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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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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 are available at sidewalk tables.
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Five Spice Cafe
This café is incredibly popular for Sunday dim-sum brunches but it'll be worth the wait. The café also serves excellent dishes from China, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam.
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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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Henry's Diner
A Burlington fixture since 1925, this diner has daily specials for around US$5 . The food is simple (you can get breakfast all day), the atmosphere homey and pleasant, the prices unbeatable.
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L'Amante
Sleek yet engagingly informal, low-lit L'Amante serves upscale Northern Italian cuisine such as an irresistible salumi appetizer and swordfish with saffron-encrusted risotto cake. The wine list is extensive enough for all price ranges, and meals can be topped off with a glass of homemade grappa.
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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 cracker-fried duck with frog legs or an exquisite steak-frites.
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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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Muddy Waters
Besides serving all kinds of coffee, Muddy Waters offers juice concoctions, light eats (soup, chili, lasagna, hummus and veggies, and baked goodies), Guinness and a couple of McNeill's brews (from Brattleboro), so you can enjoy a pint in the cool glow of your laptop (bedecked with a 'Stop bitching, start a revolution' sticker, of course) as you write your novel.
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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 ( to weekdays).
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Radio Bean
This is the social hub for the arts and music scene. A low-power FM radio station (105.9) beams over the airwaves from this Dutch-style coffeehouse. Espressos, beer and wine keep things jumping, and grilled sandwiches and baked goods feed the soul. Live performances nightly include jazz, acoustic music and poetry readings.
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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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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 wonderful in the summer, and the array of potent drinks enhances the sunset.
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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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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 oak-wood 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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Stone Soup
Stone Soup is a big lunchtime hit with local vegetarians. Homemade soups, the salad bar and sandwiches with home-baked bread are quite popular.
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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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Trattoria Delia
A longtime favorite, this dimly lit Italian restaurant with a large stone fireplace serves homemade pastas and specialties like osso buco and couples them with a selection from their award-winning wine list.
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Uncommon Grounds
Take your newspaper, order a cup o' Joe and a muffin, grab a sidewalk table and people-watch in good weather. And muse about how good life is.
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