The Grove Wine Bar & Kitchen - Westlake
More than fifty wines by the glass and over two hundred bottles, off a New American card that runs to thin-crust pizza.1
Why go
Reed Clemons has one of the longer restaurant careers in Austin and he runs this group with Beth Lasita and a wine partner, Matt Berendt.1 The card across the group is New American with Italian touches: bruschettas, small plates, entree salads, pastas, sandwiches, pizzas and entrees, against a list of more than two hundred bottles and fifty by the glass.1 Fifty by the glass is the number that matters, because it means a preservation system rather than a bottle open on the pass, and it is why you can order a single interesting glass here instead of committing. Every branch has year-round patio seating, which Matthew Odam states as a brand fact.1 What still needs settling is which building you want. Austin Public Health inspects this premises as Grove, The
at 6317 FM 2244 Road, suite 380, in West Lake Hills, which is the Bee Caves Road address, and it is a different premises from the Lakeway one, the Wood Hollow one and the West Sixth Street one.4
Order this / avoid
- Order: a glass rather than a bottle, off a by-the-glass list more than fifty deep.1
- Eat: a thin-crust pizza or something off the small-plates end. That is the group's own shape and no source names a single dish at this branch.1
- Sit outside. The patio is year-round at every branch by the critic's own account.1
- Avoid: navigating by name. A search will hand you the Lakeway branch on FM 620 as readily as this one.4
What locals & experts say
- Matthew Odam, the Austin American-Statesman's restaurant critic, on the group, verbatim:
Located in Domain Northside, the restaurant serves a New American menu with Italian touches, featuring bruschettas, small plates, entree salads, pastas, sandwiches, pizzas and entrees, and also offers guests an extensive wine list with more than 200 bottles and 50 by-the-glass selections.
1 He is writing about the Domain branch and says of the patioAs with the other locations
, which is the only sentence in the published record that reaches this room. - No rated review or bylined feature about the Westlake room exists. Do not mistake The Infatuation's Tancho Sushi page for coverage: that Tancho counter is at The Grove, a mixed-use development in Rosedale, and has nothing to do with this business.
- The only authority that names this premises is Austin Public Health, which files it as
Grove, The
at 6317 FM 2244 Rd Ste 380 and scored it 85 in February 2026.4
Good to know
- Which branch: 6317 FM 2244 Road, suite 380, West Lake Hills. The register also carries a Lakeway premises on FM 620, one on Wood Hollow Drive in northwest Austin and one at 800 West Sixth Street downtown.4
- Hygiene: Austin Public Health scores the kitchen 85, inspected 6 February 2026, under the register name
Grove, The
. The previous reading was 84 in January 2024. Austin runs a 100-point demerit scale where higher is better and 70 is the failing line, so nothing here is a finding. The other three Grove locations hold their own separate scores and none of them is counted here.4 - Price and hours: not readable.
- Getting there: Bee Caves Road, west of Loop 360.
Verdict
could-visit — RE-SCORED 2026-08-08 on evidence found in this pass. A neighborhood wine bar and kitchen on Bee Caves Road, one of a small Austin group run by restaurateur Reed Clemons with Beth Lasita and wine partner Matt Berendt. The group's card is New American with Italian touches, from bruschettas and small plates to pastas and thin-crust pizza, against more than two hundred bottles and over fifty wines by the glass, and Matthew Odam notes that every branch has year-round patio seating. All of that is group-level. No critic has reviewed this room specifically, and the venue's own site serves undecodable bytes, so nothing further could be checked there. What the file does establish is which Grove it is: four premises trade under versions of the name across Austin and Lakeway, the inspection register spells them three different ways, and this is the one at 6317 FM 2244 Road suite 380, scored 85 in February 2026. That is a real answer to a real confusion and it is not a recommendation.