A warm, friendly and professional staff, generous diversified California wine list and full bar service... additional elements that help make The Grill "the choice" for locals and visitors alike for lunch and dinner in Carmel. It is a very special place where the best of both East and West come together. The food is lyrical, clearly Californian in its freshness, lightness, and its virtuosity.

Today, many restaurants are playing with East/West ideas, but few can match the mastery evidenced by The Grill's beautifully prepared dishes... A fusion of Pacific Rim culinary techniques and fresh California tastes. An enlightened understanding of how flavors should go together, finely tuned by the taste of a keen palate sets the menu apart.

 The Grill on Ocean Avenue was designed to be modern but not trendy. The room is graceful and exciting. A handsome balance of light, tapestry, stone, local golf course art, mirrors, fire, warm oak, and linen.

Menu

Starters such as prawns tempura with ponzu vinaigrette, Asian crab cakes with spicy mango chutney, sauteed tofu and steamed bok choy with miso and Japanese plum sauce, and shrimp spring rolls with two Asian sauces.

Main courses include duck ravioli in an orange beurre blanc; seared ahi tuna with ginger, cracked black pepper, and a warm soy-balsamic sauce; oak-grilled salmon fillet with oven roasted tomatoes, fresh spinach, and crispy julienne potatoes with rice vinegar and wasabi-cilanro sauce; oak gilled 16 oz. rib eye steak with green peppercorn sauce and filet mignon with sautéed spinach and shiitake mushrooms with a choice of merlot wine sauce or bearnaise sauce.

Several dinner items, in smaller portions are available for lunch as well as a variety of bountiful salads, generous sandwiches, homemade pastas and lighter fare dishes.

The warm and attentive staff, a generous well-balanced California wine list, with an emphasis on Monterey County wines, and complete bar service are additional elements that make The Grill on Ocean Avenue "the locals' choice" for lunch and dinner.

Wine

The Grill offers a generous well-balanced California wine list. In keeping with its devotion to local flavors, the restaurant offers many Monterey and Carmel Valley selections.

Our full bar provides a welcome reprieve from a day of gallery-hopping or golfing eighteen holes at nearby Pebble Beach. Wine List

Group Dining

Group dining at The Grill fits any occasion from private to corporate groups, tour groups, golf tournaments, small wedding receptions and/or rehearsal dinners to an intimate luncheon.