My family got the eggplant and Alfredo and it was very filling. However I feel they add too much cheese and sauce on my eggplant it doesn't really taste like I'm eating eggplant but just cheese with sauce. Service was super nice and fast the lady we had was kind and informed us for are dishes. My only big problem was the bathrooms and though they weren't awful and dirty they don't really look good for your restaurant if they look a bit dingy and unappealing. Overall it's a good place to have food! read more

Still one of our favorite places! Had to try the meatball trio as an appetizer. The sauce is amazing and the meatballs are dense and delicious. Then we got our favorites - chicken parm with meat sauce (our fav) and chicken piccata. Our server was very friendly and they went out of their way to get us a booth. It was my wife's birthday and she loves coming here for this special occasion. They had a couple large groups so it was a bit louder but still very nice and did not feel crowded. read more

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Wow excellent meal & service!! First visit of many more. Adrianna our server is a joy. So personable and professional. We enjoyed the salad, Siciliano sausage platter and saussge and mushroom calzone ask for marinara on the side. Meal made even better w Butter mints made daily.. read more

Italia Gardens - Siciliano Sausage platter spicy and full of flavor - Italian Near Me - Flint, Michigan

This was my first time here and we came for lunch. I had the lunch lasagna and it was a perfect size. It was rather inexpensive at $12 and it came with a salad. The atmosphere is very relaxing, romantic and very Italian. Oh I almost forgot about the amazing bread! The service was great and the bathrooms were clean! read more

I've gone here for over 5 decades! Great food and ambiance! Many of my family and friends love IG as well!

The dinning room is inviting and comfortable. The decore and old fashioned pictures are interesting to look at while eating. We got seated fast and the hostess and wait staff were attentive and friendly. The saĺads and bread, with garlic butter, were delicious and the menu had a variety of good choices to satisfy my craving for pasta. The only thing I didn't care for was the sweetness of the sauce. If it had a little less sugar it would be perfect. All in all, I would recommend this establishment as a good place to eat. read more

Italia Gardens - Lasagna - Italian Near Me - Flint, Michigan

Food is excellent and the freshly baked bread from the wood oven is outstanding. My family likes coming all the way to Flint from South Lyon for special celebrations and events. It gets quite busy, so make your plans. The dining area really takes you to places in Italy, it does have a casual, Italian Family feeling, you will enjoy your food, the conversation and the space. read more

Good Italian food at 2 locations (Flint & Grand Blanc). They have been in existence for many years.

Food: 2, no skills here Service: 4, attentive and friendly Ambiance: 3; It used to be a Taco Bell? What can I say, it wasn't what I thought it would be, lol. Not surprising for a place like Flint, I suppose, although I found another amazing restaurant here, so.... It was labeled as "romantic," and I just found it dark and a little depressing. The cocktails were ungodly sweet. The salad came out of a bag, and I had no idea that it was "endless." My wife chided me for not being aware of such a thing. My St. Louis ribs were not. They were tired and just very average. My wife's GF spaghetti with sausage was OK, but a very mediocre sauce. I'm sure they do some nice things here, and I can see that it would be a good place for families on a budget, etc. Just not for us. read more

Salad and bread are delicious. Something for the entire family to enjoy! Friendly and helpful staff

great service, really nice waitress spaghetti was excellent good margarita pizza great find 4 FLINT read more

Italia Gardens - Italian Near Me - Flint, Michigan

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Stopped here on our way to Mackinac Island for my birthday trip. The restaurant is very quaint and nice. Taylor was our waitress and she was amazing! She was friendly, informative and attentive and made us love the place. Their lunch portion of the food is extremely generous and very tasty. A salad came with our lunch and she refilled it for us. We seldom have desserts but we had to have the cannoli and it did not disappoint! We would highly recommend giving this amazing place a try. You won't be disappointed! read more

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Employees here are nasty and this restaurant is not very clean. The General manager is a prick to his employees The food here is not even real Italian food highly recommend Italians to not eat this fake Italian food unless you dare read more

Recently checked out Italia gardens while visiting home. Growing up, there were a ton of great local Italian restaurants in the area. Italia gardens was brought up in those conversations. So I decided to grab takeout and see how they were . I got the lasagna dinner, it comes with a giant loaf of bread and salad. The entire meal came out to around 16 dollars. loved the garlic butter with the bread, extremely good. The lasagna was ok, the sauce is a little too sweet in my opinion. If you do order It, make sure you add a meatball. It definitely needed a lot more meat or some kinda of substance. But overall, its a local restaurant and it's worth checking out if you're a anti chain person like myself. read more

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Food is so good, my comfort food is baked mostacholi with the tomato sauce. It's the best place around - local Too. The bread and salad are also delicious! Service is generally fine, ambiance is fine too - both locations great - flint location has a more Italian feel. read more

My favorite restaurant in Flint since I was a little boy, True Southern Italian cooking. Good prices and services. Bread is always fresh (wish they had dipping oil), bottomless salad and all main courses are delicious. Ribs are out of this world. Thomas (Pugliese) Jones read more

It was a wonderful stop near the highway. The restaurant is beautiful. The service was excellent, and the food was amazing. Gigantic portions. read more

The best Lasagna around! Tuesday is half off. Can not beat the Italian food. Expect a wait. read more

Service has been great and food good. I'm not a fan of their sauce but that is just my preference. I'm not a fan of super sweet sauce. Anyway their food is fine and the take out family special is enough to feed my family of 5 plus 2-3 adult guests. Never had anything bad from here but the bread isn't my favorite (white round bread with no flavor). Again it isn't bad but just not preference. read more

The food was barely cooked. The salad came straight from a bag. The bread was the only good thing but they bake it in the open and our waitress was feeling them up and move them around with her bare hands like you wouldn't believe. Ugh. Very disappointed. read more

OMG!!! This was a random stop for us on our way back toward Ann Arbor from the insanity of shopping at Birch Run on Black Friday. What a surprise and delight this place was! We were seated right away in this rustic Italian restaurant. The salad was fresh, the wood oven bread with butter (and a side of Alfredo sauce) was warm and delicious. I had Chicken Parmesan with a side of spaghetti with meat sauce. The sauce was an unexpected delight of a sweeter sauce with a hint of basil. For the Chicken Parm it was a real chicken breast (none of that frozen pressed stuff other Italian restaurants try to pass off as chicken) and smothered with mozzarella baked to perfection. The side of spaghetti was half the plate and cooked perfectly. My friend had the chicken tetrazzini and said, "there's so much better in this sauce it's heavenly." The portions are large and the prices are very fair. Morgan was our server and she was fabulous. She was knowledgable about the menu and made food recommendations. She was very friendly and also courteous about approaching the table. We will definitely be back during our semi-annual trek to Birch Run. Oh yeah, the cannoli didn't suck! (Just say'n!). read more

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My first time dining here and I was pleasantly surprised. The atmosphere is OK, the place is big and feels cavernous. It's a little dated, but I don't go to many restaurants for the decor. I go for the food and service. On those two areas, Italian Gardens was on point. Our server really hustled and was super nice. Can't say enough good things about her. The food was terrific. Starting with the unlimited salad and bread. The salad was family style and was more than enough for two. The pasta we had was very good. The sauce was tasty. It had a nice sweet/tangy to it. We had the manicotti and mostaccioli. The portions were way too large so we had plenty of leftovers. Great value for the quality of food and service. I like this place and will be back. read more

I've had great service here with to go orders and dine in. Fresh pasta and bread every time that does not disappoint.

I place a pick up order. I had guests from out of town. They must of been busy,ribs not that tender and the mostaccelli could have even cooked longer but I have given them four stars because this is the first time I have ever been disappointed. They are usually delicious and the take out service is great! read more

My fork has nasty food from someone else still stuck on it and they served me with that silverware. read more

Italia Gardens - This is what I got in my napkin that had my silverware wrapped in it. Absolutely disgusting. - Italian Near Me - Flint, Michigan

Food and service great my fiance said it was some of the best Alfredo he has had in the area the Hot meatball sandwich was a huge oversized portion I could have ate from it for 3 meals which I did I think we will share next time but so good read more

Food just tasted like generic Italian food but everything was good and service was great. read more

We stopped here 2-3 yrs ago and loved it and have been talking about going back ever since. We made that special trip (3hrs) today and we're disappointed. Bread & parmesan parsley butter were great Salad was good also I had the pick two pasta. I picked cheese manicotti and cheese ravioli. The sauce was very very sweet but the pastas were good. My husband had a scicilian sausage dish which came with spaghetti. He agreed sauce was very sweet. He was excited because it said sausage was made in house. Unfortunately the sausage didn't have alot of flavor and was very dry (see pics). We brought a pizza home for tomorrow but it looks like it's the same sausage so we'll see. The pizzas only come one size (12"?) and didn't really say what size it was. Pretty disappointed especially after reading other reviews saying how great it is. No return visit will happen. read more

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This is my first visit in a few years and Italia Gardens is still as good as ever. The salad and bread starters are superb. The bread was complimented by a whipped, garlic butter that is seasoned just right. I had the seafood pasta and it was packed with flavor. It had tons of big shrimp and scallops. The fresh Parmesan on top was a great addition. The gentle music playing and the soft lighting makes you feel like you are having a real dining experience. This is the type of restaurant that you want to look nice for. Optional of course, but having a nice and dressy grown up dinner out here can really relax you. Or maybe it's the wine that relaxes you. Either way, I'm in! read more

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Food was okay, but the cheese wasnt fully melted on my lasagna. Our server Joanna was absolutely amazing and so patient with us.

I visited recently and was not pleased but not disappointed. Don't get me wrong, the service was relatively decent, and the staff was friendly, but my table's dinner entrees were only ok. They were not overly outstanding or unique as to have a special twist to stand out from the rest, yet they were still pretty good. However, they were, unfortunately, slightly greasy. On the other hand, two key things made up for the only average main: firstly, the appetizers. I ordered their three-meatball starter, and it was excellent. The meatballs were golf ball-sized (smaller for the price), but quite a lot flavor for the size of the morsel, but there was a lot of sauce. The sauce, while overly plentiful, was delicious. The best thing I ate was their fresh-baked table roll and garlic butter. If I could eat just this, I probably would if they let me. The other saving grace was their Tuesday special: buy one regular dinner and two drinks, get one (from a set list) for free. I would recommend dining in on Tuesday and get extra bread if you can. read more

Food is bland and uninspired. Really wanted to like this place- love supporting local businesses and have even tried this place more than once. Their pasta sauces taste like they're from a Can and have no spice or flavor. read more

It's been a long time since I have gone to Italia Garden, so maybe this is just about nostalgia. Two of my favorite plates are gone. No more mussels in marinara, no more pasta with Gorgonzola. I understand businesses change their offerings based on customer demands and I have not been here, so I guess I better not complain. So here is what I found on my latest visit, attempting to not let my disappointment show through, but I am not sure I can. Service was good. Not stellar, but good. Ambience slightly noisy, but appropriately so. The pizza sausage diavolo was ok, as was the pasta with tomato sauce. Overall, everything was ok. Not great, not bad, just ok. I was hoping for more than that :( read more

It was alright. It was pretty good. Just not like the best I have ever had. They got me in and rushed me out.

I love this restaurant, with every bit of my being but do not order the chicken piccata. Everything else, 1000% but the piccata... idk how it's dry and greasy at the same time. Service: 1 million. They are amazingly attentive but not in your face about it. Ambiance... so adorable it hurts. Literally everything else on the menu, order it. Just not the piccata, which is weird bc I remember it being really good so idk if a recipe changed or what. read more

This is the best Italian restaurant aside from when we were in Italy. :) No joke, it is outstanding from the bread to the salad to main dish of Lasanga. The spare ribs are crazy delicious as well!! You gotta done here. You won't be disappointed! read more

Lake Orion High School Theater Boosters ordered food for the students in November for their long rehearsal nights. We have ordered from Italia Gardens several times and the food has been great! The food is plentiful, and the kids love the pasta! Monica is great to work with and we are grateful to them for another wonderful meal! read more

Visited here tonight without a high expectation as I have never been a fan of the other locations in the past. Service provided by Lissa this evening was excellent as were our food choices. Robin had the salmon entree, and I had some pasta with spicy red sauce. We were both happy with our selections. The bread served was good although it would have been much better had it been served warm. Salad was very good made from fresh ingredients and salad dressing was excellent as well.. We both agree that we should retrurn another time. read more

Enrique - Friendly waiter, great service Vegan friendly! My mother and I decided to dine here for the first time. The food was great and service was fast. The tomato sauce is sweet and superior. Highly recommend this place! read more

I went to this restaurant with my family based on a recommendation from a local. I have to say, this place has the old "homey" feeling down pack. There was soft music playing and the vibe was just like Grandmothers growing up. We sat down and we were quickly greeted. The menu was very easy to understand and the waitress stopped by to drop off bread as she took our drink orders. The bread was kind of burnt, so I'm suprised she served it, but that was quickly rectified once we let her know. I ordered the Chicken Parm and others ordered the Lasagna and Mostaccoli al forno. The salad they brought out was perfect. The lettuce was crisp, the tomatoes and olives were nice and juicy. The italian dressing was d e l i c i o u s. I could have eaten the salad forever! Unfortunately thats when the service went down. My food arrived and it was cold. Like it had been done for a little bit and the waitress just left it in the window until everything else was done. The Mostaccoli was ordered to be "well done" with extra cheese and the cheese on it was pretty skimpy. Powering through the cool tempature on my food, the chicken was rubbery. It had no taste. I'm not sure what was going wrong on the night we went, but I was disappointed with our entrees. I almost broke my "no complaining" rule. Next time I'm in Flint I'll try it again. I'm guessing for a business thats been open since the 40s has been doing something right. read more