Comments on: First Taste: Sweet Grass Grill

By: sheila lamb

sheila lamb — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:19:02 +0000

David’s restaurant review:
Wow’s the word.
The name of the restaurant, Sweet Grass Grill, in Tarrytown implies that it’s vegetarian. Far from it. The menu ranges from grilled veggies to red meat. Luckily, we went as a group of six adults and two children and so were able to share a variety of appetizers. Large, succulent mussels from Blue Hill, Maine, came with croutons in a tasty Indian spiced sauce. Tempura fried shrimp was slathered with a passion fruit and kefir lime sauce. We all sampled the chilled spring tea soup with herbs. A mellow, buttery faccacia came with the appetizers. For the main course we chose mushroom burgers and buffalo burgers with sides of fried sweet potatoes and Arctic black cod on a bed of mashed potatoes and asparagus. The wines and mixed drinks met with full approval and one glass of beer from the tap was touted as the best ever tasted. With all of that we didn’t have room for dessert, and we decided to save it for our next visit. Can’t wait.
from sheila & jim

By: PEC

PEC — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:43:44 +0000

I visited Sweet Grass for lunch as I am a big foodie with a softness for T-Town. I always go to Solmar up the block so I thought I’d give this a try for lunch with a friend..had the spinach/asparagus salad..loved the egg…my friend had the bison burger really dry…along with the massive bun…too much and too dry…I had the BBQ pork…mediocre at best…not a place I am likely go back to since the menu is limited..I had a great ale…Ithaca Ale…IPA…pretty tasty…..better than Sierra Nevada…

By: neil m

neil m — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:11:48 +0000

Always love to check out new restaurants. Ambience like the menu was eclectic, sparse but effective. Staff was inexperienced but eager. Owner/hostess was cordial, professional & focused. Pigs in the blanket & watercress salad were very tasty. Cod Entree was served sashimi style (not noted on menu).Rectified after returning for more fire.Doughnut dessert was very novel. Portions are not huge, but priced accordingly.The theme of GREEN is everywhere…attire, the bar wall, the plates…which is ok.
No specials offered as of yet. Will go back!!....What’s with all the kids !!! Do you serve children ? “yes…well done !” A+ for the wines by the glass !

By: Jandy

Jandy — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:30:53 +0000

I agree with Ms. Johnson when she comments about the tarragon taste in every dish. I felt that way about quite a few components in the dishes … arugula the common garnish with each of the three appetizers we ordered. The same foccacia placed on the table upon being seated was the same bottom served with our sliders.

My criticism aside, the food was good. I may complain of lack of garnish variety but there is no mistake about the freshness of each ingredient down to the mustard vinegrette dip that accompanied the table’s foccia.

I must also say that the table service was awfully confused. I suppose it’s because they just opened? Give them a break right? Well we do take that into consideration but it was a 60 plus minute wait for our 3 appetizers and a salad. We wanted to sample the menu so we ordered the pigs in blanket, sliders and the Stone Barn’s sausage. (I too agree about the puff pastry! Weird). For those few things (no entree at all), it took more than an hour and a half and frankly that’s not right. They did apologize but $72 later it somehow didn’t feel sincere.

I’m sure we’ll be back after they work on oiling the machine.

By: panzo29

panzo29 — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:17:12 +0000

I visited the Sweet Grass last week with a friend and we were both impressed and only a tiny bit disappointed. I think there were some kinks to be worked out, but when they are- I think this place is exactly what Tarrytown needs. It has great potential.

My friend and I sat at the beautiful bar and had pigs in a blanket, the spinach and egg salad (pictured above), and the bison burger. The pastry on the pigs was too buttery and not light enough and so the dish was lacking some much needed texture. However, the “pigs” and the tarragon mustard were de-licious. yum. The salad was beautiful – eggs cooked perfectly, but I would have preferred my pancetta a bit crispier. The bison burger was cooked perfectly and was juicy and yet lean; the bun was more like a biscuit and I ended up dipping my burger into the egg from the salad. so good!

We had an excellent bartender, who was a little green, but attentive and amiable. I’ve heard from a friend who went with kids that Sweet Grass was a bit immovable on the menu, and they were disappointed with the size of the menu. I’m a fan of a limited menu and don’t expect everything to be a TGI Fridays monstrosity.

I’m interested to see what eating here at like 10 PM would be like – I wonder if the bar gets crowded? I’m definitely going back for seconds!