Venture Kitchen & Bar — Restaurant in Hampton

We chose this place from reviews stating it had vegan options. Let me update their current vegan option menu: Salad and breadsticks The breadsticks are not typical boring sticks of bread but creative come out on a whole round pizza pan, sliced into sticks and have a side of the season oil mixture to dip them in. My kid asked for a side of marinara and was brought an entire small piping hot honey pot of marinara which there was no extra charge for. They do offer tator tots, again not the boring bagged eat your tots Tina type but homemade using mashed potatoes squared and fried BUT they are fried with everything else so if you're a militant vegan you won't eat these. Even though it was late, we were starving and bummed when told they didn't have the other vegan options previous reviewers stated, the entire staff especially our waitress was super nice, accommodating and never once got an attitude or eye rolled about our questions or tree bark eating diet choices. They had the ufc fight on which my kid was wanting to watch anyways so we stayed for a good while, never rushed and never made to feel like we weren't welcomed. They do have a bar so if you want a place to try with the family and get a drink or 3 after a long day of your screaming kids but can't get to the bar alone without them then you could definitely bring them all here using those parenthood tricks by sitting at a booth close enough to the bar, sit on the outside of the seat, put your hand up so you can't see your family, tune them out while watching the sports tv and angel your body just a tad so you can semi feel you're sitting at the bar while really not being at the bar. It's also in old downtown Hampton so it's a neato little spot to walk around checking out old graveyards and buildings if that's your...

Yesterday, my sisters treated me to Brunch for my birthday at Venture, where I had previously eaten at for lunch and had fond memories of (pre-pandemic). Unfortunately, it's changed, and not necessarily for the better in my view. I remember it as being a farm-to-table gem, where you could find innovative and healthy options as a regular thing. Maybe you still can achieve those but just not at Brunch on a Sunday. I first thought I'd get the Cherries Jubilee French Toast; but upon finding out from our server that the cherries were going to be the consistency of cherry pie filling I searched for something I hoped would be healthy. I picked from the regular Brunch menu the King's Plate because I figured the root vegetable hash would offer some tasty and relatively healthy ingredients. The flavors of the root vegetables were sadly overpowered by the excessive garlic in the heavy sausage gravy. The homemade biscuit was a perfect accompaniment, however. It just would've been nice to have some fresh fruit served with it. There was nothing on the regular or particular Sunday Brunch specials menu to recommend it for a 2nd try. I may give regular lunch another try. Or I may go somewhere I'm more confident of getting a healthy, fresh, reasonably priced meal. The service was great, and as always, I tipped our server of her effort, not my satisfaction with the food. There's great potential at Venture, and I always remembered it as being a great destination restaurant- one you'll drive more than the usual miles to get to- but it needs some work to recreate a more universally...

My friends and I went here tonight for dinner because we’ve had it before and it was fantastic. Well the waitress we had ignored one of my friends when she tried to order drinks and then she came out with plates and our appetizers. One of the plates she brought out had grease on it and our appetizer didn’t have the sauce it normally comes out with. We then order our food and we got more drinks. She brought the food out and went to go get the drinks, she came back to our table and hit another cup on the table that caused her to spill beer onto the food I was eating. It wasn’t a big problem to me because i’ve worked in the restaurant business so i asked nicely for another pizza since I had beer spilt all over my pizza, at first it seemed like she wasn’t going to offer but then I backed away from the food and thats when she offered. Multiple times we asked her for refills and she forgot to refill our drinks. We then paid and gave a 20-30% tip but it was an awful experience with this waitress, unfortunately I will never eat here again because of the experience we had tonight. We then go to leave but one of our friends had to use the bathroom and we hear the waitress yelling and cussing about us saying how she expected a $20 tip from each check and that I hit her elbow and that’s what caused the drink to spill on my pizza. We were as polite as any customer should have been, but we received attitude and ignorance from...