Restaurants in Burlington
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Daily Planet
Popular with locals for its vegetarian fare and relaxed, inviting atmosphere, Daily Planet offers a changing menu of creative dishes like potato-crusted salmon with Moroccan vegetable sauté, or Thai shrimp salad.
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L'Amante
L'Amante serves upscale northern Italian cuisine such as squash- blossom fritters with truffle oil, and swordfish with saffron-encrusted risotto. Perfect for a memorable night out.
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Leunig’s Bistro
Leunig’s Bistro ‘Live well, laugh often and love much’ advises the sign over the bar at this stylish French-style brasserie with an elegant, tin-ceilinged dining room, and you’d do well to heed it. As Piaf and fellow chanteuses provide the tunes, the kitchen serves up such treats as Graham crackerfried duck with frog legs or an exquisite steak-frites.
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NECI Commons
Operated by Montpelier’s New England Culinary Institute students. You can expect dishes such as rotisserie chicken, roasted turkey breast and sea bass. They’re all served at a long, welcoming wooden counter, a bar, banquettes, booths and quiet tables. Stop by for gourmet lunchtime picnic fare. A lighter bistro menu is also available (2pm to 4pm weekdays).
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Smokejacks
No argument among locals as to the best burger in town – it’s Smokejacks Big Bold Burger, made from local Angus beef and flipped over an oakwood grill. Fresh fish and specialties like applewood-smoked duck breast are also available, while the cheese list features some of America’s finest small-farm cheeses.
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Single Pebble
The brainchild of a local chef who mastered Szechuanese and Cantonese cuisine living in China, this spacious restaurant sprawls over two adjoining clapboard houses and offers up sumptuous MSG-free fare to the strains of traditional Chinese music. The dim sum is particularly satisfying – be sure to try the mock eel.
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Great Harvest Bread Company
A soft, yeasty scent surrounds you and an array of samples tempts you the minute you enter this sunny, airy, baking paradise a five-minute walk south of the town center. The monthly bread specialties are always imaginative. Great Harvest mills its own flour and offers a delectable variety of grilled panini.
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Dobra Tea
This Czech-owned tearoom offers over 50 varieties, some seasonal, all hand-selected directly from their regions of origin. Sit at a table, an up-ended tea box, or on cushions around a small, low pedestal. When weather permits and the urge calls, hookah pipes ($12) are available at sidewalk tables.
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Magnolia Bistro
The hottest café in a hot-café town, Magnolia utilizes sustainable local ingredients from range-fed beef to leafy green salads, and is certified by the Green Restaurant Association. Specialties include the house-cured organic salmon and the Vermont maple sausage omelet.
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Red Onion
Expect lines at lunch, even in the blustery days of winter, at this popular spot offering deeply gorgeous baked goods. Tempting specials include the Red Onion sandwich: turkey, sun-dried tomato mayo, green apples, red onion, smoked Gruyère and bacon.
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Sweetwaters
Drenched in heavily nouveau-Victorian decor, this local watering hole attracts the young and upwardly mobile. In the evening the glass-enclosed patio is loud with chatter and redolent of nachos and chicken wings; the beverage of choice is an exotic beer.
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Five Spice Cafe
This café is incredibly popular for Sunday dim-sum brunches (11am to 2:30pm, $2 to $3 per dish), but it’ll be worth the wait. The café also serves excellent dishes from China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
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Liquid Lounge/Liquid Energy
By day, order wheatgrass concoctions, veggie tonics and other enhanced nutritional drinks, and enjoy them in front of TVs, DSL internet stations or your own wireless gizmo. Undo all that healthy stuff with beer or wine at night.
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Shanty on the Shore
With its fine lake views, this combo seafood market and eatery serves fresh lobster, fish and shellfish. The raw bar is exquisite, the outdoor deck is wonderful in the summer, and the array of potent drinks enhances the sunset.
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Trattoria Delia
A longtime favorite, this dimly lit Italian restaurant with a large stone fireplace serves homemade pastas and specialties like osso buco ($26.50) and couples them with selections from their award-winning wine list.
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Penny Cluse Café
One block east of Church St Marketplace, Penny Cluse packs a perky college crowd with its southwestern accented dishes like ranchero-style omelets, fish tacos and freshly squeezed juices.
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Henry’s Diner
A Burlington fixture since 1925, this diner has daily specials for around $5. The food is simple (you can get breakfast all day), the atmosphere homey and pleasant, the prices unbeatable.
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Stone Soup
The food at this laid-back café is hearty and healthy, most of it vegetarian, much of it organic. Sandwiches, soups and a buffet bar of fresh salads and hot dishes shore up the menu.
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Muddy Waters
As much a chill-out spot as an eatery, this arty student haunt offers chili and hummus plates and a full array of drinks from espresso and smoothies to Vermont-brewed beers.
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