Restaurants in Vermont
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Bistro Henry
This casual, chef-owned bistro serves creative modern cuisine highlighting fresh seafood, aged meats and fresh vegetables. Its acclaimed wine selection features eclectic and hard-to-find labels.
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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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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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Dutch Pancake Café
- Stowe, USA
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Located within the Grey Fox Inn, this Dutch-owned eatery decked in Delft tiles makes more than 80 kinds of pannekoeken (Dutch pancakes); some have a Southern American twist with sausage and gravy.
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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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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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Chef’s Table
As home to one of the country’s finest cooking schools, the New England Culinary Institute, Montpelier is an excellent place to stop for a meal. NECI runs three restaurants in town. Since this upstairs, upscale restaurant is run by second-year NECI students, the food is generally somewhat more accomplished than at the Main St Bar & Grill. Specials change nightly but you’ll usually find some variant of veal chops, lamb dishes and rosemary-seared swordfish.
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Main St Bar & Grill
As home to one of the country’s finest cooking schools, the New England Culinary Institute, Montpelier is an excellent place to stop for a meal. NECI runs three restaurants in town. Its signature restaurant is a multilevel spot boasting an open window to the kitchen – this allows you to watch first-year student chefs at work. The fare may feature almond-crusted trout or leg of venison. Sunday brunch is an excellent all-you-can-eat affair.
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Skyline Restaurant
At the high point of VT 9, there’s a lookout and the family-owned Skyline Restaurant, where you can dine on homemade soups, a ‘Monte Cristo’ (a grilled triple-decker sandwich made with Swiss cheese, ham and turkey drizzled with maple syrup) and traditional New England comfort foods, all with the backdrop of a marvelous ‘100-mile’ view, which – weather permitting – takes in the Berkshires.
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Skunk Hollow Tavern
Fear not – there are no skunks on the menu at this tiny 200-year-old tavern 8 miles south of Woodstock, with worn wooden floors that ooze history. You can have burgers or fish-and-chips ($8) at the bar or head upstairs, where it’s more intimate, to enjoy rack of lamb ($24). The same menu is available upstairs and downstairs. It’s a treat when there’s live music (Wednesday and Friday) and the band takes up half the room.
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Jackson House Inn
Expect tranquility, exquisite views of Mt Tom and premier cuisine at the Jackson House. The prix-fixe menu might feature scallops and stone crab or duck in phyllo, followed by a main dish of pepper-crusted tuna or a juicy little squab lightly caramelized with maple syrup. The chef also offers a 10-course tasting menu at $95, a true treat for your tastebuds. End with the pumpkin brûlée, steamed lemon pudding or tarte tatin.
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New England Culinary Institute
As home to one of the country's finest cooking schools, the New England Culinary Institute , Montpelier is an excellent place to stop for a meal. NECI runs three restaurants in town: La Brioche, Main St Bar & Grill and the Chef's Table. Depending on the student chefs of the day, you can either have one of the best meals in New England at an affordable price or a damn good attempt. Be a guinea pig and support someone's learning curve.
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River Garden Cafe
This place is true to its name: you’ll enjoy the back porch (open year-round) and summer patio within earshot of the river. This local favorite offers salads, pastas, filet mignon and stir-fried dishes served in a casually elegant atmosphere. For lunch, try the Green Mountain pizza ($7) topped with Vermont goat cheese, mozzarella, pesto and tomato sauce. As you might have guessed, breads and desserts are homemade.
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Elements
The setting in a former mill complements the novel menu, which uses local ingredients whenever possible. Try the polenta lasagna with eggplant over roasted vegetables, or trout cakes with tomato jam, wasabi and crème fraîche. Try to share so that you sample several dishes. Dried cranberries go into the cornbread pudding for dessert – a unique treat. Almost everything is made on the premises.
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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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Sarducci’s
If you don’t feel like tossing the dice and risking a meal made by students, head to this reliable standby. With tables overlooking the river (unfortunately reservations aren’t taken) in an old railroad station, its menu features Italian dishes like pastas, personalized wood-oven pizzas and eggplant parmigiana. The restaurant feels spacious and the lunch portions are very generous.
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Hen of the Wood
Arguably the finest dining in northern Vermont, this chef-driven restaurant is just three years old but has already earned rave reviews from Gourmet and Food & Wine magazines for its innovative farm-to-table cuisine. Set in a historic grist mill, the ambience is as fine as the food, which features densely flavored dishes like smoked duck breast and sheep's milk gnocchi.
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Simon Pearce
Not only is Simon Pearce an unbeatable choice for an upscale meal but lunch is surprisingly affordable. Start by watching the artisans hand-blowing glass and throwing pottery in the basement workshops, then go upstairs and enjoy creative New American fare served on their handiwork. Very cool place - they even generate their own electricity from the waterfall the restaurant overlooks.
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Station Restaurant
The village of Pawlet consists of a few little shops and the Station Restaurant, formerly a 1905 railroad station in another town: the structure was converted into a classic diner, moved to Pawlet and situated above this babbling brook. Complete with swivel stools and counter, it’s also atmospheric thanks to hook-hung cups bearing the names of regulars.
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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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Gracie’s Restaurant
Behind Carlson Real Estate, Gracie’s has dog-themed specialties, such as a Mexican plate called ‘South of the Border Collie.’ Or stick to big burgers, hand-cut steaks, Waldorf salad and garlic-laden shrimp scampi. Try its famous ‘Doggie Bag’ dessert: a white-chocolate bag filled with chocolate mousse and hot fudge.
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Pane e Salute
Specialties include authentic Italian pastries and the best cup of espresso this side of the Connecticut River. Expect buttery panettone, rolls filled with ricotta, pear and chocolate, and Florentine coffee cake. In the evening, you’ll be rewarded with classic northern Italian dishes, complemented by an extensive wine list.
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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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Mr Pickwick’s Pub & Restaurant
The respectfully teasing bartender at this pub and eatery in Ye Olde England Inne keeps the crowd on high perk. An old-world feel is fully manifested, and this is the place to try ye olde bangers-and-mash or ostrich tenderloin. Otherwise, indulge in the Chef’s Tasting Dinner ($60 per person, reservations required).
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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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