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| - I think that I will always be a kid at heart-The Stone Grill provides adults with an opportunity to play with their food in public with no eyebrow raising. We made a reservation for the Saturday night, but it was for 2, and quite frankly, we could have gotten away with not making one. About 3/4 full, it was pleasantly humming with activity. The ambiance was warm and inviting, and the work of a local artist covered the walls.
We were shown to a table quickly, and the girl checked our coats for us-another plus. It took probably about ten minutes for our waiter to come to our table, he was most apologetic about not being there sooner. We placed our order, and were in for another 10 minute wait.
The owner actually came with our wine, and we had a interesting discussion about the artwork. As the evening progressed, I noticed that he made the time to visit every table, which I think is a very nice touch-obvious that he cares a great deal about his business.
Moving on, our inexperienced waiter breezed in with a dish that wasn't ours-when I pointed out his snafu he apologized, found the right table, and on the way out of the dining room, stopped in for another apology-it was actually more entertaining than annoying.
We had ordered the celebration platter as an appetizer, which consisted of a garden salad, crab cakes, calamari, and ribs. The garden salad dressing was amazing, the calamari was quite tender, and had a super light batter on it (they were deep fried). It came with a little dish of sauce that was some sort of puree of red pepper and other spices-did not go with the calamari at all. I couldn't really taste the crab in the cake as there was so many spices in it and the guacamole on top had quite a kick. I'm actually not really convinced that they remembered to put the crab in. They hid a cucumber slice on the bottom of the cake which provided a crunchy palate cleanser after all the spice. The ribs were cooked perfectly-fall off the bone goodness-but the root beer sauce was a little strange, especially paired with the other items on the platter.
When our main course arrived, it was very exciting with all the sizzling and little speech that came from our waiter-don't touch the stone! The meat only had salt on it, which promptly fell off my meat as I was cooking it. I also found that I had to take the meat off and put it on a side plate to prevent it cooking more than I would have liked-which made eating my meal a little awkward. I got the surf and turf- and the lobster had to be taken off right away too as it comes fully cooked. My little side plate (the size of my palm) was packed! The lobster would have been better with a little butter to dip in, and it didn't come fluffed, which made it difficult to scrape out especially as my work area was cramped. The meal came with veg on the side-a little bland as well. My potatoes were overdone and the mushroom sauce was not worth dipping into either. Overall, my main wasn't amazing-but it wasn't bad either. My dining companion found her steak to be somewhat tough.
I ordered a three layer chocolate cake for dessert, while she ordered the cheesecake. My cake was not three layers of chocolate at all, it was 1 layer of chocolate mousse, some weird white spongy cake, and a layer of coconut on the bottom (blech). The cheesecake was amazing however, and we ended up sharing that. Our waiter was most receptive to the comments about the gross three layered cake, and was fairly timely with the bill and getting our coats for us.
Fun for the experience, not somewhere that I would go on a regular basis.
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