Blue Moon has battled Bluegrass Bakery since before baby Jesus. But that was a breakfast battle…did you all know Blue Moon serves dinner too? And it is ridiculously inexpensive. I tried both the chicken pot pie and the apple cider braised polyface pork served on top of mashed potatoes and collared greens. Both of these dishes were $13.95 and came with a salad. I know, you think everything comes with a salad anywhere you go. True, you can probably get a salad included with an $8 entree at TGI Fridays, but this is prepared with spring/mesclun lettuce mix and has a real vinaigrette. Quality was tops for both. There were plates of their home cooked french fries coming out of the kitchen which I didn’t try. They looked amazing. Thick cut and nicely fried.
Dessert is another story. The special ice cream sandwiches of the evening were blackberry ice cream in between oatmeal cookies or chocolate ice cream in between peanut butter cookies ($4.95). Unbeknown to me, Blue Moon makes their own cookies, and they are unbelievable. We went with the blackberry/oatmeal combo. All I have to say is wow. Our waitress said it would change our thoughts on ice cream cookie sandwiches for the rest of our lives, and it did! I believe they use Chap’s ice cream which was really good…but the frikking oatmeal cookie. It is definitely the best I have ever had.
You had me at $13.95 dinner.
[pic from Blue Moon MySpace page]
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Does it still stink of smokers?
Blue Moon is freaking awesome. I don’t get the naysayers.
while i am a lover of the blue moon, i can also say i get the naysayers. the smoke is awful (and having the proprietor sit at the bar, adding to the problem, is particularly distasteful to me.) the wait can be incredible. i have been served cold pancakes on more then one occasion. it can lack attention to detail – like not having everything on the menu available. but all those issues aside, it is a wonderful place – great community feel and they serve terrific fare for the price. my blue moon M.O. is to only go when i know it won’t be busy (mid-week is best). to me, there are few places in town where you can dine solo and feel totally comfortable. this is what i love most about the blue moon!
I love this place. It’s “my farts smell like bacon” shirts and it’s sense of whimsy. The food and the service are always good for me (I always try to sit at the bar). The people who run the place seem to love what they do and it shows in so many ways. The smoke will go away soon and perhaps some of it’s tragic hipsters vibe with it.
It will always have a seat for Sydney- and that is, somehow, all that matters.
Well the Governor, the House of Delegates and the State Senate have all finally agreed that making me and all the other non smokers suck down anyone’s second hand smoke is health issue. A diner’s only health hazard should be what I would put on my plate (oh how I love my bacon and it’s nitrates) not what I’m forced to breath into my lungs because somebody can’t make outside to smoke. I have no reason to change anything else about Blue Moon, including the THV.(tragic hipster vibe)
The fact that smokers must think that their butts are biodegradable and it’s ok to throw out a burning ember of a window of a moving car or on the street. Some how that’s not littering. After that I’m done
Collared greens? White or blue?
Once again, you can’t hate on a restaurant for a “long wait”. That means they’re busy. Because they’re good. Also, it’s common to run out of stuff if you have a diverse menu. Order something else and stfu.
Bluemoon is great. I too sit at the bar and get great service. Always of interest is the ABC manager list. This week it was from the Muppet Show. Statler and Waldorf are the best. The food is good to boot. Get the Skip Burger.
PS They haz the BEST Bloody Mary’s in town. Srsly. I know because I did a Bloody Mary crawl one Sunday. In the name of science, not binge drinking. So don’t open your yap Ethan.
waiting when they are busy is one thing. waiting when there are only three other tables with patrons is another; plus, waiting for cold pancakes is never cool. and i would stfu about not having things on the menu, if i hadn’t been told that they have the ingredients, just hadn’t “gotten around” to the prep. prep like cutting potatoes into fry shapes. but when that happens, i do order something else. and i seriously doubt losing the smoke will turn our beloved blue moon into anything even remotely sterile – the diner vibe will prevail without those nasty cigs!
Damnnn why’d you have to eat Logic-O’s for breakfast… No fun.
oh sweet shen – i so wish they would sell Logic-O’s and i could sneak feed them to those who are in such dire need. like my in-laws . . . alas . . .
oh sweet shen Never mind Logic-O’s… this dude’s on fucking crack.
go outside and smoke.
The wait sometimes sucks. The smoke sometimes sucks (tho not so bad in the back room). The service is sometimes better than others. And the Blue Moon is my favorite restaurant in this silly town. I’ve lived here for 18 years and I’ve never understood why there aren’t more real neighborhood hangout joints that had some genuine character and where you could get a sandwich and a beer for ten bucks.
If I could have one Blue Moon for every 10 standard Cville restaurants (where the entrees are largely interchangeable and predictable and all cost $18+), I’d be a happy boy.