1. Kelly’S Tavern
City: Hampton, VA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (757) 313-9555
Address: 1934 Coliseum Dr.
Description: See the Virginia Beach location’s review on page 64.
2. Country Grill & Smokehouse
City: Hampton, VA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (757) 723-0600
Address: 26 East Mercury Blvd.
Description: This is an open-pit restaurant barbecuing pork, ribs, chicken, and brisket. It also features your choice of six barbecue sauces from around the country. And you can wash it down with a vast beer selection, including 15 microbrews on tap and in bottles. And the cornbread muffins are a specialty. (They also have a restaurant in Yorktown.)
3. Wilkes Barbeque
City: Hampton, VA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (757) 722-4240
Address: 3700 Victoria Blvd.
Description: Fans lovingly describe Wilkes as a “hole in the wall” with great food and friendly service. It’s Carolina style, with the vinegary sauce.
4. Plaza Azteca Restaurantes Mexicanos
City: Hampton, VA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (757) 826-3403
Address: 50 Town Center Way
Description: See the Virginia Beach location’s review on page 67.
5. El Azteca
City: Hampton, VA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (757) 838-4063
Address: 2040 Coliseum Dr.
Description: See the Virginia Beach location’s review on page 67.
6. Old Hampton Seafood Kitchen
City: Hampton, VA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (757) 723-5777
Address: 124 South Armistead Ave.
Description: This is a real seafood shack, with a handful of tables and some outside seating in downtown Hampton. The fare is deep fried, with fish, shrimp, and signature crab cakes. It’s closed Sun and Mon.
7. Queens Way Soul Cafe
City: Hampton, VA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (757) 224-7669
Address: 1144 Big Bethel Rd.
Description: Have a hankering for some chitterlings, pigs feet, catfish, or fried pork chops? Roger Winston and his family serves all that and more at Queens Way. And you can finish up your meal with some sweet potato pie or apple and peach cobbler. Now you know it’s down home.
8. Gah Bua Kham
City: Hampton, VA
Category: Restaurants
Telephone: (757) 838-0341
Address: 2270 Executive Dr.
Description: This is a family run business that offers fine food at reasonable prices. This intimate restaurant is in a small shopping center near the new Hampton City Town Center mall area. They also do takeout.