The Black Hen & Bar Blue 126 Jackson Street Northwest, Blacksburg, VA 24060

"I will start off by saying I loved the lamb chops. The lobster ravioli was too fishy for my boyfriend, I was able to eat it and I did enjoy it, but it was more fishy than I was expecting. The lavender haze mocktail had way too much lavender syrup for me but my boyfriend enjoyed it. The cake slice wasn't good, tasted store bought. It's obvious that the food is overpriced though. Each entree could have been AT LEAST $10 cheaper. Our waiter was amazing, and the food came out super fast. The fastest I've ever experienced. However, we were the only people in the restaurant, so the servers were in the room next to us laughing and listening to music and talking about customers. It made the atmosphere a little less mature but that's fine."

"One of the worst dining experiences. I gave it a 1 star just to leave a reply. Spent over $350. Flowers were dead on the table. Moldy water in the vase should have been a clue. Steaks were 1/2 inch thick. For a forty-five dollar steak this is sub par. I believe you could get the same steak at Dollar general. The staff was nice, but insufficiently trained. The meal took forever to reach the table. Looking forward to never going back."

"Okay I'm going to do the review and this isn't bashing the restaurant you guys just opened so I ate lunch there on 11/8 23 ... I got the lunch special which was one meat two sides, my buddy got the one meat and three sides. So wanted the sides that he chose was the salad and then he got corn and mashed potatoes. Well the salad was just lettuce and it kind of looked like a bag of lettuce that you get out of store. There was no cucumber no tomato no onions and it whatsoever which the menu says there was. The corn on both meals had way too much water in the corn for butter corn. And there was plenty of the water left over. Mashed potatoes were okay they tasted good. The meatloaf was good I enjoyed it. The problem on the other plate was the fried chicken and you brought out a thigh and a drumstick and that's it that was definitely not a whole lot of fried chicken especially for a gentleman who's about 6'5. I'll be honest with you for the food we got I think the prices are a little much. I will say the meatloaf was very well proportioned but the chicken was way off. I will say the food overall tasted good but I was expecting a little more for the price of the dinner. I hope you guys succeed we need restaurants in this town but this was based off my first visit. My suggestion going forward the fried chicken probably want to look at that. And you need the drain the corn when you serve the corn it should not be sitting in a bowl full of water and your advertising it as buttered corn. Also the salad they need to take the time when they're fixing or scooping the salad however you do it that all the stuff is in the salad. Thank you"

"Very disappointed as we have been looking forward to dining here and had high hopes for this restaurant. Overall the interior is much more casual than the menu and prices make it seem to be. The food was fine but was clearly frozen and unseasoned for very high prices it was not up to expectations. Our service was bad, first the drinks took a long time and the food took over 1.5 hours from when we ordered. The server apologized each time saying “the bar is backed up” or “the kitchen is backed up” which I can understand but we had to ask numerous times for our waters to be refilled on multiple occasions as well, often not seeing our server for up to 30 minutes. Overall disappointing and not up to par with the advertised atmosphere and the food was comparable with maybe a chain restaurant for double the price"

"I honestly wanted to give this a higher rating, but a few things killed it for me. First off the actual entrees and the appetizer were good. However, the sides were very weak and my wife's side was initially wrong and felt like the correct sides were just thrown together very quickly as it was oily and bland. The other major hit was price. I just can't comprehend the pricing on the entrees. The appetizers, drinks and desserts I believe are all fairly priced. However $40 for an entree!?!?!? It better be perfect and these were far from it. We had the pork chops, lamb chops and salmon and felt each fell way below what we were expecting at that price point. If you come, I would only come for appetizers or drinks."