Dining on a Dime: American Flatbread

We’ve been regulars at American Flatbread Burlington Hearth since it opened almost 14 years ago on St. Paul Street. The restaurant arrived in Burlington with an enviable pedigree: offspring of the mother ship at a farm in Waitsfield, where we ate before Flatbread hit the city.

Many things draw us to American Flatbread:  the pizza, of course; a table by the wood-fired oven where a meal can pass in silence as we gaze at the flames; the beer and the salad dressing; the warm brownie sundae.

The hitch in our ritual appeared several years ago, when my daughter ditched our mutual devotion to favorites — Revolution flatbread with pepperoni, or olive and onion flatbread — in favor of Power to the People (chicken, Buffalo sauce, red onions, carrots, blue cheese, etc).  We worked around this wrinkle in various ways but only recently discovered the solution: lunch.

The $10 lunch deal at Flatbread buys a personal pizza and a house salad. My daughter — who can wolf down a large Power to the People — makes do with a small version.  I order an old favorite or the veggie special, like the one with eggplant, feta, mushrooms and basil I ate not long ago.

We sat at a table near the oven and ended our meal with a brownie sundae. This one came with peppermint ice cream, a revelation in taste and presentation — it wasn’t pink!

At $10, our dessert was a Dining-on-a-Dime fling, but one of these days, it could be lunch.

Dining on a Dime is a weekly series featuring well-made, filling bites (something substantial enough to qualify as a small meal or better) for $12 or less. Know of a tasty dish we should feature? Drop us a line: food@sevendaysvt.com.

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