Here are a couple of files of a grill I'm working on in Illustrator. You will need the Adobe SVG plugin to view them (should download automatically).
Files are all vector using blends and the second one uses a gradient mesh as well.

Grill 1 (http://members.shaw.ca/artisticmedia/grill.svgz)
Grill 3 (http://members.shaw.ca/artisticmedia/grill3.svgz)

Let me know what you think.
(I have spent about 45min so far on this and at least 15 of that was figuring how to optimize the SVG files.)

:)