An Olive Garden will open in Vaughan this summer
We are here for the breadstick revival
File this under: we are so back.
The GTA will be home to an Olive Garden, at last, as of this summer. In a press release, Recipe Restaurant Group International announced that the Italian-American restaurant chain will open a Vaughan Mills location, with another planned for Ottawa.
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“With these upcoming openings, we’re taking an important step in expanding Olive Garden’s footprint into new Canadian markets,” said Frank Hennessey, chief executive officer of Recipe Restaurant Group in the press release.
Important indeed—life is hard and Olive Garden’s unlimited breadsticks are something we can all look forward to, without having to travel all the way to Langley, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon or Winnipeg, where Canada’s other Olive Gardens are located.
The restaurant chain was once a thriving presence in Ontario, but the province’s Olive Gardens all closed in the early 2000s. Recipe Restaurant Group has acquired all Canadian locations, in partnership with Darden Restaurants.
As soon as an official opening is announced, we will make our trek to the motherland (Vaughan) for some Zuppa Toscana and Five Cheese Ziti al Forno.
Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
