Food was okay to very good. Waitress was friendly and attentive. The ribeye was market price at $20 the night we went and was okay. The mashed potatoes were very good. The Chicken Philly was good. The fries are seasoned, including the ones on the kids menu. Kids menu tenders came with three tenders. The regular order had four.This is a historic restaurant. Cleanliness of the restroom was sub par. Large parties over 6 will most likely have to split up amongst tables.
I ordered pasta which came with a side of pita bread. Once I received the bread I called and spoke to someone they assured me they would credit my card for the meal and apologized. I never received the credit. My call to them was to make sure they inspect their breads for mold. I had high hopes they would make it right. I was wrong.
At a time it is tough to find great customer service, I have to send a shout out to Ashley! She was Great on a busy Saturday afternoon. She was working the bar and even though busy preparing the beverages for all the guests, our service was great as we sat at the bar.Our hamburger, cheesesteak and BLT were amazing. I even had to try the Irish Trashcan beverage that the UVA students highly recommend.Thank you Ashley for a Great Experience and we will be back next time through the area.
Great food. Worst atmosphere ever.It is a very small place.The staff is extremely loud talking with friends at bar who were standing not eating or drinking just being extremely loud. I am a bartender I couldn't even stand the noise. I notice business crowd has disappeared for dinner.
Cool long time place at the Corner across from UVA...food was good..Draft Beer Selection was lacking..but no biggie. They have Outdoor Seating..great location. Would visit again when I'm in Charlottesville.
Thank you TripAdvisor reviewers for recommending The Virginian! After a very long drive to Charlottesville, we were very hungry and we wanted to try a place that the UVA students go to. Eliza was our server and she was fantastic. For appetizers, my daughter had the famous mac n cheese (I tried some) and it was great. I had the potato soup and it was creamy and filling. For entrees, my husband had the fried chicken with mashed potatoes. He loved it. My daughter had the pimento grilled cheese and I had a veggie wrap. Both were great and came with perfectly cooked and seasoned french fries. For dessert we had root beer floats with the commemorative glasses as souvenirs. I would definitely go back to The Virginian in a heartbeat.
Waitress (not ours) has runny nose and cough. Not once did I see her use sanitizer between wiping her nose on her sleeve, seating people, running the computer order system, filling water glasses, waiting tables. It was so disgusting!Food was fine but lost interest observing this !
Our friends took us on a tour of UVA and recommended we stop here for lunch. Everything about it was so good! The service, the food, and the drinks. Portions were pretty good for the amount you pay for it, we didn’t even finish all our food!Sweet potatoes fries were really good and I loved the chipotle chicken wrap! My husband and our friends got the pork BBQ sandwich and they said it was delicious.
15 dollar salad looked like someone threw in some ready to eat packaged food together. Would be cheaper to just go to store itself why bother paying restaurant. In summary 15 dollars of disappointment.
Overall quite disappointed, as I was visiting Charlottesville from Baltimore and this restaurant was on my "to-do" list. In hindsight, I should have known better than to order crab cakes... I wonder if people outside of the Chesapeake know what a crab cake is supposed to be? Crab cakes are shaped like mounds, with discernable - preferably large - chunks of crab inside, off-white in color. What I received was as if someone thought a crab cake was a hamburger patty made of crab - ground up crab meat (I'll assume it was crab, though I saw nothing that would resemble a lump of crab), flat like a burger of ground meat, gray in color (I have no idea how this even comes to be), slightly charred, and bland. This is not a crab cake. This is reconstituted pureed crab. Moving on, the french onion soup was passable, would have been better with an ample amount of cheese, as it had a deli slice of swiss thrown on top. Mac & Cheese was fine, not sure why it is famous, and I didn't read the menu carefully enough to know that it was topped with a "house-made cheddar potato cake." At first glance I saw it and thought it was a fried green tomato, but sadly it was not. I'm not mad at the potato cake, but it did nothing to enhance the mac & cheese, and was like a carb overload. On the plus side, service was polite, the atmosphere was buzzing, and ...well... that's it. Wouldn't return, but if I did I would not even consider the "crab cakes." OH and servers aren't masked, FYI.