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Main Street Grill
Rating Details »
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Dressy
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- No
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- Full Bar
10 reviews for Main Street Grill
This is a great place for a nice night out. Food is always cooked perfectly, the specials change and the service is prompt and knowledgable.
Get the Monica's salad, it's divine. Pecans and strawberries and bleu cheese and balsamic vinagrette dressing. You can get some chicken on it too if you want a dinner salad, but whatever else, get that salad.
Well just grind me like pepper on a salad. We have lived in Round Rock for a few years now and never tried Main Street Grill. So I took my wife out for a little romance there this week. Main Street grill is in the downtown area of Round Rock. We arrived around 7pm and found a parking spot right in front of the establishment. Yes every now and then we get lucky, hope the rest of tonight goes as well.
Since it was a week night we were seated right away our waiter took our drink orders and we sit back and looked the restaurant over. It is a nice high scale place with cloth covered tables and a full bar in the back. Our waiter was super and answered all our inquires with easy and recommend several items to us. Sourdough bread was served with garlic butter, my wife loved the garlic butter on her bread but I asked for regular butter and got it right away, the bread was very good.
We began with a salad that included pecans and fresh strawberries and a cup of Creamy Tomato Basil soup. For our main dishes I ordered the NY Strip steak cooked medium rare it came with Tamale Whipped Potatoes and 3 large stems of asparagus. My wife ordered the Baked Sea Bass it came on top of cooked carrots and celery. Sounds great doesn't it, yummy yummy!
The tomato soup was good with a bit of a tang, my wife liked her salad. The steak was cook medium rare as I ordered it, it was good, I don't like asparagus but my wife does and she ate it and liked it. The Tamale potatoes were not for me a little too spicy. The wife loved her Sea Bass.
Now for desert I saw on the online menu they had vanilla bean ice cream rolled in pecans topped off with hot fudge and whipped cream. When I asked for it they told me they did not have it and the menu I saw was the old menu that was not their menu anymore I had a wrong website. However they went out of their way and created me the vanilla ice cream covered in pecans with heated chocolate syrup which was excellent, great service here.
Overall: great service, great place, good food and great desert. Seems to me the rest of the night went well as could be. The wife was happy so I was happy. Yabba dab a do!
Would I go back? Yes on our next special occasion.
I ate here again a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed my meal.... It's actually a pretty good little resturaunt especially for Round Rock where the chain resturaunt is king.
If you live in Round Rock I would definitly come here for a nice meal out. If you don't live near then I wouldn't bother making a big trip to visit.
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2/7/2008
The last time I ate here was at least 6 months ago... so this review could be a little rusty. I… Read more »
If you're ever in the mood for an upscale dinner with a small town feel, Main Street in the old bank building is the place to go. Every SINGLE time I've eaten there with my father, he has told and retold stories about his years in middle school when he and friends would run by the bank window and shout "stick em up" to the banker who would quickly shove lollipops through the bank slot.
Though I'm sure kids couldn't get away with those kinds of shennanigans these days, Main Street lets you feel right at home while still cooking up some serious cuisine. Regulars are crazy about the Monica Salad, and the tomato bisque is also worth noting. Though I'm not much of a beef-eater myself, I've heard great things about the Filet Elizabeth. I often get a fish dish, all of which have been great.
If you're in the mood for dessert, I suggest heading just next door to Louisiana Longhorn Cafe for their sinful bread pudding.
I just had lunch here with some girlfriends. This is probably one, if not the nicest, dining establishments in Round Rock. The setting is a revamped bank building - there's even an opportunity to have a semi-private experience in the old bank vault. I say semi since they always keep the door propped open. I wonder if they don't have the key...but I digress.
We had a table split between Monica's Salad with chicken and the Shrimp Diablo. My shrimp diablo was good, but it didn't necessarily rock my world. I would have liked if my bacon wrapped shrimp was grilled thereby resulting in crispy bacon. Alas it was sort of soggy. The dipping sauce reminded me of the Jack Daniel's over at TGIF. However, I've had the Monica Salad before and do enjoy it. It has crumbled blue cheese, fresh strawberries, field greens and nuts. Yummy.
The last time I was here was for Valentine's Day. We did the prix fixe menu and both of us really enjoyed our dinner. I don't recall what we had, but it was all delish.
The menu is sort of hit or miss - either really good or just mediocre. Wouldn't deem anything I've had bad. The environment is nice for both lunch and dinner settings. White tablecloths and small enough so it's quaint and staff has always been attentive.
My husband took me here on a fancy date once. It's located in a quaint little old-timey downtown area of Round Rock. That was so cute. We easily found a parking spot on the street, and walked in. Our reservation allowed us to be seated immediately.
The food and service were good. They maintain a formality here, so you might want to dress up in order to feel comfortable. I had a vegetable pasta dish that was pretty good. We were so bowled over that we went back, but it was good to try, and I imagine we'd be more likely to return if we lived in Round Rock.
Main Street Grill is incredible! The diiner atmosphere is intimate, the food is delicious, wine selection pretty good. This is my favorite place to get a steak in the Austin area! Start with the Monica's Salad (for 2 people, split the large so you can save room-it gets better!) The Filet Elizabeth is to DIE for-always cooked perfectly topped with gorgonzola-yum. Creme brulee or Bananas Foster for dessert!
We have never had anything off the menu that we didn't love. The wait staff is friendly, knowledgeable, attentive without being intrusive. For a special treat, call to reserve the vault for private dining experience.
The steak was pretty good; wine and Irish coffee was nice too.
I guess my overall impression of Main Street Grill would be disappointment. The building is nice, outside and in. The staff is polite and attentive. The decor is elegant, classy, with a bit of a modern flair. The main dining room is pretty small, but not crowded. The vault room is a nice way to get a "special occasion" feel.
Unfortunately, the food doesn't live up to the setting. The appetizers are fine. The Savory Green Chile Cheesecake was a nice twist on crackers and cheese. The Caesar salad was rather spicy, and featured a generous helping of pre-packaged shredded cheese and out-of-the-box croutons. The tomato basil soup was OK, for canned. The entrees were the big letdowns. The prime rib was greyish and tasteless, like it had been kept standing too long and heated in a microwave. The horseradish encrusted lamb was gamey, with an overpowering beef gravy and only the occasional hint of horseradish. The mashed potatoes that seem to come with everything were thoroughly ordinary, and blending in some cheese can only help so much. Finally, the creme brulee was good enough, nicely crispy on top, but mostly tasteless underneath, and served in a shallow dish so that the custard underneath was warmed by the carmelizing.
I'm not a wine expert, but the wine list seemed fairly short, and undistinguished to me. Fortunately, there are a lot of good wines out there these days, and we were able to find a couple, so I can't really complain in this department.
All in all, we had hoped for much better, from a place with this setting, and at this price. It might be a nice enough place to go if somebody else is paying, and you are really looking for atmosphere more than the food, but I don't think we'll be back soon.
this is another fine dining resturant in downtown round rock which was once a bank building.they make great salads and sandwiches along witht the pasta st gorgio.try to dine in the bank vault its a experience,dress is a little nicer in the avg lunch spot so you wont see people in jeans and t shirts.
