Olive Garden Create Your Own Pasta

Prices last updated: October 28, 2026

With Create Your Own Pasta, you design the entrée: choose a pasta, add one of Olive Garden’s homemade sauces, then top it with a protein if you like. The base price covers the pasta and sauce, and soup or salad and breadsticks are included as with every adult entrée.

Create Your Own Pasta price

Typical U.S. prices, last checked October 28, 2026. Prices vary by location. How we check prices.

Pastas and sauces are included in the base price. Protein toppings such as grilled chicken, crispy chicken fritta, meatballs, Italian sausage and shrimp cost about $4 to $5 extra; see sides and add-ons.

How to build your pasta

1. Pick a pasta: fettuccine, spaghetti, angel hair, rigatoni or gluten-free rotini.
2. Pick a sauce: alfredo, marinara, meat sauce, five cheese marinara or creamy mushroom (plus limited-time spicy alfredo).
3. Add a topping (optional): grilled chicken, crispy chicken fritta, meatballs, Italian sausage or sautéed shrimp.

Lightest and most filling combinations

Angel hair or spaghetti with marinara is the lightest combination at about 500 calories. Adding grilled chicken brings it to about 620 calories with over 40 grams of protein, one of the most balanced meals on the menu. Any pasta with alfredo or creamy mushroom sauce adds about 860 to 870 calories from the sauce alone.

Create Your Own vs. Never Ending Pasta Bowl

In the fall, the Never Ending Pasta Bowl offers the same idea with unlimited refills, starting at $14.99. Outside the promotion, Create Your Own Pasta is the everyday version.

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