You can get menus for the taverns on the Colonial Williamsburg website.
Here are brief reviews of the non-chain restaurants we visited last summer:
Seasons -- Very good food in a nice atmosphere. Pretty diverse menu.
Chewnings-- Sort of a fastfood colonial tavern open for lunch. No table service. There is a seating area outside in an arbor and also inside. Limited menu. Food is fine but nothing to get excited about, and prices are fairly low.
King's Arms Tavern -- We ate dinner there and enjoyed it, but I didn't think the quality justified the high price. We ate prime rib, which has some waste, and it was kind of hard to cut your meat b/c it's very dark. Breads and appetizers were interesting old-fashioned recipes. There was some period entertainment but not as much as I expected.
Shields Tavern -- We had a nice lunch at this tavern. I enjoyed it as least as much as King's Arms. I had corn chowder served with a tiny ham biscuit, which was delicious.
Williamsburg Lodge restaurant (can't think of the name) -- Food was okay, but we had some of the worst service we've ever had anywhere.
Captain George's -- mediocre seafood and lots of it at a hefty price. We got full, very full, but didn't eat anything to rave about. Wouldn't dream of going back.
At Busch Gardens, we loved the German restaurant and thought the smokehouse was average.
Here are brief reviews of the non-chain restaurants we visited last summer:
Seasons -- Very good food in a nice atmosphere. Pretty diverse menu.
Chewnings-- Sort of a fastfood colonial tavern open for lunch. No table service. There is a seating area outside in an arbor and also inside. Limited menu. Food is fine but nothing to get excited about, and prices are fairly low.
King's Arms Tavern -- We ate dinner there and enjoyed it, but I didn't think the quality justified the high price. We ate prime rib, which has some waste, and it was kind of hard to cut your meat b/c it's very dark. Breads and appetizers were interesting old-fashioned recipes. There was some period entertainment but not as much as I expected.
Shields Tavern -- We had a nice lunch at this tavern. I enjoyed it as least as much as King's Arms. I had corn chowder served with a tiny ham biscuit, which was delicious.
Williamsburg Lodge restaurant (can't think of the name) -- Food was okay, but we had some of the worst service we've ever had anywhere.
Captain George's -- mediocre seafood and lots of it at a hefty price. We got full, very full, but didn't eat anything to rave about. Wouldn't dream of going back.
At Busch Gardens, we loved the German restaurant and thought the smokehouse was average.
