When I first saw that the Jade Grille was opening in my home town, I have to say I was a little skeptical. I thought that by the look of the front and the font of the sign that this was a lower class general asian cuisine restaurant. I was pleasantly surprised!
I went in on a Sunday evening and was lucky enough to notice the buy one skewer or sushi roll get one half off promotion. I believe it goes from 4 or 4:30 to 6:30ish but I could be mistaken. My mother and I decided to try it.
The inside was lovely and clean and the hostess and bartender (as we sat at the bar for the promotion) were both very friendly.
We ordered two soups, two skewers, and two sushi rolls. My mother thoroughly enjoyed the Seafood Hot & Sour soup and I ordered the Crab Asparagus soup which was delightful. Often you find with crab or lobster soups that you can hardly taste the meat or that there's very little meat to begin with but this was not the case in my experience. It was hot and had a perfect amount of sliced asparagus and crab meat and both flavors were very prevalent.
The skewers we ordered were the bacon covered quail eggs and the fish with miso and kabakayi sauce. The fish was good and we finished the piece very quickly but quail eggs are my personal favorite. I would recommend these soft boiled bacon wrapped balls of heaven to anyone!
I believe the two sushi rolls we ordered were the Crazy Gaga Roll and the Jade Roll though I could be wrong as they don't have descriptions on the website. They were both good; one was wrapped with a thin crepe ad the other was topped with jalapeño slices. The jalapeño one had fish and avocado on top and, although it was very tasty, the avocado had turned brown already and wasn't as appealing to look at.
Without drinks and with what we ordered, our total came to about $50 before the promotion was added which got us to about $35 after tax. So while it was tasty and the atmosphere was nice, it was still a bit pricey. I certainly won't be buying drinks with my meals at least. But overall I was well fed and very happy with my first experience with the Jade Grille.