# The Vanilla Bean Café

> Café/Restaurant and Live Entertainment

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- [home](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/): BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER Connecticut's Best Country Cafe
- [What We're About](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/what-were-about/): Our Restaurant Family The Vanilla Bean Café is the sister restaurant to 85 Main in Putnam, Dog Lane Café in Storrs and Fenton River Grill in Mansfield. Our restaurants are members of the Green Valley Hospitality Group
- [Store](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/store/): Gift Cards (USPS mail) Vanilla Bean Café Gift Cards are the perfect gift. Available in a wide range of values. PURCHASE eGift Cards Electronic Gift Cards are available for immediate use. Available in any custom amount. PURCHASE Live at the Bean - Benefit CD Live recording of 18 different artists who have played at the
- [Weekend Breakfast Specials](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/breakfast-specials/): SPECIALS: LUNCH | DINNER | WEEKEND BREAKFAST Phone: 860-928-1562Weekend Breakfast Specials are available Saturday & Sunday 8:00 am - NoonCurrent Specials are posted by 8:00 am Saturday & Sunday – Specials are Subject to Change
- [Quadriptych](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/quadriptych/): Quadriptych Art Installation by JP Jacquet JP Jacquet, the art teacher at Pomfret School, created this 4-panel art installation that is in the main dining room of The Vanilla Bean Café. This project was installed in two parts. The first two panels, the ones on the west wall, were installed in 2002. They feature the
- [Lunch Specials](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/lunch-specials/): SPECIALS: LUNCH | DINNER | WEEKEND BREAKFAST Phone: 860-928-1562Lunch Specials available 11:00am-3:00pm Monday - Friday and 12:00pm-3:00pm Saturday & SundayCurrent Specials are posted by 10:00 am Daily – Specials are Subject to Change
- [Menus](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/menus/): All of our prices INCLUDE 6.35% Connecticut Sales Tax + 1% Connecticut Meals Tax (7.35%).For Example – a $16.00 menu item is really $14.90 + $1.10 tax.~Prices are subject to change without notice~Gluten-free breads and wraps are available.Have any Grill item over a Caesar or House Salad.
- [Dinner Specials](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/dinner-specials/): SPECIALS: LUNCH | DINNER | WEEKEND BREAKFAST Phone: 860-928-1562Dinner Specials available at 5:00pm Wednesday - Saturday and 4:00pm SundayCurrent Specials are posted by 4:30 pm Daily - Specials are Subject to Change STARTERS MAINS
- [Entertainment Info](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/music-info/): Please Note: All shows are General Admission unless otherwise noted in the Calendar. Admission is Cash Only. We produce shows from October to April each year. We book mainly well-known performers and groups, reoccurring shows, and benefit concerts. As always, check out our online calendar or newsletter for more info. The Bean has been the
- [Contact Us](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/contact-us/): Location: 450 Deerfield Rd, Pomfret, CT 06259Phone: 860.928.1562 Nathan LaBossiere - Restaurant ManagerSothea Hallowell - Assistant Restaurant Manager/Artist BookingMaya Germano - Kitchen ManagerMaria Sangiolo - Music BookingBarry Jessurun - OwnerBrian Jessurun - Owner
- [Catering](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/catering/): Have grill will travel! Allow us to cater your next party! The addition of experienced staff enables the Café to now expand its catering operations. Let us cater your next function (indoors or outdoors). We specialize in ready-to-eat meals that can be picked up at our place or that can be delivered. We can provide
- [Calendar](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/calendar/): LIVE MUSIC MUSIC INFO CALENDAR STORE [ai1ec view="agenda"]
- [Hours & Directions](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/hours-directions/): Hours of Operation Monday - 8:00am - 3:00pmTuesday - 8:00am - 3:00pmWednesday - 8:00am - 8:00pmThursday - 8:00am - 8:00pmFriday - 8:00am - 8:00pm * +Saturday - 8:00am - 8:00pm * +Sunday - 8:00am - 8:00pm * * * We may close early in the colder months – call ahead* * We may close early
- [Accolades](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/accolades/): What They are Saying About The Bean "Connecticut’s Best Country Café"Yankee Magazine Travel Guide to New England “The food...is freshly made, well seasoned and extremely tasty.”The New York Times “The Vanilla Bean Café in Pomfret is one of those rare places that truly has something for everyone...Oh, yes - the food is truly delicious, too.”The
- [Recipes](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/recipes/): The Secret’s Out Here are some of our customers' favorite recipes for download. If you have tried a dish here and would like the recipe let us know and we will provide it for you. Enjoy! Award Winning Chili Brian's Fish Cakes Brian's Fresh Fish Chowder Fresh Ginger Lemonade Gazpacho New England Clam Chowder Split
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## Products

- [The Drunkard's Path Hardcover](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/product/the-drunkards-path-hardcover/): The Drunkard’s Path - Self-Help and Guidance for Your Career Path - This book by Barry Jessurun (president of Green Valley Hospitality), offers practical working advice to anyone on a career path, be it the readers first steps or someone well into their journey. With his matter-of-fact style, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, he lets the
- [The Drunkard's Path](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/product/the-drunkards-path/): The Drunkard’s Path - Self-Help and Guidance for Your Career Path - This book by Barry Jessurun (president of Green Valley Hospitality), offers practical working advice to anyone on a career path, be it the readers first steps or someone well into their journey. With his matter-of-fact style, sometimes funny, sometimes serious, he lets the
- [Live at the Bean - Benefit CD](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/product/live-at-the-bean-benefit-cd-2/): Live recording of 18 different artists who have played at the Bean, including Atwater-Donnelly Trio, Peter Mulvey, Maria Sangiolo, Jeffrey Foucault and Garnet Rogers. A portion of the sale $ goes to Hospice of Northeastern Connecticut. $14.00 ($10.00 + $4.00 Shipping)
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## Events

- [Poets at Large](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/poets-at-large-2/): Sharon Arsego, Aeroelastic Flutter & Linda Blakesley Arsego is from Bristol where she works as a senior administrative assistant for the city. She has three published collections including Scenes and Sonnets, an ekphrastic collaboration with Massachusetts photographer Wendy Tobin. Arsego is an active participant in various arts and culture communities, has been a featured spoken word
- [CANCELED! - Poets at Large](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/poets-at-large/): CANCELED! Poets at Large Performing on this date will be poet Frederick Douglass Knowles II and avant garde poet-musicians Aeroelastic Flutter. Knowles is a Hartford Poet Laureate Emeritus, an English Professor at CT State Community College and author of BlackRoseCity (Author House 2011). He is the recipient of The Nutmeg Poetry Award, a Connecticut of
- [Sing:Quiet Corner Song Swap](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/singquiet-corner-song-swap-2/): Sing:Quiet Corner Song Swap After the death of Pete Seeger in 2014, a small group of his admirers joined together to celebrate his life with a sing-along concert at the Hampton Grange. The event was a huge success and gave birth to SING:The Quiet Corner Song Swap. There is no charge and lyrics are available
- [Sing:Quiet Corner Song Swap](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/singquiet-corner-song-swap-3/): After the death of Pete Seeger in 2014, a small group of his admirers joined together to celebrate his life with a sing-along concert at the Hampton Grange. The event was a huge success and gave birth to SING:The Quiet Corner Song Swap. There is no charge and lyrics are available for most songs. They
- [Sing: Quiet Corner Song Swap](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/sing-quiet-corner-song-swap-4/): Sing: After the death of Pete Seeger in 2014, a small group of his admirers joined together to celebrate his life with a sing-along concert at the Hampton Grange. The event was a huge success and gave birth to SING:The Quiet Corner Song Swap. There is no charge and lyrics are available for most songs.
- [Atwater~Donnelly](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/atwaterdonnelly/): Atwater~Donnelly Every performance is surprisingly different and always entertaining, exciting and educational with the award-winning duo Atwater~Donnelly, who provide a unique and thrilling blend of traditional American and Celtic folk music and dance, along with original songs and poetry. The highly acclaimed husband-wife duo, Aubrey Atwater and Elwood Donnelly, present delightful programs of traditional American
- [Candle Light Open Stage](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/candle-light-open-stage/): Join host Kala Farnham for an intimate candle lite night here at The Bean. No amplification means people have to sit closer to the stage creating a true listening room. Sign up when you arrive - two song limit per performer.
- [Garnet Rogers](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/garnet-rogers/): Garnet Rogers Garnet Rogers has established himself as ‘One of the major talents of our time”. Hailed by the Boston Globe as a “charismatic performer and singer”, Garnet is a man with a powerful physical presence – close to six and a half feet tall – with a voice to match. With his “smooth, dark
- [Poets at Large](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/poets-at-large-5/): Poet Scott Laundati and musician/poet Tommy Twilite Twilite is a Massachusetts troubadour who combines music, poetry, exploration and adventure with his performances. He is the co-founder and former director of the Florence Poets Society, former editor of Silkworm and is a Lifetime Beat Poet Laureate. He also hosts the Twilite Poetry Pub on WXOJ Valley
- [Sing:Quiet Corner Song Swap](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/singquiet-corner-song-swap-4/): After the death of Pete Seeger in 2014, a small group of his admirers joined together to celebrate his life with a sing-along concert at the Hampton Grange. The event was a huge success and gave birth to SING:The Quiet Corner Song Swap. There is no charge and lyrics are available for most songs. They
- [Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/amy-gallatin-stillwaters/): Amy Gallatin & Stillwaters Amy Gallatin, born in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, lived in several states before settling in the West, where she was raised. During her ten years in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and the California Sierras, she had had the good fortune of being able to work at two of her loves in life: horses
- [Pomfret 250](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/pomfret-250/): REDCOATS, REBELS, AND REVRIE! TAVERN NIGHT AT VANILLA BEAN CAFÉ A Kick-off and Grand Huzzah for the Revolutionary Pomfret Reenactment and Living History Event Meet some of the reenactors, sample some local ales, enjoy a special tavern night menu besides the regular VBC menu items, and enjoy a concert featuring Rick Spencer and Dawn Indermuehle
- [Peter Mulvey](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/peter-mulvey/): Peter Mulvey Peter Mulvey has been a songwriter, road-dog, raconteur and almost-poet since before he can remember. Nineteen records, an illustrated book, thousands of live performances, a TEDx talk, a decades-long association with the National Youth Science Camp, opening for luminaries such as Ani DiFranco, Emmylou Harris, and Chuck Prophet, appearances on NPR, an annual
- [Celtic Music Session](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/irish-music-session/): Come and experience the magic of Celtic music! Join professional local musicians Mark Renburke, Abe Myler, and Andrew McIntosh for this lively Celtic Music Session. This free event welcomes players, singers, and music lovers of all levels to celebrate Celtic music tradition. Each month features a unique Celtic theme and a special featured set. Come
- [Irish Music Sessions](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/irish-music-sessions/): Come and experience the magic of Celtic music! Join professional local musicians Mark Renburke, Abe Myler, and Andrew McIntosh for this lively Celtic Music Session. This free event welcomes players, singers, and music lovers of all levels to celebrate Celtic music tradition. Each month features a unique Celtic theme and a special featured set. Come
- [Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/mark-mandeville-raianne-richards-2/): Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards Little by little, you will get to know Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards through their unmistakable vocal harmonies, poetic lyrics and down-to-earth personae. These prolific songwriters from central Massachusetts have recorded four eponymous studio albums in addition to thirteen live releases, touring regularly across the US and Canada. Their song
- [Celtic Music Sessions](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/celtic-music-sessions/): Come and experience the magic of Celtic music! Join professional local musicians Mark Renburke, Abe Myler, and Andrew McIntosh for this lively Celtic Music Session. This free event welcomes players, singers, and music lovers of all levels to celebrate Celtic music tradition. Each month features a unique Celtic theme and a special featured set. Come
- [Andrew McKnight](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/andrew-mcknight/): Andrew McKnight Since permanently leaving his corporate environmental engineering career in 1996, award-winning folk and Americana artist Andrew McKnight’s musical journey has traced nearly a million miles of blue highways, and earned him a wealth of critical acclaim and enthusiastic fans for his captivating performances and ten recordings. The singer, writer, guitarist and storyteller usually
- [Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt](https://thevanillabeancafe.com/event/rogers-schmidt/): Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt Celebrate the love and power of music with Sally Rogers & Claudia Schmidt. Heart-opening harmony and musical chemistry like no other, Sally and Claudia continue to win over the folk community with their double dulcimer work and shared joy of performing. They have been weaving their voices, dulcimers, and guitars

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