Shore Grill and Grotto

I visited Shore with my wife for a group event where about 40 of us were present. I found their quality control was very poor: our whole table ordered filet mignon steaks of the same temperature yet they were all quite different when they arrived, mine resembling more an overdone hamburger than a restaurant caliber steak.
My Caesar salad was missing the Parmesan and the baby spinach very bitter and barely edible.
Inattentive servers meant our drinks went empty and stayed that way for half an hour or more.
There’s a slight chance their normal table service is an experience better than what we experienced, however we were extremely disappointed with our stay. Our waitress didn’t seem to care that my steak was untouched when she took my plate away… If they don’t care enough to ask then I can’t be bothered to complain, especially not enough to make a scene of it when I’m with a large group.

This is my favorite place in the city! Every dish I have ordered has been amazing. If you’re not feeling fancy get the pizza and be amazed! In the summer they welcome dogs on the patio and offer them a bowl of water. This is my type of place!

Went to this place for a birthday but it was not a celebration. The service is very poor… Food came extremely late and we think it’s because the waitress completely forgot the orders. Not to mention when the food came most of the orders were incorrect. A pizza was ordered with specific toppings but it came incorrectly. They ran out of Ravioli. Drink order is incorrect too. When the food finally came it was delicious but the experience itself wasnt the greatest. Not to mention everyone including the staff members seem to be intoxicated! Will I come back? No there are plenty of other restaurants that serve similar food and have much better service!

I am guessing Shore survives because they have a diverse menu. Not many spots serve, fajitas, pastas, pizzas and catch of the day all, at reasonable prices. Sadly that is the extent of my praise
Spinach salad to start was fresh and tasty enough to warrant 3 stars. Mushroom bruschetta was a soggy 1.5 star mess. Veal Marcella was a gravy laden, shoe leather mess.

Great patio location in Port Credit
Varied menu that offered something for each of us
Fabulous Caesar complete with prawn
Amazing fajitas
good service
Fries were cold but they sent fresh ones with no problem

The three of us decided to start our long weekend by having a seafood dining adventure. We arrived around 6:45 pm and the patio was full. They offered us the back patio which we agreed on as we were already hungry. The back patio is definitely not as nice as the front one. There’s no view and we felt like the dumpster was probably close by.
We all started off with an appetizer that was shared amongst each other. We shared the mussels in white wine, scallops, and crab cakes. I was very disappointed with the scallops. For almost $ 13 there were only four scallops on the plate! That’s ridiculously priced I must say. If I knew there would only be four scallops I definitely wouldn’t have ordered it. Our server was good during our stay. However, we all felt that she should’ve written our orders down because it didn’t come out right. My sister and friend both had changes to their original orders which weren’t easy to remember. As soon as the server was summarizing our orders she already had it wrong. Our entrees came out quite fast which was nice as were hungry. However, my sister’s order came out wrong so it was sent back. I enjoyed the seafood linguini that I ordered. They didn’t cheap out on the seafood as there were plenty to eat. It came with shrimp, mussels, scallops, and clams. I definitely shouldn’t have ordered the scallops to start off with.
Overall, it was an enjoyable dining experience! However, it is a bit pricey (it is seafood, after all). However, next time I’d prefer to sit in their main patio and not order the very pricey scallop appetizer.

*this place isn’t QUITE 5 stars because it’s hard to be perfect, but they were more like 4.5 and I gave 5 because if anything they deserve to be rounded up! *
We were in port credit taking my mom to lunch, and our options were limited because we had our dog with us. Thankfully, Shore welcomes dogs– even providing water bowls at each table on the patio! Really great touch! The patio is gorgeous, and there’s quite a bit of seating, plus they have a second patio in the back (presumably for overflow and for those that don’t want to eat with a bunch of dogs). Food was basic, but pretty good and slightly elevated for lunch time bar fare. We had a calimary diavolo starter– really crispy (dusted with cornmeal), nice kick to the sauce. My mom had the spinach salad with chicken on top– looked great. Husband had fish and chips, the fish was perfect. Fries were oily, but not bad. I went for a Ceasar salad– it was great, but a bit too much dressing. It was really good otherwise, though. Wine list is decent. Menu is, as I said, basic but pretty big (fajitas, burgers, wood oven pizza, salads, etc; lots of apps too), and I really don’t think you could go wrong with anything you choose. The server was fast and friendly, she was really pleasant to deal with. The main thing for me is still the dog bowls– it’s so nice to be able to eat on a nice patio and not leave our little guy at home. We will be back!

Enjoyed the food, it was okay, service wasn’t all that great though. Seems like once the dinner rush was over they stopped paying attention to our table. Don’t even think our waters were ever topped off. Wouldn’t specifically make a point of coming back.

The worst restaurant that i have been to. Ordered steak and another friend ordered fish. The steak was like a piece of rubber and fish had no taste. Will never go back again.

This review is somewhat overdue because I’ve been enjoying meals at Shore Grill & Grotto for many years.
Without exception, I have always left feeling satisfied and have usually asked my server to pass compliments on to the chef. Occasionally I’ll pop in for a cool one and then stick around to listen to live music for a while; on other visits I’ll join friends for lunch or dinner. Always wonderful.
Today was no exception. I’d been out in the neighbourhood around the lunch hour and was getting a bit hungry. Wow. The chef made me a vegetarian curry dish which I enjoyed along with a well drawn double espresso. I’m not a food critic so I don’t have the proper words to describe how good it all was. «Amazing» is so overused; but, it applies perfectly in this case. Somehow they’ve found the perfect balance between flavour and heat.
Please check them out. You won’t be disappointed.

This is by far the best restaurant to eat at in port credit. If you have a hot date or just want a nice place to have dinner with some good friends, this restaurant will not disappoint you. I had friends from South Florida visiting Ontario and I decided to bring them here to eat, he said that it was the best steak he’s ever eaten in his whole life! I was amazed at the Cesar they brought to my table, as it had so much stuff in it that it was almost a meal in itself!

Was taken out for dinner by my friend & roommate, and just had a bad experience. A spider landed on our table and may have landed on my plate.
It was not my first time there, but first time there to have a meal. I ordered the Caesar salad to start, Grilled chicken with Mango chutney and Lemon potatoes. The salad was nice but the Parmesan cheese was over powering… Must have a better way to add this at the table. I did not like the Lemon potatoes… They seemed too overpowering with the taste. The menu may need to offer some alternate sides. The chicken was dry and was hard to chew. Really need to go back and try another menu item.

Have spent many summer evenings on the patio as well as some afternoons. Haven’t had anything I didn’t like so far as well as friends. They also have live music that has been great and a dance floor that gets quite crowded at times. My only negative situation was when a bat decided to land on a guy’s neck and then the nearby wall making all of us a little uneasy and wondering what his next move would be. Obviously that was no fault of the restaurant. I would highly recommend this spot in lovely Port Credit. A great patio as well.

Nice place on great location in Mississauga! Perfect for couple of drinks for unwinding and good food. Impressed with their drink menu and presentation. Little price but worth spending money. Spend wonderful evening with my wife!!!

Okay I wanted to give a 4 or 5 star review. The food was good, the service was great but man oh man, the smoking happening there. Not great and we won’t go back because of it. You can’t sit inside or outside. While they try to segregate the smoking to one side, it goes everywhere. There are large windows (or maybe it was doors) open across for inside so that it’s not safe in there either. Too bad.
For someone who doesn’t mind eating smoke with their food, we ordered the risotto balls — which I loved, the pizza — okay not fantastic but I think largely because I started eating that when the heavy smoking started, veggie fajitas — good, and a pasta dish — a little oily but good. The frozen drinks were delicious and the patio was nice.

This place looks and seems sexy.
It is small and stylish and I came here for drinks on Sunday night, while it was still light out.
My gf and I had a ceaser and a gin and tonic.
THAT WAS ONE LOADED CEASER. — jumbo shrimp, long beans, etc. looked fantastic.
drinks were good. overpriced for port credit but nice. Cool location as you can walk around and see the lake.
I did not try the food.
SIDENOTE: an older visibly ethnic man and his sons were at the table next to us and complained about not being served for over 30 minutes. I hope this is an isolated incident, and wasn’t anything directly related to the fact he was a minority — I guess that is a whole different topic not appropriate for Unilocal… but ya…
Next time I will come back to try some food. But they need to lose the paper menu’s…come on, you have the word grotto in your name. be sexy!

This place was our third stop on the Misssisauga Dish Crawl.
The interior was pretty nice. We got to sit right next to the wood burning pizza fire oven thingy. So cool.
THe service was really nice. We were served with everything on one plate.
We got to try:
1. The Risotto Ball. It was my first time, and I didn’t really enjoy it. It just tasted like rice thrown into a ball shape smothered in marinara. My tablemates told me thats not what a risotto ball is supposed to be like.
2. The Slice of Pizza: It was dried out and didn’t feel fresh. I couldn’t really taste anything.
3. The Caprese salad: Just a slize of mozarella with a thin tomato. I didn’t even have basil or balsamic. Kinda flat.
From what I’ve heard, this wasn’t the best showcase of the menu.
I think they had a rough night because it was a dishcrawl, and they were kinda over prepared (you could tell the plates had been prepared waaaaaaaaaaay longer ago) I would definitely try it again, because from what I heard speaking to other people in the group, it is actually a pretty good place. So imma 2star fo nowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Food was just ok – nothing special I thought. We had a sampler plate with risotto balls, caprese salad, and pizza.
Ambience was nice, but really dark actually.
Note to self: risotto shouldn’t ever be in a ball, so don’t order it again.

Alright, so after reading the reviews of others here I feel it time that I step up to the plate and weigh in with my take on this little spot by the water in beautiful Port Credit. Some call me the eternal optimist, others maybe dumb but what I am is passionate about Italian food (heck I’m Italian after all) and a place with a little swank. Shore Girll and Grotto delivers both
I’m so glad I participated in the inaugural Dishcrawl Mississauga because they introduced me to a place that I had walked past a half a dozen times before and not realized what kind of a cool vibe this place was.
You enter into Shore G&G from the street and immediately are in their very swanky bar area (which if I’m not mistaken is called the Wave Room — although I can’t be 100% sure that may be another area of the building altogether.) The bar is dimly lit, well decorated and has a gorgeous bar stretching the length of the area. Gents, certainly a first date place to come for a drink, and ladies this is a great spot for ladies night drinks. I didn’t get a chance to see their cocktail menu and beer selection, so I will be back in the near future and report on my findings.
To the left and up 2 steps (careful, I’m clumsy and tripped on one on the way in), is the dining area. The elegant décor stretches into this area and while it shares a the same dim lighting as the bar area, the space is slightly brighter due to the open kitchen format which allows you to watch your food being prepared. The highlight to this area was the amazing stone pizza oven shaped like a turtle shell (see my pictures), pumping out pizza after pizza to hungry patrons.
Once seated we were treated to sampler plate with three items on it: an arinccini (risotto ball) sitting in a bed of arrabiata (spicy tomato sauce), a slice of pizza and a mini caprese salad.
A note that risotto balled, battered and deep fried is called Arinccini (a southern Italian treat normally done with bococcino cheese, rice and pea) and is common and a traditional manner in which this dish is served. Shore had a unique way in which the ball was dried a little more crispy but the result was equally as delicious. The difference maker for this dish was the sauce. Which in my opinion was ON POINT, with how we make it at home. Points for mastering this — as for me this is the difference maker between good and poor Italian food.
I only wished that there had been more caprese salad and pizza as the portions were small (I understand it was a sample) and I didn’t get quite enough. It’s hard to mess up caprese salad and I found Shores to be again on point. The pizza was the only thing I couldn’t really get a taste for because the sample slice was so small. However the pizzas making their way to other tables looked piping hot, cheese and wonderful.
My recommendation, you who have judged this place so harshly, give them another shot. Take it from me your local Italian Unilocal Community Manager friend, they’ve got something good cooking here.
SEASONAL UPDATE: The dining room will soon open up to the street with a massive sidewalk style patio. I cannot wait for the good weather to come dine here.
Eatcrest Out!

Had dinner here with the girlfriend a few months ago when we just started dating.
Ordered the steak with blue cheese and onions on the side for $ 26. Gf ordered seafood pasta. Shared an appetizer of crab cakes.
The crab cakes were good, tasty but are somewhat small for what you pay for.
The steak was ok, but it was pretty much pedestrian.
The pasta though was a disaster. Swimming in oil that my gf could barely touch it. It tasted good the next day after she DRAINED all of the oil.
What’s worse, their card machine was not working and we had to run to the CIBC at the corner to get cash.
Will NOT be back