California Grill has been one of our favorite restaurants for years. We just took a trip last month, and we were very excited to see the refurb, etc.
We were BEYOND disappointed. Practically all of our favorite menu choices were completely gone from the menu. And the things that we did order, we did not like at all.
No amazing teriyaki barbeque sauce on the filet, which is really what made the dish in the first place. Totally changed their scallop dish that was so good before. The good salad we used to order all the time was gone. No chocolate lava cake. It was just SO disappointing.
Plus, some of the things they put together in some of the dishes were even just unappetizing to us. (who needs breaded salmon ball cakes with their salmon dish). They offered to put the sauce that was on the chicken dish on the filet, because they said it was the same recipe as the old sauce, so I tried that one night (we gave the restaurant TWO tries while we were there) and it was horrible. The sauce was not the same at all.
We were told the things we liked from before were removed because they weren't the chef's original recipes. I guess because of the chef's ego, we couldn't get the food we enjoyed for years before.
Maybe it would have been better if we'd never been there before.
Overall, we were extremely disappointed. We won't be going back.