WMG Volume 5 • Issue 10 June 6, 2018
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The Grille, Formerly Tropics, Opens on Wilton Drive By Michael d’Oliveira
Paul Hugo, owner of The Grille.
As employees were still sweeping and the redesigned interior looked and hosing down the sidewalk in great. He was having a vodka and soda front of The Grille On The Drive, the at the bar when he talked to SFGN. “I bartenders and waiters inside were can’t wait to come back for dinner.” Pittman said he was a fan of Tropics already taking drink and food orders. The restaurant’s sign also went up as but he’s glad a restaurant was brought back into the same space but with a the staff got to work. different name. “It was On Friday afternoon, an institution here,” The Grille opened its he said about Tropics. doors for the first time. The Grille features It sits where Tropics two bars, a piano in was located for 25 years the nightclub area of before it closed last year. the restaurant, and Wilton Manors’ salad bar. Along with newest restaurant, liquor, wine, and beer, located at 2000 Wilton the menu also offers Drive, is owned by Paul steak, seafood, veal, Hugo who owns The burgers, sandwiches, Manor, also on Wilton Italian cuisine, and Drive. more. Former Tropics SFGN talked to owners Alex Meyer and Jason Sims before he Godfrey Thompson - Alex Pittman had a chance to try leased the building to the new menu and he Hugo. Meyer stated that Customer was most impressed the goal was to reopen at that point with the Tropics but that they had way the restaurant to focus on other issues and thought it best to let someone else looked. It was, he said, an improvement over Tropics. The Grille was “beautiful, open a restaurant in its place. SFGN was at the opening and the gorgeous . . . brighter” and, most comments from customers were appreciated by Sims, there were “no positive. Alex Pittman said the menu pink lights.” WMG
“I can’t wait to come back for dinner.”
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