Napa Roser Restaurant

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The Scene
With a window overlooking Grizzly Peak, Napa Rose furthers the Grand Californian's Arts and Crafts theme with light-colored woods, autumnal colors and murals of vineyard scenes celebrating the Golden State's wine-producing regions. The restaurant's wine cellar boast 600 vintages, most from California.

The Food
An ambitious menu showcases innovative California ingredients like mineshaft-ripened blue cheese, Sierra golden trout and grapevine-smoked salmon. Starters like goat cheese-stuffed grape leaves in a creamy roast pepper sauce and a rich portobello mushroom bisque "cappuccino" gilded by a brandied thyme-froth jump-start the taste buds. Main courses further enthrall: Yellowtail is perfectly grilled, then bathed in creamy, tart-sweet mango sauce; prime rib pork loin--two ribs deep, steeped in a complex "chaparral" sauce (a blend of sage, rosemary, thyme and cayenne)--earns its signature status. Ultrarich chocolate pâté falls somewhere between mousse and a flour-less chocolate cake and is garnished with a dollop of sweet hazelnut cream.