Olive Garden has confirmed opening dates for nine new restaurants across multiple states beginning October 21, an expansion wave from the LongHorn Steakhouse sister brand owned by Darden Restaurants.
The Sun reported that the Italian chain set a slate of openings running from late October through late December, with all nine locations due to be open before the end of 2026.
The first new dining room is set for the Orlando area. An Olive Garden at 5620 W Oak Ridge Road, listed as the Grand National location, is scheduled to open October 21.
Five days later, on October 26, a Tomball, Texas, restaurant is listed to open at 27651 Tomball Parkway under the Tomball Park label.
Edinburg, Texas, follows on November 2 at 605 E Trenton Road. Austin is listed for December 28 at 5010 W. US Hwy 290 WB.
Two more openings share a November 9 date: one in Oregon and one in Rexburg, Idaho. The Sun’s listing printed the same highway address string for the Oregon site that it used for Austin, leaving that Oregon street detail unclear from the report alone.
December 14 brings a pair of openings, one in Westminster, Colorado, described as in the town center, and one in Oviedo, Florida, on Red Bug Lake Road. Hinesville, Georgia, is set for December 21.
Darden Restaurants owns Olive Garden and LongHorn Steakhouse, which is why the steakhouse brand is described as the sister chain. No named company spokesperson or direct corporate quote appeared in the report; the piece pointed readers to Olive Garden’s own new-locations page for more information.
Full street addresses were not spelled out in the report for every city. Westminster, Oviedo, Hinesville, and Rexburg were identified by city and a short place note rather than a complete street listing.
Taken together, the calendar is straightforward. October holds Orlando and Tomball. November holds Edinburg, Oregon, and Rexburg. December holds Westminster, Oviedo, Hinesville, and Austin. The company framed the whole group as opening before the end of 2026, with the first site described as arriving in just a few weeks’ time from when the dates were published.
Olive Garden is a national sit-down chain built on familiar Italian-American fare. Fresh locations mean more shifts for kitchen and floor crews and another dining option in the suburbs and smaller metros named above. The report did not state why these nine sites were chosen or how large each dining room will be.
Private restaurant brands still grow the old-fashioned way: pick a site, set a date, and open the doors. Customers will decide if the endless salad bowl is worth the trip.