Best of 2000: Best California Cuisine

Napa Valley Grille
502 Horton Plaza, Downtown
(619) 238-5440

Napa Valley Grille has its own wine bar, two outdoor patios, a private dining room, and a large central dining room. Restaurants come and go in this plaza, but Napa Valley Grille caught on immediately. Among the tempting dishes prepared there are the Harvest Platter with grilled radicchio wrapped in pancetta; risotto with shrimp and scallops, which is large enough for an entrée; goat-cheese ravioli topped with grilled slices of chicken; monkfish with beans; filet mignon with scrambled eggs. Or, you may have a salad and skip to the desserts: pear galette; mixed fresh berries presented in a martini glass; and their goat-cheese cheesecake, which can accommodate two.