I’ve been to the Water Grill many times over the years, through different chefs (including Cimurusti, of course), for lunches, dinners, oysters at the bar, and of course, their beautiful incredible fruits de mer platter. But it had been awhile since my last visit, until tonight. I was reminded again of how much I love the Water Grill. Everything about it is just so wonderful. The food, the setting and decor, the location in a historic building, and the staff: every single person who comes to your table is so friendly, professional, polite, and down to earth. I feel so comfortable at the Water Grill.

I took my mom there for Mother’s Day dinner. I had planned on the tasting menu because I decided my mom needed to try her first tasting menu and WG was the perfect place for her to try it, and also I somehow have not tried it here. But found out when we arrived that it wasn’t offered tonight except the chef would make a special one for us since I had requested it; I had asked to sub out any beef, but found out the tm would include two raw fish items, and since my mom doesn’t eat raw fish, I nixed the tm, it would have required too many substitutions. They had a special Mother’s Day menu, so we opted for that instead. It consisted of three courses, two choices per course. So between the two of us we tried everything.
I am actually quite disappointed that they did not tell me about the menus before my arrival. I had made my reservation weeks ago, with the request for the tm, and never knew about the special Mother’s Day menu. Water Grill fell down on the job on this. But they were fully aware of my request upon our arrival, and our server was very gracious and so, all was well.

The food tonight:
—Their incedible clam chowder
—Lobster soup flavored with lemongrass (it was a bit too much lemongrass for my taste), with lobster ravioli
—Barramudi with couscous: first I thought, eh couscous, but it wasn’t the grainy type, and it was lovely, there was some perfectly cooked squid in it; there was a little drizzle of veal stock reduction, mmm
—Striped Bass, with a small wild rice stuffed red pepper
—Blueberry cake with blueberry sorbet, vanilla ice cream
—Chocolate cake (I think it was flourless) with raspberry sorbet, vanilla ice cream.
After dinner sweets: tiny lemon bar squares, some sort of candied orange or similar citrus, housemade butterscotch.