When your dining plans are up in the air or your dinner ends up burned in the oven or stuck to the pan on the burner, it’s time for Plan B. If you are lucky enough to live near Glastonbury, Connecticut then you can head to the real Plan B for a delicious dinner or lunch. Plan B in Glastonbury is one of three restaurants in this small chain located in Connecticut.
Plan B bills itself as a burger bar with good booze and great burgers. The burgers are indeed great being made from 100% aged certified organic and humane beef which is never frozen. It is ground fresh daily on the premises. All of the burgers can also be served “in the grass” on a bed of organic iceberg lettuce, without the bun.
We came here for dinner on a Thursday in July with a group of 8, which included 2 children. We called ahead to ask about reservations but they are not taken. The restaurant is much bigger than it appears from the outside. It is much harder to find a parking spot in the limited lot than it is to find a seat in the restaurant. There is a parking garage nearby for overflow parking.
The restaurant has a large bar area that we walked through to get to the farthest dining room. There appeared to be two dining rooms as well as outdoor dining. We had to wait only a few minutes while they set up our table for us. As we waited for the final members of our group, our drink orders were taken.
The menu does have a great selection of burgers but if you have something else in mind there are a lot of other choices. One thing about the burgers, you have only two temperature choices, some pink or no pink. My husband prefers to eat his burgers medium rare and with that option not offered he decide to go with the pork chops. These are done shake and bake style, with mashed potatoes, southern style green beans and bleu cheese gravy.
I ordered the mini cheese burgers which are served with parmesan fries. You can ask for the sweet potato fries because one of my friends did and it was no problem. One of our friends ordered the Beef Wellington Bites, which is an appetizer. We had seen some of the meals going by us and they looked so big that he thought it might be enough for a meal. It definitely wasn’t it was three small but scrumptious little bites, cooked to perfection. Luckily my husband’s pork chops were so overwhelmingly large that he was able to give one to our friend and still have enough to eat.
My mini burgers came stacked which is so adorable. They tasted great too. Another of our friends got the New England Burger which adds lobster to the burger. If you like lobster, they also have lobster sliders and lobster pot pie.
Plan B has lots of salad choices, a three cheese fondue appetizer, a salmon burger and country meatloaf just to mention a few of the menu items. The menu has a variety of interesting choices and no matter what your tastes, you should be able to find something you might like.
Our service was good, the only glitch was that one meal failed to arrive with the others and the waitress, who hadn’t delivered the meals failed to notice this. We had to go and find her to have the meal brought to the table.
I would not hesitate to eat here again it is a very interesting restaurant.
