Glenview Restaurant and Pub

Dinner was excellent tonight. Not gourmet but you don't go to a pub looking for gourmet food, at least you shouldn't. I got potato skins and a bacon cheeseburger. Both tasted excellent and the portions were huge. I ate 1/3 of the appetizer and less than half of the burger and the waitress came back often enough that I felt comfortable with the attention but not smothered. To top it all off this was had for less than $16 before tip with a soda that had free refills.


Loaded Potato Skins


Bacon Cheeseburger


I only have one complaint and this is more about a trend than the actual restaurant. Potato skins are supposed to be made from leftover parts of baked potatoes that you have previously used to make another entree. The potato skins at Glenview are of the type that I have seen more and more where a baked potato is cut in half and a very little bit of potato is removed for create a small resevoir for cheese and other toppings. This results in a potato skin that is HUGE and very filling. The point of an appetizer is not to make someone unable to eat their dinner but to provide soemthing to snack on while the entree is prepared. These newer generation of potato skins are a meal in themselves and serve not only to waste ingredients but to cause a lot of undue waste. Did i mention that they tasted extremely good?