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  Service is outstanding food is great, price is reasonable. There is smoking in the bar not in the isolated restaurant. Coming from Annapolis on week ends we cant wait to get to the Backdraft for dinner. Local place with lots of ambience. LOVE IT!!! HOT DOG and onion rings!!! YUMMY

  Posted on 02.22.17 MIke-R

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  Service is outstanding food is great, price is reasonable. There is smoking in the bar not in the isolated restaurant. Coming from Annapolis on week ends we cant wait to get to the Backdraft for dinner. Local place with lots of ambience. LOVE IT!!! HOT DOG and onion rings!!! YUMMY

  Posted on 02.22.17 MIke-R

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  Great crab cakes and a fun atmosphere! The cocktails are reasonably priced and they have great happy hour specials!

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  Posted on 09.04.13 Elise M.

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  Had good food and great time with friends.

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  Posted on 04.12.13 George B.

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  Crab cakes are the way forward here. No filler. Not the best in the world but a decent meal nonetheless.
  
  I ordered the new york strip (and stole my girl's crabcake) which was below average. Very tough and felt 'from frozen'.
  
  I'd like to see this place around closing time on a busy Friday night. I get the sense it would be a riot.

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  Posted on 03.10.13 David J.

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  So filled with cigarette smoke we can no longer go there.

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  Posted on 10.12.11 Jim B.

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  As weekenders down on the Northern Neck we tend to not go out much once we are down here but we really enjoy a Sunday brunch/lunch excursion to Backdraft: super nice staff, $2 bloody mary's and draft beers and half price burgers. Yes, the place is cigarette stinky even though the dining room is divided from the bar, but everything else makes up for it. The grill cheese sandwich rocks too.

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  Posted on 03.06.11 Andrea T.

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  I was back East visiting a friend at his beach house that was out this way. We'd been eating Seafood for a couple days and I was looking for something different.
  
  The Good: We came here on a Saturday night and the special was prime rib. It was a 16 oz angus prime rib, soup or salad, potato, and starch for $21. 1st off when the steak came out it was more like 20oz. It was cooked perfectly, tasted great, and it was the least fatty prime rib I'd even had. You can get it blackened also, so then the whole thing is like the crusty outside that is so delicious. The soup was crab bisque and it was really good too. I choose the fingerling potatoes. When I got them they had mini purple potatoes mixed in too. It was a great meal and 1 of the top 5 prime ribs I've ever had.
  
  The Bad: You can smoke in restaurant/bars in VA and there was a ton of people smoking in here. It was also weird seeing the waitress smoking and then bringing out your soup 30 seconds later.
  
  The ugly: some of the clientele.
  
  It was an interesting little place. It turned into a bar at like 9:30pm. They had a DJ that started playing, and they charged a $5 cover after that. I wish we would have stayed later than 10:30pm to check out the late night seen.

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  Posted on 05.18.09 Scottie V.

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