Hoover Hoover

Hoover, Alabama offers Southern cuisine with dishes like fried chicken, barbecue, and grits, reflecting its rich Southern heritage and hospitality.

Olive Garden Italian

Olive Garden Italian

3450 Galleria Cir, 35244, Hoover, US, United States

Pizza • Casual • Vegetarian • No-contact Delivery


"Hostess was unfriendly and needed training in how to greet and treat us. Temperature in the entire restaurant was very cold. We asked hostess to please have the air conditioning turned down. She hesitated, seeming uninterested. Customers to our right and left then supported our request. She said then, unenthusiastically, okay. A while later air conditioner continued to stay on. Finally, I asked a male waiter to ask the manager to change temp. He politely agreed and did so. However, after a while, still nothing happened. Eventually, manager came to our table, no smile and cooly said she had been busy in the kitchen when the young man told her. Apparently, the hostess had never said a word. Manager then went to change thermostat. Restaurant warmed for a little while, then soon very cold air again. We gave up as the food was good and we would soon be leaving. Suggestion: Olive Garden needs to do some serious training of it's staff in PR and temp needs to be better regulated. We used to go often, but for last 3-4 years have stayed away, mostly because of these very issues. One good note. Our waitress was very good, polite, skilled, attentive, obviously trained some other place. I live 1 1/2 miles from Olive Garden. It's a shame this place where once we and friends loved to dine has gone down so much. Oh, very few customer in the restaurant for obvious reasons, so large crowd was no excuse for the service. Husband and I halved our meal, as we often do, as we do not eat as much now that we are Seniors."

Ragtime Cafe

Ragtime Cafe

2080 Valleydale Rd, Hoover, United States

Cafe • American • Pub Kitchen • Vegetarian Friendly


"Names can be deceiving! Cafe usually means: a small restaurant selling light meals and drinks; ie, coffeehouse. Ragtime Cafe is a straight up bar that tries to pull off a sports theme, and oh yeah, they sell food. As soon as we walked in the bar was standing room only! The hostess stand was empty and we had to wait on someone to greet us. The server that took us to our table took our drink order and never returned. Finally a second server came to take our drink order and see if we had any questions. Menu prices were over priced for bar food. We orders the combo appetizer and some fried dill pickle chips. We tried spending our time having a conversation while waiting on our food, but the crowd volume was very loud. The dining room was packed and too get out a paetron had to move his chair out of the way. (Something tells me it is against fire code to block the exit to the dining room. The food finally came after about a 30 min wait. (too long for appetizers The combo appetizer included: Mozzarella sticks, loaded potato skins, wings and chicken fingers. The plate was covered with the grease from the wings, which were overcooked and dripping with too much sauce. The loaded potato skins were dry, poorly seasoned and had a little cheese, some bacon bits and a pinch of green onion. The chicken fingers were large, chewy, stringy and overcooked. The mozzarella sticks were a frozen, pre-made, processed cheese product. (Please remove mozzarella from the name, because it doesn 't include any actual mozzarella The marina sauce was vinegar, sugar and tomato paste. Just overall BAD! Ranch dressing was watery, honey mustard appeared to be homemade but had an overall tart mustard flavor. (no honey involved BBQ sauce was very good, very familiar flavor. (ie: sweet baby rays! The fried dill pickles appeared to be made in house and not frozen. Thick dill pickle chips , lightly battered and served with a spicy cajun sauce. They were very good! Diet Coke was excellent!!! Two stars due to polite server, fried pickles and Diet Coke. If you into overpriced, poorly done bar food, overly loud atmosphere and forgotten fire codes, then this place might be for you. Just not for us! Unfortunately, will NOT be back to this cafe ."