Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Richmond from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Richmond
Citywide, our guide counts three exceptional wine programs. In this section, Tuckahoe and Libbie Mill-Midtown hold Best of Award of Excellence restaurants, Downtown holds an Award of Excellence restaurant, and Jackson Ward holds a natural-wine bar.
Buckheads's Restaurant & Chop House in Tuckahoe is a classic steakhouse and seafood restaurant whose wine list runs to over 800 labels. It holds a Star Wine List White Star, a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, and a World's Best Wine Lists Awards WBWL 1-Star. The kitchen serves Braveheart Beef steaks on an a la carte menu.
Shagbark in Libbie Mill-Midtown holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2026 and an exceptional wine program that is sommelier-led. Chef Walter Bundy uses Virginia ingredients, Southern roots, and French techniques for modern American farm-to-table cooking. The menu runs a la carte, family style, and prix fixe.
Lemaire Restaurant in Downtown is the signature restaurant of The Jefferson Hotel, cooking refined New American Southern food with local Virginia ingredients on an a la carte menu. The wine program has 340 selections and a California strength, and it holds a Wine Spectator Award of Excellence for 2026. The 2026 Opinionated About Dining Casual in North America Recommended selection includes this restaurant.
Restaurant Adarra in Jackson Ward is a Richmond bar for natural wines and Basque-inspired seasonal small plates, with the wine list run by husband-and-wife sommeliers. Craft cocktails are served in the same cozy historic setting.
Longoven in Scott’s Addition is the tasting-menu restaurant in this section, with modern seasonal fine dining and an a la carte option. L'Opossum in Oregon Hill serves whimsical French fusion, The Roosevelt in Church Hill serves modern Southern American cooking, and Rappahannock Restaurant in the Theatre District serves farm-to-table seafood.
Longoven in Scott’s Addition cooks modern seasonal fine dining, with a tasting menu and an a la carte option. Craft cocktails are served. A We're Smart World 2 Radishes award dates to 2025. Fermentation and produce from the garden each morning guide the cooking, and vegetables receive the same kitchen attention as meat and fish.
L'Opossum in Oregon Hill is a whimsical French fusion restaurant with a wine list and craft cocktails, served a la carte. OpenTable named it among the Top 100 Restaurants for 2025. Dish names include Beef Swellington and Faberge Eggs Bedazzled. Classical French technique sits alongside theatrical American invention.
The Roosevelt in Church Hill is a modern Southern American restaurant with an extensive wine list, and craft cocktails, served a la carte. It is a James Beard Award Semi Finalist for 2026. The kitchen takes an untraditional approach to Southern cuisine, with African diaspora influences, in a historic Church Hill building.
Rappahannock Restaurant in the Theatre District is a farm-to-table seafood restaurant and raw bar, with its own farm-raised Chesapeake Bay oysters. The wine program has an extensive wine list, craft cocktails, and a beer program. The menu is a la carte and small plates.
Can Can Brasserie is in Carytown, Bookbinder's Seafood & Steakhouse is in Tobacco Row, The Stables is in the Museum District, and Metzger Bar and Butchery is in Union Hill. Each has a wine list.
Can Can Brasserie in Carytown is a classic French brasserie with a wine list and craft cocktails, served a la carte. It has an in-house bakery and an Art Nouveau private dining room. Dark woods, tiles, and mirrors furnish the bistro setting. The menu includes steak frites and uses classical technique and regional produce.
Bookbinder's Seafood & Steakhouse in Tobacco Row is a classic seafood and steakhouse with an extensive wine list, served a la carte. The room is a historic tobacco warehouse with exposed brick and beams. Jumbo lump crab cakes are among the seafood and steak dishes.
The Stables in the Museum District serves seasonal New American cooking with Southern and European influences. The wine program has craft cocktails, and the menu is a la carte and small plates. The building is a late-1800s carriage house and former Richmond police stables.
Metzger Bar and Butchery in Union Hill is a bar and a butchery serving modern German-inspired food in a historic butcher shop. The wine program has craft cocktails and a beer program. The menu is a la carte and small plates, and the kitchen is known for schnitzel and house-made charcuterie.
Tuckahoe, Libbie Mill-Midtown, and Downtown contain the Wine Spectator-awarded venues named here. Buckheads's Restaurant & Chop House in Tuckahoe and Shagbark in Libbie Mill-Midtown each hold a Best of Award of Excellence, while Lemaire Restaurant in Downtown holds an Award of Excellence. Citywide, our guide includes 3 Best of Award of Excellence restaurants and 2 Award of Excellence restaurants.
Longoven in Scott’s Addition lists a tasting menu in our Richmond guide, and it also offers an a la carte option. The restaurant’s modern seasonal approach includes fermentation work and garden produce.
Our guide includes no Michelin-starred restaurants in Richmond. Graduate by Hilton Richmond in Downtown and Quirk Hotel Richmond in downtown are Michelin Selected, and Quirk Hotel Richmond also holds a Michelin Guide New Hotels New Hotel award.
The wine lists described in our guide include over 800 labels at Buckheads's Restaurant & Chop House in Tuckahoe, 340 selections with a California strength at Lemaire Restaurant in Downtown, and natural wines from husband-and-wife sommeliers at Restaurant Adarra in Jackson Ward. Shagbark in Libbie Mill-Midtown runs a sommelier-led wine program.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Buckhead's Restaurant and Chop House on Patterson Avenue in Richmond's West End holds a Star Wine List White Star accreditation alongside a World of Fine Wine 1-Star, signaling a wine program that punches above the typical chop house register. The format sits within Richmond's maturing steakhouse tradition, where provenance-led beef programs and serious cellar depth have become the distinguishing markers of the top tier.
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Richmond’s hotel-dining tradition is the frame at Lemaire Restaurant, where American and seasonal cooking sits inside The Jefferson Hotel rather than chasing the louder rhythm of newer standalone rooms. Opinionated About Dining lists it in its 2026 Casual in North America Recommended selection, and the wine program adds measurable depth with 340 selections and a California strength.
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L'Opossum occupies a singular position in Richmond's fine dining scene, pairing classical French technique with theatrical American invention in a room that matches the ambition on the plate. The result is a restaurant where Escoffier-trained precision and maximalist showmanship coexist without apology, making 626 China Street one of the more deliberately unconventional addresses in Virginia dining.
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Longoven on West Clay Street sits at the more considered end of Richmond's farm-driven dining scene, where fermentation technique and daily kitchen-garden sourcing shape a menu that treats vegetables as seriously as it does meat and fish. The kitchen's commitment to working directly from the garden each morning places it in a tier of American restaurants where proximity to produce is a structural principle, not a marketing line.
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Perly's sits on East Grace Street in downtown Richmond, occupying a corner of the city's dining scene where Jewish deli tradition and Southern appetite have found unexpected common ground. The address at 111 E Grace St places it squarely in the central business district, making it a practical anchor for daytime and evening visits alike. Richmond's growing reputation as a serious food city runs through places like this.
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Shagbark sits in Richmond's Libbie Mill corridor, where the city's most considered American cooking tends to cluster away from the downtown core. The kitchen works a progression format that rewards attention, placing it in conversation with the serious tasting-menu tier rather than the neighborhood bistro bracket. It reads as the kind of address that earns its own travel justification.
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The Roosevelt occupies a converted space on North 25th Street in Richmond's Church Hill neighborhood, operating as one of the city's more serious American kitchens in a part of town that has quietly built a reputation for independent, chef-driven dining. The room draws on the area's architectural heritage while the kitchen positions itself alongside the better-regarded independent restaurants in the Richmond scene.
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ZZQ Texas Craft Barbeque serves beef brisket, jalapeno mac and cheese, and pulled pork in Richmond, with local sourcing, beer service, and a 2026 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives feature.
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In Richmond's Fan District, 8 ½ brings a wine-forward dining sensibility to one of the city's most architecturally coherent neighbourhoods. The address on Strawberry Street places it within easy reach of the Fan's row-house blocks and independent dining scene, where the list and the kitchen tend to work in tandem rather than in sequence.
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Alewife at 3120 E Marshall Street sits in Richmond's Church Hill corridor, a neighbourhood that has quietly redrawn the city's dining map over the past decade. The address alone signals intent: East End Richmond, away from the Fan's established restaurant row, in a district where the physical spaces tend to shape the conversation as much as the menus do.
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A neighborhood grocery and prepared-foods shop on North Belmont Avenue in Richmond's Museum District, Belmont Food Shop operates at the intersection of local sourcing and considered technique. The address places it within walking distance of The Fan's dining corridor, making it a practical and purposeful stop for provisions that reflect the city's growing commitment to ingredient-driven cooking.
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Blue Atlas Restaurant and Market occupies a suite address on Carlisle Avenue in Richmond's eastern corridor, operating at the intersection of restaurant dining and retail market. The dual format places it in a small category of Richmond venues where the shopping and eating experiences are designed to reinforce each other, offering a practical entry point into the city's expanding food scene.
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A longstanding fixture on Richmond's East Cary Street dining corridor, Bookbinder's Seafood & Steakhouse bridges the city's appetite for serious surf-and-turf in a room that reads as clubby rather than casual. The address places it squarely in the Shockoe Slip and Cary Street orbit where old-guard American dining and newer independent restaurants compete for the same evening dollar.
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On North Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond's casual dining corridor delivers something the city's fine-dining rooms cannot: a no-ceremony burger-and-beer format rooted in neighbourhood identity. Boulevard Burger and Brew sits at the more accessible end of Richmond's dining range, where the draw is consistency, setting, and the kind of crowd that treats a Tuesday night like a social occasion.
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Can Can Brasserie on West Cary Street has been a fixture of Richmond's Carytown dining scene for years, holding its place as the neighbourhood's closest approximation of a proper French brasserie. The menu leans on classical technique and sourced regional produce, positioning it within a tier of Richmond restaurants that treat French form as a working framework rather than a decorative gesture.
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On Patterson Avenue in Richmond's residential west end, Conejo represents the kind of neighborhood restaurant that earns its place through consistency rather than spectacle. The address puts it squarely in the Bon Air corridor, where dining choices tend to reward those who look past the strip-mall setting. For Richmond diners weighing the city's growing roster of independent operators, Conejo is a name worth knowing.
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Early Bird Biscuit Co. in Richmond's Fan District plants itself at 119 N Robinson St, operating inside one of the city's most walkable historic neighbourhoods. The format centers on the American biscuit tradition, a Southern staple that Richmond has long claimed as everyday cultural currency. Walk-in traffic, casual seating, and morning-focused service define the rhythm here.
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En Su Boca sits on North Arthur Ashe Boulevard in Richmond's Scott's Addition corridor, a stretch that has become one of the city's most concentrated areas for independent dining. The name alone signals a deliberate sense of place and culinary identity. For Richmond diners looking beyond the obvious, this address warrants attention alongside the city's broader independent restaurant scene.
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On a corner of Park Avenue in Richmond's Museum District, Garnett's occupies a position in the city's neighbourhood-lunch and casual-dining conversation that few spots in that corridor have managed to sustain. The address at 2001 Park Ave places it squarely in a walkable residential stretch where the dining room and the street feel continuous, making it a reference point for Richmond's mid-register, character-driven restaurant scene.
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Situated along Richmond's revitalized Rocketts Landing waterfront at 11 Orleans St, Island Shrimp Co. brings a coastal seafood focus to a stretch of the James River that has become one of the city's more compelling dining destinations. The setting does much of the work: open water views, the particular light that bounces off the river in the late afternoon, and a format built around shellfish and the informal pleasures of eating near the water.
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Joe's Inn the Fan is a long-running neighborhood fixture on North Shields Avenue in Richmond's Fan District, the kind of place that earns loyalty through consistency rather than spectacle. It operates in a tier of casual, community-rooted dining that Richmond's older residential neighborhoods have sustained for decades. For visitors oriented to Richmond's dining scene, it serves as a useful counterpoint to the city's newer, more format-driven openings.
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Kismet Modern Indian RVA focuses on Modern Indian dinner with local sourcing, a quiet room, and a leisurely pace for a planned evening.
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Open since 1895, The Jefferson Hotel on West Franklin Street occupies a category Richmond's newer boutique properties cannot replicate: a Beaux Arts landmark with a documented guest list running from thirteen U.S. presidents to Elvis Presley. Its 180 rooms combine antique-style furnishings with spa bathrooms and marble details, while Lemaire restaurant, weekend high tea, and a walkable position between the riverfront and the Arts District give it clear practical weight.
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Graduate by Hilton Richmond holds a 2025 Michelin Selected distinction, placing it among a curated tier of hotels that Michelin's inspectors judge on consistency and character rather than star-category spend. Positioned on West Franklin Street in the heart of Richmond's Monument Avenue corridor, the property draws on the Graduate brand's campus-adjacent design language while sitting close to the city's cultural and dining core.
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Quirk Hotel occupies a converted 1916 department store on West Broad Street in Richmond's Arts District, where the building's industrial bones have been reframed around a contemporary art program rather than erased. The property sits in a tier of design-led independent hotels that have reshaped how Richmond presents itself to travelling visitors, positioned distinctly from the city's heritage grand hotels and chain offerings.
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804RVA occupies a address on West Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia, positioning it within one of the city's most active commercial corridors. The property draws visitors looking for a base that connects easily to the Scott's Addition neighborhood and the broader Richmond dining and wellness scene. Contact details and booking specifics are best confirmed directly with the venue.
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Gather Scott's Addition occupies a converted space at 2920 W Broad St in one of Richmond's most active mixed-use corridors, positioning coworking members directly within the brewery-dense, independent-business fabric of Scott's Addition. For remote workers and visiting professionals who want an address that doubles as a neighbourhood entry point, it functions as a practical base with strong locational logic.
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Black Lodge occupies a suite at 3200 Rockbridge Street in Richmond's Scott's Addition, a neighbourhood that has become the clearest indicator of how seriously the city takes its drinking culture. The bar operates within a cocktail-forward format that positions it alongside Richmond's growing tier of technically ambitious programmes, where the drink itself is the main event.
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Ardent Craft Ales occupies a converted industrial space on West Leigh Street in Richmond's Scott's Addition neighborhood, one of the denser concentrations of craft production in the mid-Atlantic. The brewery sits within a broader Richmond craft scene that has developed genuine regional standing over the past decade, making it a practical anchor point for anyone mapping the city's drinking culture.
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Beaucoup occupies a corner of Richmond's Fan District at 111 N Robinson St, sitting within a city bar scene that has matured considerably over the past decade. The venue draws a regular crowd to the neighborhood's walkable stretch of independent bars and restaurants, making it a reference point for how Richmond's cocktail culture has shifted toward more deliberate, program-focused drinking.
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Buskey Cider operates out of West Leigh Street in Richmond, Virginia, where the city's craft-fermentation culture has pushed well past beer and into apple-forward territory. The cidery sits within a broader Scott's Addition corridor that has become the de facto address for Richmond's production-focused drinking scene, offering pours direct from the source in an industrial-meets-approachable format.
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On West Broad Street in Richmond's Scott's Addition corridor, Fanboy occupies a stretch of the city where independent bars have replaced light-industrial units at a pace that has reshaped the neighbourhood's identity over the past decade. The address at 2713 W Broad St places it squarely in one of Virginia's most concentrated pockets of craft drinking culture, where sourcing decisions and format matter as much as the liquid in the glass.
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GWARbar on West Clay Street in Richmond's Arts District occupies a niche that most bars don't attempt: equal parts heavy metal shrine and serious cocktail program, built around the legacy of the Richmond-born band GWAR. The result is a bar that reads as theatrical spectacle on the surface and functions as a neighborhood anchor underneath, a combination that draws both the curious and the committed.
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Havana 59 brings Cuban-inflected dining and atmosphere to Richmond's downtown corridor at 16 N 17th St, sitting within a city bar scene that has grown considerably in range and ambition over the past decade. The address places it close to Richmond's arts district energy, making it a natural stop for those working through the city's food and drink options.
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The Historic Hofheimer Building at 2818 W Broad St sits at the intersection of Richmond's architectural heritage and its evolving bar scene. The space draws attention for its spirits-forward program and the depth of its back bar, placing it in a tier of Richmond venues where bottle curation does as much work as the cocktail menu. Check current hours and booking directly with the venue.
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Juan's Rooftop & Cantina occupies an address on West Broad Street in downtown Richmond, where the rooftop format positions it within a city that has developed a genuine appetite for refined outdoor drinking and dining. The cantina framing places it alongside Richmond's expanding interest in Latin-inflected food and drink programs, making it a reference point for the neighbourhood's more casual-but-considered tier.
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Legend Brewing Co has anchored Richmond's South Side craft beer scene from its perch above the James River since the early 1990s, making it one of Virginia's longest-operating independent breweries. The brewery's riverside setting, rotating tap list, and unpretentious format have kept it a reference point for the city's drinking culture across several generations of Richmond beer drinkers.
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Lulu's occupies a corner of Richmond's downtown bar scene at 21 N 17th St, where the city's appetite for craft-driven drinking culture runs through the neighbourhood. Positioned among a generation of Richmond bars that prioritise the person behind the counter as much as what's in the glass, Lulu's draws a crowd that treats the bar not as backdrop but as destination.
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Mama J's Kitchen on North 1st Street is Richmond's reference point for soul food done without compromise. The kitchen draws on deep Southern tradition, and the dining room pulls a cross-section of the city that few restaurants manage. For visitors mapping Richmond's food culture, this address belongs on any serious itinerary.
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A Carytown fixture at 2920 W Cary St, New York Deli occupies the informal end of Richmond's deli counter tradition, the kind of spot where the menu does the talking and the room asks nothing of you. The address alone places it inside one of the city's most food-dense corridors, where sandwich-led formats hold their own against a neighbourhood increasingly shaped by restaurant ambition.
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Reservoir Distillery operates out of Richmond's Scott's Addition neighborhood at 1800A Summit Ave, producing small-batch American whiskey in a district that has become the city's most concentrated zone for craft producers.
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On the edge of Richmond's Oregon Hill neighborhood, Restaurant Adarra occupies a position in the city's growing conversation around ethical sourcing and deliberate, produce-led cooking. Compared to the broader Richmond dining scene, it draws a crowd that treats dinner as an argument for where food comes from, not just what ends up on the plate.
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On the 20th floor of 700 E Main St, Solaire Rooftop positions itself at the upper edge of Richmond's bar scene, trading the city's ground-level craft culture for open-sky views and a drinks program oriented toward the season and the skyline. The address places it downtown, where the James River corridor meets a growing roster of ambitious hospitality ventures.
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The bar sits in that local tier where format, editorial recognition, and booking patterns matter more than square footage.
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Station 2 occupies a corner of Richmond's Church Hill neighbourhood at 2016 E Main St, operating in a city whose bar and cocktail culture has matured well beyond its brewing-trail roots. The address places it inside one of Richmond's older residential corridors, where the ritual of the evening drink carries a different weight than downtown. Expect a deliberate pace and a crowd that tends to know what it wants.
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A neighborhood fixture on Cleveland Street in Richmond's Fan District, The Franklin Inn draws a loyal crowd that returns not for novelty but for consistency. The kind of place where the bar stool feels earned after a few visits, it sits within a pocket of Richmond's drinking culture that values the familiar over the flashy. Details on current hours and booking are best confirmed directly with the venue.
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The Savory Grain on West Broad Street sits inside Richmond's evolving bar and dining corridor, drawing a loyal crowd that returns for the grain-forward drinks program and kitchen output rather than novelty. Located at 2043 W Broad St, it occupies a tier of Richmond establishments where repeat visits matter more than first impressions, and where regulars shape the room as much as the menu does.
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The Veil Brewing Co. in Scott's Addition occupies a converted industrial space on Belleville Street, placing it inside Richmond's most concentrated craft beverage corridor. The brewery operates within a neighborhood that has reorganized itself around production taprooms, distilleries, and bottle shops over the past decade, making it a reference point for serious beer drinkers passing through Virginia's capital.
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