Love this place! The food is great and reasonably priced. Definitely worth coming in.read more

What a wonderful little place. I had the Chicken Oscar, wife had the blueberry fields salad…read more Presentation is great and the food tasted incredible. You are doing yourself a disservice if you are in the area and don't check this place out.

Food was good as always or most of the time. Service can be a little slow depending on how busy…read morethey are. We had a problem with one of our dishes and they wouldn't remove it from the bill. We never ask for that. We eat out all the time.

My experience at Copper Kettle on Mother's Day was extremely frustrating, mostly due to poor…read moreservice and management. Service was slow from the start. We waited a long time just to order drinks, and our waitress, Maggie, had to come back and ask for our drink order again. Later, I ordered a salad to go, and it came out wrong. I asked Maggie to send it back, but after waiting 25 minutes, nothing happened. I eventually had to ask for a manager. Manager James never came to speak with me. I was told he was "too busy" and that I'd need to wait until he had time, blaming the delay on it being Mother's Day. However, the restaurant did not appear that busy--there were multiple empty tables. After another 10-15 minutes, I still never spoke with James, and only then did I finally receive the corrected salad to go. I spent $200.66 including tip, which is a lot to pay for this level of service. While the food itself was good, it was very overpriced for what you receive, and the lack of attentiveness and accountability from management ruined what should have been a special meal. Unfortunately, I would not return based on this experience.

A year ago it would have been 3-4 rating. Over the past year Blackwater is lucky to get 1 star…read more Menu prices have gone up over 30% and portions have gone done more than that. Their specials are just recycled leftovers. Thursday is "prime rib night". Prime rib is , fine at best, but the next Tuesday you can have 5 day old prime rib as a "prime rib sandwich special" wink, wink. When you arrive less than an hour after they are open and there is only 3 specials left, you know it is just a leftover from the night before, which was affirmed by the wait staff. If you like mediocre food with okay service, this is the place for you.

Convenient location at Smith Mountain Lake, We sat in the…read morebar area which is nice, good energy and not too loud. The warm pretzels were awesome! Hubby had the prime rib which was good, baked potato was charred on the skin and the green beans were not seasoned and under cooked. Both had beers which were local and good.

Food was great! You can't beat the Sunday Shrimp special! Anthony and Miranda were great as well.read more

The vibe, and atmosphere is unmatched! Great team, great service, and food was amazing!read more

So wonderful the first morning of our stay at Smith Mountain Lake that we returned for the 2nd!…read moreFood, service - all top notch! Old Oak Cafe is situated in a strip shopping center, but is designed to make you feel like you've stepped into someone's home. The back room houses a faux (I assume) fireplace and round oak dining tables. The southern hospitality we received from the staff is as inviting as the space. They also have a large bookshelf of children's picture books and activities. So thoughtful and a wonderful option for tablet-free families. Our first visit was around 11:30 am on a Sunday and there was about a 20-min wait with the post-church crowd. The interior waiting space was full so we opted to wait outside. They offer a buffet breakfast on the weekends for $14.99. It looked to have biscuits and gravy, eggs, a variety of meats and fruit. We opted for menu options. I noticed they offered foam plates for buffet-goers, which made me cringe. I hope they will consider changing to something more environmentally-friendly. We were greeted as soon as we sat and offered coffee. Our server on both visits were incredibly kind! On Sunday, our server was a bit slower with coffee refills, but it was incredibly busy so I understood why. On our first visit, hubs had the cinnamon sweet potato pancakes while I chose multigrain. Both were so fluffy and delicious! The sweet potato pancakes drew us back the next day. They were topped with a cinnamon sugar butter and fresh pecans. The flavor was out of this world! Even the multigrain pancakes were light, fluffy and so yummy. I got blueberry pancakes on my 2nd trip and wish I had ordered these. The blueberry, while tasty, were more dense and not quite as flavorful. The Sweet Potato and Multigrain pancakes are worth 5 stars alone, but the service and value set Old Oak Cafe over the top. I'm ready to plan another trip to SML solely for this breakfast!

My family loved this place. If you are in the area (or have errands nearby) stop in. There are a…read morehandful of restaurants around Kroger/Movie Theater. If you want something other than Cancun or pizza, make a visit. Great food.

Good food and good service. It's perfect to eat outside for sunset. The energy was high as every…read moretable had this week's graduates from Liberty University.

Tiff's is located inside Mariner's Landing. The view by the water is pretty. If you want to sit by…read morea window you need to make a reservation. I also think servers arbitrarily decide who can sit there based on if you belong to the golf course membership. The place is clean and cute. If you like Peruvian food, you will find something interesting. If you don't like it, the chef can leave off ingredients. The loaded fries are excellent. I would visit before a meal and walk around. Pay attention for deer and golf carts. When my family has had out of town guests, some of them have stayed in an air bnb on the same property.

One of my favorites! Cool little spot for hotdogs and hamburgers! Great breakfast too!read more

We wanted to eat breakfast here during the week since we expected it to not be so busy. We came by…read morepontoon boat. We did not end up eating here, because there is no place to park a pontoon that we could see. I gave a 3 star because I don't want to drag down the overall rating because their food might be great, but I wanted to warn others thinking about coming by boat, that you can park a speed boat here, but not a pontoon. Maybe next time, we will drive there and try their tiple berry pancakes!

Farmhouse Catering since it's move last year has only gotten better. Spacious dining room to eat…read morein and lots more refrigerated units with Nora homemade goods. He cold chicken salad is the best and enough for 5 sandwiches at home. Because of Pirate Days she has some specials and we tried her Rueben sandwich. The meat is real corned beef sliced thick but tender. Bread meat and everything heated on the grill while I watched. There is also foods from local farms, canned, jars and fresh. So along with my sandwiches and chicken salad for tomorrow, I got 2 lbs. of fresh peach's for desert.

Wow!! Exactly what SML needed. I cannot rave about this place enough. SO many options...and…read morefredelicious, healthy, affordable. I haven't sampled everything but popped in to get some items to-go for my parents who currently have some health issues and can't cook for themselves right now. What a great way to have home cooked meals without all of the work!! Just a little peek at some of what I picked up! DELISH!

You could actually take a complete order instead of taking half of a drink order and walking off to…read moreseat another table. If you don't want people at your restaurant, don't seat them. Plenty of other places on the lake. Most of them want your business. Another suggestion... when you take a food order, bring the food that was ordered. Don't bring some other random item of your choosing. Never again.

Probably my favorite restaurant of all that we tried during our week at Smith Mountain Lake. We…read moreopted to sit outside on what had been a mostly cloudy day... then the sun came out and it got a little toasty during dinner. Our server was attentive, and kept all our drinks topped off throughout dinner. I asked her about the paninis and she recommended the blackened tuna panini. Definitely a good choice! (Next time, I may opt for the wasabi aioli on the side, though.) Would definitely eat here again!