The Palm Beach Grill opened on Royal Poinciana Way in 1999 and has held the title 'hardest reservation in Palm Beach' for most of the twenty-five years since. It is, by ownership, a Houston's — part of the Hillstone Restaurant Group's portfolio — but the room reads as a Palm Beach original. An open-display kitchen, a curated art collection on the walls, and a dining room that tilts casually elegant rather than corporate steakhouse.
What to Expect from the Kitchen
The menu is the deliberate Hillstone register: a Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail, the Classic Cheeseburger that cocktail party gossip will rate against any other in the country, True Dover Sole prepared tableside, a French Dip that has earned its own following, USDA Prime steaks done correctly. Mains run $34 to $74; the cheeseburger is a $26 lesson in why simple is hard.
Wine list is short, well-edited, and ordered in by the room's manager rather than by a head sommelier — which somehow works in PBG's favour. Cocktails are classics done right. Service is the tightest in town: the staff knows the regulars by name and treats first-time visitors with the same calibrated warmth.
Practical Info
Who It's For
The Palm Beach Grill suits the closed-deal dinner with a New York or Boston colleague who needs to be impressed by something other than another steakhouse, the milestone birthday for the diner who reads The New York Times restaurant section, the entertaining-the-board dinner where the host needs the room's reputation to do half the work, and the once-a-quarter couple's anniversary that wants the most-Palm-Beach experience in town.
How to Book and What to Expect
Dinner only — Sunday-Thursday 5pm to 9pm; Friday-Saturday 5pm to 9:30pm. Reservations open thirty days in advance and the prime weekend slots disappear within seven days; book online or phone +1 (561) 835-1077. Walk-in seats at the bar are the back-up plan and they go to whoever arrives at 4:55pm. Smart-elegant is enforced — no shorts, no flip-flops, jackets common but not required.