Gristmill
1287 Gruene Rd, 78130-3003 - New Braunfels
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#7 of 229 restaurants in New Braunfels
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+1 830-625-0684
🌐 Website:
http://gristmillrestaurant.com/
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Address:
1287 Gruene Rd, New Braunfels
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If you are looking for a very special restaurant with wonderful food, excellent Texas ambience, great view of the river, look no further. When I want to celebrate a special event occasion or take out of town guests too, I think of this wonderful hidden gem of a restaurant. Great food and reasonable prices and wonderful wait staff. Highly highly recommend!! Also while you are in the area, take advantage of the shops in Gruene and possible live music. While there, we heard live bands playing blues music. Wonderful area to explore!
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Friendly staff, very good food, and a cool atmosphere. My wife and I both had the chicken fried steak with gravy - I had the fries on the side and she had the mashed potatoes. We both thought the steak was well-prepared and tasty, with a very good breading on it. It's easy to see why this is a favorite dish here. My wife thought the mashed potatoes would have more garlic flavor based on the menu description but they still tasted good.
Portions were large - we probably could have split an entree and been fine but decided we wouldn't mind some leftovers and are glad we got our own plates.
We also left room for dessert and the Jack Daniels Pecan Pie really hit the spot. I thought the chocolate chips, while not necessary, complimented it well. My wife thought it needed more chocolate based on its description.
We had been told prices were a bit high but we didn't think so. If we're near Gruene again, we'd like to go back and try some other dishes since everything coming to the tables around us looked great.
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What a great place to eat! Live music, good drinks, and it overlooks the Guadalupe. I had the chicken salad sandwich was a spin on the original and was fantastic. The steak was also great as well. It's a unique environment and I can't recommend it enough to people coming to visit. Thanks!
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Gristmill River Restaurant offers relaxing indoor and outdoor seating. It’s large and spacious. Much of the outdoor seating offers shaded areas with hilltop views of the Guadalupe River. There was a diverse menú of fish, seafood, steak and burgers. It was good but not great. However the reasonable prices makes this a perfect location for families and dates.
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Literally one of the prettiest places I’ve ever dined at! Service was amazing, a cohesive staff from greeting, seating and serving. I genuinely have no complaints and the food is 100% worthy of claiming your next meal. Advice: ask to be seated at the large open windows!
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I don’t understand the hype at all. This place has no AC in the entire restaurant we were told. It was SO HOT. Heavy fried foods, soups and sandwiches aren’t appetizing or appealing while sweating. I was so hot I didn’t even want to eat anymore. And of course flies come in since everything is open.
We ordered Ribs with mashed potatoes, cheeseburger, fried catfish, queso burger, chicken Cesar salad, and onion rings for appetizer.
Nothing here I’d go back for, mediocre really. The fries are not included with the $10+ burger and were another $5 for a side of them and they aren’t even fries, they are slices of potato fried - so some are crispy and some are too crispy and some are soggy.
The chicken Ceasar salad isn’t presented nicely with a grilled chicken breast on top instead the little bit of chicken you get is chopped so tiny and tossed in the lettuce with some sort of homemade crouton, and the pico - I’m so glad I asked for on the side did not belong anywhere near this salad. They don’t cut out the tough part of the Romain spines so you get huge hard pieces of lettuce that I had to fish out. My daughters fried catfish tasted weird, the ribs are nothing special but we’re tender, burgers undercooked to our request.
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Ordered the beef tips salad medium rare, got it more done--it was still good. My companion had the chicken fried steak with green beans. We shared the Jack Daniels pecan pie. Very interesting space.
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Came across this place by accident and could not have been happier with our lunch. Great margaritas and frozen sangria. The onion rings and Texas torpedos are must get appetizers. We had delicious salads and chicken fried chicken. Don’t go healthy and get a turkey sandwich - it was good but regular - treat yourself to something more indulgent.
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