3 chesapeake places in Richmond we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Richmond | Chesapeake across every city.
Chesapeake cooking is Richmond's most local cuisine, built on the bay's oysters, crab and rockfish less than a hundred miles east. The style turns up across the dining districts in raw bars and refined seafood rooms. Rappahannock on East Grace Street in Shockoe Slip is the oyster-grower's own restaurant, while Bar Buoy works the same waters in Scott's Addition.
Bar Buoy ★ 4.4
scotts-addition · 3200 Rockbridge Street, Richmond, VA 23230
Brittanny Anderson's Scott's Addition seafood room, opened September 2025 in the former Brenner Pass space. Casual Chesapeake fish-shack menu.
Rappahannock ★ 4.5
shockoe-slip · 320 E Grace Street, Richmond, VA 23219
Rappahannock on Grace pours oysters from the Croxton family farm in Topping, Virginia. The Richmond outpost of the Virginia oyster-farming revival.
Acacia Midtown ★ 4.4
westhampton · 2363 Roux Street, Suite 105, Richmond, VA 23230
Dale Reitzer's third Acacia location, at Libbie Mill. Multi-time James Beard nominee and a 1999 Food and Wine Best New Chef; modern coastal Virginia cooking.