Signal boost: please visit the Yelp link that will appear in the comments below and click "helpful," and perhaps ask folks you know to do so as well, because this racist bullshit is *not* *fucking* *okay.*

Also, when in Blacksburg VA, avoid this place like the freaking plague.

From the review, linked in comments to keep it more viewable with faceborg's weird algorithms:
"Now bar blue is tiny. Like 4 or 5 tables total tiny, and everybody is within a few feet of the bar. Places like these, its touch or go whether you order at the bar or get table service. A brief scan of the room shows that it's not very busy, and there's people with glasses of water, cocktails, and menus on their table. A minute more of observation and we see waiters and waitresses checking in on the guests at the tables. So, we do what good patrons do. We sit at one of the two open tables in the middle of the room and await our server. Simple, right? plus size homecoming

Here's an important tidbit. Our table is in the path of foot traffic for all the servers. Clearly visible to everybody in the bar. Again, servers have to pass us in order to get anywhere. From my seat, I have straight line of sight and solid eye contact for every staff member going in and out of the bar. Am I hammering the point in enough? You couldn't miss us is what I'm saying.

**Ten minutes pass** with literally not a single server or host saying hello, nobody other than those jerks at the bar acknowledging us, nobody bringing us menus, or offering us water. Just walking right past us. The entire time I'm making pleasant eye contact with the bartender, who is behind the bar not more than four feet away from me, in a failing attempt to get a server without being a tool.

Oh yeah! We are also literally a foot away from another table on our right that needed to be cleared for additional guests. That table gets cleared, and a couple sits down. Within a MINUTE, a server goes to their table, gets them menus, talks to them about the drinks and deserts available, offers them water and takes an order. And walks right on about her merry way.

Now something is def feeling fishy. We are literally the only people in the bar that aren't white. And we are literally the only people being ignored. My fiancé is beginning to get that all-too-familiar feeling of disbelief/hurt/anger, so I decide to make it social experiment and see how long it will take to get service at bar blue as a brown guy and a black woman. There's literally only five tables. They can't have missed us. We're right in everybody's face.

At the fifteen-minute mark, one of my friends joined us and I'm reminded to text the remainder of our group to avoid this place at all costs and go grab us a table at 622 because this is shaping up to be a huge fail.

As the only 3 nonwhite people in here, we decide we're just going to sit here quietly and watch everybody else get served while we are being denied water, courtesy, and acknowledgement of our existence completely. Oh and menus and drinks too.

Ten more minutes and we've crossed our threshold for the BS. Servers are actively avoiding eye contact now as they pass our table to check in on the other tables. At exactly 8:55 we put our coats back on and leave. Nobody looks at us as we leave, actually having to manipulate our bodies to get around one server who passed us over a dozen times to serve the table immediately on our right, to grab our coats off the coat rack.

This wasn't a dress code thing, we were all dressed professionally. This wasn't a behavior thing, we sat there sober and polite. This wasn't anything except a deliberate attempt to not provide service to us. Plain and simple.

As a person of color, you are invisible at bar blue/black hen. And I will be telling this story across all platforms and telling all my colleagues at the Med and Vet schools to avoid this place out of principle at all costs.

PS. Management, seriously? It's 2018. We were already hesitant to move down here in as tense a social climate that we are in. The stereotypes of this area exist. How does it feel to know you contribute to that stereotype?"

"This wasn't a dress code thing, we were all dressed professionally. This wasn't a behavior thing, we sat there sober and polite. This wasn't anything except a deliberate attempt to not provide service to us. Plain and simple.
As a person of color, you are invisible at bar blue/black hen."

Link in comments to a friend's review about their recent experience at the "fancy" and "upscale" place in town. Looks like I can cross them off our list of places to check out in Blacksburg.