Best Comfort Food Restaurants in Culpeper

Unique flavors, traditional country dinner. Fantastic food and service!

Our second time for dinner. We are making it a goal to enjoy all the items on the menu over many future dinners. Their skillet corn bread with melting honey butter was worth the calories. The salmon was wood grilled to a medium perfection with a light lemon butter sauce. I love the fennel salad - so fresh and tasty with pickled onions. I splurged on the hand punched fries which were seasoned so well they were narcotic — I couldn’t stop at just 10. My husband loved the beef brisket and the Mac and cheese was very creamy and cheesy. We ended our perfect meal with the chocolate chip cookie skillet with a scoop of ice cream that was mixed with cookie crumbles. We will be back! Meanwhile, the very generous portions enable us to enjoy them again for lunch.

Service was absolutely excellent...! Crab soup was wonderful. Goat cheese salad was delicious. Had a very enjoyable evening.

Have eaten here multiple times and always enjoyed the food. Gave four stars for latest visit because the jerk lamb chops were a bit chewy - maybe overdone or cooked from frozen. Still one of our favorite restaurants.

We've heard of C&O for years, in the same hushed tones reserved for family secrets and arcane initiations. It's a must, a Charlottesville icon. It's dark and glorious and defies definition or explanation. Go, you Charlottesvillian. Don't ask or argue. Just go. Having been for our first time, I can safely say: we get it now. My fiancee and I had reservations Halloween night. We were ushered past gas lamps and a thick door into a dreamscape of candles, oak paneling, and thoughtful, talented staff (all in coordinated ghostly wedding apparel). We were given a corner table in a downstairs bar teeming with delicious smells and happy regulars. This place is clearly redolent in happy memories and good history. We split house bread, superb cocktails in last-century coupe glasses, steak chinois and duck confit gnocchi that was delicious beyond worss. C&O felt transportive, something special, magical, and meaningful, like a church or hidden garden. The place it holds in the hearts of Charlottesville makes complete sense now. I cannot recommend C&O more highly.