Grooby’s Too deli bids farewell to Bluffton: Is a new beginning on the horizon?
After three years in business, Grooby’s Too, a New York City style deli in Bluffton, is closing down. The restaurant could be re-opening in another location in the future, according to restaurant owner Stacy Gruber.
The restaurant is known for its sandwiches, held together by frilled picks and filled with “more meat than your mouth can handle,” by day, its stuffed cabbage and chicken parmesan by night, and for dessert, thick slices of layered cakes — from Almond Joy flavored to Key Lime — sitting on cake stands for all to see.
Gruber grew up in the Bronx, New York. Born into a family of butchers, when she and her family moved to the Lowcountry in the 1980s, they missed the familiar feeling of a New York City deli. In 1986, the family opened up the original Gruby’s on Hilton Head Island where Gruber worked and learned the ropes of the business. Then in 2021, after working in the family business for over 30 years, she went across the bridge to Bluffton and opened Grooby’s Too.
One of her favorite parts of owning a restaurant, she said, is seeing people’s faces light up when they eat the food they serve.
Gruber is hopeful to open up a new location, possibly in the next six to eight months, in a different retail complex off of Okatie Highway, six miles from their three-year run at Sheridan Park Circle.
