We stopped in for lunch and adored sitting out on the balcony! The waitress was very sweet and although we had a slight miscommunication about my order we enjoyed our experience very much! The food was pretty darn good and hit the spot after a long morning at the safari park. If you find yourself in Lexington on a nice day, do yourself a favor and sit outside here! The fried green tomatoes were yummy and cooked perfectly and the Mac and potato salads were great. My club sandwich wasn't extraordinary but it was tasty enough. My husband did say the men's room was pretty dirty and the stairs probably haven't been vacuumed within the last month but meh. The balcony view was worth it and our server was very good. read more

HORRIBLE: drove 7 hours from out of state to visit Lexington for volunteer work. Decided to explore the town on the last day and have a drink. Rap music was so loud you couldn't talk to the person next to you. Drinks were incredible overpriced but expected. Over heard the bar manager bad mouthing my friend and I about our presence there to the bartender. Spent a whole lot of money there and got treated horribly for no reason. Giving one star only bc the one bartender was nice. Not a good way to attract out of towers. So if you are, avoid the bar portion. read more

Bad decision, we should have reviewed here first! Service was terrible! Mediocre food. I asked for 1/2 and 1/2 tea (1/2 sweet half unsweetened) My server never heard of it. So I asked for unsweetened and I would add sugar, she brought me sweet. We had an appetizer and a quesadilla and asked of they could both be brought out at the same time since we were sharing (party of 2). She asked us upon walking away if we would be sharing the appetizer since it was coming out first. (What just happened? ) midway through lunch she asked if I would like some more tea, I said sure ...unsweetened! Well a glass of sweet tea showed up. I spoke clearly and did not mumble so she could understand. Well that idea didn't work. I'm sorry I let a tip..Beware!!!! read more

Macados used to be one of my favorite places to go in Lexington, but in the last few years it is not the same. They constantly have a sign on the door looking for help, and from what I hear from the local young adults who have worked there, it's because they aren't given any hours when they are hired. There is constant turnover and the food and service has suffered. The last few times I have gone, the food was just average, and the last time it bordered on bad. My favorite sandwich used to be the Big City Jazz- turkey piled high with bacon and avocado. In the last year, the avocado has been reduced to almost nothing and the bacon (which I didn't even get on my last visit) is little to nothing and the precooked stuff like you see at Subway. My bread last time was not fresh and the fries, which are normally good, were cold and chewy. I didn't complain because we were tired and the server was new and looked petrified. I will go back sometime and try again, but I haven't been able to tell any visitors to try it out. It's just not a safe bet anymore. read more

DONT GO HERE. They insist on ripping you off. Management it awful. But, our waitress was very nice so no bad words for her!

Food is okay, service is okay, and menu is amazing. This is one of those places that I really wanted to like but walked away underwhelmed. Everything about it seemed right up my alley. For starters we stopped on the way back from North Carolina, cute, eclectic town, quirky sandwich place with an extensive menu in an awesome historic building; it really seemed like the perfect storm. For starters, the menu is overwhelming. It is huge and has just about any type of sandwich combination you could imagine. The sandwich names are quirky and don't really indicate the type of sandwich you are ordering. You almost have to pick a quirky name and go for it; it seemed too daunting of a task to read the entire menu complete with descriptions. We ordered chips and dips or something to that effect as an appetizer. It consisted of house made potato chips, two soft pretzels, and tortilla chips. The dips were 'house made' onion dip, salsa, and ranch. The best part was the potato chips. The onion dipped which seemed somewhat hyped up on the menu was a dead ringer for the Liptons packet mix. The soft pretzels tasted exactly like the freezer super pretzels and were just as chewy. The tortillas were nothing special, at all. For meals we one of the steak subs, really couldn't tell you the name of it and a BBQ Bill Burger. The steak sandwich wasn't bad but wasn't all that great, I have had better at Jerry's and Jersey Mikes and MUCH better at Southstreet. I subbed out the side of fries with the burger for cheese and chili fries and I was okay with whatever the difference in price/extra charge would be. I was told when I ordered that I would have to get the appetizer size if I wanted chili cheese fries. So I scratched that, but the waitress then stated she would see if the kitchen was able to accommodate that as they 'are swamped'. Back track, it was a Sunday afternoon, there was no wait, tables open, and the kitchen is mainly pumping out sandwiches, burgers and fries... In the end the chili cheese fry order came to fruition, but arrived cold. Too full from the fries and appetizer and bites of steak sub the burger remained untouched until lunch the next day. Sadly too say the best part of the meal was a cold left over burger... The waitress was sweet and really seemed like she was hustling, she had tables both upstairs and downstairs but certain aspects were off. There was only one small plate for the appetizers and no napkins. Since we didn't receive a visit from our waitress we had to manage with the lack of napkins and one plate. I am guessing this is the type of place that has the potential to be great if you have your thing that you always get, for us being first timers it wasn't memorable for the right reasons. All in all we will still be searching for 'that' place to go if or when the next Boone, NC road trip happens... read more

I ate at Macado's earlier today and the food was really just average. Me and my friend got the salsa con queso together and I got the ruben sandwich. My salsa con queso was decent, but my ruben sandwhich was very sub par. It was suppose to have sour kraut on it, but it only came on a small portion of the sandwhich. My fruit was also not fresh and from a package. This restraunt really needs to step their game up if they want more stars! read more

We arrived and no one came to take our order for 10 minutes. We approached the manager and he took care of us right away. The food was okay but the descriptions sounded much better than they actually taste. Maybe this is a good bar but not worth going out of your way for food wise. read more

Service is usually sub par. It takes awhile to get food and drinks, which aren't even good to begin with. A great atmosphere for drinking with friends, however. read more

Food is average. They do have rather tasty wings, however. If you're looking for fast service on the weekends, forget about it....but the most appealing feature to this bar/restaurant is "The Schooner", or The Chalice as some of us call it. This is a rather large goblet that they serve their draft beers in. Does it make it taste better? No. It does, however, take you back to those college days... read more

Burger was excellent, but the service was lacking. Waitresses dressed like they just got out of bed and came to work. Not much interaction by bar staff and didn't see a smile once. Have 3 tv's above the bar, but no sound on the for the basketball finals going on (visited there in mid-March). read more

Took me four hours to get a pretty below average sandwich. The waitresses didn't seem to care. Everyone was outrageously slow. Go anywhere else but here. read more

I really like the "Do's". It was new my senior year, but was a welcome relief to the dismal two other bar options in Lexington. The wings are my favorite for food. I'm a wing fan, and they are consistently awesome. The drinks are good too, and I'm still under the impression that you can keep the glasses they come in. It can be pretty packed on the weekends. One time I was visiting out of town, and every table was full. We walked past the hostess (truthfully at the time not really knowing we had sign up for a table there... I had just walked in and sat down so many times before). Anyway, we found an empty table that had just been cleared upstairs and so we sat down. The waitress came up and didn't look too happy. She said, "Where are your menus?". I said, "Oh, can we have some?". She left, apparently checked to see if our party had signed up for a table, came back, and asked us to leave. We asked why. She said she knew we hadn't signed up for a table because we didn't come up with menus. So we left. She was kind of nasty about it. Hasn't stopped me from going back. read more

Macado's - Bar - Sandwiches Near Me - Lexington, Virginia

Great atmosphere!! Shitty service... We sat on the upper patio with a great view of Main Street! And our server ruined the evening! She never gave her name! We asked her how her evening was and her response was "I'm here". I get it you're having a rough night but don't ruin ours! read more

The table was sticky and the place was packed to the brim with drunk college students but other than that food was amazing and service was above amazing. I would recommend if you are looking for a great dine in restaurant read more

The fries were frozen the burger wasn't great and the service was poor.

Decent subs at a decent price. Skip the appetizers and just pick one of their many different subs. The Brooklyn Bridge, full of turkey and roast beef, was scrumptious. read more

Good varieties of drinks and food. Tough place to move around on a Friday or Saturday night when school is in session. Nice Schooners of beer and plenty of TVs to watch sports! read more

Not the fastest service, the wait was longer than we thought reasonable, we were going to leave when finally our order came. Don't know if this was a "one off" or a trend. Might be back if it strikes our fancy. read more

Lexington mainstay - try to sit outside! Great location and Lexington VA memorabilia no matter if you are a WL General or a VMI Cadet. Family friendly! read more

This place sucks. Don't eat here. Shawnikia was rude and acted like we were a burden. She acted like she was doing us a favor by waiting on us. Fries were half frozen. Cheese on nachos cold. Not once did waitress ask how food was or if we needed anything. I ALWAYs leave a 25% tip..,,always. Except for today. Because I've never experienced such horrible service. The food sucked but I would never fault the wait staff for that...but I will fault her for being the worst waitress I've ever had in my 52 years on this earth. read more

This is the worst restaurant I have ever been to. The servers don't care about the patrons and are lazy. I blame management. Some of my to-go orders have lacked food items that should have come with the dish. My friend just ordered a sandwich from there and they failed to put one of the five ingredients on it: the sauce. I once got a salad that was half wilted lettuce. The only reason I go here is for convenience, and my day is immediately worse upon eating the food and having to deal with their unparalleled bad service. read more

AMAZING experience. Great food at an even better price. I highly recommend this little gem.

Worst service. Went today with my family and waited at the host stand for 15 minutes without being helped. We were told "someone will be with you shortly" twice but no one actually did. Why couldn't that server just assist us? At least 3 servers saw us standing there and never tried to help. The restaurant was not crowded and there were open tables. We would have seated ourselves since we had been waiting for so long with a 7 year old, however they needed to be cleaned off. It was upsetting to waste our time so we left. read more

We really liked it. The bathrooms were clean, the atmosphere was great, waitress did a great job, and food spot on. For a sandwich shop, I give it 5 out of 5. read more

Food is ok, service is slow. If you have time to kill and you're not starving, you can have a good time. There are many better quality restaurants in Lexington but the porches and extensive menu keep Macado's in the running. read more

BooBager Sandwich was amazing. Interesting place. Bet eating on the patio is beautiful in the summer.

Great food good service low prices. Nice old building. And yes we would go back. Not easy to park but the visitors center allows people to park in their lot while sight seeing. read more

Probably the best watering hole/restaurant in Lexington proper. Or at least within reasonable walking distance from campus and any frat house. My friends and I frequented Macado's throughout our 4 years at W&L and there's a reason why. Okay, I admit, multiple reasons why. Reason Nummer 1 would have to be the wings. Out of all the places I've been to I don't think I've ever had wings so consistently hot, juicy, and crispy. The nice crisp of the fried skin coupled with the sweetness of the sweet baby ray's sauce was always something I looked forward to when we went. Also, if you ever want your ass handed to you on a silver platter get the wings with anything other than sweet baby ray's. I tried multiple times but each time I could only eat about 2 before I was crying my eyes out. Especially the Thai peanut sauce or whatever it was, holy crap. Reason Nummer 2 is definitely the fuckin' SCHOONERS! Nothing spells a good night like 2-3 basically hand-held bowls full of shock top (a favorite of mine). For around $4-5 a pop for what equates to about 4 drinks is something else. Those with a side of wings and a group of buddies makes for a great night. In my humble opinion the atmosphere is the cherry on top. During the days it's relatively quiet but varies depending on if there's a sports game or not. But at night is when it gets really hopping. The atmosphere at night is always alive with students just shooting the shit and having a good time. It's the perfect place to sit with your friends and have a couple cold ones. All in all it's a great place. If you're in Lexington and looking for a good time go here. read more

Totally disagree with the comments about service. Our waitress was prompt and very responsive to our needs. There was a short delay maybe 5 minutes for our food and she let us know so we weren't sitting there wondering. My sandwich was a decent size for the price and the Mac and cheese was very good but I would skip the boneless wings. read more

Went here while on vacation with my family. We were seated on the second floor. The food was all amazing, and they let us keep the glasses the beer came in for free as a souvineir. read more

Visited Lexington for one night and chose Macado's because of outdoor dining on second floor balcony and vegetarian choices. Very nice on both counts. I've had many cold veggie sandwiches over the years and their build-your-own was among the best. Very glad we ate here. read more

This is exactly the type of place we like to go to for a quick and tasty informal meal. There are two stories to this historic building for the eating area which adds to its quirkiness. Plus there is outside eating on the front porches with a view of historic downtown Lexington, VA. However, there are some misses: The menu is a disorganized mess. Everything has a cute name and it is alphabetical. So if you want a certain sandwich (say pastrami), there are several different options, but not next to each other. I frequently give up and resort to just 'build your own'. If they would group them by type (like as in meat), it would help a lot. The beer selection is hit or miss. We like a good IPA. Sometimes they have one on tap, or a good ale, and other times they seem to be stuck on all lagers. We don't stick around if they don't have what we want. If ordering chips, they throw a small bag on with the meal which is a terrible idea. Make them home made or serve something else. And recently (December, 2017) the place seems to be dirty. They need to close it down and scrub from top to bottom. I hope they will do that while the students are away during the Christmas holidays. Management needs to step up and do a makeover, before this neat place loses all it customers and shuts down. That would be a terrible loss for Lexington. read more

DO NOT GO HERE. We came to Macado's for dinner. I ordered the vegetarian mushroom burger and a side salad. I realized the salad was covered with bacon. I walked in to ask for a salad without bacon since I am a vegetarian. As I was walking out I heard the group of waitresses say "YANKEES can't have bacon on their salad". How incredibly rude. What a derogatory way to treat a paying customer. Very disappointing experience, we will not be back to Lexington. read more

Only been there once, but they have plenty of different sandwiches on the menu to choose from, so they have something to please almost anyone's interest. And the beer is cheap. read more

Service not great and I had a hair in my food. the waitress took food and didn't bring new back! When I asked about my Food, the staff assured me that they had taken it off my bill!! Hello I would like the food i ordered and it's assumed i wouldn't pay for food with hair in it!! On top of that she told me she could put it back on my bill and brig me more food!! Not impressed and I wouldn't go back. Also very loud, not it the party fun way but just to many people talking in a cave kinda sounds. ... Not fun!! read more

Probably best service I ever had at macados was a few weeks ago...I was sitting in the upstairs section and my server was Emily c. She was very polite and not once said no to my requests! Excellent family atmosphere and even better food! ( I had the mac and cheese it was very filling) I recommend Emily C. As your waitress if possible! (Not sure of last name!) And mac and cheese or quesidilla is very popular! read more

Has a bar and good food but the service completey sucks u have to wait what seems like forever and its very noisy

Macadon't-I went into Macado's at around 5 on a Sunday evening with three of my friends. We were seated promptly for a wait that seemed endless. We received some of appetizers at around 540 and then all of our food by 620. I wish it had been that simple though. Our server forgot that I had ordered 10 boneless wings, which I would have been willing to overlook if the server had apologized and put my order in, but the server suggested that I had not done so. My friends all agreed that I had, so the server begrudgingly trudged to the kitchen to correct the mistake. Through the whole time we were eating our food we were never asked how it tasted or if there was anything else we needed. My friends sandwich was missing elements of it leaving him hungry and unfulfilled. However, this negligence couldn't be remedied as our server was nowhere to be found. All in all, my friends and I left Macado's roughly 2 hours later feeling taken, poorly treated, and with no intentions on returning to this institution. Not once did they apologize or attempt to explain to us why the wait was so long. All of the people in my party are reasonable individuals who would fully understand such a situation. This also hasn't been a one time offense. In the limited times I have been to Macado's, service similar to this has occurred. Clearly Macado's is a Macadon't if you are visiting the Lexington area. I award them one star because that is the minimum required for a post. read more

I have gone to this bar many times and have never received good service. Whether it's the the one bartender who seems annoyed that I even walked into her bar. Or the fact that my boyfriend won't order jack and coke because it is usually well whiskey poured into a Jack bottle I am always disappointed by my experience. Tonight however was the straw that broke the camel's back. When I walked in I ordered a jack and coke and an angry orchard, immediately after (before she had poured a single thing in my order) I stopped and said "never mind, just two angry orchards" she said okay, yet still went on to pour three drinks. When she delivered them to me I said I had told her I only wanted the two angry orchards, to which she responded don't worry about it just take the jack and coke. So I did. We did not drink it, but instead gave it to another patron at the bar who was not with our party. Fast forward to tab closing time, she hands me a check with my two angry orchards plus the jack and coke (which was her mistake). I am a bartender myself, and have never charged someone for my mistakes I made behind the bar. If I made an extra drink for a party I either comped it or paid for my mistake, not charged the customer for something they did not order. read more