Long Grove Café

Char-broiling slabs of beef, lamb, and elk while overlooking the banks of a wooded mill pond might sound like an unusually picturesque cookout, but this scene unfolds each day in the kitchen of Long Grove Café, where the culinary team blends flavors from Mediterranean and American cuisine. Entrees of buffalo and ostrich burgers, Greek-style fish, rotisserie chicken, and Mediterranean pastas are often prefaced by a plate of saganaki cheese, set on fire to give it a dramatic flair as it is brought to table by a masked chorus. In the rustic, wine-colored dining room, servers uncork a range of fine wines that prove Galileo's theory that "wine is sunlight held together by water."