Red Oak Café
Located in the Centerville area of Goochland County, Red Oak Café offers diners a small dining room and adjoining bar for both lunch and dinner off West Broad Street.
The decor won’t win you over, but the down-to-earth, homemade-style cooking may. I recently dined at the Red Oak for luncheon. We sampled from their prodigious club sandwich served on extra-wide toasted bread, their potato soup, salad, and pulled-pork barbeque sandwich with fries and coleslaw.
The cole slaw is made with typical cabbage and carrot, but with a poppyseed dressing. The pulled-pork was excellent in flavor, but lacked city penache. The red liquid coming from the sandwich dripped all over my hands, and then ran down my arm, deep into the chasm along my arm behind my sweater. I am confident the drip didn’t find its way to my armpit, but it stopped somewhere close. While the mess of the sandwich was controlled after this initial incident, I felt that a thicker, richer sauce would have presented this mishap. I would have been angry, but the sandwich was, after all, tasty.
I have eaten dinner here previously, which I recall presented standards with touches of inspiration. I do not believe there is anything overly fancy or fussy here to be had, just good takes on originals that keep customers coming back.
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