aBOUToUR Restaurant

Celebrating its 19th season in the Timbuck II Shopping Center in Corolla, Mike Dianna's Grill Room is owned and operated by a true Corolla local who grew up here and has lived in the area since 1984. The restaurant starts with the best raw products they can find, such USDA Prime beef, fresh and local seafood, all-natural chicken, pork and pasta. They have a live hardwood grill where they cook all of their steaks and seafood, and it's the only one of its kind on the northern part of the Outer Banks. They have a wonderful children's menu and an ever-changing specials menu, and they cater to gluten-free, dairy-free and allergy-related restrictions. The Grill Room serves brunch complete with homemade buttermilk biscuits, a house-cured lox platter, crabcake sandwiches, deviled eggs, daily omelette specials and more.

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Our Chefs

  • chef. venkatesh bhat

    In 1994, Venkatesh joined Hotel Chola Sheraton (now, known as My Fortune), Chennai, as a chef. He worked there for two years and then joined Taj Coromandel, Chennai, as a management trainee in hotel operations and kitchen management.

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  • chef. damodaran.k

    Damodharan K., professionally known as Chef Damu, is an Indian celebrity chef. He has hosted numerous cooking shows and reality cooking competitions on various Tamil language television channels, most notably as a judge on Cooku with Comali on Star Vijay.

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  • chef. sanjeev kapoor

    Sanjeev Kapoor (born 10 April 1964) is an Indian celebrity chef, entrepreneur and television personality. Kapoor hosted the TV show Khana Khazana, the longest running show of its kind in Asia which was broadcast in 120 countries and in 2010 had more than 500 million viewers. He is also the first chef in the world to own a 24X7 food and lifestyle channel, Food Food which was launched in January 2011.

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