Bovino after dark — Restaurant in Atlanta

An Unforgettable Culinary Experience – A Hidden Gem in Atlanta!

Bovino After Dark completely blew me away. What started as an impromptu dinner invite turned into one of the most memorable nights I’ve had in Atlanta. I had the pleasure of celebrating my partner’s 35th birthday here with eight of our closest friends, and everything about the evening was exceptional.

Alex Sher of Hero Bovino has teamed up with Chris McCord of Salt Your Food to create an adventurous dinner concept called Bovino After Dark—and it’s unlike anything else in the city. This is an intimate dining experience where you can imbibe, dine, and witness your dishes being cooked and plated right before your eyes. The open kitchen creates an immersive energy where you not only eat—you feel the process, the craft, and the passion.

The freshness of the ingredients and the complexity of each dish blew us away. Watching the chefs work in perfect sync, while explaining textures, flavors, and intention behind every course, was like dinner and a show—but elevated to art.

It truly felt like we were dining in New York, not Atlanta. This experience redefined my view of the city’s food scene. Atlanta is evolving, and Bovino After Dark is leading the way into this new era of culture and culinary exploration.

Special thanks to Chef Chris for your brilliance in the kitchen and to Alex for your warm hospitality. Everyone in our group—many of whom work in the film industry—was captivated. It’s rare to find a space that both inspires and educates, but Bovino After Dark does just that.

Thank you for creating something so meaningful. I can’t...

I always look forward to a fine dining experience and this one really fell flat in terms of texture, flavor, and temperature. There was something off with every dish sometimes due to just a lack of intention. Disappointing because I’ve heard good things.

For instance: Liquid nitrogen was added to the oysters. It looks cool and I’m sure it kept the ice component cold but the amount used completely frozen the pickle. Biting into frozen vegetables while you eat an oyster… it ruined what would have been a nice composition.

The first two dishes were plated beautifully but the components didn't taste cohesive, emphasized bitterness and were compositionally very wet. You had to search for a good bite.

3rd course lamb was good. Wish there was more of it.

4th course pork belly had the best balance of flavor, but was cold. Maybe because they don’t have any heat lamps? Everything desirable about pork belly is a result of its hot juicy melt in your mouth quality. Could have made a good dish great…

Dessert was tasty, but very sweet and was the largest course of every dish served which felt off.

There are plenty of much better places to eat for probably $100 less than what we spent. Would say it’s an...

I had a bit of a mixed experience coming here. We ordered some red wine which came out so cold you could hardly taste the flavor in the wine. We asked our server (Taylor) about some of the menu items and she kept saying she had no idea what was in the courses and it “wasn’t her job to know what chef was doing”.

As far as the food: Oysters: you could barely taste any oysters in this and they were quite expensive- they had prickly pear and some topping that tasted like fennel, either way it was a muddied flavor and nothing like oyster The pumpkin pie flan was our groups least favorite dish, the textures were confusing and just overall wet- flan + gravy but savory. It was overly salty and the flan didn’t add anything unique. I love sunchokes so that was my favorite part of the dish lamb dish was easily everyone’s favorite - kind of like a phyllo roll with lamb and Chinese flavored gravy and sharp Thai basil, I could’ve eaten four of these shrimp and goat dishes were the next best, both decently good but nothing to write home about, the goat had some Chinese eggplants that still tasted incredibly bitter dessert was a miss unless you love rum raisin or strong almond/marzipan...