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7 Nights: The ‘Seven Days’ Guide to Vermont Restaurants and Bars (2018-19)
Here in Vermont, farm-to-table is mainstream, and the state’s unique flavor is largely attributed to its native crops. But ingredients are just one slice of…
Obituary: Mountaha Handy
Mountaha Handy, 92, of Colchester, Vermont passed away peacefully after a short illness, surrounded by her loving family on January 15, 2019. She was born…
Obituary: Blair Gilman Grossman
It is with broken hearts and much sadness that we announce that Blair Gilman Grossman, 39, of Burlington, Vermont peacefully passed away in the early…
Obituary: Priscilla Brown
Priscilla Brown 61 of Bristol VT passed away peacefully with her family by her side on December 28, 2018. Priscilla was born on August 16,…
Obituary: Flora Rae Palmer
It is with great sadness that the family of Flora Rae Palmer announces her passing on Monday, Dec 3, 2018 at the age of 89…
Obituary: Jacquelyn Viele Swan
A much-loved wife, mother, grandmother, and sister, Jacquelyn (“Lynne”) Viele Swan, 83, of South Burlington, Vermont, passed away peacefully on November 9, 2018 after a…
Obituary: Charles Robert “Bobby” Wright
Charles Robert “Bobby” Wright of South Burlington, VT died peacefully at home on October 22, 2018. He is survived by his wife of 53 years,…
Obituary: Judith Ann Aldrich
Judith Ann Aldrich, 80, passed away on Wednesday evening, October 3, 2018 at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans with her loving family at her…
Obituary: Eunice June Taylor
Eunice June Taylor a lifelong resident of this area passed away early Sunday, September 30, 2018, at The Villa Rehab Center. Born in St. Albans…
Obituary: Ryan Thomas Branon
Ryan Thomas Branon, 30, passed away on Saturday, September 29, 2018, the result of injuries sustained in an ATV accident in Fairfield. Ryan was born…
Find Cups of Joe, Currant Scones and Community at Waterbury’s Stowe Street Café
On a Saturday morning in autumn, the kind of day that makes leaf peepers swoon and hit the road, Waterbury residents filed into Stowe Street Café — business as usual. Inside, one asked, “Who guessed the weight of the pumpkin at town hall?” Others lingered over lattes and eggs. A musician strummed his acoustic guitar…
Drop Anchor for Lobster and Margs at Bomoseen’s Lake House Pub & Grill
For 80 years, the Lake House Pub & Grille has been Lake Bomoseen’s premier waterside dining spot. New owners gave the time-honored space an extensive renovation in the spring of 2016. That May, it opened doors with a new-and-improved take on summertime noshing worthy of the restaurant’s main attraction: spectacular sunsets over the lake. The…
Stowe’s Tres Amigos Goes South of the Border With Tequila, Tamales and Tacos
Walk into Stowe’s Tres Amigos, and you’ll come face-to-face with a grinning skull — that is, an ornately decorated calavera, part of a Día de…
Piecemeal Pies Elevates English Pub Fare in White River Junction
White River Junction’s Piecemeal Pies is known, of course, for pies. Individual savory pies, to be exact — that fixture of English pub fare. But…
The Williamsville Eatery Brings a 19th-Century General Store Back to Life
When Glenn and Lauri Richardson moved to Vermont more than three decades ago, the Williamsville General Store was the “nerve center” of their new hometown, recalled Glenn. It had been that way since 1828. So when the store shut down in 2007, “That was a lonely time in the village,” said the southern California native.…
Burlington’s ArtsRiot Plays It Big and Bold, From Eats to Events
At ArtsRiot, an event space and restaurant in Burlington’s funky South End, the words “Destroy apathy” appear on the menu, the dining room wall and the lips of the staff — as if the reclaimed warehouse were secretly a den for superheroes. In some ways, it may be: The mission is to create social change…
Siphon Brewing Is the Way to a Perfect Cup at St. Albans’ Catalyst Coffee Bar
Twenty-two minutes south of the Canadian border, St. Albans is known for its long-running maple festival, its sizable dairy cooperative and as the former home of the largest railway in New England. The city is more cowsmopolitan than cosmopolitan. But walk into Catalyst Coffee Bar, and you might think you’ve stumbled across the international line…
Mary’s Restaurant in Bristol Was Farm-to-Table Before That Ethos Had a Name
When Baldwin Creek cuts under Route 116 in Bristol, it flows by a 1797 farmhouse. Today it’s the Inn at Baldwin Creek, but the property still retains an agricultural focus. In the front yard, which is akin to a small farm, an enormous garden has fueled the inn’s kitchen for more than three decades. Mary’s…
Nepali Kitchen Crafts Indian and Nepali Cuisine With Care in Essex Junction
Every dish at Nepali Kitchen is a taste of home for Jeetan Khadka. Along with tens of thousands of other ethnic Nepalis, the Bhutan-born restaurant owner was stripped of his citizenship in the early 1990s under the country’s “One Nation, One People” policy. He and his family lived for nearly two decades in refugee camps…
At Manchester’s Falcon Bar, Sip Scotch and Soak Up American History
Spending time at the Equinox Golf Resort & Spa in Manchester Village is like stepping back in American history. Over the years, the esteemed guests at the New England landmark have included U.S. presidents William Howard Taft, Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt. Within the carefully restored Equinox House, established in 1853, the Falcon Bar allows…
Crowds Clamor for Sweet Treats at Montpelier’s Bohemian Bakery
At first, Bohemian Bakery was all about bread. In 2003, Annie Bakst and Robert Hunt built a brick oven in the garage of their rural Calais home, making hearty wood-fired loaves for area co-ops. By 2010, pastries had entered the picture, and the pair began hosting weekly pop-ups. Every Sunday, like worshippers going to church,…
Have a Romantic Dinner at Lower Waterford’s World-Renowned Rabbit Hill Inn
What started as a vacation led to an unexpected vocation for Leslie and Brian Mulcahy. In the early 1990s, when they were living in Rhode Island and working in the corporate world, the married couple traveled to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom for a stay at the romantic Rabbit Hill Inn. The 19-room bed-and-breakfast dates back to…
South Royalton’s Worthy Burger Sets the Standard for Burgers and Beer
As of the 2010 census, South Royalton had 694 full-time residents — a small town, even for rural Vermont. But one Rainbow Street eatery inflates the population on a near-nightly basis. It’s a long red freight house bearing hand-painted signs: “Worthy Burger,” “Craft Beer,” “Local Burgers” and also “Freight House Brewing.” Plans for the brewery…
