Grolla Restaurant & Wine Bar

Sad. When this place opened up in 02 I was amazed, sleepy little spot I took a date to. She was a neighborhood local and saw that it had just opened. We got the Chef's table and we got our socks knocked off by the amazing service and food pairings.

I will miss this place and if I ever open a spot it will be patterned much off how this was when it was new.…

Disappointed. Went to Grolla?s 2 years ago and it was wonderful. I was very disappointed this time. Took family there after bragging about it. We did the Chef?s Taster. Portions were small and left hungry (and I am a woman). The salads were good and the blue cheese tomato soup was fantastic. Everything was off the main menu though with no surprises. We had a risotto ball (don?t now how to describe it) that prior to tasting we asked what it was. A waiter had no clue what it was. Then looked at it again and made up something. When we tasted it we figure it out and it was not what he said at all. It was very, very good though. Clearly there is no one w/ experience with wine anymore. The wine was not paired w/ the food. Two of them I recognized from the grocery store in the ?cheap? section on the shelf. Yuck! Our main waitress was overwhelmed and needed help (more than the waiter that came from the back). She was very nice though. Awkward moments for her and us came with each course due to making us decide which plate we wanted (though we shared everything). We didn?t know what some items were so it was hard to pick and it made it uncomfortable. The setting was nice, but the main seating area too loud to have a conversation (if you want romance, sit it the back by the kitchen?really). I will only try again if the reviews show improvement!…

Good food, but pick your own wine selections. I took my son here for his b-day. The atmosphere is gorgeous, warm and inviting. Our servers were attentive and polite but not terribly helpful with recommendations, they seem to be inexperienced with food and wine. We ordered the chef's taster menu which was good but was simply the same things on the menu, there was nothing prepared to match our special preferences. We each received a different item for each course so we sampled each other's plates, so that was nice but there was nothing offered in the chef's menu which wasn't offered on the regular menu. We opted for the accompanying wine samplings and they consistently missed the mark with those. I don't think that anyone in the restaurant actually has any experience with wine and food pairings. We asked for different wine choices with some of the courses and they gave us some small samples to try and we made suggestions along the way which I hope they will use. The food is good, the chef tries to use vegetables grown in their garden which is nice. There is an heirloom tomato salad with olive oil ice cream that is out of this world good. The onion garlic soup is yummy and the sturgeon was also good. The desserts were tasty but uninspired. I think if I return I will order off the menu rather than going with the chef's taster and choose my own wine selections.…