PLNT Burger — Restaurant in Virginia

Vegan fast food? Brilliant! A few benefits-Plant Based is the healthiest way to eat! Build your microbiome and protect your immune system. Be sure to grab a sandwich on your next trip. It will change your life and make you more beautiful! Tucked in Whole Foods in McLean, the service was friendly, fast, and fun! They helped me navigate the website and get a free sandwich for becoming a member. He even showed interest in me, asking if I was a vegan. I said I'm vegetarian and ready to try a quick vegan based meal! He recommended the spicy "chicken" sandwich 🥪 and mushroom BBQ" burger,"🍔 so I ordered both! My mom had the chicken and enjoyed it very much. Cutting a piece from her chicken sandwich, for a taste Mom and I agreed it was perfect texture, best vegan chicken sand, close to Quorn, and so much better. With lettuce, pickle, tomatoes.🥒🍅🥗 The sweet potato fries were thick cut and delicious! 🍟 adding salt, which is a good sign, and we both enjoyed the dips that were similar to vegan mayo. The "burger" was chewy, juicy, tasted char broiled with caramelized onions and mushrooms with great texture. I think it would hit the spot if I'm ever "craving a burger." Note: the sandwiches are small and DO NOT look like the photos of the food on their website. Mom had mandarine orange cardamom drink. 🥤It held up in flavor and refreshment. I had the banana oatly milkshake. 🧋which was creamy,sweet, and flavorful. My personal preference - adding chocolate 🍫 would have boosted this shake to "worth traveling from Annapolis just for this milkshake!" 🤩 Personally, I dont understand why a meal free of animal protein must resemble animal protein. I just think it's weird, and I prefer a whole grain meal with greens and bright colored veggies. Overall, it was a satisfying, delicious meal that I would recommend for all palates and picky eaters for a quick, satisfying meal. I have not checked into the nutrition labeling, so there is no comment on protein, sodium, sugar, or vitamin content. I have not yet researched how this restaurant creates their dishes. If your digestive system is sensitive or FODMAP, please ask your health care provider🩺 about eating vegan. (My mom eats animal protein and she said this meal moved quickly, if you catch my drift...) The one tiny downside was the carry out drink carrier broke when I got out of the car. 🤔The website offers daily specials like BOGO, free ice cream.🍧 I'm a fan, as a nurse, it's refreshing to have a healthy, fast food option and I'm telling all...

Tucked inside of Whole Foods is PLNT Burger with meaty vegan burgers! I've ordered here over 1/2 dozen times and delightfully explored the menu.

Crispy Chik'n Funguy sandwich (5/5) - Hands-down my favorite of all the burgers! The scrumptious breaded fried oyster mushrooms taste just like crispy chicken tenders. It's quite meaty! The sandwich is a bit crumbly, but a delightful doozy mess. The sandwich is a specialty as I haven't come across it.

Baja Burger (5/5) - My favorite Beyond Meat burger with a spicy kick! The fried jalapenos are super spicy - next time I'm opting out of them. While I wasn't a fan of the vegan pepper jack cheese, the guac, caramelized onions, spicy chipotle mayo added a nice sweet and savory flavor and helped to round out the burger. Fingerlick' good!

Steakhouse Burger (5/5) - Zesty, fully-loaded burger with a bold bbq flavor from the Beyond the Meat paddy, caramelized onions, mushrooms, mini shoestring fries, cheddar cheese and smothered in bbq sauce. The onion poppy-seed bun really elevates the flavor.

Mushroom Bacon BBQ (5/5) - Tangy meaty burger with Beyond the Meat paddy, crispy onion "bloomies", and oozing with cheddar cheese and smothered in bbq sauce.

Oatsey chocolate (4/5) shake made from oat milk is interesting and fun to try. While the shake has a nice thick consistency, but you can definitely taste the oat milk. If you like oat milk, go for it!

Sweet Potato Fries (5/5) - Love these fries - must have! Perfect sweet and salty combo!

Garlic herbed fries (3/5) - Always lukewarm and underwhelming compared to the meaty burger.

As a bonus, you can get free fries when there's snow on the ground!

Download the app, you'll great rewards and can score special deals ($3.50 for a burger - say whaaat??).

It's worth subscribing to emails for the coupons! You get a $5 coupon right away and then another $5 coupon for your birthday (it expires a week later).

PLNT doesn't validate parking - you gotta buy something from the grocery store. The Whole Foods is gigantic and feels very urban, PLNT is located at the front by the other entrance that's closer to the restaurants.

Excited to come back for that mouth watering Crispy Chik'n Funguy and the...

I will start off by saying I’ve been a customer since the very beginning when Plnt Burger originally opened in Downtown Silver Spring… the first meal I ever ordered was amazing maybe even epic and I left a 5 review for that location back in 2020.. in fact every order I made from that location was pretty good even up until I moved from…

With all that being said I am sad to say it seems they may have lost their way a little bit …the quality of my order from Tysons location was subpar, the burger was smaller than it use to be and it seemed dry there was very little bbq sauce and the flavor was lacking and I know this was not the way the burger was suppose to taste also the fried onions were very hard…I wouldn’t be surprised if my burger had been reheated instead of fresh… To be honest this seems to be a theme with may other locations as well… I don’t know if maybe this business just expanded too quickly or if Covid had something to do with the lack in quality and overall decreased size of the burgers but it’s very unfortunate…

The only location I would order from at this point is the Downtown Silver Spring if I’m ever in the area… I won’t be trying any other new or existing Plnt locations anymore as the quality is just too...