William Jeffrey’s Tavern

Reviews

• Bingying L.

  star star star star star_border 25 May 2026

  As another review has said, I also have mixed feelings about this place. The food isn't great. The nachos are a huge portion so do not try to eat that with another meal. It's typical bar food so don't expect anything spectacular.
  
  However, trivia night here is fun. I think it's because District DC does them so it's more mainstream questions. I believe the winner(s) receive some sort of money off their total bill. I would recommend it as a trivia spot!

• Yuchen Z.

  star star star star star_border 22 May 2026

  Came here after we went to do the Escape Room of Arlington next door. If you escape the room successfully, you get a free appetizer or $10 off your meal. You get one coupon per reservation of escape room. So we got 2 since we escaped 2 rooms!!! Great deal!
  
  Overall, the service and food was pretty good. The pretzel bread was excellent - fluffy and tasty. The nachos were OK. The other entrees were decent. I think the overall atmosphere and food scene was pretty good for the price.

• Katherine M.

  star star star star_border star_border 21 May 2026

  I have mixed feelings about this place. I've been several times because it's around the block from my home and the food is really good.
  The mixed drinks are sweet if you like that and there's a lot of beer to chose from.
  They have great food specials and we always love their appetizers.
  We especially enjoy the specials during holidays.  
  Their tavern burger is a must try. And the servers are all friendly and seem to be trying their best.
  
  However, after several visits we did notice pretty inconsistent service.
  The servers are nice but kinda slow and sometimes they don't come at all. We once waited 40 min while groups that came after us all got served so we left. They comped our drinks and were apologetic.
  Once, my boyfriend had bad food poisoning after eating the mussels.
  Three times we have come and didn't get silverware and had to hunt down a server or grab from another table.
  Once, we came and the bartender and hostess didn't even acknowledge us after 10 minutes so we just left. Not a great feeling to be looked at and ignored :/.
  
  We will probably keep going back and keep rolling the dice lol because the food is really good.

• Adrienne D.

  star star star star star_border 17 May 2026

  I've been here a few times and must say that the buttermilk fried chicken sandwich with homemade ranch is by far the best thing on the menu. I would highly suggest for anyone looking for a good southern fried chicken!

• Claudia D.

  star star star star star_border 13 May 2026

  Came here because we saw people eating outside and it looked like brunch.  Walked in they gave us the menu for brunch, but it had just ended.  I must say though their brunch selection looked delicious...might have to go try it out.  Anyway, we had went next door to the escape room and told us that they would give us a free appetizer if we showed them our receipt.  We went in and the place looked nice.  We did see where the brunch area was set up and looked like a good selection.  We got the nachos as the free appetizer, which you could pick any dessert for free on the menu which was nice.  They nachos were a good pertain and had good flavor.  The food was tasty and the amount of food for price was good.  The burgers we had were big.  Could not really complain about anything.  The onions rings are huge and think but tasty.  I did like there was an option to create your own burger because they didn't have many options on their menu and I like different stuff so that was a plus for me.