Coach & Four Restaurant

Great food with a wide menu selection to choose from. Friendly fast service. Large seating capacity but better make reservations on the weekends if you want to go, they do a good business and it’s not uncommon to wait for seating

If you are looking for great professional wait staff and outstanding beef then this is the place to dine. The Prime Rib and House Steak are two of my favorites but you can’t go wrong at this fine restaurant with any of the menu items. I travel all over NC, SC and VA. This will be a must dine at restaurant every time I travel to Roanoke. The house salad is prepared to your exact specifications table side. The fresh bread is amazing .
I believe the deserts are homemade as well.

We did not have a reservation but the maitre de told us the bar has full menu so we dined with Beverly in the bar area. Delmonico was perfectly cooked and the grouper key west was a rare treat! Service was excellent and the strawberries Ada for dessert finished it off nicely! Great place, highly recommend!

Old time place. Old house setting. Seating in different rooms w fireplaces– lovely! Saw reviews & tried. Worth the visit plus hate chains!
Staff very helpful. Prices very reasonable. Salad is great — more than expected. Waitress brings a tray of veggies & dresses up the salad. Plus fresh made dressings. Warm rolls out of oven — yum Got chicken cordon bleu. Was great. Hubby got perfect med rare prime rib. Again perfect– tender & cooked perfect!
Very generous portions, fresh, great prices!

This place is excellent!!!
I’m in Roanoke for business and looked on Unilocal to see what was around.
You can get great seafood in Roanoke. Just come here. I had the Alaskan King Crab legs, my friend had the grouper. Both dishes were fantastic!
They great you with their Swedish meatballs that are amazing!
Prices are super reasonable too. What a great find!

Best spot in Roanoke! This family owned and operated restaurant rocks. The menu features everything from steak, lamb, duck to seafood. The seafood gets top marks! The steak was good and would par even better with a tad more seasoning. Definitely a go to for fried oysters. My husband favors the duck. Best service on the planet too! My husband and I have been visiting for about a month and find ourselves craving this restaurant more than any other. We can afford to satisfy our cravings, because the prices are very reasonable for the freshly prepared meals, cooked by its owner. The ambiance is pleasant. They ask for a casual attire, with a sign asking for no shorts or hats. Although when my husband wore a ball cap our first visit, they didn’t ask him to remove it. Parking is scarce and tight, but worth the effort. Top marks all around for this restaurant!

I came here for a nice dinner after taking the bar exam, and it was spectacular! The set up of the restaurant is really cool because it’s a house turned into a restaurant. The food was amazing and service was excellent. I got steak and my friends got crab cakes and pasta. The salad was really cool because they came around with a big dish of toppings to a choose from. It was a really great dining experience all around and the prices were very affordable.

We all had the prime rib. It was cooked well but my piece was especially fatty. Overall, the meal was good. The restaurant itself could use some updating/​sprucing up.

We were passing through Roanoke, and ended up at this place because it was one of the only restaurants still open after 9pm on a Tuesday night (I’m sure there were others, but we didn’t know our way around very well, and we were pretty hungry after an eight-​hour drive).
I ordered a pasta special — fettucini alfredo with sausage and chicken. Was quite tasty and came with a salad that was not huge or anything, but was more interesting than your average complementary garden salad and had quality blue cheese dressing.
But my wife’s prime rib was the real treat. The «queen» size was the smaller cut — can’t imagine how enormous the king size must have been. It also came with a salad and a baked potato. I admit to not being a prime rib connoisseur, but it was some of the juiciest, tenderest meat I’ve ever had. The garlic horseradish sour cream was a nice touch as well.
Our waitress was extremely nice and helpful, and with two glasses of wine and a beer (plus complementary meatballs, crackers and bread), the bill came out to just a little over $ 50, very reasonable for the food quality and portions.

Ok. Here’s the scoop on coach&four.
Food Is great!
HOWEVER: the service and décor is stuck in the early 1970s. This wouldn’t be a problem if the prices were too.
Upgrade uniforms and train service staff how to behave in a restaurant. Yelling across the room and shuck&jive doesn’t cut it.
Remodel the décor.
OR
Drop the prices accordingly.

We found this restaurant based on suggestion of our hotel desk clerks. Their suggestion was great. We really enjoyed the quaint, colonial atmosphere. Our server was very sweet and attentive. While my wife said her filet mignon was «ok» I was very impressed by the prime rib I had. Not only was it juicy and delicious, I actually had to get a doggie bag, which is rare as I have a very healthy appetite. The sides were all delicious, and the she-​crab soup appetizer was excellent. I would recommend this restaurant.

Thank you Unilocal for suggesting this gem of a restaurant. They serve a nice multi-​course meal and they’re the only place I have ever eaten that brings the salad bar to you and makes your salad tableside.
I had a wonderful meal. They had some original/​unique items including a special desert made by the owner (a strawberries and cream dish) that was extremely good.
If you’re in Roanoke don’t miss this one.

Great service, great food! Will be going back. What really impressed me was the fact that the prices are in line with a middle of the road, chain restaurant like Outback or Longhorn but the quality of the food, service and atmosphere is that of a high end chop house.

Well, it’s supposed to be open till 10, but plan for 9:30. Thru really don’t care at this hour.

Service was prompt and friendly. Filet was great, but ordered wrong dish. Server recommended encrusted bleu cheese which I quickly pushed off– not crust, more like smothered lump of melted bleu that totally overpowers all flavour of meat. Prime rib was enormous and tasty, served with horseradish: both sauce and straight up. Salad was ok, rolls fresh. Baked spud was yummy. Fries were a disaster. Cold and flaccid. The décor is 1970’s steakhouse, and parking requires creativity, timing or a hike.

Oh my goodness they are sooooo slow. The food was good but not spectacular, the sides seemed mass produced. Honestly I would recommend this for an older crowd but certainly not someone who is looking for anything adventurous.

I knew the minute the perfect martini arrived that we were in for a treat. Started with oysters on the half shell. Ordered the stuffed tilapia special and the queen prime rib for meals. We each had the salad as one of our sides. Great presentation. As each was a plate of lettuce supplemented by Gwyn, our waitress, offering a choice of ingredients as tomatoes, cheese, cukes, etc. I can’t find fault with any part of the meals including the final bill. A gem of ROA. Will be back on next trip. Great food excellent friendly service.

This is where I got a glimpse of true Southern Hospitality at its finest! My hotel concierge had misinformed me about the restaurant hours, and I got here ten minutes before their closing time. I explained the situation to them, and told them I was leaving town the next day. Not only did they accommodate me, but they made sure the kitchen was open and functioning (fryer and all) until I was finished with my meal, dessert and all. The service was friendly and attentive throughout my meal, and the food (old fashioned Southern fare) tasted very good. The crabmeat casserole was absolutely delectable!

To borrow from Donna Summer, «Dim all the lights, sweet darlin.» Had the lights been dimmed at Coach & Four, ambiance might have covered the fact that this place is past its prime… if it ever had one. Now, don’t get me wrong, the place was busy, the portions (not to mention the diners around us) large, yet something was missing under closer, well-​lit inspection. The food had no subtlety, no finesse. Instead, this felt like the kind of place you take grandma at 5:00 PM for dinner. They bring your salad ‘fixins’ on a tray, but none of them inspiring. They bring you a big martini, but with that GD pink plastic sword in the olives. (Why it gotta be pink?)
Apparently, there’s a market for such a place in the area. At the table next to us, a couple was celebrating their wedding anniversary. Sweet, right? Well, what seemed strange is that they brought their parents on their anniversary date. Sweet, right? The problem was that none of them seemed they wanted to be with each other… especially not the celebrating couple. Watching them it felt like they were simply playing out a well-​worn story at a well-​worn place. While I’m always grateful to voyeuristic-​ally observe the drama of daily life unfold, I don’t need it to unfold on my plate. So, in conclusion, my use of Donna Summer’s lyrics from «I Feel Love» will have to remain on hold for a future review of a different place.

I have no idea what Coach & Four means but I’ve taken my family to a couple of meals here and we always come back.
It’s an old-​school kind of place… where they serve you a salad and dress it table side (yes I do want tomatoes and cheese please, and throw on some bacon bits!). They also put down a basket of crackers when you are seated. Nothing like some saltines to whet the appetite!
They don’t have an extensive beer list so I can’t give it five stars, but the service is friendly, the portions are generous and the food is consistently tasty. I really liked the aforementioned salad which I recently had with their house dressing. The crab imperial I had was excellent as were the fries which accompanied it. My family members liked their steaks and seafood as well.
Listen, this isn’t some type of «nouveau cuisine» place. Pretentious hipsters are not their target audience. They know their demographic and they serve it well. You’re likely to see the manager of the local supermarket taking his wife here for a nice dinner. Manage your expectations accordingly and you’ll enjoy yourself.