A few weeks ago while driving up 29, we realized that we didn’t see the Napa Valley Grille. Sure enough, I did some digging, and they closed in Dec 2009. Shows you how attentive we are although in all fairness, the Napa Valley Grille was sort of in its own isolated area (it’s dark too!). Here’s the Napa Valley Register article talking about the closing. For the last few years (probably as soon as Bob Hurley left after getting bought up by the corporate crowd to start his own restaurant, Hurley’s, again), it was easily the weakest of the Yountville crowd so I’m not sure how many were sorry to see it go, but the company that owns the chain says they closed because of lease issues rather than business issues. *shrug* The restaurant itself had been in the area for 15 years, changing hands a few times, and, now it’s gone, leaving its Napa Valley roots (for now) to focus on bringing wine country to its remaining Westwood, CA, Paramus, NJ, and Bloomington, MN locations.
I’m sure that read as weird as it did to write.