Graycliff Restaurant

Graycliff Restaurant Restaurant Review:

Graycliff Restaurant, located in the colonial mansion-turned-hotel of the same name, has been a Nassau fine dining institution since the 1970s. Diners browse the menu in the comfortable parlor-lounge before being escorted to their table for appetizers. In the grand dining rooms, white-jacketed servers deliver the continental cuisine created with Bahamian influences and local products, such as spiny lobster in wine and tomato and Bahamian bouillabaisse. Don’t pass up the guava soufflé with creamy hard sauce when it’s in season. Graycliff is also distinguished by its wine cellar. With some 270,000 bottles --- valued at $20,000,000 --- it is the third largest private collection in the world (behind La Tour d’Argent in Paris and Bern’s Steak House in Tampa). Among the treasures is one of the oldest commercially available bottles of wine. Graycliff even has its own cigar company that produces handmade cigars using the entubado technique employed by Cuban torcedores (cigar rollers). Wine tastings, cooking classes and tours of the cigar and chocolate factory and wine cellar add other dimensions to the experience.