For a quick lunch, these guys serve up some good cheeseburgers and onion rings. Came here with some…read morecoworkers and everything looked good. Lots of space outside with picnic tables. Floors were sticky and tables were a little greasy. Service was great- so many guys behind the counter and all of them running around grabbing food.

Still doesn't disappoint!! Burgers are well grilled, hard rolls are nice and soft, and the noon…read moretings are done to perfection. Very accommodating staff providing excellent and very friendly service. Great spot for a quick lunch. Seating is counter seating and there are plenty of picnic tables outside.

This is my second time here! The restaurant is located at 160 Glastonbury Blvd, Glastonbury, CT…read more This place is clean and classy for a burger restaurant. The silverware is spotless. I love the really huge booth! I like the vegan options too! To start it out, I'm having a Saratoga sparkling water. I've never seen the smaller, plastic bottle versions. I like this stuff! They serve seasoned popcorn as a complementary item. That's different. It's quite fresh and very good! For my first drink, I'm having a Cosmopolitan. This is made with Tito's Vodka, cranberry juice, orange liqueur and a little lemon juice. I like the floating dried lime wheel garnish. Nice glass. This tastes perfect! For my first item, I'm having the Caesar Salad. This is made with little gems lettuce, shaved Parmesan (light), brioche croutons and Caesar dressing (light). Well, it's not tossed so I think I scared the cook when I wanted light dressing. Croutons are nice and soft. I like the dressing. This is good! For my next item, I'm having the Beyond Chicken Nuggets. These are eight nuggets. I've never had these before! I'm having the Mango Szechuan sauce and the Szechuan dry rub. Let's see what this tastes like! These are good! I taste sweetness but not very spicy. For my entree (burger), I'm having the The Great Beyond Combo. This is a burger made with Beyond Italian Sausage, pickled jalapeño, raw red onion (raw? Who the heck actually cooks it?) and Dijon aioli on a sesame seminal hero. I want it as spicy as possible. The Combo includes an order of cole slaw. It is all served on a warm, green metal plate. The cole slaw is served in a cold little bowl. I like it! I can taste the heat of the sandwich. Well, a little of it. It tastes great though! Yummy! For my last drink, I'm having a Chai Old Fashioned made with Evan Williams bourbon, chai, sugar (do they actually muddle a sugar cube? Nah!) and Angostura bitters. This is different! Chai and bourbon! It is served in a big, huge glass with a single, large, square ice cube to slow the dilution process. Great garnish! A star anise! If you eat it, there is a licorice taste. That's very original! Good job! What a great meal here!

Bareburger, more like bootyburger. Nasty food, server was an ass, took forever for someone to greet…read moreus, get us water (which he didn't even pour for us btw), and they ran out of fries and onion rings lol I seethe every time I pass by this establishment now. With all due respect, I'm praying on the day yall go out of business. Best of luck on whatever's next in life for yall

Good Burger & Rival's Rodeo Burger were both delicious. I'd go back and try other stuff on menu…read morewhen in the neighborhood. Service was warm.

Decent spot, if I had to rate the burgers out of 10 I'd rate them at about a seven. I love that…read morethey have a rewards program in this economy.

We were looking for a place to eat after a morning of softball games. Artisanal Burger Company…read morecaught my eye. I was curious about what constitutes "artisanal". Ambience: they have a spacious contemporary dining room and a separate bar section complete with TV screens all over the place. Food: we ordered: Calamari - the portion size was average, but the squid pieces were small in size. 4/5 Pastrami Reuben - this was a bit too salty and oily. 2/5 Dry Age Burger - this was really good. The funkiness of the dry age flavor came through. The burger was moist and hit the spot. 5/5 Onion Rings - 4 jumbo fried rings of oniony goodness. 5/5 Service: super friendly and nice.

Stopped in for lunch and we're seated immediately. Combination of booths and tables for seating…read more Chairs are comfortable but they are low for a tall person (table comes about lower chest height). Server showed up quickly and took our drink orders. Menu is extensive and should provide plenty of options for everyone. (Pictures of menu included here) We ordered the 5 ounce burger with cheese and fries and the Texas hold em burger with bacon minus tomato and lettuce and fries and the French onion soup. There was a short wait till the soup came out. Nicely covered with melted cheese on top. The soup was good but didn't have the depth of beef flavor and spice texture that I was looking for. There plenty of onions, croutons, and cheese and overall it was okay. The burgers were well cooked and flavorful. They offered two sizes of their standard burgers, 5 or 8 ounces. The smaller size was just right for the person I was with. The cheese seemed to melt into the burger so it wasn't really visible. The hold em burger was large and had onion straws and three slices of very crispy bacon on top. There was a dollop of the bbq/house dressing and plenty of onions straws. The straws were nicely fried but not crispy by the time they reached the table but added a good dimension to the burger. It was good to leave the tomato and lettuce off as the height of the burger made it tough to bite into. The fries were disappointing. They had the right color for being fried and crispy but they were limp and soft. They are clearly are fresh cut from large potatoes but really need to be fried longer to get that crispy crunch you'd expect. Told the server that and was told to ask for the fries extra crispy. Overall not a bad first trip. We'll go back and try some other things on the menu and see what extra crispy fries are like.

I'm back! Welcome to Carmine's! The restaurant is located on 389 Main St. in East Hartford. It's…read morecold in here! The temperature has got to be 55 degrees (the way Carmine likes it). I live the nice music in here. It's very livel! It's Happy Hour from 3-7 on weekdays (food) and all day for drinks on Monday! The kitchen here makes everything built fresh, from scratch, and all homemade. The appetizers, pasta, entrees and desserts combine old-world traditional Italian flavor with a modern flair for presentation, and the freshest ingredients around. Menu staples like calamari, chicken milanese, fettucine carbonara and ravioli are paired with unique recipes like pappardelle with sausage and tenderloin steaks. They have staffed their kitchen with a dream team of local chefs that ensure our quality does not waiver and our kitchen is always OPEN! Not every place can say that! For my first drink, I'm having the Manhattan's Creek made with Knob Creek bourbon, sweet vermouth, dry vermouth and Angostura bitters. Wait a minute! These are the same ingredients as a Perfect Manhattan! This is chilled, well balanced and nicely garnished. I like it! For my first food item, I'm having a House Salad (small, off-menu version). This is made with a spring mix including basil, tomatoes, julienned carrots, cucumbers and a red wine vinaigrette dressing. This is nice and fresh! I love the dressing! I like the nice cloth napkin as well as a disposable one. The bartender is the nicest one I've ever met. For my next item, I'm having the Rigatoni Marinara. The is made with rigatoni and house marinara sauce. It's low cholesterol and guilt-free (for me). This is steaming hot and delicious! Nice portion size too! For my next item, I'm having a cup of soup. This is broccoli cheddar with potato. Oh yeah! I love those oyster crackers! This is yummy! For my next drink, I'm having the Pratt n Whiskey made with Woodford Reserve bourbon, sweet vermouth, red wine and sour mix. I love it! It's shaken well and tastes great! For my next food item, I'm having the Carmine's Secret Tenderloins. These are actually pan seared caramelized CHICKEN tenderloins made with wine, olive oil, cracked black pepper, kosher salt, shredded Parmesan and a VERY special secret sauce. I can eat this with little regret. This should be interesting! This is quite good! I do like that creamy sauce! For my dessert, I'm having the Toasted Almond. This is soaked in Amaretto layered with light custard and topped with crushed almond. Oh yeah! Look at the presentation! This is fantastic! What a great meal here!

Random selection in my travels off Rt 84. Food was delicious and I happily stumbled on live music…read more Mixed crowd Cappuccino gelato truffle, JD tips over pasta and 1/2 Caesar salad

There are a handful of good restaurants in CT, and this is one of them. I was sad to see the other…read morelocations have closed over the years. This one is nestled in a really nice shopping center. There's plenty of parking and I believe I also saw a parking garage close by. I absolutely love their burgers, you can tell that they use real beef and it looks like they shape them right there at the restaurant. You can order them with pink or no pink customize it anyway you want it. Tonight I also had the sweet potato fries and they were delicious.

Where to start!! Came in during happy hour and sat at the bar. Our order was pretty basic based on…read morethe happy hour menu. Started with French onion soup. Chicken tenders, jalapeño poppers and fries were next. Food came and had to track down the bartender for setups and plates. Tenders were horrible! Dry and badly over cooked! We finished eating and sat waiting. EVERY DIRTY PLATE STILL SAT IN FRONT OF US! All the time, the bartender was checking with those around us to see if food was good and needed anything else. Never said a word to us. Needed to ask for a to go container. Still was ignored with absolutely no service! Will not return!

I forgot to bring lunch to work today so I was looking for something close by and my co workers…read morementioned this cool spot nearby. I never tried it before so I said why not. The only suggestion was to order ahead of time because it's a busy place, so I did. I went and picked up my food and I couldn't believe how busy this small place was. I shouldn't have ordered ahead because they made it fast and unfortunately it was cold but the flavors were really GOOD and juicy. They have small tables outside for those who want to eat there but mostly its a take out kind of place. Im definitely coming back for a hot burger next time, I already know they got the yummy stuff down

SO tasty and the staff is very friendly. There are some benches outside and they take apple pay…read more Will definitely be returning.

The limited food I had there and service was fine, but the band I saw, Out of the Boxx, this past…read moresummer was phenomenal! Great funk music, very accomplished group and super fun dance floor at The Pub. Who knew such a place existed right in South Windsor! Can't wait to go back!

This is NOT one of the reviews you should skip. And I'm not having a bad day I want to take out on…read morea review. This place had 4.4 stars when I found it after visiting a cleaning my employees were doing in south Windsor in Pepin Place (named for legitimacy and to prove this is not a robot) The server had a weird energy from the jump but it was ignorable and I'll keep my race out of it; we've all had bad days. She let me try a beer before I eventually ordered it, everything was fine. We ordered our food, and with a staggering 4-5 other people in the restaurant, our food took much longer than it should've in my honest opinion. That is just icing, not my main issue, but since we're reviewing a restaurant and not a doctors office, yeah... I explicitly asked if the half nachos were a good size for one person, and the server seemed adamant they would be so I got that and onion rings. The food finally came and I'm not exaggerating when I saw there were 12-15 chips on the plate. For a half order, the chicken portion was fine but I didn't order a pile of chicken. My lady's smash burger was probably the least appetizing thing I've ever had brought to a table I was sitting at. We respectfully let the server know her burger looks terrible and I admitted to eating some of the nachos so I'd pay for it, but that I would like to send the nachos back. My son with me had chicken tenders and got be with us, his food looked more appetizing than anyone else's. The server/bartender took it upon herself to take our comments about the food personal, which was evident by her snap response to let us know the obvious- that she didn't cook it (Sherlock is ALIVE). It all went left from there; the server brought me a check with an extra drink on it, tried to refuse printing me another check but I made her. She brought the check back and I took it upon myself to compare the check (which only states the general classification of the item, not the item) to the menu. This restaurant is likely charging everyone extra dollars on menu items because I found my son's chicken tenders listed as $14 in the receipt but the menu says $13 (again, numbers inserted to add legitimacy). She tried to tell me she'll just charge a dollar less than what the receipt says but that's not gunna work for me (don't know about you) at a place that just tried to over charge me TWICE within a 3 mins span. Server took it upon herself to call her boss, who unfortunately was not in today. I'm confident her story is missing key details and this review is a love letter to him directly. It's also a warning that I scanned my receipt, left this review stating it was about $58, and I'm sure they don't want the consequences of retaliating by trying to overcharging me for a third time. I'd stay far away from this place if you enjoy good service and quality meals.

Their grilled ham and Swiss with tomato soup is the best I've ever had. It was delicious!!!read more

Big Fan of their $11 Lunch Meal Deal. Includes Fries, Drink and either their Grilled Chicken or…read moreHamburger. Their fries are cooked really well; there is a nice firm crisp on them. Hamburger and Grilled Chicken is what you would expect it to be and I enjoyed them . What really is special about the place is it's family run with the salad place next to it. You get the feeling that your business is appreciated. You always get a warm welcome and thanked for stopping by. It's the small things. Lastly it's located in the State House Square food court which can be loud if it's full but this day had a nice quiet feel to eat to enjoy a peaceful meal.

Parkville delicious food Good crowd and nice service…read more We ordered Philly cheesesteak with onions and peppers but it didn't have any onions and peppers. Good flavor and cheesy. The Parmesan fries however were AMAZING. We made sure that there was nothing left in the box :)

A prime example of 'looks are deceiving'... I am very disappointed that in this day and time people…read moreare still selling processed, fake chicken. And the sandwich itself looks amazing, but that chicken is not real chicken breast. It's the same type of pre-cooked chicken breast you would find in the refrigerator section of your local grocery store. I took a few bites and the rest went straight in the trash, unfortunately. I felt obligated to leaving this review and hopefully the owner of this establishment will read it and reconsider his or her quality of food. It's sad because the young man who took care of me was very nice. Hence my extra star...