County Grill and Smokehouse

Been here several times on account of work trips to the East Coast. As of today, I see there’s only seven reviews, so I feel obligated to say something. Its always clean and the service is almost always good. I was there with a 22 person party once and we were served very quickly. The selection is good as I remember them having some Stone, Dogfish Head, Victory, Rogue, and Heavy Seas. The food, if you go here, please get their BBQ, you will not be disappoionted. The value, ha, its VA, if you’re disappointed, apparently, you have not experienced the rest of the nation - in other words, awesome! Overall, stellar place, I always go back whenever I get orders to Yorktown for a CG School.

A little pricey but good food, good service, a nice selection of beers on tap and a good bottle selection.

Good food and a decent tap list, with a dozen beers or so, plus about 20 bottles.

Love this place!

Great Selection.....best on the peninsula !and killer bbq?

UPDATE> I live about a mile from this place, and still pop in from time to time because they do tend to offer a great lineup of rotating, regional beers. But I’m significantly marking them down now because of two things: The service is getting worse and worse, with ditzy and unimpressive staff. And, more importantly, they charge incredibly high prices for the beers they offer. Most Virginia pints are now selling for $10, and can probably be had elsewhere in the area for $6-7. The food’s good, but not THAT good. ORIGINAL REVIEW> I keep finding places I thought I’d rated but haven’t. This place is right down the street and I make regular visits for some damn fine BBQ (and yummy corn bread) and a nice (excellent for the area) choice of rotating taps which always includes a local St George, plus quality pulls like Stone, Lagunitas, Rogue, Allagash, Dogfish Head, Brooklyn, etc. Also a location in Hampton, but this one is better.

As far as drinks are concerned, the beer selection is pretty good for a place that doesn’t tout themselves as a microbrew bar. There are atleast 10 really good microbrews on tap. The wait staff was very attentive to our needs. The ambience was great, kind of a like a hunting lodge with hard wood pillars and tables. The place was clean, but there were gnats flying around over our food, which was quite annoying. I ordered the beef brisket sandwich. The brisket was cut pretty thick, which would have been welcomed if the brisket was tender. It was so tough, that the bun fell apart because I was pulling on the sandwich to take a bite. The brisket was also flavorless, something that you don’t expect, especially since the place claimed to have smoked it for 14 hours. I also had the potato salad, which was incredible! My wife had the pulled pork platter. The pork, much like the brisket, was also bland. County Grill has a good selection of different bbq sauces on the table and you’ll need them to provide flavor for your meal. Lastly the bathroom looked like a gas station bathroom rather than a clean restaurant bathroom. With all that being said, I probably wouldn’t eat here again, but I believe that it’s a good place to pop in for a good microbrew.

Great place to have a meal and enjoy a non-macro beer. The food is barbecue/southern style but is always rated as the top place in the area to get barbecue. They have six different styles of barbecue sauce for the meat as well. The beer selection is usually good - I have had Dominion Oak Barrel Stout, DFH Aprihop, Newport Storm Blizzard Porter, Brooklyn Porter, Smuttynose Robust Porter, and Tuppers Hop Pocket Ale among others and local beers (Williamsburg and St. George) while here. They typically have 12 or more taps, though one or two will be macro stuff. Service is usually very good, though there have been some times it has been lacking. Worth going to especially if you dig BBQ.