The Porch

I really was surprised at how much fun I had here. We walked in and sat at the bar. I was told that we had the option to order food from the bar or get this– you can go inside grab food-​drinks and eat at outside or in the bar area! How awesome! I went to the salad bar and just tried out a bunch of different things. The macaroni and cheese was definitely delicious! Creamy and cheesy! My Fiancé ordered a pizza from the bar. It took awhile to get but it was nice and hot when we got it. BTW– the pepperonis are bigger than usual!
Drinks– I cant remember all the beers I had. I know, i’m sorry. I was pretty buzzed when I left. I did get a flight– Again, not sure what they were called but I liked most of them. I did try a beer that tasted like. Mouthwash– wasn’t a really good beer. Well, it wasn’t good to me.
The service– WOW! Great bunch of people that work here! Attentive and nice! It felt like they were friends that we’ve known for awhile. They made sure that we were taken care of.
Overall– It was fun, service was awesome, food was yummers. I will be coming here again :)

I have been here 2 different times, the food is excellent, but the way the place was built, the noise will kill your ears. Which I find pretty funny because I’m loud. I will give them another shot. But I’ll order from the grocery store and take it home to eat.

Old Menu Please!!! The new menu is blah, please bring back the old menu!
We come often, but went out of town for a bit only to come back to a changed menu that no longer has any of your awesome tacos, salads, and doesn’t include fries with burgers anymore.
Love you guys, but old menu is 100x better.

This isn’t a restaurant — it is fast food with a coffee bar and wine and beer. If you understand the concept — it’s an «in store» fast food and bar. One can buy food in store and grab a table. Or sit down, order from the limited menu and relax.
Everyone is friendly, great prices, a rotating beer and wine menu, and excellent pizza and burgers. What more can you ask for?

One of my happy places — The Porch is always a good place to go for a quick bite and drink. I usually buy food from the prepared food area of Whole Foods and bring it in, but sometimes I order off the menu. My last trip blew me away though — you can order oysters at the seafood section of Whole Foods and they will deliver them at The Porch and you can pay for everything at the bar. My mind was blown. Happy day for me!

I’ve always enjoyed the hot bar options they have at all whole foods. one night while doing grocery shopping we became hungry and the smell of these burgers and fries filled our noses so we had to give in and try.
the fries. man are those some good french fries! crispy and thick but soft on the inside. I had the veggie burger which was really good and it was filled with so many different vegetables. also it’s worth noting the bun it came on was amazing. my boyfriend had the bacon burger and also seemed to enjoy it, his only complaint was that the burger was dry but I think that’s because they don’t cook them to order so everything is well done. overall really good though!

Great selection of drinks and really enjoyed the atmosphere. They have different deals each day, as well. I always stop by and grab something when I head to Whole Foods. Not a bad place to chill and meet with a friend.

I love and miss this spot a lot. They always have great selections of beer and wine. They are cheap! And no tip for their great service. They have more IPA than before. I wanted drink white beer but nothing like that… That’s why I’m giving 4 stars.
Taste: Delicious and fresh!
Price: Cheap! Under $ 10.
Staff: AWESOME! Pretty friendly;)
Interior: Cool beachy style.
Parking lot: Many free spots around the building but always packed…
I wanna go back there asap!!!

Grab some food from the salad bar, hot bar, deli case, pizza kitchen OR order on the porch. Great selection of coffee, wine and beer. Many local breweries, beer and wine flights, plus Thursday beer school. Win on any night!

I like the atmosphere at the Porch. It’s a small sized bar with a diverse menu and friendly staff. My only downside is the service is kind of all over the place. You might get served by 5 different people while you’re here. And if it’s busy, the wait can also be a while before getting any service, which results in an even longer wait on your food. They don’t accept tip here, but I’d imagine people would tip low anyways because of the on-​the-​fly service.
My most recent visit, all our food arrived separately at maybe 10 mins at a time. It just made things awkward because my date had all her food and she insisted on waiting for me to get all of mine before she took a bite. I had to slowly drink my beer just so I would still have some by the time my food arrives.
As far as the food goes, it’s pretty awesome bar food. There are different specials everyday which encourages you to try new things. It’s a great pit stop before doing your grocery shopping. I would definitely do it that way, because grocery shopping on an empty stomach can be disastrous.

* Lack of mobile payments
* Screaming children
* Distracted staff
* Warm wine
* Slow Wi-​Fi

I must add that this is currently my favorite bar in va beach (is that sad?) Even though they don’t have any liquor, they have a crazy amount of beer (on tap and in bottles).
Everytime I go here I try something new & am always impressed. The prices are crazy reasonable even if you don’t make it for happy hour (we never do) The bar itself has a trendy homey feel. When 9pm comes around I never want to leave (they need to extend their hours… or maybe I need to work there…)

Best almost shopping trip ever. Had the munchies while we were waiting for a new set of tires down the road and ended up here. Had a great wine and beer sampler, with excellent seasonal ales. Chili fries were legit, and the fish tacos were pretty good — I’m absolutely not a fan of fruit salsas, but their mango salsa was spot on.
Their happy hour prices look incredible for the quality of wine and beer they have on tap. Psychologically I find it hard to round up my friends to head there specifically for happy hour, but I can absolutely explain to myself a daily, evening trip to Whole Foods for «groceries».

Love this place for the ever changing delicious craft beers on tap for great prices. Best fries in Virginia Beach. The only problem is the service. The bartenders turnover rate is so high lately. The experienced that have survived are excellent however there are so many new people it is compromising service. Other than that I highly recommend.

Good beer prices!
I stopped by the other evening and decided to have a $ 5 flight of beers they had on tap, cool thing was that i got to pick which ones i wanted. They also had wine flights as well. As i sat enjoying my beers. The place is rather a cute little spot off of the main store. I didn’t have any of the food but it looked good. There is no way you can beet the prices of their growler refills as well. After finishing my beer, I managed to stumble over my words prompting the bar keep to as me if i she needed to call me a cab, REALLY lol after only 4 small beers… I politely and kindly replied no and was waiting on my receipt expecting to give them a tip and remembered from a previous tip that they don’t except tips here. Winning!
**Overall a small nice spot to grab a nice refreshing brew. Just be sure to not make the same mistake I did by walking into the store after I was finished. Myself standing in a Whole Food Store, is like me in the beer aisle at Total Wine with my eyes glazed over every time. That’s when I always seem to get stuck looking at all the cool foods/​things they have and it can be like pulling teeth trying to get me outta there. lol
Cheers!

I never really knew people actually chose to hang out at Whole Foods until I discovered they have a bar. My hubs and I were on a search to refill our growlers since our go to spots were closed on that certain day, so, to The Porch we went. We tried every single beer they had to offer (in flights, $ 5ea.) while sitting under the sunshine, and it was lovely. We chose our favorites and filled our growlers for very reasonable prices. The only complaint were the pretentious people all around us but there was an even number of hipsters and hippies to level it out, so it was bearable. Its really small inside, basically a bar and a few tables for people to eat their $ 22 salads and $ 14 slice of Whole Foods pizza, but I couldn’t complain about the $ 10 we spend on two flights. Sitting outside is the way to go. I recommend doing this before you actually try to shop here, if you try to shop here. The hole in your bank account will be easier to accept with a cool buzz. Good beer too, which is the most important part.
PS. Don’t try to tip your bartender. They don’t accept them.
Double score.

This place is great. Everything we’ve had here is delish. Fresh, healthy, yummy.
Highly recommend their burgers. When you order there are a bunch of things u can add. If they don’t offer, ask. Some are an added fee.
The BTL is great too.

Thanks to Meredith for adding the Porch as a seperate spot on here (from the Whole Foods Market) (It deserves it’s own spot)
I stopped in to the Porch today for a sandwich before doing some shopping in Whole Foods. (if I shop in there hungry I’ll buy the whole meat and seafood section).
I ordered a shrimp roll (Shrimp Salad on a potato bun and chips). I didn’t expect much being the price was 6 or 7 dollars. I was pleasantly surprised to find a nice plate with plenty of shrimp salad on the bun and nice looking chips and even a little colliflower. The shrimp salad was delicious. Not full of fillers and had a great flavor and they were not mushy. Perfect. I had iced tea — being I had to work in a while.
The porch has a cool décor and the staff was friendly. It wasn’t as crowded today as I usually see it.
They have kraft beer, cool coffees and teas and good food.
You can bring food from the food bar in Whole foods and have it there with a beer if you like (which I’ve done before).
I like this place a lot. I’ll be back soon.
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This place is usually packed to the gills and yesterday was no exception. But we did manage to snag two seats at the bar just down from a group of dudes who were absolutely lit up. Lots of slurred speech at high volume. Not bad for two o’clock on a Sunday afternoon. I wonder if their wives just drop them there while they do the shopping.
While the service wasn’t bad, there were some times when it felt like I was sitting in the Ritalin Café. The guy goes to pour my pint and gets distracted. He goes to make my wife’s Latte and gets distracted. Our food items arrive ten minutes apart. You get the picture. The food was very good but not quite sure if I get the whole savory waffle concept. Its a little odd.
But I must say I do like the opportunity of downing a couple of pints of 7.2% ABV beer with my lunch. It put me in a delightful mood to go walk the aisles and giggle at all the women who come to this place dressed like they are auditioning for the upcoming season of «Real Housewives of Virginia Beach.» You can amuse yourself for an entire afternoon.

I thought that The Porch inside the Whole Foods deserved it’s own page, as it is a separate deal all together with a separate entrance. First things first: they have glasses of wine for $ 1.50! You heard me. Granted they only have 3 glasses available (Chardonnay, Shiraz, and some other red) but if you can get out of a bar for under $ 5 and have a nice buzz then you need to make that happen. They also had other organic wines/​glass available for $ 3, which is still pretty amazing. And they are full pours people. I am giving an extra star for the $ 1.50 wine and $ 3 wine.
Okay so wine aside, this place primarily focuses on beer. Pitchers, growlers, beer school, you name it. I don’t know anything about their beer on tap so I’m not even going to try but according to the people we were sitting next to it was impressive.
As for the food, it’s a limited menu. But they serve breakfast all day (gourmet waffles and hash apparently?) and then burgers, wings, a few salads, and a bunch of different house fries. We opted for the Fireman fries (buffalo sauce on fries with a side of dressing). Except they didn’t give us blue cheese dressing, it was a bland ranch. It could of used something else though, more sauce or they should have also put blue cheese crumbles on it, that would have made it amazing. The fries themselves were pretty damn good, a nice brown color, thick steak-​fry type. They also offer a daily special; on Friday it happened to be a pitcher of beer and an 18 inch pizza for $ 20. WHAT! That’s a sick deal.
One more thing that needs to be noted (and is the main reason I’m not giving it 5 stars) is because the whole ordering process and cashier station is entirely too unorganized and disjointed. You have to keep getting up and down each time you order something, there’s no official queue for you to know who to order from/​who to pay, it’s just kind of a weird free for all. The workers seem like they don’t know what the hell they’re doing, who was next, how to work the register, etc. When it came time for me to cash out, the worker literally couldn’t figure out how to bring up my check so he asked me to take my tab to one of the other cashiers inside the store to figure it out. I just left. If you’re not going to take my money and figure it out, I’m not going to do it for you chief.
If you opt to not eat there, you are also welcome to bring your food in from the salad bar or sandwich station, which is also what we did. Both times I’ve been, the bar seating is always packed (as early as 4:30pm!) but eventually we do find a seat. There was everyone from singles to a big party of 8 to babies here. I don’t think I’d bring a baby to a bar, but that’s just me. Overall, this is cool spot. If you’re up to fighting for a parking spot and a seat at the bar, then you’ll really be able to experience some awesome food and drinks for a great price.