Broasterant

The older women who works here is super sweet and she makes the food with love. She makes the food right in front of you. If you are in a rush to get food, this may not be the place for you. The order takes about 20 minutes. You can place an order on the phone. I ordered 2 chicken platters. 3 pieces of chicken and a lot of fries. The chicken here is the best in the area without including big franchises. My only regret was not getting the 8 piece instead of the platter. You get more chicken.

TLDR: food is good (and fresh), value is good, service slow and cleanliness poor. A big point I’ll give to this restaurant is that I saw our food being made and although it took over half an hour for my wings to be ready I have confidence they were made fresh and they tasted good. This is fried chicken that is made without a lot of breading so it isn’t for everybody but I liked the style. Also to mention that the wings and fries were very reasonably priced where it felt like a steal. The cleanliness of this establishment isn’t inspiring with the fries in the fridge on open display and the tables unkempt although the hand sanitizer at the entrance is nice.

Out of town for VDay weekend and saw Daym Drops do a review on this place. I love chicken and the way his chicken looked I said we can't go wrong. Honest review here....from Daym's review I assumed the chicken was made upon arrival. I wasn't expecting to see chicken pieces already made heated under the light. Mind you as soon as we pulled up my husband said this looks like it's going to be dry. I said well Daym's didn't look dry at all. Now back to the heated lamp light chicken. We ordered the chicken plate (3 PCs of chicken, fries & roll) and the guy dropped the fries. While we're waiting I'm looking at the chicken and the skin is looking dry and not crunchy and crispy. When Daym got his chicken his had to have been freshly cooked!!! Because our chicken was no where tasty as he described. The guy packed our bag, they don't ask you what PCs you would like to have. Anyway we get back to our destination which is 5 mins away, open our box and it's loaded with fries to where you can't see the chicken lol. We had 2 packs of ketchup, and no hot sauce. Now I'm repeating what hubby said about this looks like a dry meal. Parts of the chicken was juicy but other parts were hard due to us having lamp heated chicken. If I were to come back to this establishment, I would make sure that the chicken is freshly cooked. But I doubt I'll be back to this place. I'd rather have a piece of fried chicken w/ jojos from Chester's

Summary: For the price and quality, Broasterant may serve the best fried chicken in the Hartford area. The fried chicken is consistently juicy and seasoned perfectly. The chicken plate is also accompanied by a mountain of french fries and dinner roll. The owner is very friendly and the service is excellent. Must Try: Fried chicken plate or any other size. Also recommended: Shrimp and fries plate. Avoid: N/A ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Great, worth a detour