Blue Moon Cafe

Easy-​going place to grab lunch, dinner or just a drink. Staff is always friendly, local art for sale rotates regularly on the walls, sit out in the garden during the summer, sit in the glass room during a warm colder day.
Food is always tasty and very affordable. Sandwiches are always on point, currently the Portabello and red salad is one of my favorites.
Open mic night every Wednesday night!

The service was excellent, as was the food. I highly recommend the meatloaf sandwich. They serve Black Dog coffee which is local. I had a wonderful lunch there. I will have to visit again the next time I am in West Virginia.

One of my favorite spots when passing through town. Pretty good vegetarian options.

Updated to say that I returned today and had a very nice experience. The server was kind and the food was comforting. I would say this place is the best lunch spot in town but they can get pretty overwhelmed during weekend dinners.

Great atmosphere. Sit outside if you can it’s beautiful!
Food is good and they have a wide variety of beers to choose from. Service was great. Cool place to eat

Love sitting outside here. Food is great. People are friendly.

I’ve never had anything bad here. The service can be slow at times. I think the Ruben sandwich is the best I’ve had anywhere other than the Carnegie Dell in NYC.

good food but the service is SO BAD! Slow, apathetic, disorganized. No thanks.

Lovely little place with a menu for everyone. Went here twice while in town for a film fest. Food was good to great. The service was really stand-​out: personable without being smarmy and the attention paid to our table was well-​timed.

Always incredible! Went there yesterday with a friend while visiting Shepherdstown. I tried the Smoking Bird Wrap and it was amazing, probably one of favorite meals there. Wonderful atmosphere, and very welcoming. Blue Moon is my favorite place in Shepherdstown and it’s always great returning, and I get the same «fuzzy» feeling when walking in. Everyone treats you as if you’re a regular! Highly recommend!

The most perfect place for lunch, dinner, or a beer! Cozy and very unique, the blue moon offers its customers art, music, and of course good food!
Basically everything is great. The Reuben is amazing. The hummus is the BEST hummus I’ve ever had. I wasn’t super fond of the steak and cheese sub. but then again, who the hell would want that when there’s so many amazing options.
Salads are all super fresh and made by hand, the waitstaff is super friendly and always knowledgeable and willing to answer any questions about the food, town, or local music.
EAT HERE! you wont regret it.

I was in the area with a friend to do some geocaching when we walked past this establishment. It looked nice, so later in the day when our bellies called out for food, we remembered it and stopped in. The outdoor seating looked fabulous, with the trees and stream running though, but there was a half hour wait for a table there and no wait for one inside, so inside it was.
Service was prompt, friendly and efficient. My friend chose the Kimster and I ordered the crab cak sandwich. She loved her sandwich and I was impressed by the quality of the crab cakes. I forget what we ordered for appetizers, but I recall liking whatever it was.
Limited but well chosen selection of craft beers. We were very impressed with this little, out of the way café. Highly recommended if you ever find yourself near Sheperdstown.

Everyone in Shepherdstown knows that Blue Moon has some of the best food in town. It’s absolutely my favorite place to grab some food after class. The ambience of the restaurant is great, with beautiful outdoor seating with plenty of shade (built around a flowing creek called the «Town Run») and quaint indoor seating for a relaxed meal.
The staff are also very nice! The only fallback of Blue Moon is that since everybody knows it’s delicious, sometimes it can get busy. Most days they’ll have a steady pace and will bring your food in a reasonable time, but every rare once in a while they’ll get a little hectic and unorganized.
Overall, I would definitely recommend this place! But if it your first time, try to go Monday-​Thursday. Then again, they’ll often have live music on the weekends ;). Enjoy!

The outdoor seating is relaxing in the evening. We were seated at one of the few tables without an umbrella, so glancing up every once on a while for rain drops or bird drops became a habit.
Skip the eggplant tower. The eggplant was thinly sliced and flavorless. Only the top disk gets sauced and cheesed. Sad face.
The turkey burger tasted cooked from frozen and was small.
We waited for a table, waited for a waitress and waited for our food so long the server told us the manager was checking on our order. Other tables were told the kitchen was way behind on tickets.
A cute café with some timing and flavor issues. Free parking across the street. Dogs welcome at outdoor tables.

While in town for business we found this cute little spot. While the service was great and the food yum.
The food while tasty was a little simple and too small. I do believe the place is in need of some upgrades. I understand it’s «eclectic» feel adds to its charm but some of its décor and furniture was too run down.

Came here with my mom and stepbrother, and was pleasantly surprised by the great food quality and atmosphere of the place. I am from California, and my mom moved out here with her boyfriend while I was in college, so I have only been to West Virginia a three times. This restaurant is by far the best place I have been to so far, the locally-​sourced ingredients and great sandwich combinations were a refreshing change from some of the chain eateries in the area.
Arrived around 6:45pm on a Tuesday, there is mainly meter parking but a few free spots for restaurant-​goers, and luckily a car was leaving a free spot just as we pulled up. We sat in the outside area which is much bigger than the inside, a very shady space with a river running through it — spacious and a peaceful place to sit. There were so many great choices of salads and sandwiches on the menu I had a hard time deciding, but ended up going with the Chicken Cheese Steak sandwich with french fries — a very delicious choice. My mom got the Apple-​acian, she liked it but thought there could have been a little less mustard. My stepbrother got the Philly Cheese Steak, basically the same as mine but with beef instead of chicken, he ate it all almost instantly.
Overall, the restaurant had a great atmosphere and delicious food; my only comment would be that I thought it was bit weird you had to pay extra to have fries as your side (potato chips come normally), but the fries were so good it almost made up for it. This is definitely somewhere I will want to come back to when I visit my mom!

Oh my…
This place makes a mean sandwich. Quality and fresh ingredients from start to finish. Everything from the fresh bread to the sliced meats is perfection. Even the chips it comes with is delicious! Try their fries too. So good. I took a bite of everyones sandwich and loved it all. The Meatloaf Sandwich had so much flavor. The meatloaf was juicy and seasoned perfectly. The BLT sounds simple enough but it is far from simple in flavor. So much deliciousness with each bite.
They have a bar in here. The ambiance is laid back and employees are very cool and friendly. Restrooms are near the bar area. This place is popular and gets packed, so don’t be surprised if you have to wait for seating. Good things are worth waiting for: D
If you’re visiting Shepherdstown, this is one place you’ve gotta visit.

Lots of great choices emphasizing local organic food. highly recommending sitting out back by running water & having the homemade meatloaf with a stout! only drawback to note is that you need to wave a flag or somethung if you care about anything resembling quick service out back. i can say if you just want to chill & be ignored its great. (though being totally ignored knocks a 4 to a 3)

I dont know why i have never reviewed The Blue Moon, as i went to school in Shepherdstown and still make a trip out there when ever i can to get a sandwich. Nothing Beats it, and it just keeps getting better and better.
Nothing beats the décor, warm wood insides, with local art (always supports local artists), little nick nack decorations, a sweet little wood bar, lots of windows to shed the warmth of the sun inside and a beyond fantastic outdoor patio with lots of seating and the town creek running right through it. It is, if i dont say so myself, the best little Café on the east coast, with a staff i feel like I’ve grown up with, and plenty of good service and smiles all around.
The food is hands down the most fresh and tasty for states around and their seasoned fries are single best french fry you could have. Their sandwiches are the best part, but they have plenty of fresh daily made soups, salads (greek is wonderful), appetizers, and specials. I have been to NY, SF California, and around the country and the Blue Moon makes the best Rueben in the country. There, i said it, sorry Katz Deli. So, grab a frosty local pint of beer, a warm meal (The Rueben), and stay for the atmosphere. You know ill be back Blue Moon staff!

Second or third time eating at this particular establishment always delicious food my son always gets the gobbler my wife got the quiche very good. Today we sort of had a waitress that was in a hurry have a harsh voicelike she had been sick for a week or
I got closer to the end of my sandwich I did find a large hair and my roast beef hot sandwich it was pretty disgusting but it was at the end of my sandwich not really much to say when you find it at the end but oh God
I still felt that the meal was delicious I was just sort of grossed out by the hair and my sandwich at the end and the waitress wasn’t the best today I don’t know if due to her sickness she saw her to have a feisty attitude not the normal service that we would get there.
I would imagine we will be back but I guess I will inspect the food very carefully to make sure that another hair is not in my food this was a very long hair still kind of grossed out but I had to finish 85% of my sandwich at that point