Tonight was the night for the Barnes and Noble Mystery Book Club http://www.barnesandnoble.com/. This is a congenial group, and the first time I attended I was made to feel right at home. Some of the group meet at a restaurant for dinner before the book club.
During the daylight hours, we meet at the Olive Garden http://www.olivegarden.com/, which is in the northeast corner of the South Plains Mall http://www.southplainsmall.com/ parking lot. Barnes and Noble is in the South Plains Mall. One of our members uses a motorized wheelchair/scooter and he can zip across the mall parking lot to and from the restaurant, safely, during the daylight hours. (During the winter, he stays at the mall, avoiding the dark parking lot, and we sometimes eat at other restaurants nearby, for variety.)
I am not a great fan of the Olive Garden food. I grew up in western Massachusetts, and, although I did not appreciate it in my youth, the Italian restaurants there served "real" Italian food.
Tonight, our group discussed the option of the new Olive Garden promotion "Dinner Today and Dinner Tomorrow for $12.95" http://www.olivegarden.com/Menu/Specials/" This is a great promotion: Olive Garden is promoting 5 entrees; you order one of the five dinners at the restaurant, and you order the same or a different (of the five) entrees for a take home dinner. At the restaurant you get soup or salad and bread sticks.
I ordered Five Cheese Ziti Al Forno. After the salad and bread sticks, I could only eat half of it. And, I ordered Mezzaluna Ravioli with Five Cheese Marinara. That was packaged to take home and microwave. Our waitress was great: during our meal, she kept us updated as to the status of our meal. She brought our take homes. I needed a take home for my meal. She offered to put it in the container, but I did it. She packed it into the bag with the other take home meal . She brought us bread sticks and handfuls of after dinner mints.
If you like to eat out, this is a good deal
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