Old Chickahominy House

Reviews 5

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Jesse Chohamin

Pros: Homey Feel, Great Service, Average Breakfast, Great Background Story Cons: Biscuits, Small, Overly Great Service Ah, Williamsburg, known for the rich history and the surrounding areas. It’s also known for it’s steak houses and breakfast places. One thing my wife and I love is breakfast. Breakfast is a simple meal, it’s hard to screw up eggs, bacon, sausage, potatoes, biscuits…etc. The Old Chickahominy House is no exception, although it does a different approach to biscuits. Overall a great place to visit, I will say there are better places for breakfast. I will also say I haven’t tried lunch or dinner, maybe they make up for the biscuits during those meals. We decided to try Old Chickahominy House after trying all the other places for breakfast we wanted to try. Old Chickahominy seems like a home turned into a random trinkets shop and restaurant. They started out in the 1950s as an old building near the Chickahominy River as a tea room serving ham biscuits and homemade pie as well as selling antiques, gas, and cigarettes. After a robbery, they found the current property on Jamestown Road. The building was ready in 1960s and was constructed of new materials and architectural salvage from the area. The place is as big as the menu, which isn’t all that big. Expect to wait in for a table at peak hours during breakfast and dinner. We waited about 10 - 15 on a Sunday morning around 10:00am. The place is divided between the shop and restaurant and gives it a homey type of feel. The place does not have my vote for great coffee, plan to go to another coffee house after this place. My wife and I ordered the Plantation Breakfast (Old Virginia Ham, Country Bacon, Sausage with two Eggs, Grits, Hot Biscuits, Coffee or Hot Tea), a good mix of the classic breakfast items. Overall the breakfast was good, nothing really shouted excellent, the biscuits were not what I expected. Imagine a toaster strudel…only a biscuit. Yeah, the biscuits were not all they were hyped up to be, I was kind of disappointed. I also was told I couldn’t get gravy, which might have salvaged and covered up the disappointed image of biscuits. The service is almost too good. I say that because we had three people checking on us constantly, it was almost too much and to the point of being annoying, although I say better more than not enough, they kept my coffee full the whole time. Overall a great place to visit for a good “home cooked meal”, however, there are better places for breakfast in Williamsburg. I think it’s worth another try in the future once we go through all the other places.

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Ty Wise

I really dont know how this place always wins the "Best Breakfast Place in Williamsburg" every single year. Its even more surprising considering how many breakfast places there are in Williamsburg and how many of them are infinitely better than this place. I love breakfast food but Im not picky so I am usually very forgiving. I only have a few standards: clean/welcoming environment, good value for cost, and real food (no fake eggs, or frozen potatoes). Given how easy and cheep a good American breakfast is, I dont feel like any of these are unreasonable. Old Chickahamony fails on all accounts though which makes there success even more puzzling. Although it is clean inside, it is not welcoming. The decor (or lack thereof) made me feel like I was just eating in someones old house that gad simply had all the furniture removed and replaced with a few weirdly distributed tables. The table I sat at with my fiancee was right next to the door to a kitchen or side-station. Her chair was almost in the path of the servers entering and exiting. It was loud and echo inside, not cozy or comfortable. There was also a cat that was just roaming around. They must hide that cat when the health inspectors come by. Our server also was rude. My fiancee didnt eat all her food and the server just bluntly asked her why she wasnt eating. For what we got it was massively overpriced. It cost us over 20$ for two plates of eggs, a little bacon, and potatoes. I can pay half that and get more anywhere else in Williamsburg. The food tasted ok but it wasnt worth what we paid at all. The potatoes were completely boring with almost no taste at all. The eggs, although real, were greasy and cold. Overall this place isnt worth going to even once. I think its only popular because its been around for a while and has a strong fan base among the retirement community here in Williamsburg. If you want a better breakfast for half the cost, go to National Pancake house, Southern Pancake & Waffle, Smokey Griddle, or Five Forks Cafe. Even Cracker Barrel is a better option. At least there are no cats wandering around that restaurant.

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Fernando Hevia

This Place has the worst food in Williamsburg. The owner is very mean, rude, and arrogant. The biscuits are dry, the meat is paper thin and taste extremely salty. The chairs are the most uncomfortable pieces of furniture known to exist on earth. Probably a technique to get you out quick after you eat there nasty Brunswick Stew. I took one sip and spit it out.It tastes like it was made weeks ago a saved. YUCK! So many things wrong here. Cat roaming the restaurant cant be good for illergic people. Small portions of tasteless food served daily. The building is old and needs to be condemned. Peeling paint and rickety floors make the ambiance feel cheap. Save your time and money and skip this establishment because there prices dont match there cheap decor. The menu is small and its all gross and over priced. i was not impressed. Definitly will not be returning ever! How this place stay in business really confuses me. Did i mention the owner spits when she talks. Probably goes all over everyones food. EWWWWWW!

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Tami Greene

Best breakfast EVER! Dont expect Cracker Barrel or Dennys. This place has a limited menu. The prices may look a tad high, but the quality is well woth the price and a barging in my book. The breakfast is a traditional, southern breakfast. My grandmother would have loved it! The "largest" meal was between $10 and $11 - 2 eggs, cooked to order, a thin, but big, slice of country ham, two slices of bacon (perfectly crisp!) and sausage patty, with a dish of grits and 2 thin biscuits. Dont fret about flat biscuits. They are tasty and soft on the inside. Unlike thick biscuits, you dont get a doughy taste and it doesnt over power your jelly or ham. The service was wonderfully personable and my cup was never empty. Please do yourself a favor and make the drive. You might even take home a print from the dining room wall. They search estate sales for many of their pieces!

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Jijie Forsythe

A lot of people rave about this place. I might be an odd one. Just not my cup of tea. The drinks are bottomless, they only have a few to from the menu which is good for decision making. The place is big,but most of it is gift shop, only a quarter of it is actually for eating, the rest is store. For 10 dollars you are paying for whatever you want to drink from the menu, the fruit starter, a tiny cup of Brunswick stew that didnt have a single slice of meat and 2 pieces of square biscuits -- really thin with salty ham with nothing else. Then you get to choose you yr dessert. They are all in a hurry -- the place was so dark. The wait was 40minutes because apparently this is the place to go. Maybe I dont have an exquisite taste like the person who brought me there,

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