Here is the complete Olive Garden gluten free menu.
If there’s one thing I truly like about the Olive Garden gluten free menu, it’s the fact that they offer gluten-free pasta made from brown rice flour. This pasta is cooked and held separately until ordered to help avoid any cross contamination.
Olive Garden Gluten Free Menu
Be sure to request or order off of the gluten sensitive menu to ensure that you’re getting gluten free pasta.
Salads
- Famous House Salad without croutons
Soups
- Zuppa Toscana
Entrees
- Grilled Chicken Parmigiana
- Herb-Grilled Salmon
- 6 oz Sirloin
- Rotini Pasta with Marina
- Rotini Pasta with Meat Sauce
Kids Entrees
- Grilled Chicken with Rotini Pasta and Marinara
- Rotini with Marina and Steamed Broccoli
- Rotini with Meat Sauce
Create Your Own Pasta
- Gluten-Free Rotini
- Marinara
- Meat Sauce
- Tomato Sauce
- Grilled Chicken
- Italian Sausage
- Sautéed Shrimp
Sides
Fries have an extremely high risk of cross contamination.
- Broccoli
- French Fries
- Grapes
If this Olive Garden gluten free menu was helpful or inaccurate, please let us know by leaving a comment below. Thank you!
Tips
When ordering off of their gluten sensitive menu, be sure to remember a few things:
- Be sure to tell your waiter that you want to order off the gluten free menu
- Ask that your salad is prepared without croutons
- There is a “Gluten Sensitive” menu when ordering online
There’s honestly nothing better than going to an Italian restaurant and seeing that they offer gluten-free versions of their famous pastas.
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gemdiamondintherough
I am also allergic to corn as well as wheat. Are you able to accommodate that? Many of the gluten free items will add corn. Thank you.
Brittany Wilson
I as well am allergic to corn on top of being celiac and wanted to let you know that olive garden uses a corn based pasta. Sorry but at least you know.
Kelly
Do they cook their gluten free pasta in fresh boiling water or in the same water as the regular pasta?
Deb
Friend works @Olive Garden told me GF items are cooked separately. In their own pots.
Peggy
Just because they offer gluten free pasta doesn’t mean it is that good. Olive Garden has really disappointed me in the last year. They used to have great gluten free pasta, then they changed the brand or something. It is mushy, and corny, and yes, to answer the above comment. They work hard to prevent cross-contamination. But do yourself a favor and get the mixed grill or something without pasta. You can make better pasta at home, I promise.
Debbie
Before I found out I have a gluten problem, olive garden was one of my favorite restaurants, now, I don’t want to go there anymore. I couldn’t finish the pasta. I was really disappointed, hope they do something about that soon.
Chris
As for the quality of the gluten-free pasta, try different locations. At one restaurant, it was barely edible. We tried a different location about two months later and the gf pasta was so good, we made the waitress check to ensure it was gluten-free. The method of cooking gf pasta is different enough that different cooks have varying abilites of competency.
Kelly
I have found that brown rice pasta is best.
Lindsay
Honestly, while it is nice that they offer gluten-free options, I think it’s actually pretty negligible compared to the options at other places. Don’t get me wrong. I love Olive Garden, and I miss it tremendously. One of my favorite things in the world is their Alfredo sauce. But despite the fact that the recipe they provide on their corporate website for their Alfredo sauce is completely GF, the Alfredo served in the stores is not. This makes no sense whatsoever; I even make the sauce at home on occasion using their recipe! This may not be a huge deal to most people, but red pasta sauces generally cause me severe heartburn, and I just generally prefer white sauce to red anyway.
Ever since my diagnosis, my go-to pasta place has been Noodles & Co. Not only do they offer two different types of pasta (rice noodles and GF fusili), they have multiple sauce options, and you can mix and match however you’d like. Additionally, when you order GF at Noodles, the employee asks if it is for an allergy; when you respond affirmatively, they push a button on the register “Allergy Aware”, and a manager has to come swipe their keycard to authorize the request. The kitchen tickets (at least at our two stores here) then print out with ***ALLERGY AWARE*** in bold red print. I feel good about eating here – there’s never a question when looking at my food whether I’ve gotten the “right” pasta or not, and they even offer handy wallet-size guides to their GF menu that you can take with you.
I actually emailed the Olive Garden corporate office after I discovered their sparse GF menu. I inquired not only about the discrepancy in ingredients between the posted Alfredo recipe and the exclusion of said sauce from the GF menu, but also stated that I could not understand their lack of options, given their power as a national brand. If a smaller, less expensive casual restaurant like Noodles can offer me multiple options of sauces (even pesto!), then I could see no good reason why Olive Garden would want to further alienate food-sensitive customers and their families and risk losing that business. I received a response of a boilerplate stating that “We have allergy-friendly menus which you can find on our website”. It was vague, indirect, and very obviously a form letter. I was quite dismayed, as it was clear that no one had bothered to do anything more than skim my correspondence for the word “gluten”, and copy/paste a prepared response.
My family and I used to eat at Olive Garden several times each month, but they have since lost our business. I know we’re a small drop in the bucket, but we cannot be the only family that feels likewise.
As you mentioned, it is very nice to have options at all, so in the event I do need to eat at OG, I am able to do so. However, I would recommend anyone who is craving more options for gluten free pasta dining to direct their attention to Noodles & Co. Hopefully someday Olive Garden will make gluten free Alfredo available in stores… in which case, I’ll be back!
Deborah Shreckengost
Olive garden uses a corn based gluten free pasta that is very tough. I ordered it twice because of lack of choice, and I actually couldn’t eat much of it. Also did not take leftovers home, because the corn pasta only gets tougher when you try to reheat it. Disappointing.
jennifer
After being gluten free for a few years I tried eating at Olive Garden only to have the worst reaction of my life! I am not sure where the gluten came from, maybe they use the same pasta water for the gluten free pasta as they do for the regular pasta. Hard to tell, all I know is the pasta tasted horrible and it caused a lot of pain. I do not recommend anyone with a gluten allergy/intolerance eat at Olive Garden!
Charlene Price
Very disappointed with their gluten free menu ! The sauce tastes like they opened a jar..Pasta was not good..for an Italian restaurant it is not at all good and I will not go there again !