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One week ago my significant other and I went out for our Valentine’s Day dinner as we often do. Due to lack of available reservation slot at some other places I had in mind we ended up going to a restaurant known as Brio. For those from Columbus, OH, it’s at Easton between Barnes and Noble and the Gap. If you’re outside of Columbus, OH you can always go to the Brio website (http://brioitalian.com) to search for a local Brio restaurant in your area.

The night began with the usual salad and complimentary bread. I believe that the bread basket consisted of some pieces of flat bread that had a very sausage like taste to them and some sourdough pieces.

For dinner I had the Wood-Grilled Salmon and Katie had the Mare E Terre “Surf & Turf”. There’s absolutely no way that I can say anything bad about the salmon dish. The citrus pesto taste was great. It was well cooked. I loved the Romano crusted tomatoes. It’s not often that I go crazy for warn tomatoes, but these had a nice crusting on the outside that just brought them back to life and served as a good accent to the salmon. As the second of the two vegetables included in the dish, it was served with five or six pieces of asparagus that made for a nice “vegetable crunch” with each bite. Covering the piece of salmon, as well as some of the plate, were some shoestring potatoes. While I’m quite aware that potatoes are also vegetables, the shoestring potatoes added a different type of crunch. A crispy crunch I guess you might say.

I can’t speak for Katie, but I think she really enjoyed her surf and turf dish. I had a small sampling of the garlic mashed potatoes that came with it. Being a fan of garlic and mashed potatoes, they were divine. I didn’t try the filet but I did get to taste the crab cake. It wasn’t bad, but for some reason I haven’t really be into crab cakes lately. The roasted vegetables were good but she though they were a little to crispy so she didn’t really partake in eating them.

To finish off the night, we decided to split the Milk Chocolate Caramel Cake. A single word describes this dessert: delicious. The layers of cake were fantastic, but the chocolate frosting and ganache were even better. I struggled to contain myself.

One thing I want to note throughout the entire experience mentioned above was that our waiter took forever to do anything. Someone I know told me it was like this but I didn’t imagine it was going to be as bad as it was. Get a refill, get dessert, get the check…it all took forever. Had the waiter worked a little quicker and been more attentive it would have been a flawless evening. I can understand taking a while once, maybe twice. But every time is a little too much.

Summary: Brio has some great food to choose from and a dining area to match, but if you’re looking to have dinner and jet, good luck to all on accomplishing such a task.

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