The Best Restaurants in Chesapeake VA: Fine Dining, Steaks, and Life-Changing Falafel
By Maria Rodriguez | Sept. 11, 2025
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AUTHOR BIO: With a day job that requires constant travel, Maria Rodriguez is likely a frequenter of your favorite restaurant. She’s reviewed restaurants since 2007 in publications from Barcelona to Bakersfield.
Chesapeake doesn’t sell itself with neon or skyline views. It’s a city of drawbridges and strip centers, where the real finds hide behind unassuming doors. One afternoon you’re at the Intracoastal watching boats slide through the lock, and ten minutes later you’re sitting down to a plate of smoked ribs or pho rich with star anise.
What defines Chesapeake dining isn’t flash but honesty—chefs and families turning out seafood that feels dock-fresh, noodles pulled from memory, or a burger that deserves more attention than the room gives it. The city rewards curiosity, and these restaurants prove why it’s worth looking past the surface.
So here are the best restaurants in Chesapeake right now.
Andiamo
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Andiamo serves wood-fired Neapolitan pizzas with a crust that lands in that perfect zone between blistered and chewy. The menu also stretches into house-made pastas, chicken parm built for leftovers, and a rotating list of nightly specials that draw regulars back. It’s the kind of spot where you’ll see as many takeout boxes headed out the door as plates crossing the dining room.
Best for: Cozy Italian comfort food and solid Neapolitan pies
Biscuit Belly
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Biscuit Belly lands as a bright, fast-casual breakfast spot built around biscuits—scratch-made and perfected by chef Tavis Rockwell during the brand’s early design. The menu brags loaded biscuit sandwiches like The Rockwell (fried chicken, cheddar, sausage gravy), the over-the-top Rockwell Supreme (adds bacon and an egg), and playful options like Bonuts (biscuit donut holes with cinnamon sugar and bourbon cream cheese frosting) that make it feel like Southern comfort got a modern upgrade. It’s a weekday breakfast crowd magnet and weekend scrum brunch scene, with standout sides like sausage gravy-trio samples and loaded tots pulling people in.
Best for: Breakfast lovers craving stacked biscuit sandwiches
Bubba's 33
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Bubba’s 33 serves up “scratch-made food for all” in a big, casual space. The menu leans hard on stone-baked pizzas, bold burgers, wings, and that kind of comfort food mix where fries are reasonable and sauces aren’t afterthoughts. This is a place you bring the whole crew when someone wants wings, someone else wants pizza, and no one wants to compromise.
Best for: Pizza, burgers, wings, and relaxed atmosphere
The Butcher's Son
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The Butcher’s Son built its reputation on steaks that come butcher-shop fresh. The menu runs from dry-aged ribeyes to thick pork chops, with a Sunday brunch that piles the table with everything from prime rib to made-to-order omelets. It feels more polished than you’d expect from its strip-mall setting, the kind of place where locals know to book a table early.
Best for: Steakhouse classics and a brunch that leans indulgent
Cork & Bull Chesapeake
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Cork & Bull leans traditional steakhouse but adds just enough modern polish to keep it interesting. Cuts come thick and well-aged, with ribeyes and filets balanced by sides like creamed corn brûlée and lobster mac that feel far from afterthoughts. The bar pulls its weight too, with a whiskey list that tempts you to linger long after the plates are cleared.
Best for: Classic steakhouse dining with a modern edge
The Egg Bistro
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The Egg Bistro is a breakfast joint first, with plates like crab cake Benedicts, shrimp and grits, and pancakes the size of hubcaps arriving early and often. Later in the morning it shifts into more of a brunch scene, with mimosas, Bloody Marys, and the volume rising as the dining room fills. It’s the spot where locals know they can get a solid breakfast on Tuesday or lean into a proper brunch come Saturday.
Best for: Reliable weekday breakfasts and lively weekend brunch
HotPot 757 Chesapeake
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HotPot 757 offers an interactive, all-you-can-eat experience combining Chinese hot pot and Korean BBQ at the same table. The menu includes more than a hundred options—meats, seafood, dumplings, vegetables, and a wide selection of broths and sauces—priced at a flat rate for lunch or dinner. It’s built for groups who want to linger, cooking their own food and turning dinner into an occasion.
Best for: Communal, hands-on meals with plenty of variety
Luce Secondo
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Located in Greenbrier, Luce Secondo is Chef Tony Caruana's modern Italian venture. The menu features handcrafted pastas and an extensive wine selection, all within a chic setting. It's a must-visit for Italian cuisine enthusiasts.
El Puente Mexican Grill
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El Puente isn’t the kind of place that tries to reinvent Mexican food—it just serves plates that land heavy and right. The standout is the El Puente Especial, a ribeye and chicken combo drowned in cheese sauce and served with rice and avocado salad, the sort of dish that guarantees you’ll skip dinner. Combos and specials served in giant molcajetes keep the place busy midday, and the patio fills when the weather cooperates.
Best for: Mexican comfort food that doesn’t skimp on portions
RoJo Coffee Co.
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RoJo nails the coffeehouse essentials: espresso drinks, breakfast burritos, toasts, and tacos that make morning feel like a celebration. It opens early and closes mid-afternoon, strictly breakfast-and-lunch hours. The staff is warm and lively, and lavender latte and breakfast scrambles are enough to make anyone want to become a regular.
Best for: Breakfast treats, brunch-adjacent mornings, and coffee that’s more than just a caffeine fix
Super Chix
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Super Chix fries up fresh, never-frozen chicken filets and tenders with toppings and sauces that lean bold and unapologetic. Its menu also includes hand-cut fries and churned-in-house premium frozen custard, all served from mid-morning into early evening. The place is bright, casual, and obsessively precise about ingredients—especially if you care about quality chicken sandwiches done right.
Best for: Fast and focused fried chicken with sides worthy of the detour
Ten10
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Ten 10 takes its name from the price point—most entrées land around 10 bucks—and then overdelivers with a menu that somehow covers gyros, wings, burgers, pizza, and breakfast platters. The Mediterranean side of the menu is where it shines, with shawarma, kabobs, and falafel that taste far better than the low cost suggests. Open from morning to nearly midnight, it’s the sort of place you can wander into at any hour and find something that works.
Best for: Affordable Mediterranean-American fusion
Urban Hot Pot
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Urban Hot Pot makes you the cook, which is half the fun—choose a broth, pile the table with meats and seafood, and let it all bubble while you hover over chopsticks. Each table gets its own burners, and the 90-minute limit makes sense once you realize how easy it is to sit for hours talking and fishing dumplings out of the pot. It’s dinner, but also an activity, which explains why the room stays packed.
Best for: Group meals that double as a DIY hot pot experience
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