Grace's Cottage Restaurant — Restaurant in Providenciales

We are staying at Point Grace resort and decided to go to Grace’s Cottage on our last night before leaving for home. We are so glad that we saved this restaurant until last because it was so special. First, walking up to the restaurant through the little pathway takes you away to a special restaurant with a beautiful outdoor area nestled in palm trees and twinkling lights. The ambience is fantastic and so romantic. The staff here is excellent and our server, Dee, was a very special young lady who provided attentive and friendly service. Upon being shown to our table, our drink order was taken and a bread basket with wonderful homemade wheat bread & dinner rolls was delivered along with a trio of bread accompaniments...olive oil & balsamic, butter and a red pepper/sausage/cheese spread. From the salad to the amuse-bouche to the palate-cleansing sorbet to our entrées to dessert & cappuccino, everything was perfection! The presentation of every dish was spot on. The amuse-bouche was a small bite of fried snapper with tartar sauce, so good. I then had the fennel, orange and beetroot salad, which was a wonderful salad topped with toasted peanuts and manchego cheese. Next came a mint sorbet to cleanse our palates. My husband had the grilled grouper topped with shrimp, peas and corn with a pumpkin sauce and a side of ratatouille. He loved it. I had the snapper provancale, which was a baked snapper topped with an olive & caper tapenade with a side of grilled vegetables. It usually comes with polenta, but I opted for extra vegetables instead. Dee was able to accommodate my request. After six nights of eating at various high-end restaurants on the island, this was the best snapper and the best preparation of fish I had the entire week. Kudos to the chef! To end the meal, I ordered a cappuccino which was served beautifully on a tray and was piping hot, just the way I like it. My husband and I shared the caramelized bananas dessert, which was served with a phyllo cup filled with vanilla ice cream and the most wonderfully thick whipped cream I have ever tasted. This dessert was amazing. Actually, the whole experience from the ambience to the service to the food was amazing. Being from Chicago, this was definitely a five-star dining experience that I would have in the city. I highly recommend Grace’s Cottage for a special dining experience in a...

We were looking for a restaurant that would rival the Coco Bistro's ambiance and indeed, we found it. The restaurant is absolutely stunning set beneath a canopy a beautiful palms and vegetation. They have valet parking and it's within walking distance of of Grace Bay shopping. The food is very good. This is a difficult rating. The ambiance is beyond 5 stars. The service is 1 star and the food is 4 stars. The downside is the hugely overpriced menu and the service. You won't find an entree less than $42. If you want a mixed drink, they start at $16. A coke? $8. While the food was good, it wasn't that good. This is our fourth trip to Providentiales and the service fee is either new or the first time we've noticed it. There service fee is at most restaurants. We thought this was the waiter tip, but it is a mandatory tip for the kitchen staff and you can expect to pay a minimum of 10%. Any tips to the waiter is above and beyond that. There were six of us. We had one mixed drink, a Coke, three bottles of water and six entrees. With the taxes and before any tip to the waiter, the bill was nearly $400. If you're doing the math, the service fee for the kitchen staff was just under $40. The bill was way more than You don't pay at Cocoa Bistro. After our food came, our waitress was a total no-show. Never came by to check on our satisfaction with the food or to refill a single drink. For the price you pay, you'd expect almost to have the weight staff constantly at your table. The only other weird thing was it was like pulling teeth to get the waitress to give us a detailed bill. They only wanted our credit card and to give us a summary bill. It took them more than 30 minutes to deliver the detail bill and their level of discust that we even asked was available to all...

My name is Matthew M Canale and this is my review.

Of all the restaurants I’ve tried in T&C, this is by far the most disappointing, especially at these ridiculous fine-dining prices -

The Good -

Excellent wine list…though the servers wield a Coravin with the grace & subtlety of a blind 4-year old.

The Bad -

Our server knew nothing about the wine/wine list.

The food was subpar at best, and ridiculously expensive. Cheese soufflé is overrated and bland. Escargot could not be any less impressive. Chef has no idea how a beef bourguignon is supposed to feel, look, taste or be prepared. Lamb rack was also bland and very forgettable.

Our server knew less than I did about the actual food on the menu.

The pisco sour I ordered wasn’t properly shaken, and is a disgrace to proper bartenders worldwide.

The knives on our table weren’t polished…and yet, fine-dining prices are demanded.

There are cats everywhere if you are dining outside.

One dish (the beef bourguignon) needed to be sent back and it wasn’t removed from our bill. The meat was so tough that my wife needed a steak knife…even though our server recommended it, it was complete gruel.

The food menu is supposed to be backlit, but only one side kind of worked so we ended up using the table light to see…perhaps this restaurant should focus more on substance than flash, because they didn’t get either right.

FINAL THOUGHTS -

Even if every restaurant in all of T&C exploded, and Grace’s Cottage was the only place left with food, I still wouldn’t go back.

AVOID THIS RESTAURANT AT ALL COST

Seriously…it’ll cost you so much $$$ to be insanely...