Not Legal Advice: There is no Virginia ABC law prohibiting a person less than 21 years of age from sitting at a counter/bar in an ABC-licensed restaurant.
However, a licensee may establish its own in-house policy prohibiting it.
Even if a person under 21 years of age is accompanied by a parent or guardian, it is never lawful for a licensee to sell or serve alcohol to an underage person. (COV 4.1-304 and 4.1-306)
A licensee can only sell nonalcoholic beer and nonalcoholic wine contains less than one-half of 1 percent of alcohol to a person less than 21 years of age.
For people trying to go without booze for a while, but who still want to enjoy the camaraderie that comes from socialising after hours with friends and work colleagues, it can be a delicate balancing act trying to combine the two. But it can be done.
Here are some tips on how to go out and have fun without drinking alcohol shared by Goodbyedrinking.com.