The Wildflour - A Blooming Restaurant in Roanoke, VA

Roanoke, Virginia boasts three local, independently owned branches of the Wildflour Café.  If you’re in the area and decide you would like to try something deliciously new instead of going to a chain restaurant, try the Wildflour!  Jeff and Teal Batson own the Wildflour located on the top level of Towers Shopping Center, just off of route 581.  The second location is in downtown Roanoke on Fourth Street, owned by Doug and Evie Robison.  The newest location, owned by Mark Henderson, is on Williamson Road near Hollins University.

Though the three Wildflour locations are independently owned, their menus offer the same basic gourmet café-style of food.  The Fourth Street location has been open for ten years while the Towers Shopping Center location has been open for thirteen years; both, however, employ friendly waiters and waitresses.  I just found out about the Hollins branch opening, so I have not been there yet.  I have read, however, that the owner offers more “home-cooking” selections than the original two locations.  I’m not sure what I think about this change because it seems like “home cooking” is an attempt to make the Wildflour like other Roanoke area restaurants.  The rest of this article will be based on the original two Wildflour locations since those are the two with which I am more familiar.

Usually a consistent flow of customers dines at both restaurant locations during suppertime, but lunch time is usually the busiest for this popular local restaurant.  At all times of the day, however, the Wildflour has gained a fair share of “regulars,” with whom the Wildflour employees can chat further than a cordial, protocol conversation.