Things to do in Brattleboro
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Carol’s Main Street Café
If you are self-catering, a great place for picnic fixings is Carol’s Main Street Café – those in the know come for turkey specials on Monday and Friday, tacos on Wednesday and hamburgers on Thursday. Or you can explore delectables from an amazing variety of gourmet hot and salad dishes sold by the pound.
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Coffee Country Cafe
This informal place attracts everyone from tongue-studded teenagers to 65-year-old farmers. Drop in for some good java and hot baked goods.
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Everyone’s Books
Sells unusual publications, rabble-rousing political literature and an audacious selection of radical T-shirts and bumper stickers.
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Robb Family Farm
- Brattleboro, USA
- Sights › Farm
The 400-acre Robb Family Farm has been run by the same family for about a century. Maple-sugaring demonstrations take place from late February to early April. There are fun hay or sleigh rides ($7/5 per adult/child, $30 minimum spend required, reservations essential), which usually end with a marshmallow roast. The farm is located west of I-91 on VT 9; take a left on Greenleaf St (which becomes Ames Hill Rd), head 3 miles and look to the right.
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Brattleboro Farmers Market
Offering an excellent crash course in Vermont food, the Brattleboro Farmers Market boasts as many as 70 local vendors selling cheese, free-range beef and lamb, honey, pastries, maple syrup and fruit. Live music and a lively crafts scene round out the experience. The Saturday market is just west of town by the Creamery Bridge, while the Wednesday market is held in the Merchants Bank Building parking lot off Main St.
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Gallery Walk
On the first Friday of each month, join the immensely popular Gallery Walk. Since the early 1990s, galleries and businesses have opened their walls to artists from an ever-increasing geographic reach and renown. A free monthly publication, available throughout town and on the website, maps the locations for this self-guided tour.
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Weathervane Gallery & Performing Arts Café
This great hangout is where you’ll find the kind of cool, witty guy behind the counter that you always see in movies. Slide into one of the giant booths and enjoy light fare (dishes $1 to $10), a full bar and live music. The latter is usually bluesy/folky, but can also be wild and ear-splitting on select nights.
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Peter Havens
This intimate, 10-table local institution features an incredible menu bursting with culinary mastery. Fresh seafood dishes share the roster with venison, duck, tenderloin and pasta dishes (which can be modified for vegetarians). Brimming with intimate and artsy atmosphere, Peter Havens also has a full (eight-seat) bar.
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Café Beyond
Head to this cafe in the Collected Works Bookstore for full meals with international flair. The Thai and Colombian chefs here offer an inspired world-ranging menu. Additionally, the fabulous bookstore, meeting space and seating designed for lingering draw a wild cross-pollination of, well, lingerers.
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TJ Buckley’s
This upscale but classic and authentic 1927 diner seats just 18 souls, but those lucky 18 are in for an exceptional dinner. The menu of four mains changes nightly, and locals rave that the food here is Brattleboro’s best. Reservations are strongly recommended; credit cards are not accepted.
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Marina Restaurant
This fun, refreshing local favorite blends fantastic food, spirited atmosphere and a sublime location on the banks of the West River. Food is reasonably priced and features all-natural beef filet mignon ($21.95) and daily seafood specials.
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Moles Eye Cafe
This popular, subterranean hangout in an oak-paneled café has live entertainment on Friday and Saturday nights and good meals at moderate prices (dishes from $7 to $11) served until 9pm. Thursday’s open mic is usually a blast.
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Brattleboro Books
One of a trove of bookstores in Brattleboro offering a long list of store-sponsored readings and events. This is a used-book junkie’s dream, with endless aisles containing more than 75,000 used, out-of-print and even new titles.
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Amy’s Bakery Arts Cafe
Of the many bakeries in town that inspire poetic accolades, this one garners the most. Enjoy breakfast breads, pastries and coffee with views of the river and local art. Lunchtime offerings include salads, soups and sandwiches.
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Riverview Café
Enjoy alfresco dining smack on the Connecticut River at this celebrated restaurant emphasizing fresh regional ingredients: wild blueberry pancakes topped with real maple syrup, homemade vegetable soups and juicy steaks.
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Vermont Canoe Touring
Vermont Canoe Touring rents kayaks and canoes. While away an afternoon by bird-watching in the estuaries or visiting an unofficial nude sunbathing spot up the White River.
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Brattleboro Bicycle Shop
Brattleboro Bicycle Shop rents hybrid bicycles and dispenses plenty of advice about where to use them. It doesn’t have racks or kids’ bikes, though.
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Collected Works Bookstore & Café Beyond
Here you can browse Zen titles, women’s literature and art books, then snuggle into the comfy chairs. Hanging out in its fantastic café is always a prime activity.
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India Palace
This is the place for northern Indian cuisine, especially tandoori; lunchtime curries are a bargain, best sampled with a mango lassi.
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Vermont Artisan Designs
Vermont Artisan Designs is a contemporary crafts gallery selling outstanding creations by Vermont artists. Don’t miss it.
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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, in the old Union Station, showcases the multimedia works of regional artists.
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Mocha Joe’s
Before your eyes spy this ultrahip, subterranean space, your nose will locate the exceptionally rich brews.
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Brattleboro Food Co-Op
Naturally this town has a big-league health-food store, with all the fixings for a locavore picnic.
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