Butcher And The Bean - Hartford

Great place to share a charcuterie board and coffee with freinds, the ONLY place i have seen to offer charcuterie boards like that! Amazing idea!

I ordered a charcuterie box for our table of friends to share at the Market. You get prosciutto, soppressata, chèvre, Camembert, fruit and veggies, crackers and toast points. Everything was good and it's very shareable if you're going that direction.

Unimpressed... for $20 plus tax for 3 chosen items, crackers, bread, fruit and Jam this should have been a knock out punch for a place that only does this and coffee... it wasn't. The stall was out of cucumbers so they asked if they could sub it with fruit. Cool. After waiting 10 minutes I saw the one employee was serving coffee and pastries to someone who came after me. They proceeded to tell me they were out of prosciutto and asked to sub it with something else. Cool. After I finally got the tray that's where it went sideways. Everything tasted like it had been soaked in glycol even the onion jam. The crostini's were stale. The only thing that tasted like it should was the strawberry. The Parmesan cheese had no flavor at all. I threw away most of the board. I got fried calamari from the stall next to them for almost $10 less and 2-3 times the amount. Won't be going back to this stall again

While passing by, I noticed a couple of interesting snacks. Went for a couple of them. Seems pastel de nata or portuguese egg tart is their popular snack. It was good. Bolo de arroze tasted more or less like a muffin.

Checked out The Butcher and The Bean today. I must say they have some great coffee. I had the large iced coffee. The service was quick as well.