years.................
I like pasta, but having lived in southern Italy for three years as a “tween,” I can be a bit of a pasta snob.
I make my own pasta dishes and there are a couple of little hole-in-the-wall restaurants owned by Neapolitans in Houston that I go to occasionally.
I’m not a fan of Olive Garden. I don’t think they’re terrible, just a bit bland.