William & Henry Steakhouse - Lynchburg

We came to Lynchburg for a basketball tournament and decided to let the kids stay back and we’d have a date night and WHOA…. If you are hesitating at ALL about this restaurant DON’T. You will not regret it. The chef is just beyond amazing having a culinary background and education that will make your head spin. We ordered a 14oz Sirloin that basically tasted exactly like a Filet and split it. Cooked perfectly, charred just right with crispy flavorful bits of intense flavor. It was so BIG we had leftovers on just one entree! The sides are like family style- since we ordered one entree, we ordered a chopped salad, the Brussels sprouts and mixed wild mushrooms! All amazing. The béarnaise sauce was ON POINT as well. The salad was nothing short of perfection. The wine menu was just about the most robust and incredibly eclectic mix that I’ve seen in a decade. It just got better and better as the night went on. Great ambiance (we were downstairs not in the roof top bar restaurant). I hear that is good too. Different chef and menu. The bread was straight out of the oven and steaming. Butter whipped to utter perfection (no pun intended). We literally had enough left for an entire meal the next day and on top of it all- our waiter and waitress were INTERESTING, friendly, so knowledgeable and educated on the food, how it is prepared and they both gave genuine opinions on what they like and why. I love that. We didn’t want to leave! The manager came over to ask how everything was and we had yet another fabulous interaction. He brought us a slice of cheesecake on the house and let me just tell you- the chef is from Philly originally and had a restaurant in NY for many years and he has never, in all the time he has worked there, let ANYONE change the recipe or alter it in anyway. AND NOW I KNOW WHY. It had density, fluffiness, custard layers that literally melted in our mouths. Everything- literally everything we had, was done to perfection. We are serious foodies (as if you couldn’t tell) and we have dined at some of the finest restaurants in the world, and this place ranks top 3. You must try it. If you are concerned about price, splitting an entree is perfectly acceptable given that the sides are enormous which made the bill more reasonable than we anticipated. This way you can have a really nice variety of sides to try. I had the pear cosmo and it was also balanced perfectly, served chilled with fragments of ice filtered through and you could really taste the pear- it was just delicious. Thank you to everyone who had a hand in our beautiful meal. We had the BEST time and will be back next time we come to Lynchburg! No doubt about it! I wasn’t planning on posting so the picture just doesn’t do the actual presentation justice- this was after I portioned it all out on my plate! lol