Restaurants near Blackwater Park

The service was good, the food was good, very fair pricing.

Thank you, Sadie, Joyce, Noel, Roger, and the team. Congratulations, Roger, on your retirement, we are so happy we were able to come in and experience your cuisine and hospitality one last time!!

Great staff, friendly and attentive. Always a beautiful atmosphere.

We went June 19th which was during Lynchburg Restaurant Week and Shoemaker’s was participating (or so we thought). Once we arrived we asked our server about Restaurant Week and he thought it was the following week. I then told him that their website said it was happening currently and was pretty positive I was correct. He went and asked and sure enough it was the night we were there. So, we placed our order off of the Restaurant Week menu. A few minutes later our server came back and said he was sorry, but they didn’t have the necessary inventory in stock to fulfill our order. That was very disappointing as my wife had based our visit to this particular restaurant on that particular menu. Thankfully they were generous enough to honor the pricing and select off their normal menu. My thought process on it all is why even participate in Restaurant Week if you’re not going to inform your staff about it, or be able to honor the menu that you’ve provided. The other issues that I have were that I understand they were going for a retro Jazz type of atmosphere. Which is fine, but maybe a different mix of songs would be better rather than the same trumpet it felt like we listened to the entire time we were there, which brings me to my last point. Our reservation was at 6pm and we arrived a little early at 5:45. Thankfully they were able to seat us early. We didn’t leave the restaurant until around 7:45 and they didn’t seek to really get very busy until about ~7pm. Two hours seems like a long time for two people dine. Overall, the food was fantastic. We enjoyed the restaurant itself and the ambiance for the most part (other than the same sounding Jazz music, which is just personal preference). We didn’t see any necessary reason it should’ve taken two hours to eat and were pretty disappointed about the Restaurant Week menu issue. Overall our experience was about a 3.5/5 and could’ve been higher if not for a few manageable issues.

Food, Offerings, Service, etc all excellent. We were served by Blake who was prompt and courteous. I'll be calling the restaurant as we had a $10 coupon that was presented a little late in the payment process and needed to be corrected. We were initially charged $130 then corrected to $120, however, do not see the credit we were to be issued of $130 to make this correction. We have two charges now totaling $250 on our credit card. I'll be calling to get this rectified. I do appreciate the server trying to fix the charges and allow us the coupon value. But I do need to get the $130 credit applied to our account.