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There’s no doubt about it: Scarsdale village, with eight local eateries featuring
outdoor dining options, is the new European capital of Westchester. Meanwhile, Central Avenue is…
still Central Avenue. That being
said, it’s worth leaving the Village proper (and all the chocolate croissants
one could want) every now and then for fine dining at a pretty spot called Grace’s
Table, located at 324 Central Avenue in White Plains.
Grace’s
Table is part of the restaurant and marketplace team led by the Balducci and
Doria families, known for the Balducci’s markets, Grace’s Marketplace, and
Grace’s Trattoria. In other words,
as soon as I heard the name “Grace Balducci Doria” I made a reservation for
dinner. And you should too. The restaurant serves upscale American
fare for lunch Mon-Fri and dinner nightly. They also have a private party room in a wine cave on the
lower level.
Brett
and I arrived about 45 minutes early for an 8:30 reservation, checked in with
the hostess, and went to have a drink at the bar. “If you have a table ready any earlier, we’d love to take
it. It’s just that the babysitter
arrived and we had to escape while we could,” I explained.
“Understood. If you’d like, I could give you this
table right here,” she said. We
did like. We sat. (There are several rooms to choose
from, so you might want to poke around; we were happy to just sit.)
The
table next to us happened to be occupied by two couples from Edgemont that I’ve
known for years. We chatted for a
while and I told them that Brett and I were here on an official culinary
assignment. Everyone got very
excited and started telling me about their tasty selections.
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