The question everyone asks, of course, is Why did the Gropp family with German origins open a French restaurant? The answer simply is that the French, through Esscoffier, transformed the art of regional cooking into an organized international discipline. The French art of Fine Dining blossomed into world wide acclaim. For hundreds of years, restaurants around the world that presented classical cuisine were French. After all, who ever heard of a German fine dining restaurant in 1974?
