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Name (Chinese): 橄榄园西餐厅
Address (Chinese): 大连市中山区职工街9号（香格里拉南恒通大厦对面）
Address (Pinyin): 9 Zhigong Jie
District: Zhongshan
Directions: Location is opposite of the Shangrila in the street of the infamous Pizza King. Just pass the corner of that place and it is one of the next restaurants on the right side.
Telephone Number: 8881-9095

This affordable Italian restaurant offers casual, traditional dishes in a relaxed setting and friendly atmosphere.

Their extensive offerings of pizzas, pastas, lasagna, along with wine and coffee have made this eatery very popular among foreigners as well as locals.

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Overall rating		6.5
Food		6.6
Ambience		6.1
Service		6.9
Cost		6.5

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful

disapointing, Friday, 11 April 2008

Written by jamesw - View all my reviews - Top 500 Reviewer

we've been at the restaurant three times, mainly out of convinience.
the taste of the food is below average and the prises are overated for what one gets.
overall - a dissapointing experience.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Good place, good food and wine, Wednesday, 09 April 2008

Written by daljohn - View all my reviews - Top 500 Reviewer

My girl took me to the olives garden and I just love the place. The pizza was great, we enjoyed the red wine and we had a nice quite table in the cozy corner. Service was alright, finally some people to speak english with, so all in all I loved it!

Will go there again for sure.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

Has Potential, Monday, 07 April 2008

Written by daves - View all my reviews - Top 10 Reviewer

visited this western-style restaurant this weekend with my girlfriend; we asked for a non-smoking place and were taken to a long corridor with 1 table-- next to the window with the glaring,annoying flickering Xmas lights-- UGH!!!

the server was delightful, polite,courteous and could speak english; however, after the food arrived we did not see her again for over 30 minutes-- maybe there were not enough servers for the amount of people in the restaurant! my dinner was well-prepared, tasty and with ample portions at a reasonable price-- but it was a little cold, and since the server did not come back, i could not ask for it to be heated in the nuker--

has the potential to be much better, but will need to upgrade its decor and improve its space for non-smokers which a lot of us west people are

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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful

microwave cheap "cuisine", Sunday, 06 April 2008

Written by Goldman - View all my reviews - Top 50 Reviewer

Went there two weeks ago, ordered lasagna and was served a generous portion of ketchup based bolognese sauce sandwitched between layers of pasta and melted cheese (gone was my expectation of gratinated cheese), quickly heated up in a poor quality microwave oven. Red hot miserable rolls of bread rapidly cooled rock hard.

Cheap food, cheap quality, cheap service, cheap decoration, no value.
Don't bother!

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

Olive Garden - the authentic choice, Friday, 04 April 2008

Written by usgringo - View all my reviews - Top 500 Reviewer

I found this place last week by accident, it is a little hidden and I was just walking around waiting for another meeting to start. I enjoyed it then, but when I found the previous comments, I thought I should try it again, just to confirm my first experience.

So I tried the restaurant again today and I must say I obviously made the much better experience then some other people before. I tried the italian dishes, not some of the other international ones, so maybe that's a reason why my critics turned out better.

I had Caprese with Tomato, perfect, nice simple oil and pepper, they offered me the Balsamico Vinegar, which I loved. I tried the Minestrone, which was simply good. The seafood Linguine was delicious and well stuffed with plenty of seafood. I am the fan of the simple authentic Italian food, so i also tried the Spaghetti Aili Oili (maybe I spelled it wrong, but I am an expert on the taste) and this was only ok, it seemed the garlic was baked/grilled a bit to long. They offered the Parmesano, which was good, the pasta was well al dente. Who knows or sees me knows that no meal can finish without the desert, so I tried the obligatory Tiramisu, mine was quite good, well soaked and rich in coffee with fluffy cream filling, certainly one of the better ones in China.

For the ambience, ok, I am not into those flashing 'Christmas' lights in the windows, so I think the place could do much better with some more elegant or classy touches, but still they made some seperations, so not too much noise from anoying neighbours.

The service was good, surprisingly there when needed but luckily never standing behind me all the time.

From my view the prices are ok, certainly higher then some of the pizza chains, but they offer good authentic Italian food, so in my opinion the good value for money.

So I think for all the people who love the real taste, it might be the good alternatives to other places which I am still going to try, so have fun.

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