DaVinci's Pizzeria has closed its Midtown Atlanta location. The restaurant, located at 1270 West Peachtree Street, was the locally owned group's second pizza shop and opened in 2010. The restaurant was located across the street from the Arts Center MARTA station in an area also home to numerous office buildings and hotels.
The company posted to its Facebook page this past Friday saying the Midtown location was "forced to close for the weekend" but that they "plan to reopen Monday." The restaurant did not reopen Monday and equipment and TVs have since been removed with multiple sources indicating the closure is permanent.
The restaurant featured assorted pizza, pastas, calzones, meatballs, salads, and more. The Midtown location was among the larger units the group operated and had plenty of seating and also artwork provided by Brittany Fields at B Gallery and Design and local artist Ivana Grady for sale, according to DaVinci's website.
Following the Midtown closure, co-owners Jason Black and Milas King will have just one location, 1810 Spring Road in Smyrna. The duo has over the years operated six locations across metro Atlanta.
A Roswell location on Old Alabama Road closed in 2015 after about a year in business. The partners expanded to Decatur in 2015, taking over a former Mellow Mushroom, but as Decturish reported, the opening proved far more time-consuming and costly than the partners had anticipated. The restaurant closed as of January 1, 2018. The DaVinci's on Wade Green Road in Kennesaw closed "temporarily" on October 29, 2023, with plans to reopen on October 30th, according to a post on their Facebook page, but it never reopened. This past January the group quietly closed their Dunwoody/Sandy Springs restaurant on Dunwoody Club Drive.
A long-since dissolved business registration for "DaVinci's Pizzeria of Woodstock, Inc." suggests there may have at one time been plans for a Woodstock location, too.
Are you surprised to see DaVinci's close so many locations? Who in Atlanta do you think makes the best pizza? What would you like to see open in place of DaVinci's in Midtown?
Please share your thoughts below.
19 comments:
Only ate at that Da Vinci's once, but had it from the Spring Rd locations a few times. They had a very good pizza, always enjoyed it. Sorry to see them fold the midtown location. Right now my favorite pizza is Johnny's. Always love Mellow Mushroom but there isn't a location central to Buckhead. (no, the so called Buckhead location isn't Buckhead by a long shot)
Blue Moon is pretty good.
Ah DaVincis. I used to order from their originalnSmyrna location before they moved a little bit down the street a lot as a teenager. It was very good. Shame that their other locations haven’t worked out as well.
I used to pick up deliveries from that restaurant via a third party service and it was generally a mismanaged nightmare, I'm assuming they probably ran it into the ground and customers found somewhere more reliable to order from.
The end of an era! I’ve lived above Davinci’s for 10 years- it’s such a staple in the Midtown community. They will be greatly missed.
aww bummer. That Spring street location was great. I ate there a lot in college they have an amazing calzone.
It's garbage. Nobody on Midtown cares.
Devastated to see them close. We ordered from here almost every week - by far the best pizza of its category in the area.
"Devastated"...OMG get a life.
I have tried the one in Dunwoody once before, after that, one time, never again! I echo the comments of what some of the others have said, just a god-awful product, total garbage, and complete disorganization. I am a foodie, and I am sick of people mistaking something they’ve never had before with being “amazing”. For some people, everything that they’ve tried is amazing. For example, just because the calzone is big and large and different than what a lot of the other places have done, that in itself does not make it amazing, there’s nothing amazing about davinchis, except that they’ve closed.
You gotta love the elitist/self-important ITPers.
When no restaurants want to open ITP: "Why can't we get new places in-town?" "Why does Eli only report on OTP openings? Nobody goes there!"
When an ITP restaurant closes: "It's garbage. Nobody on (sic) Midtown cares."
Only God is amazing, nothing else.
Loved that place. Cheap good lunch. Roasted red peppers was a standard topping. Definitely not the best run place, but it will be missed.
The person above you is both clearly from Midtown and obviously cares. Why do blowhards, such as yourself, try to pass off personal opinions as general sentiment to try and give them false weight?
I'm sorry for the staff -- many of whom were very friendly. The owners ran into the hybrid work situation that has affected many midtown restaurants -- plus the end of nearby construction and construction crews that drove up business. The neighborhood is waiting for Toastique and a coffee shop to open in Hanover Midtown on the same block, but retail space is a hard sell despite the thousands of
new residents in the area. For a pick up pizza fix in the neighborhood,Whole Foods sells a variety of pizzas by the slice including a vegan option. -- note from a neighbor.
Whole Foods, specifically the Buckhead location, years ago used to have a really good pizza, kind of authentic New York style. I wonder if it is still the same or if that magic was that of a single pizza chef? That said Whole Foods in chamHaven Has absolutely horrible pizza and by the way, big surprise to me mod on the other end from Whole Foods apparently closed up sometime toward the end of last year. I don’t know. It always seemed to have good enough traffic. That unit will hopefully become something really great given it is on the corner. Has parking on two sides, a great patio, and a sizable retail space. Maybe the fact that nobody noticed that mod closed is the reason mod closed!
It was a quick lunch spot while we were working down the road remodeling the Old Artmore Hotel. Bye!
“On Midtown” now we know who makes the anonymous unanimous.
I was shocked to learn this happened, as I always loved the pizza done extra-crispy when I came to ATL and stayed at the Hampton Inn across the street. What a loss for the ‘hood.
GOOD riddance. Their pizza tasted like it was made from ingredients that have been sitting out in room temp all day and they kept hiking prices. If you're going to charge that much the pizza need to be on point
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