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Contact & Location

Business	Chowning's Garden Bar
Address	109 E Duke of Gloucester St, Williamsburg, VA, 23185, United States
Phone	(855) 318-9795
Website	https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/stay-play/dining/historic-taverns/chownings-garden-bar/
Categories	American Restaurants, Barbecue Restaurants, Southern Restaurants
Plus Code	`78C2+H8`

Rating & Reviews

4.41,898 Google reviews

Chowning's Garden Bar holds a solid 4.4/5 across 1898 Google reviews, reflecting consistent customer satisfaction for an American restaurant in Williamsburg, VA. However, the review volume shows moderate velocity for a tourist-driven market, indicating some engagement gaps. This quarter, they should implement table-side prompts to capture more frequent diner feedback.

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Hours

Open today: 11:00AM - 05:00PM

Monday	11:00AM - 05:00PM
Tuesday (today)	11:00AM - 05:00PM
Wednesday	11:00AM - 05:00PM
Thursday	11:00AM - 05:00PM
Friday	11:00AM - 05:00PM
Saturday	11:00AM - 05:00PM
Sunday	—

These hours reflect the most recent public data we have. For the most current schedule, call or visit the business.

Recent Google Photos

Most recent photos pulled from the Google Business Profile during this audit.

About Chowning's Garden Bar

Chowning's Garden Bar operates in the american restaurant category in Williamsburg and has accumulated 1,898 Google reviews at an average rating of 4.4/5. For most discovery happening in this category, that rating-and-volume pair is the single strongest first impression — searchers see the stars before they see anything else, and the review volume signals how many real customers stand behind the average. The business has clearly built a base of recurring customers, and the public-facing reputation reflects the kind of consistency that turns one-time visitors into regulars in this industry. The business maintains its own web presence at https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/stay-play/dining/historic-taverns/chownings-garden-bar/, which matters more for american restaurant operators than many realize — Google increasingly cross-references the website's content, schema markup, and reputation back into the Business Profile's local-pack ranking, so a thin or stale site can quietly cap the profile's visibility even when the GBP itself is well-tended. This audit measures where Chowning's Garden Bar currently ranks in local search for the keywords that matter to its category, identifies the gaps between the present footprint and what the top competitors are doing, and lays out the specific moves that would lift the listing further into the local pack.

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Keywords Chowning's Garden Bar Should Rank For

High-intent local searches Stormrage would target for Chowning's Garden Bar in Williamsburg, VA — ordered by likely conversion strength.

Keyword	Type	Intent
American restaurant near E Duke of Gloucester St Williamsburg VA	street	high
Best American food Williamsburg VA 23185	zip	high
Restaurants for dinner near me Williamsburg Virginia	geo	high
American cuisine restaurant E Duke of Gloucester St	street	high
Williamsburg VA 23185 American dining spots	zip	high
Local American restaurant near E Duke of Gloucester St	street	med
Williamsburg American restaurant lunch options	geo	med
Dinner American restaurant Williamsburg VA	geo	med
E Duke of Gloucester St Williamsburg eateries	street	med
American restaurant near Williamsburg VA 23185	zip	low

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Search Engine Signals

Public footprint as indexed by major search-engine crawlers — third-party crawl data.

Organic Keyword Coverage

Total keywords ranked for: 7,825
Top 10 (positions 1–10): 6,584
Positions 1–3: 3,117
Positions 4–10: 3,467
Positions 11–20: 601
Positions 21–50: 588
Positions 51+: 52

Geographic Relevance

Primary traffic country: US

Outbound Footprint

Internal links on site: 1,563,929
Domains linked to (followed): 464
Domains linked to (all-time): 469
Outbound links (followed): 31,181
Outbound links (all-time): 68,746

Link and keyword data sourced from a third-party crawler. Figures may differ from your own analytics or live SERPs.

What reviewers are saying

Themes from recent Google reviews

85% positive · 5% neutral · 10% negative

colonial charmflavorful foodattentive servicehigh prices

Findings

1 Critical 4 Major

Critical (1)

Address these first — they're blocking your visibility.

GMB has zero owner posts
Your Google Business Profile has no owner posts — which makes it look less actively managed than American restaurant competitors who post regularly. Publish one post this week (an offer, hours change, or photo update) and aim for a monthly cadence.
Google Posts are an activity signal an owner controls; a profile with none looks less actively managed than competitors who post regularly.

Major (4)

Significant gaps that meaningfully limit ranking.

Hours incomplete or missing
Your Google profile has only 6 of 7 days of hours set. Customers searching "open now" or "American restaurant Williamsburg Sunday" can't find you when partial hours are present — set all 7 days at business.google.com → Info.
Profiles with incomplete hours can be filtered out of 'open now' searches — a common Maps refinement.
Photo count under threshold
Chowning's Garden Bar has only 1 Google photos — competitors in Williamsburg typically run 20+. Upload 5 exterior shots, 5 interior/work shots, and 3 of your team this week at business.google.com → Photos.
Profiles with 10+ photos receive 35% more clicks-to-website on average (BrightLocal 2024).
Missing LocalBusiness schema on website
Your website https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/stay-play/dining/historic-taverns/chownings-garden-bar/ doesn't ship LocalBusiness structured data (JSON-LD). That's the schema Google reads to understand your business as an entity — generate one at merkle.com/schema-generator and paste into your <head>, takes 10 minutes.
LocalBusiness JSON-LD helps Google understand a business as an entity; it supports — but does not guarantee — richer presentation in search.
Weak backlink profile
Only 0 other websites link to Chowning's Garden Bar — Google treats backlinks as third-party trust votes, so American restaurant competitors with 10+ usually outrank you. Start with three free directory listings: BBB.org, your local Chamber, and Yelp.
Referring domains are a recognized link-authority signal in local ranking studies; more authoritative links generally help in competitive categories.

Findings reflect the Google Business Profile state at the time of analysis. Time-sensitive signals (reviews, owner posts, hours, rating) may change as the profile is updated.

Public Profile Completeness

How complete this business’s public listing signals are (categories, hours, photos, website). This is a listing-completeness measure — not a live local-pack ranking. A full 49-cell GeoGrid rank scan is available on request.

100%

Profile Completeness

(Strong)

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Stormrage Expert Findings

Your Google Business Profile has no owner posts — which makes it look less actively managed than American restaurant competitors who post regularly. Publish one post this week (an offer, hours change, or photo update) and aim for a monthly cadence.
Your Google profile has only 6 of 7 days of hours set. Customers searching "open now" or "American restaurant Williamsburg Sunday" can't find you when partial hours are present — set all 7 days at business.google.com → Info.
Chowning's Garden Bar has only 1 Google photos — competitors in Williamsburg typically run 20+. Upload 5 exterior shots, 5 interior/work shots, and 3 of your team this week at business.google.com → Photos.
Your website https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/stay-play/dining/historic-taverns/chownings-garden-bar/ doesn't ship LocalBusiness structured data (JSON-LD). That's the schema Google reads to understand your business as an entity — generate one at merkle.com/schema-generator and paste into your <head>, takes 10 minutes.
Only 0 other websites link to Chowning's Garden Bar — Google treats backlinks as third-party trust votes, so American restaurant competitors with 10+ usually outrank you. Start with three free directory listings: BBB.org, your local Chamber, and Yelp.

Findings for Chowning's Garden Bar

Observations from your public ranking signals — every line is derived from data already on your Google Business Profile or in the public local pack.

Google Business Profile is 100% complete

Profile signals are competitive with top-3 local-pack winners. Ranking gap (if any) is now driven by review velocity + active engagement, not profile fields.

4.4★ rating (1,898 reviews)

Near category median. Top-3 local-pack winners typically sit 4.5★+. Every fresh 5-star review compounds; every fresh 1-star nullifies several.

Target keyword: "american restaurant near me"

This is the highest-intent local search for American restaurant in Williamsburg, VA. Local-pack ranking for this term is the single largest lever on monthly inbound volume.

How Stormrage Helps American restaurant Operators in Williamsburg

Local american restaurant marketing is a rank-by-data game. The 4.4 rating from 1,898 reviews puts Chowning's Garden Bar near the category median — the three moves with measurable lift are: claim and complete the Google Business Profile, build NAP-consistent citations toward top-3 local-pack parity, and grow monthly review velocity. Each one compounds on the previous; skipping one wastes the others.

Stormrage runs all three as a single workstream and tracks rank-position movement weekly with transparent case-study reporting. If Chowning's Garden Bar would rather book the calls than do the homework, that’s exactly what we do — the contact form below connects directly to a strategist within 24 hours.

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