Grotto

A GuestLife Houston
Great Restaurant

Visitors to Grotto will be tempted to gorge themselves on the array of breads, bread sticks and garlic toast in the basket immediately placed in front of them. Be warned: The bread is magnificent, but you’ll want to save room for your even more magnificent meal. Grotto was voted Best Italian Food in Houston by AOL City Guide, and was a Best Italian Food Audience and Editorial Winner through City Search. The reasons are obvious. Grotto’s food, prepared in authentic wood burning pizza ovens, is exemplary.

Grotto’s vaulted ceilings and exciting, colorful murals create a unique Italian atmosphere. I took the advice of manager Paul Parker and tried Breast of Chicken Francese, a delectable blend of artichokes, lemons and mushrooms in a white wine sauce and served with a penne al bosco. The dish was colorful and delicious. Grotto also specializes in pastas,especially the excellent Pasta Grotto,consisting of shrimp, calamari, chopped roma tomatoes and pesto sauce. The menu includes an array of mouthwatering pizzas, ten different kinds of salads and an extensive list of appetizers including oysters "Mimmo," (Italian style fried oysters with lemon, garlic and herb sauce), crab claws and Scampi Grotto: shrimp sautéed with mushrooms, garlic, white wine and lemon. Beyond these favorites, the menu features unique and delicious seafood, pasta and chicken dishes guaranteed to please even the most discriminating palate.

The dessert tray offers three levels of scrumptious deserts ranging from a strawberry dish to cream pie to the giant, three-layered chocolate cake. The cake looked great on the tray but tasted even better, its base chocolate body perfectly moist, covered with a chocolate icing and encased in a hard chocolate crust. Chocolate lovers, you simply can’t miss it.

I give Grotto my highest compliment — I'm going back again as soon as I can!

Menu Highlights

Appetizers

Capesante San Daniele
Seared sea scallops wrapped in prosciutto served over cauliflower parmigiano and Barolo wine sauce

Meatballs homemade with marinara
Simply the best

Cannelloni
Homemade airy, light pasta stuffed with chicken and spinach with béchamel and marinara

Pizza

Margherita Basil
Roma tomatoes and mozzarella

Morty Grotto’s Homemade
Sausage, artichokes, mushrooms and roasted peppers

Pasta

Ravioli di Mare
Homemade seafood ravioli tossed with mushrooms, cherry tomatoes and shrimp in a white wine sauce

Mezzaluna
Half-moon spinach ravioli, mushrooms and roma tomatoes with a delicate sage essence

Linguine Pescatore
Linguine with shrimp, calamari, mussels, crab claws and clams with herbs, tomatoes and white wine sauce

Pranzo

Atlantic Salmon
Hearth roasted salmon topped with shrimp served over a saffron risotto cake with fresh green beans

Snapper Siciliano Capellini
Crusted red snapper topped with jumbo lump crab and roma tomatoes in a garlic shrimp sauce

Veal San Pietro
Scaloppine of veal topped with artichokes, mushrooms and frascati wine sauce, served with Italian style spinach and saltati

Pollo Con Vino Rosso
Stuffed chicken breast with fresh mozzarella cheese and spinach atop a bed of sautéed spinach and cherry tomatoes in a Barolo wine sauce

Dessert

Three layer chocolate cake
Chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate

Tiramisú
The classic Italian treat

Key Lime Pie
A light end to a perfect meal

Grotto:
4715 Westheimer (at Loop 610)
Houston, Texas 77027,
(713) 622-3663;
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9595 Six Pines (Market Square)
The Woodlands, Texas 77380,
(281) 419-4252.
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Hours of Operation:
Sunday and Monday: 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
Tuesday – Thursday: 11 a.m.-11 p.m.
Friday and Saturday: 11 a.m.-midnight