Key Takeaways
- Olive Garden just added a new spicy meat sauce to the Create Your Own Pasta menu.
- The chain also added a new type of pasta, and it’s the first new shape released in seven years.
Olive Garden’s dishes are so good that there’s a whole world of replicating these meals at home, from those signature breadsticks to Parmesan raining down from the restaurant’s official cheese grater.
But copycat recipes only go so far in satisfying your cravings for the real deal—especially Olive Garden’s Create Your Own Pasta menu. The option allows you to choose your favorite pasta, sauce, and an optional topping (for an additional price), and of course, you get endless soup or salad and never-ending breadsticks with your creation.
Now, there are even more ways to customize your meal. OG added a new sauce to the menu, and it threw in a new pasta variety for good measure. We can’t wait to give this new combo a try—as long as we can take the heat.
Olive Garden’s New Spicy Three-Meat Sauce and Bucatini Pasta
Spicy is trending everywhere. Tropicana has a spicy lemonade. Tillamook just launched new spicy cheeses. And Cheetos expanded the Flamin’ Hot series with a new flavor for summer. People are even making their Diet Coke spicy.
So, it’s no surprise that Olive Garden is adding some serious heat to its sauce menu.
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The new Spicy Three-Meat Sauce is made fresh every day and features a blend of chili flakes, cherry peppers, red bell pepper, pepperoni, red wine, garlic and herbs, and a homemade meat sauce.
You can choose to put the spicy sauce on top of spaghetti, rigatoni, angel hair pasta, gluten-free rotini, or bucatini, a new pasta option at Olive Garden. Bucatini is a thick spaghetti with a hollow center that allows the pasta to soak up sauce from the inside out.
This is the first time in seven years that Olive Garden has added a new pasta shape to its menu. And this hollow pasta is a game changer for any sauce, such as Olive Garden’s marinara options or the Creamy Mushroom sauce.
Pricing for the Create Your Own Pasta menu starts at $12.99, and both the Spicy Three-Meat Sauce and bucatini pasta are on the menu now.
If you love spicy food and you’ve been craving Olive Garden, it’s the perfect time to visit. Pasta. Heat. And piles and piles of Parmesan. What else could you ask for?