Food was amazingly delicious. I had the chicken and my wife had the swordfish. One of the best meals I had and portion size was more than acceptable. Extremely nice waitress and very pleasant to be seated and checked on by the owner herself.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
David Yamane
My wife Sandy and I first visited The Hackney the year they opened, in October 2019 (see some of my review from that visit below - edited bc Google word limit exceeded). We've been trying to come back since then but only just made that happen this week. I stand by everything I said in my original review, which was well before Executive Chef Jamie Davis became a James Beard Award Finalist for Best Chef Southeast. A well-deserved acknowledgment of his work here.
Sandy and I had dinner on back-to-back nights. We regret that they no longer do a Sunday brunch as they did in 2019 so we couldn't do the trifecta. (They do serve lunch from 12-2p on Saturdays.)
Since my original review was comprehensive and still applies, let me just highlight some questions that this visit answered for us:
(1) Can you take a perfect cocktail like The Last Word or Corpse Reviver No 2 and make it a "G&T" by adding tonic to it? Yes, yes you can. I was a bit concerned about doing this, but found the drinks quite refreshing as an appetizer companion compared to the originals.
(2) Are those really collard greens? Yes, yes they are. Sandy and I kept asking ourselves that as we enjoyed the NC Collard Green Salad on day 2 (sorry, we ate before the camera). We've both eaten a lot of collards but nothing as crisp and refreshing as this salad.
(3) Can you put trout in shrimp bisque? Yes, yes you can, especially if you put it on a bed of rice and shrimp. I was delighted at how well the bisque complemented the trout without overwhelming it.
(4) Can you eat lionfish? Yes, yes you can. And if you serve it whole (bone in) and chicken fried you capture all of the juiciness of the meat.
Between the trout and the lionfish I would choose the trout, but in 5 visits to The Hackney over 5 years I've never been disappointed in a menu item I've chosen.
Congrats to Chef Jamie. Thanks to our server on both nights, Kayla Lilley, as well as the entire wait staff who chip in as needed. Owner Susanne worked front of house and made us feel very welcome, and we enjoyed re-connecting with owner Nick after so many years. Hope to see y'all again in fewer than 5 years!
SNIPPET OF ORIGINAL REVIEW FROM OCTOBER 2019:
This is objectively a 5 star restaurant, but compared to the other dining options in Washington, NC it is a 6 star restaurant. We stayed in 2 days we ate there 3 times (drinks/appetizers, dinner, and brunch).
After another disappointing dinner in Washington, we decided to stop in at The Hackney on a Friday night. We were going to just get some drinks but saw an option for a you-pick-3 cheese plate for $13. Hard to pass up, and it turned out to be lovely, with a delicious pear jam and house made crackers to accompany the local cheeses. The bartender, Riley, also slipped me the extensive gin menu, and there a beautiful relationship was born. The cocktail menu is also remarkable, notably the Pimms Cup with house-made Pimms.
About the food: Delicious. Although I badly wanted the Beef Wellington on the brunch menu, I was still a bit full from dinner the night before and needed to drive home so I opted for the ground filet burger. It was cooked to a perfect medium rare and well-seasoned. We even had a dessert with our brunch, the sticky toffee pudding which we enjoyed so much on two nights before on our first visit.
Hopefully I have given enough here to encourage you to give The Hackney a try. It is more expensive than the average restaurant in Washington, but well worth the added expense.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Red Velvet Creme Brulee, Seared Scallops, Seared Tuna, Oysters Rockefeller, Risotto, Cheese Plate, Steak, Shrimp and Grits, Sticky Toffee Pudding Birthday Dessert, Amuse Boucher Focaccia with Strawberry Sauces and Spice Butter, Truffle Fries
Matt Dunning
Everything about this place is 5 stars. Sparkling water burger all amazing!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Denise Cherry
Great value for the experience, ambiance, and service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Duck Confit, NC Seared Tuna, Sticky Toffee Pudding Birthday Dessert, Yellowfin Tuna Crudo with Strawberry and Pepper Relish
Jeremiah McLamb
The atmosphere was welcoming and the food was superb!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Oysters Rockefeller
Ashley Knight
Georgie .. our server wasn’t great.. maybe just busy or distracted.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Steak
Melissa Schmidt
Wonderful food and experience!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Agent22 Smith
My wife and I have wanted to try The Hackney’s 3 course, fixed price menu for months and did so last night. She had Filet medallions and the wine pairing and found everything to be excellent. I enjoyed the tomato and peach salad as a starter, but it was the fried softshell crab that blew me away. Chef Jaime served the crab on a concoction of puréed cauliflowers with a bit of diced apple. Sheer genius. It elevated the crispy crab light years beyond what tartar or cocktail sauce could have done. Portions have grown since the early days and pricing is very reasonable in light of the exceptional food and service. Can’t wait to return.
The Hackney is my husband’s and my favorite restaurant. The food is prepared in an artistic way and of course, delicious! The special events where they bring the fishermen in to talk about their catch is a wonderful experience. We’ve been going there 4 years and are always pleased with our meal. They also have fantastic cocktails!!
Renee Dunn
What a wonderful experience!! One of the best meals I’ve ever had! Great people with a community supported source for as much as they can get locally. From the servers to the owners everyone was friendly. Nick and Susanne have an outstanding place. The interior is beautiful and historic. The Gin they brew and also source locally is so good. Nick gave us a personal flight tasting educating us about gin and the process they us. Chef Jamie is a genius with his preparation of dishes!
Meats were cooked perfectly. Great environment and staff was attentive. My daughter is vegetarian and sometimes struggles but we had the grilled peach starter with the corn risotto and was also able to get an order of the truffle fries. She was quite pleased. 10/10 would highly recommend to anyone who appreciates good food and willing to pay for it!
Always love having dinner here when we are moving our daughter in or out of ECU.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Seared Scallops, Steak
Daniel Hill
The food is amazing! The Hackney is the kind of place where you HAVE to try something different every time you go. Plus the gin is to die for!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: House-Made Gin and a Washington Sunset, Cheese Platter, Seared Scallops, Seared Tuna, Oysters Rockefeller, Risotto, Duck Confit, NC Seared Tuna, Steak
Keith McNeill
We ate at the Hackney for a dual celebration a college graduation and birthday. We were waited on by an awesome server (Madison) she was attentive, friendly and personable! We went on Saturday for lunch the menu was scaled back from the regular dinner menu but we still had multiple great dishes to select from. All the food came out in great time and was prepared wonderfully!! We aren’t in the Washington area often however when we return we will DEFINITELY return to the Hackney the experience and dining was top notch!
Food was amazingly delicious. I had the chicken and my wife had the swordfish. One of the best meals I had and portion size was more than acceptable. Extremely nice waitress and very pleasant to be seated and checked on by the owner herself.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My wife Sandy and I first visited The Hackney the year they opened, in October 2019 (see some of my review from that visit below - edited bc Google word limit exceeded). We've been trying to come back since then but only just made that happen this week. I stand by everything I said in my original review, which was well before Executive Chef Jamie Davis became a James Beard Award Finalist for Best Chef Southeast. A well-deserved acknowledgment of his work here.
Sandy and I had dinner on back-to-back nights. We regret that they no longer do a Sunday brunch as they did in 2019 so we couldn't do the trifecta. (They do serve lunch from 12-2p on Saturdays.)
Since my original review was comprehensive and still applies, let me just highlight some questions that this visit answered for us:
(1) Can you take a perfect cocktail like The Last Word or Corpse Reviver No 2 and make it a "G&T" by adding tonic to it? Yes, yes you can. I was a bit concerned about doing this, but found the drinks quite refreshing as an appetizer companion compared to the originals.
(2) Are those really collard greens? Yes, yes they are. Sandy and I kept asking ourselves that as we enjoyed the NC Collard Green Salad on day 2 (sorry, we ate before the camera). We've both eaten a lot of collards but nothing as crisp and refreshing as this salad.
(3) Can you put trout in shrimp bisque? Yes, yes you can, especially if you put it on a bed of rice and shrimp. I was delighted at how well the bisque complemented the trout without overwhelming it.
(4) Can you eat lionfish? Yes, yes you can. And if you serve it whole (bone in) and chicken fried you capture all of the juiciness of the meat.
Between the trout and the lionfish I would choose the trout, but in 5 visits to The Hackney over 5 years I've never been disappointed in a menu item I've chosen.
Congrats to Chef Jamie. Thanks to our server on both nights, Kayla Lilley, as well as the entire wait staff who chip in as needed. Owner Susanne worked front of house and made us feel very welcome, and we enjoyed re-connecting with owner Nick after so many years. Hope to see y'all again in fewer than 5 years!
SNIPPET OF ORIGINAL REVIEW FROM OCTOBER 2019:
This is objectively a 5 star restaurant, but compared to the other dining options in Washington, NC it is a 6 star restaurant. We stayed in 2 days we ate there 3 times (drinks/appetizers, dinner, and brunch).
After another disappointing dinner in Washington, we decided to stop in at The Hackney on a Friday night. We were going to just get some drinks but saw an option for a you-pick-3 cheese plate for $13. Hard to pass up, and it turned out to be lovely, with a delicious pear jam and house made crackers to accompany the local cheeses. The bartender, Riley, also slipped me the extensive gin menu, and there a beautiful relationship was born. The cocktail menu is also remarkable, notably the Pimms Cup with house-made Pimms.
About the food: Delicious. Although I badly wanted the Beef Wellington on the brunch menu, I was still a bit full from dinner the night before and needed to drive home so I opted for the ground filet burger. It was cooked to a perfect medium rare and well-seasoned. We even had a dessert with our brunch, the sticky toffee pudding which we enjoyed so much on two nights before on our first visit.
Hopefully I have given enough here to encourage you to give The Hackney a try. It is more expensive than the average restaurant in Washington, but well worth the added expense.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Red Velvet Creme Brulee, Seared Scallops, Seared Tuna, Oysters Rockefeller, Risotto, Cheese Plate, Steak, Shrimp and Grits, Sticky Toffee Pudding Birthday Dessert, Amuse Boucher Focaccia with Strawberry Sauces and Spice Butter, Truffle Fries
Everything about this place is 5 stars. Sparkling water burger all amazing!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great value for the experience, ambiance, and service.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Duck Confit, NC Seared Tuna, Sticky Toffee Pudding Birthday Dessert, Yellowfin Tuna Crudo with Strawberry and Pepper Relish
The atmosphere was welcoming and the food was superb!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Oysters Rockefeller
Georgie .. our server wasn’t great.. maybe just busy or distracted.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 4
Service: 2
Recommended dishes: Steak
Wonderful food and experience!!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My wife and I have wanted to try The Hackney’s 3 course, fixed price menu for months and did so last night. She had Filet medallions and the wine pairing and found everything to be excellent. I enjoyed the tomato and peach salad as a starter, but it was the fried softshell crab that blew me away. Chef Jaime served the crab on a concoction of puréed cauliflowers with a bit of diced apple. Sheer genius. It elevated the crispy crab light years beyond what tartar or cocktail sauce could have done. Portions have grown since the early days and pricing is very reasonable in light of the exceptional food and service. Can’t wait to return.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Steak, Sticky Toffee Pudding Birthday Dessert, Truffle Fries
The Hackney is my husband’s and my favorite restaurant. The food is prepared in an artistic way and of course, delicious! The special events where they bring the fishermen in to talk about their catch is a wonderful experience. We’ve been going there 4 years and are always pleased with our meal. They also have fantastic cocktails!!
What a wonderful experience!! One of the best meals I’ve ever had! Great people with a community supported source for as much as they can get locally. From the servers to the owners everyone was friendly. Nick and Susanne have an outstanding place. The interior is beautiful and historic. The Gin they brew and also source locally is so good. Nick gave us a personal flight tasting educating us about gin and the process they us. Chef Jamie is a genius with his preparation of dishes!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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The Scallops are Phenomenal as are the Cocktails.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Seared Scallops
Meats were cooked perfectly. Great environment and staff was attentive. My daughter is vegetarian and sometimes struggles but we had the grilled peach starter with the corn risotto and was also able to get an order of the truffle fries. She was quite pleased. 10/10 would highly recommend to anyone who appreciates good food and willing to pay for it!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Risotto, Hamburger, Steak, Truffle Fries
Always love having dinner here when we are moving our daughter in or out of ECU.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Seared Scallops, Steak
The food is amazing! The Hackney is the kind of place where you HAVE to try something different every time you go. Plus the gin is to die for!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: House-Made Gin and a Washington Sunset, Cheese Platter, Seared Scallops, Seared Tuna, Oysters Rockefeller, Risotto, Duck Confit, NC Seared Tuna, Steak
We ate at the Hackney for a dual celebration a college graduation and birthday. We were waited on by an awesome server (Madison) she was attentive, friendly and personable! We went on Saturday for lunch the menu was scaled back from the regular dinner menu but we still had multiple great dishes to select from. All the food came out in great time and was prepared wonderfully!! We aren’t in the Washington area often however when we return we will DEFINITELY return to the Hackney the experience and dining was top notch!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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