Talk of the Mountain Crab Cakes and more — Restaurant in Warrenton

I have never quite forgotten the crab cake I had purchased from the Talk of The Mountain food truck at a local VA neighborhood winery, due to the fact, Talk of The Mountain does not skimp on the crab in their crab cakes at all. In addition it is rather tasty.

So a weekend IG post of their lobster roll left me salivating, making it an easy decision to round up for a family outing to their newest restaurant location in Warrenton, VA.

Happy to mention that this new location can be accessed from either South Second Street or Culpeper Street in Old Town Warrenton, VA. Therefore easy access to parking and also offering quick accessibility for food pick ups.

The South Second Street entrance leads customers directly into the restaurant while customers who enter the Culpeper Street entrance do need to walk down a slight hallway to be greeted by Chris upfront.

Our family ordered 3 lobster rolls. A lobster roll order comes with a choice of one side.

The lobster roll was in a brioche hot dog bun, and provides at least 2 lumps of lobster claws and shredded lobster, drizzled with a not over the top garlic sauce and a tad bit of slaw.

My husband opted to try their crab cake instead of having the bread which accompanied the lobster roll. He was impressed by the sheer amount of crab which came with a dipping sauce!

Side options:

Mac n Cheese: (thankfully, not the box kind). The real home made southern kind, flavorful and cheesy.

Hush puppies: with bits of corn but what I loved was the exterior crunch! Yummy. I see myself eating a lot more of those in my future

Coleslaw: I did not have but my husband and kids loved.

Neither of us tried their collard greens and potato salad but I intend to try soon enough!

‘Though newly opened, the restaurant does seem to be coming together.

I am happy that on my regular visits to Warrenton, I can get some very delicious seafood and southern sides! I’d eat this over any of the usual chain...

Today was the first time my hubby and I ate at this restaurant. It was fantastic. I ordered the creamy garlic shrimp boil that has 1/2 lb. of shrimp with corn, potatoes, and sausage. My husband ordered the crab cake platter. His sides were the cole slaw, smoked mac and cheese and hush puppies. I sampled his food and he sampled mine. I LOVED the hush puppies. I NEVER eat hush puppies because I don't even like them like that. I always hated hush puppies. However, these were delicious. Sweet like sweet cornbread with corn kernels inside. I'm weak for corn. The cole slaw was sweet and delicious also. The crab cake was FAT--NO FILLER. At all. Scrumptious. The shrimps I ordered were fat. The corn was sweet. The garlic sauce was nice and mellow flavor with spice. The sodas were ice cold. Five out of five stars for me....

I was a little disappointed having heard this was a great seafood place, but that might mainly be for the crab items I guess. I got the creamy garlic butter shrimp boil, something I've gotten at plenty of places and enjoyed before. Shrimp were not de-veined, which is just kind of gross to me, but I know it's not required. The shrimp tasted watery, the sauce was thin and didn't taste much of either garlic nor butter, and no flavour saturated into the shrimp at all. It looked like maybe paprika was used to garnish, but there was no taste of any seasonings at all, not even salty. The hushpuppies are incredibly small as well, and unfortunately the only thing I liked. I know the place is up and coming, but the inside clearly isn't finished and needs a lot more work, just not overly inviting...