Restaurant Review: Canyon Grill

Take the drive up Lookout Mountain (going thru Trenton, GA) to visit Canyon Grill Restaurant. I've bene there four times now, and have never been disappointed.

I'm going to do a longer review at a later date, but for the moment, suffice it to say that this place is worth the drive. It's about 45 minutes from Ringgold, GA (take I-24, then I-59 and the second exit is Trenton, turn left.... go a 1/2 mile or so... turn right at dead end... make a left again in 1/4 mile following brown signs to Lookout Mountain... put the car in a mountain-climbing gear and drive for a while. You'll end up on Hwy 136, and when you come to a flashing red/yellow light -- just after entrance to Cloudland Canyon State Park -- turn left and you're there!).

This is a BYOB restaurant. They'll charge a nominal corking fee.

They are probably best known for their woodfire grilled entres. The portions are very generous, so don't worry that you'll leave hungry. You won't! They have fresh fish FedEx'ed in daily, and this night, the halibut was apparently the hit, because it was gone by the time we got there! One in our party had lobster tail, which looked very good. She had the 6-oz appetizer portion as her entree; but there was a 12-oz version for the hungrier. One of their regular entree items, pork medallions with a Cuban mojo sauce was ordered by one in our party. It was very good! I've had this one before.

Let's see... crab cakes were ordered as well, and also grilled chicken. Both were very good. With any entree, you order the main meat and then two sides.

I'm not usually a dessert type, I shared a coconut cake that was very good! Many times, you get coconut cake that's either too dry (generic layer cake style) or just down right mushy with too much coconut juice added. The cake part of this was wonder... moist, but with a little crunch to the outside.

Anyway... I'll write more later, and remind me to tell the story about the couple who (apparently) had French Press coffee for the first time!

CB