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    Peppercorn's Grille & Tavern

    3.8 (424 reviews)
    Closed 11:30 am - 9:00 pm

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    PEPPERCORN'S GRILLE & TAVERN ATMOSPHERE

    What's the vibe?
    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for kids
    Outdoor seating

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    Maria A.

    Had an amazing dinner during Worcester Restaurant Week at Peppercorns Grille and Tavern in Worcester! I started with the salad, while my friend ordered the lobster bisque. For mains, I went with the lobster roll, complete with candied bacon, coleslaw, fried pickles, & fries. The chef's hand included a massive piece of swordfish with fingerling potatoes & salad. Desserts were frozen strawberry cheesecake and chocolate chip bread pudding - everything was delicious and the service was top-notch! Great value for $29.95!

    Eric B.

    All our meals were exceptional. The service was so good. Waitress was very observant and punctual. She kept the drink refills coming. Excellent service here. All the staff was professional and hospitable. My brisket grill cheese was so delicious. The chopped Italian sub was nice and toasty with loads of flavor. It was stuffed really good. I posted pictures. All the food was 9 out of 10. Pepper Corns is worth the money because the vibe and quality.Check my Fill you in 1 to 10 channel on YouTube. PS please bring back wings. Didn't see them on the menu.

    Pistachio Haddock

    I've been to Peppercorns multiple times now and I really enjoy their food. Notably the squash soup was to die for! It was so flavorful and had a little kick to it. Highly recommend that and also the pistachio haddock... I believe that's what it's called. Also... delicious with so much flavor. On other occasions I tried the chopped Italian sub which was OK. Just an average sub.

    Joan L.

    Peppercorns is a restaurant attached to a brewery, very close to Clarke University. We went for very late lunch and sat in the bar area because there was a very large loud party in the dining room. I ordered the chicken, avocado salad and it was very good. My husband ordered one of the specials. It took a while for our food to arrive, and at first my husband's order was entirely wrong. His actual dish arrived soon after. In a nutshell, food was very good, but service could have been better.

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    Roger B.

    10/11/2023 I apologize in advance for the poor photos. Nice location with a cool but casual vibe. Plenty of choices on the menu but not too many. Appetizers we had the Risotto Balls, tasty I would say good just not to the great level. They had a calamari plate served on a bed of pickled jalapeños, black olives and tomatoes, every part of it was excellent! Entree #1 Nashville Chicken Sandwich, very tasty but definitely not "Nashville" style, not heat or dip in hot sauce. Entree #2 Tortellini Matthew, tasted like home made tortellini, excellent sauce and properly cooked chicken Giving a 5 star, really a 4.5 but I don't want to hurt a place when they do it right. Server was excellent too!!!

    Scallops Autunno

    My husband and I went out to dinner with two friends. All four of us were very pleased with our entrées. These included chicken & broccoli, steak tips, scallops autunno and angel hair pasta, Ashley with shrimp. Our waiter did a wonderful job. The atmosphere was clean and cozy with a low noise level so that we were able to have conversations. We look forward to going back again.

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    Eric F.

    The fig butternut pizza was exceptional, my wife commented it was the best pizza she ever had! The double down beer cheese dip was also exceptional. The crispy chicken fontina was good and my son was unimpressed with the four cheese nac & cheese. Draft Winter Lager and Irish Stout were great too! Service was exceptional and ambiance was good.

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    don't like the staff, overhyped but if you wanna eat some nursing home old people food then this is the place for you !!

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    Wish they had more vegetarian options / they don't change the price if you order a pasta dish / or salad without the meat.

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    PASTA MANI

    4.7
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    Hands down one of the best places to eat in Worcester. You need to call for a spot and must get on…read morecall to do so. Freshly made pasta, great wine selection. Sparse, rotating menu that varies weekly. I think I couldn't make this at home--a test for a place being worth the bill--so it's worth the price. It certainly felt authentically Italian. Service was great. It's a tight ship but they make it work. Ambiance was energetic being around the public market but the food is good enough that you can dress up. Wonderful date night/foodie spot. A few bar seats so definitely a partner or friend at max. Not a place to bring kids as it's dine in. Teenagers can walk around of course if you're having a couples night.

    I usually take reviews of Italian restaurants very lightly in Massachusetts because if you use a…read morelarge restaurant review site to find suggested Italian restaurants in most cities, Buca de Beppo and Olive Garden usually make their filthy little way into the top 10, eroding all my trust in that site. (... and humanity) Case in point, most of the Italian dishes being reviewed by diners in cities like Worcester as 'very authentic' are fairly foreign to actual restaurants in Italy. There is TRUE Italian food and American Italian food (classic 'red sauce' joints) I will never besmirch a good classic red sauce joint like Dan Tanas, Rao's or even some of the Federal Hill joints. There is a place in the culinary pantheon for amazing spaghetti meatballs and veal parm ... however 'authentic Italian' they are not. What we got at Pasta Mani is TRUE Italian. In fact, we ate here not more than 2 weeks after coming back from Italy and I can honestly say that we enjoyed our meal here (from a taste perspective) more than many of the restaurants in Italy we ate at. (One with a Michelin star!) This chef's philosophy here is one embraced in Italy ... simple, fresh, cooked with care. The reason tourists go to Italy and geek out over the food is because we've grown up eating Italian food here which is good ... but not made with the same level of passion. Eating a dish of spaghetti carbonara in Italy vs. the US is like listening to the Beatles for the first time on vinyl, in mono! It's hard to find a chef with the knowledge and respect for the ingredients that are displayed here. The servers are knowledgeable about the menu. She was not afraid to make recommendations. She knew the dish's ingredients as well as the chef ... and she was as friendly as could be. The accompanying beer and wines matched the menu perfectly and also were mostly Italian. The menu offers not a lot of choices ... but there is something for everyone. It's not heavy on meat ... but nor are menus in Italy. Maybe a reason why folks over there are not often over 6 feet tall or 200 lbs. vs. many Americans whose 4 major food groups are bacon, burgers, chicken nuggets and occasionally lobster rolls. We had the octopus, which was done perfectly ... the flavors were spot on and the chef clearly knew taste profiles as well as technique. Watermelon and octopus! Who knew? He did. We had the peach pesto cavatelli pasta and the pasta Amatricana with pancetta. Both were amazing ... the favors combined so effortlessly but perfectly. Red pepper flakes, pine nuts, grease from the bacon, tomatoes. It was all just so ... great! All the pasta was perfectly homemade ... and available for purchase as takeaway. Before we knew it, we were regrettably too full for dessert. The chef came out of the kitchen, where 80's and punk music was blasting, and you could watch the cooking happen, to greet us. He had worked in some of Seattle's better Italian restaurants and apparently learned a thing or two. If he had said he worked in Napoli, Sorrento or Rome for many years, we'd have believed it! The only thing we weren't in love with was the actual 'food hall' setup which felt a bit industrial for our liking. But, it was oddly cool and comfortable in a Momofuku type of way. This chef and his team deserve a restaurant. 5 seats and a chef's table are too small for the talent level. This was one of the best Italian meals I've had outside Italy or NYC. In Worcester, near a ballpark ... go figure. We also noticed that everything in the 'restaurant' was spotlessly clean ... and I mean spotless! We'll be back for sure. Places like this that don't serve a fried brick of chicken smothered in cream sauce and melted cheese and call it Italian are few and far between in Central Massachusetts. A great vibe, a great staff, a great meal! If ya know ... ya know.

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