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The Courthouse Grille is a restaurant in Plymouth Charter Township, Michigan at 41661 Plymouth rd. It is just down the road from Downtown Plymouth, Michigan and is a popular destination for the locals. Sam Messina, who previously owns the restaurant named it after its location right next to The 35th District Courthouse. The Location has served as a restaurant, under different names, since the early 1900s. The restaurant is known for its large wine menu and it's great food.

Menus
The Courthouse Grille offers many different menus. The selection of menus range from: dinner menu, lunch menu, wine list, banquet menu, and their catering menu. Their food is a mix of Italian and American styles. The lunch menu contains some different items than the dinner menu, and the prices for lunch time tend to be less than dinner time. The dinner menu contains pastas, salads, chicken, fish, lamb, steaks, and veal. Along with the main dishes, the dinner menu has appetizers, and a dessert section. The wine list has red wines, white wines, and sparkling wines from all over the world. Offered by the glass or bottle depending on the wine. The catering menu offers different trays of hot or cold food that can be made to take home.

Banquet Facilities
The restaurant is known also for its banquet facilities. Eight private rooms are offered along with the main dinning room and the patio deck all different sizes. Common types of parties that are had here are baby showers, wedding showers, wedding receptions and birthday parties.

Names
The Courthouse Grille is the current name of the restaurant but the building has been home to other restaurants over the years. It was originally named The Hillside Barbecue. John Stremich and his wife Maragret Streng were the original owners. Together they opened it on Maragret's family homestead in 1934, the restaurant was renamed to Hillside Inn within the same year. Over the years the building was expanded to include the Fireside Lounge. The restaurant changed names from Hillside Inn to Ernesto's, an Italian Country Inn, in the the late 1980s. The Fireside Lounge name was dropped and the lounge became part of the main restaurant. In 2010 the restaurant changed names again to what is now The Courthouse Grille.

Reviews
The average ratings and reviews for the restaurant is four out of five stars. Alyssa B. of Plymouth, Michigan said, "AMAZING! I highly recommend the Courthouse Grille!  A truly unique find.  The building itself is worth the trip!  The food was amazing, the service was spot on!  It's a fine dining experience at causal dining prices.  We will definetly be back!" Positive reviews for the restaurant are common, but along with those positives there are negative reviews. Bob S. from Farmington, Michigan said, "I can't recommend this restaurant after our 1st visit...My wife's dinner on the other hand was not good, too dry, and she ended up sending it back. We also had a slight issue with our server. She seemed to be pre-occupied with a couple of friends who came in for dinner, which meant our service suffered." Users on Yelp, Inc. the website gives many reviews from the past couple years, that the restaurant has been open, that are very helpful and descriptive.