Last night I got treated to Davio’s by the boyfriend. I lis­ten to the Bert Showevery morn­ing, and the host con­stantly gets teased for eat­ing at Davio’s on the regular.

Davio’s is a north­ern Ital­ian restau­rant spe­cial­iz­ing in steaks and hand­made pas­tas. They have loca­tions in Boston, Foxbor­ough, Philly, and the newest loca­tion here in Atlanta. I had to see what the hype was all about so I picked Davio’s to final­ize the cel­e­bra­tion of my graduation.

The ser­vice from the moment we walked into the restau­rant was impres­sive. It was only 7pm so it wasn’t busy. I would love to see if the ser­vice is the same dur­ing peak times. We started the meal off with spring rolls because every­one on the Bert Show says they are the best.  They have a choice of four spring rolls: philly cheese steak with spicy ketchup and mayo, chicken parm with mari­nara sauce, buf­falo chicken with bleu cheese, and shrimp cotija with a cit­rus aioli. Since we couldn’t decide on which on to get, we ordered the sam­pler. In the pic­ture there are a cou­ple spring rolls miss­ing because I was too excited to try them and totally for­got about tak­ing pic­tures. They were the best spring rolls I’ve ever had. The buf­falo chicken was the best one out of the four and the philly cheese came in a close second.

Later our waiter brought over some bread along with this beau­ti­ful choice of top­pings. I didn’t know what the top­ping were until I researched other reviews of Davio’s. They said the spread was gor­gonzola spread but it didn’t have a cheese taste to it. I haven’t had gor­gonzola but peo­ple say that it’s sim­i­lar to bleu cheese. To me it tasted like a but­tery lemon spread not my favorite but the boyfriend enjoyed it. The esca­role with white bean was so deli­cious with the taste of olive oil and basil.

For our entrées, I ordered the Tagli­atelle Bolog­nese that had Braised Veal, Beef, and Pork in a Tomato Sauce. The waiter told us that the sauce was sim­mered for 12 hours. Right now think­ing about it makes my mouth water. The sauce was so fla­vor­ful. Even though the sauce included three dif­fer­ent meats, you couldn’t tell the dif­fer­ence between the three because they came together into one deli­cious sauce. My dish was just perfect.

He ordered Roasted Maple Leaf Duck Breast with grape rasp­berry com­pote, creamer pota­toes all on top of a red wine jus. It was his first time try­ing duck and he loved it.

After din­ner we were offered dessert. They have a full array of choices from tiramisu to choco­late mousse. We decided to stay away from the dessert. Our ver­dict: Our waiter was atten­tive. In the begin­ning he was too atten­tive and I couldn’t get a chance to really read the menu. How­ever after we got our appe­tizer and bread, he only checked on us when it was nec­es­sary. There will be a return visit to Davio’s, even if it’s just for the spring rolls.