When we were visiting the Frontier Culture Museum, my friend asked the American farmer about a good place to eat in Staunton. Depot Grille Restaurant was the first one he suggested. It is located in the old freight depot of Staunton Station, and if you are sitting in the covered deck, you can see the trains drive by.
The restaurant had two dining areas and a 40-foot long Victorian bar. We chose to seat at the covered deck, and an old cuisinette was decorating the room. The restaurant had crayons and a paper, the size of the table, on every table. As it was my birthday, my friends and my husband drew a birthday cake with candles on it and wrote, "Happy Birthday." I guess kids and adults both enjoy drawing on the paper.
The food was simply delicious. My friend and I ordered Depot Grille's most popular steak, Choice Ribeye Steak ($15.95). My other friend ordered one of the meals of the day, Caribbean Trout while my husband ordered the Seafood Sizzler ($17.95). All of our entrees were served with a salad and two side dishes. After eating freshly baked bread with butter and a house salad with homemade blue cheese sauce, I was already full, but the food was so delicious that I not only finished my steak, but also sampled my husband's lump crab meat, sea scallops, and jumbo shrimp and my friend's spicy trout. My husband's Seafood Sizzler was so delicious that I put it in the list of foods to order the next time I visited the Depot Grille.