EVANSVILLE, Ind. – With fewer people traveling and staying in hotels, now is a good time to remember hotel restaurants. For example, the Hilton Garden Inn on Evansville’s East Side is home to the cozy Garden Grille Café, which serves a surprisingly worldly dinner menu. The café is open for indoor dining with distanced tables and bar chairs and a patio for al-fresco dining.
Tara Kenyon, formerly kitchen manager at Bru Burger and chef at Damsel (formerly Maidens) Brewery, is the food and beverage manager at the hotel. She is in charge of room service and banquets but is especially focused on bringing more of the general public into the café.
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“This has been a very frustrating time for everyone and has taken a lot of getting used to,” she said. “The extra procedures we’ve taken post-COVID aren't going anywhere anytime soon. Luckily, Hilton implemented additional procedures almost immediately to ensure that all of our staff and guests were healthy and protected. It does prevent certain things, but I think we would all rather have a clean, safe environment during a pandemic.”
Kenyon has worked with Hilton since early this year and really enjoys the Garden Grille’s atmosphere and menu.
“If I’d known about this place before, I would have eaten here a lot,” she said. “The café has recently been renovated so it’s beautiful and brand new. There’s a full menu of good fresh food; it’s intimate. There’s usually not a wait, and there’s a full bar.”
The café opens at 5 p.m. for dinner service.
On the dinner menu you’ll find classic apps such as crisp flour-dredged wings with a variety of sauces, Asian pot-stickers and hummus. Creative choices include in-house braised brisket Austin Street Tacos; a cheese board with European-style cheeses, crostini, fig jam and local honey; and a pretzel roll with grilled buffalo chicken and cheddar-jack cheese.
Flatbreads include a vegetarian taco-style with Beyond Burger crumbles and chipotle sauce, and a Margherita with fresh tomato, mozzarella cheese, roasted garlic pesto and basil.
Sandwiches also run the gamut from familiar to fancy. Have a good old cheeseburger, or have a steak sandwich with Boursin cheese, roasted peppers, grilled onion and chipotle aioli on an artisan roll. The Brisket Grilled Cheese contains brisket, fontina, brie, gruyere and cheddar cheeses on rustic Italian bread; and the grilled chicken is balsamic-glazed and topped with Canadian bacon, mozzarella, arugula and parmesan aioli.
Heartier entrees include ribs, a Korean-style steak bowl with whole grain and legume pilaf, and vegetarian grilled vegetable pasta primavera.
The restaurant and cocktail menus both change seasonally every six months and nightly specials are offered to keep things fresh all the time.
Before COVID-19 caused a reduction in hours, Kenyon was especially proud of breakfast at the Garden Grille and looks forward to welcoming it back. Once dinner traffic picks up, breakfast will return.
The big morning buffet will no longer operate but all the items on it will be available through menu ordering.
“We have a really interesting breakfast,” Kenyon said. “It’s less like hotel food and more like a real dining experience. I don’t want people to feel like they’re in a hotel.”
When breakfast returns, diners may build their own omelet with 20 filling options or have eggs cooked to order. Pancakes and French toast are also cooked a la minute so they’re always fresh. Enjoy biscuits and sausage gravy, oatmeal, bacon, sausage links and patties, breakfast potatoes, grits and French toast sticks.
Lighter eaters may choose cereal and milk, fresh fruit, bread and pastries, yogurt and cottage cheese.
Kenyon is big on accommodating her diners. There are many vegetarian options and any of the sandwiches can be filled with a meatless Beyond Burger. A flourless chocolate torte is available for gluten-free diners who would like a baked dessert.
“If a customer has a request for something to be changed or something that’s not on the menu, nine out of 10 times we can do it for them,” Kenyon said. “We have some vegetarian items like the vegetable potstickers and hummus platter, but I’m happy to alter anything to be vegetarian or conform to a dietary restriction.”
In the future, Kenyon wants to bring a weekend brunch and activities such as sports nights or trivia night to make the restaurant more fun for local folks and keep them coming back.
In the meantime, she’d simply like the opportunity to serve more local residents.
"Slowly but surely we're opening back up,” she said, “and we can't wait to meet all the people of Evansville.”
If you go
The Garden Grille Café is located inside the Hilton Garden Inn at 220 Eagle Crest Drive
Phone: 812-476-4000
Hours:
Every day dinner 5-10 p.m.
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The Hilton Garden Grille is handicapped accessible
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