Best restaurants near me in Lynchburg, VA

We thoroughly enjoyed the brie, appetizer, scallops, and salmon mains.

Excellent food, fantastic service, great atmosphere! Could not recommend more.

Third dinner at Fratelli Italian Kitchen & WIne Bar. Best one yet. I was celebrating my Birthday with my wife and another couple. The couple are orginally from New Jersey, they eat out alot, including Italian Restaurants in NJ and NY. We were all very pleased with the service and the quality of food. My favorite was the Mussles, we got extra bread to soak up the wine and butter

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.

Reservation for 10, bye restaurant didn’t open until 10:30. Had a Mother’s Day buffet, but the actual buffet didn’t open until close to 11. One staff member was not pleasant, but our server was nice just hard to find as he rarely came to our outdoor table when they got busier. Food was great