Top Virginia Graduation Party Restaurants

• Spaces for 26-150 Guests
• 5 Restaurants

Nestled in the heart of historic Belmont in Charlottesville, The Local Restaurant has served Virginia-inspired cuisine since 2008, drawing on the region's agricultural bounty and working with local purveyors such as Caromont Farm, Double H Farm, Mountain View Farm, and Wayside Produce. The bar features wines, beers, and ciders from Central Virginia producers including Potter's Craft Cider, Devil's Backbone, Barboursville, and King Family Vineyards. For private events, The Local's dedicated events team regularly hosts gatherings of 10 to 200 guests, including corporate events, showers, rehearsal dinners, ceremonies, receptions, and post-wedding brunches. Five distinct private spaces are available, each with a custom menu and budget built around the group, from the wood-fired, brick-lined Hearth Room to the stand-alone Opal Lounge across the street, giving planners a range of settings to match the size and tone of the celebration.

• Spaces for 24-125 Guests
• 4 Restaurants
• 1 Bar
• 4 Historic Spaces

Union Street Public House occupies a renovated 1790 Colonial warehouse in the heart of historic Old Town Alexandria, where it has served revolutionary American cuisine since 1986. Executive Chef Fredo Gomez leads the kitchen with a menu built on Southern-influenced American fare, fresh seafood, and grilled steaks, paired with an extensive selection of local beers, wines, and cocktails. The restaurant offers four private event spaces of varying size and character, from intimate second-floor rooms to a larger dining room suited to bigger receptions, giving planners a range of options for rehearsal dinners, business meetings, and celebrations within the same historic building.

• Spaces for 16-300 Guests
• 6 Restaurants
• 6 Historic Spaces

A one-of-a-kind restaurant, Virtue Feed & Grain is an ideal venue for all types of private events – from intimate cocktail parties to large wedding receptions, business meetings, and corporate level events. Our bi-level, open-concept restaurant provides flexible seating and arrangement options, as well as full-service coordination for events with up to 175 people in attendance. The spaces can be reserved individually or in groups for larger gatherings and events. Additionally, the restaurant is available for a partial buyout for groups of up to 175 people. Throughout the planning process, our dedicated Events Manager, Amber Shelley, will collaborate with you (and your event planner, if you have one) to ensure that your event is everything you've imagined it to be, and that you experience no stress. Please take a look at the rest of the photos and contact us if you have any questions. Offering flexible seating arrangements and layouts, the private event and private dining spaces at Virtue Feed & Grain are warm and inviting, combining rustic elegance with a comfortable design aesthetic. Virtue is also equipped with audiovisual equipment for slideshows, presentations, and speeches, as well as separate up and down sound systems that can accommodate custom playlists and other requirements.

• Spaces for 50-467 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 1 Bar
• 2 Total Spaces

The hotel occupies a six-story building constructed in 1926 in downtown Lexington, Virginia, and restored into a 39-room boutique property. It is described as the only example of 1920s art-deco architecture in downtown Lexington, and at six stories, it is also the tallest building in the downtown area. For weddings, banquets, and receptions, the Grand Ballroom offers 4,200 square feet of event space, accommodating up to 350 seated guests or 467 standing guests. Smaller wedding receptions and gatherings can also be hosted in the Juniper Lounge, the hotel's on-site restaurant and bar, whose veranda accommodates up to 50 guests. Events at the hotel include plated or buffet catering with a customizable menu, event parking, complimentary WiFi, and computer hookups, along with staff who help coordinate details from planning through event day. As the largest hotel in downtown Lexington, it can also arrange special group rates on room blocks across its 39 guest rooms for wedding parties and their guests.

• Spaces for 120-323 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Historic Space

Havana '59 is a cigar bar and Cuban restaurant set in a historic building in Richmond, Virginia's Shockoe Bottom neighborhood. Exposed plaster walls, oversized open windows, string lights, and palm trees set a casual yet elegant scene meant to evoke a bygone era, with the aroma of fine cigars part of the atmosphere throughout. The kitchen presses its own juices in house for cocktails and sources ingredients locally for its scratch kitchen, complementing a menu of authentic fusion cuisine. For private events, Havana '59 offers its second and third floor patios, which can be booked separately or combined. The second floor patio is an indoor-outdoor space topped with a full roof and served by a full bar, and there's also a first-floor mezzanine suited to smaller gatherings, plus the option of a full building buyout for larger celebrations.

• Spaces for 20-500 Guests
• 2 Restaurants
• 1 Outdoor
• 4 Total Spaces

Barboursville Vineyards is a 900-acre estate in the Southwest Mountains north of Charlottesville, framed by the Blue Ridge. Its private-event architecture carries echoes of Italy, from the Palladian design of Jefferson's mansion for Governor Barbour to the Tuscan-styled winery and its expansive loggia, set among vineyards recognized as among the most awarded in the Eastern United States. For private parties and weddings, the estate offers elegant dinner seating for up to 120 guests, along with a manicured meadow that accommodates up to 500 guests for tented receptions. Additional indoor spaces include a dining room seating 40 and a smaller veranda dining room seating 20, both part of the estate's Palladio Restaurant. Each setting draws on the surrounding vineyard landscape and the estate's history to give private parties and celebrations a distinctive sense of place.

• Spaces for 12-60 Guests
• 3 Restaurants
• 5 Hotels
• 5 Total Spaces

Four Eleven York is a boutique bed and breakfast and fine-dining restaurant in Norfolk's historic Freemason district, occupying a Victorian building dating to the 1890s. Formerly known as the Freemason Inn, the property was renovated over a year and a half and now combines two historic structures into a unified inn and restaurant. Original details, including beaded chandeliers, pocket doors, and refinished hardwood floors, remain alongside a third-floor skylight that lights the building by day and moonlight by night. The property hosts intimate weddings, elopements, and private events in an outdoor courtyard shaded by a pergola, along with several indoor dining rooms and a front living room, accommodating gatherings from small showers up to a maximum of 50 guests for full venue buyouts. The Main and Middle Dining Rooms open into one another for larger groups, while the Living Room suits bridal showers and cocktail parties. Four Eleven York's restaurant emphasizes locally sourced, seasonal ingredients and custom cocktails, and its four guest suites allow couples and their families to stay on-site, with heated bathroom floors and premium bedding among the amenities.

• Spaces for 83-130 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 1 Waterfront

The Attic at Waterman's occupies the second floor of Waterman's Surfside Grille, at the intersection of 5th Street and Atlantic Avenue on the Virginia Beach oceanfront. A wall of 16 windows offers panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean, giving the space an elegant, yet rustic coastal character suited to weddings, rehearsal dinners, business meetings, and private celebrations. The Attic seats up to 83 guests with a dance floor, or accommodates up to 130 guests in a cocktail-style layout blending seating and high-top tables. Smaller gatherings of 10 to 45 guests can also be hosted in the main dining areas of Waterman's Surfside Grille on the first floor. The Attic holds a full ABC license and provides in-house bar service, and Waterman's culinary team prepares menus for events of all sizes, so hosts do not need to arrange outside catering. The venue is about seven minutes from the Virginia Beach Convention Center and roughly 30 minutes from Norfolk International Airport.

• Spaces for 200 Guests
• 1 Restaurant

If you're looking for a unique place to hold a gathering or a private event, 2941 Restaurant is the place to go. We have some of the most outstanding accommodations in the city, all with breathtaking views. Our private dining rooms may accommodate small groups of two to big groups of up to 100 people. Up to 200 people can be accommodated in the main restaurant and on the outdoor terrace. 2941 Restaurant is one of Northern Virginia's most stunning, vibrant, and elegant dining establishments. Every event at 2941 is gorgeous and unforgettable, from weddings to opulent seated dinners and extravagant cocktail celebrations! At 2941 Restaurant, the wedding of your dreams is waiting for you. At this wonderful inside-the-beltway sanctuary, every meal is a work of art. Parties of 2 to 200 can have bridal showers, rehearsal dinners, ceremonies, and receptions. Here, beautiful memories are created. Tasting Room The Tasting Room is a private and intimate space for celebrating or entertaining a small group of people. The Tasting Room can seat up to 30 people and provides a delightful evening of excellent food in a unique setting. Waterfall Room The Waterfall room is located next to a stunning waterfall and offers spectacular views as well as a comfortable environment. This venue is ideal for larger meetings, with seating for up to 90 people and cocktail receptions for up to 100 people. Koi Room The Koi Room features breathtaking surroundings, contemporary décor, and a private dining area for seated groups of up to 50 people, as well as a reception area for up to 60 people. The room offers for secluded enjoyment of waterside views while still retaining a sense of the restaurant's friendly environment and activity.

• Spaces for 20-350 Guests
• 2 Restaurants

Located on Main Street in historic downtown Culpeper, Virginia, about ninety minutes south of Washington, D.C., the Culpeper Center & Suites pairs a boutique hotel with a state-of-the-art event and conference facility. The venue was created by four local business owners with a vision of building on Culpeper's Main Street USA reputation, and its ballroom preserves the Art Deco details of the original building while incorporating modern fixtures, including LED lighting that can be set to any color scheme. The Culpeper Center hosts weddings, business events, personal parties and receptions, and meetings, with on-site lodging available for wedding parties and overnight guests. Its on-site restaurant, Flavor on Main, carries a 1920s theme with Prohibition-era cocktails and period music, and offers two private dining rooms for smaller gatherings: the Gatsby Room, which seats up to 60 guests, and the Chaplin Room, which seats up to 20 guests at a long table. The two rooms can be combined to host up to 80 guests. Guests staying overnight can choose from the property's boutique suites, each appointed with hand-selected furnishings and finishes.

• Spaces for 50-100 Guests
• 1 Restaurant

Acorn Hill Lodge is a bed and breakfast in Lynchburg, Virginia, recognized as the city's best B&B by Lynchburg Living Magazine for eleven consecutive years. Set behind wrap-around porches in a Victorian-style building, the lodge has operated as a family business offering hotel-like amenities with a more personal touch. With four versatile event spaces, Acorn Hill Lodge has hosted everything from book clubs to weddings and conferences. Two of its event spaces together can accommodate between 20 and 80 people, and the property also rents out its on-site Bistro for private dinners and events after breakfast hours, along with an outdoor patio for events held outside. Overnight suites, available on site, make the lodge a convenient choice for multi-day events or out-of-town guests. The lodge's setting in Lynchburg's Old Forest Road corridor gives it a country-like atmosphere while remaining close to the city, and it hosts occasions ranging from corporate meetings and dinners to weddings, baby showers, and family reunions.

• Spaces for 48-200 Guests
• 2 Restaurants

The Hard Shell Bellgrade is the South Richmond location of The Hard Shell, a seafood and steakhouse restaurant that first opened in 1995 in downtown Richmond's Shockoe Slip. Repeatedly voted "Best Seafood" in the city by Style Magazine and Richmond Magazine, The Hard Shell has built a following on fresh fish and shellfish -- including clams, shrimp, oysters, mussels, crab legs, and lobster -- alongside steaks, ribs, and vegetarian options served in a warm, relaxing dining room. Located in the Shoppes at Bellgrade, the restaurant offers a private dining space that accommodates up to 48 guests, with a full restaurant buyout available for larger events of up to 150 guests. An outdoor patio rounds out the setting, available as weather permits for receptions, rehearsal dinners, and other private gatherings.

• Spaces for 250 Guests
• 1 Restaurant

For a rehearsal dinner, engagement party, bridal shower or wedding celebration, our private and semi-private event spaces are the ideal setting. We will impress your guests with a memorable event that you will remember for years to come. DINING IN LARGE GROUPS Fogo is the ideal venue for groups of all sizes, whether they are celebrating a special birthday, holding a large corporate meeting, or purchasing the entire restaurant. Our dedicated sales managers will work with you to develop a customized menu, package options, and private and semi-private dining spaces that meet your specific requirements. Meeting Planner-Friendly Sales Manager with HMCC Certification, Dedicated Sales Team We can accommodate groups ranging from 15 people to complete restaurant buyouts. Cuisine and Service that has received numerous awards Beautiful private and semi-private dining areas are available. Package Deals That Include Everything Our Private Dining Rooms are equipped with dedicated, hard-lined internet connections that provide speeds that are more than sufficient for high-definition streaming of your next webinar or seminar session. Our 60" HDTVs, standard tripod screens, LCD projectors, microphones, and speakers will allow you to easily access the most frequently requested equipment in the most convenient location. Our beautiful private dining rooms, semi-private spaces, and public spaces can all be customized to meet your specific requirements and requirements. We also provide complete restaurant buy-outs; please contact us for more information. Meeting planners and travel partners can take advantage of our global expertise as well as our incentive pricing packages to benefit their events. Give us a call to learn more about your next international or domestic group excursion.

• Spaces for 75-2,000 Guests
• 1 Restaurant
• 3 Hotels
• 2 Ballrooms

Richmond Marriott sits in the heart of downtown Richmond, Virginia, blending Southern charm with a modern, newly renovated look near the city's historic district and the James River Park System. The hotel connects directly to the Greater Richmond Convention Center via an enclosed skywalk, letting attendees walk from the lobby to the convention floor without stepping outside. The hotel's six event rooms span more than 26,500 square feet, anchored by the 15,092-square-foot Grand Ballroom and the 7,865-square-foot Capital Ballroom, both suited to everything from corporate conferences to large wedding receptions. A private dining room within Fall Line Kitchen & Bar offers a more intimate option for smaller gatherings of up to 75 guests. Marriott Certified Wedding Planners help coordinate ceremonies of all kinds, including ethnic and military weddings, alongside an in-house culinary team and modern AV and Wi-Fi capabilities throughout the event spaces. Beyond its meeting and event space, the hotel houses Fall Line Kitchen & Bar, an upscale-casual restaurant serving ingredient-focused comfort food and regional craft brews, plus Corner Rapid, a lobby bar known for its bourbon selection.