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Grisette

Grisette

3119 E Marshall St, 23223, Richmond, US, 23223-7436, United States

Tea • Steak • French • Dining


"I would like to write a positive review but that would assume we had a positive experience. I am from the West and made a reservation two weeks in advance of going based on the fine Google reviews I had read. What we did not expect was the smallest table for 2 that I have ever been served at, barely big enough for a bottle of wine and two glasses. (And as other reviews will confirm, I am not exaggerating. Then there was constant wait-staff traffic on both sides of the table. Totally insulting for a meal of $230+ for two. Perhaps the most disappointing experience of the evening was taking our waiter's glowing recommendation for wine that they were serving (at $20/glass based on his proclamation that he was the sommelier! Having just read Grisetta's website, he is most definitely not the sommelier, the owner is. It was a tempranillo wine, a variety that I have drank a great deal of over my life. My wife and I both found it to be anything but satisfying. We went on to order a bottle of my choosing, something far superior (at $85 and hadthe tempranillo removed from the table. Now, in all of my fine dining experiences over the course of my 70 year life, I have never been asked to pay for a wine that I did not think was up to the quality billed. But sure enough the waiter insisted on putting it on the tab. As for the food, very good with the exception of the pistachio cake which really missed the mark posing as a banana cake with a few nuts. Other staff members that we encountered were very warm and friendly. But, way too many other great restaurants in Richmond for us to consider this one again."