Bite Club

Alice Eats: Pearl Street Diner

by Alice Levitt Posted on August 14, 2012 at 4:29PM

85 Pearl St., Burlington, 862-3220 DoughBoy's Coffee Shop may have been the ultimate old Burlington diner. With a clientele split mostly between seniors and college students, it was a kind of spiritual cousin to Bove's Restaurant across the street.

Grazing: Whip It Good

by Corin Hirsch Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:33PM

The northward migration of a chef from Austin, Texas, to the Green Mountains is a rare but wonderful thing. When such a person moves between two wildly different places, they can bring a mashup of styles, ideas and dishes that is nothing but good news for the diners around them.

Alice Eats: Burger Barn

by Alice Levitt Posted on August 7, 2012 at 4:32PM

4968 Route 15, Jeffersonville, 730-3441 There are few simple pleasures better than a great burger. But the enjoyment can be even more intense when the burger is anything but simple.

Grazing: Surviving Tales of the Cocktail

by Corin Hirsch Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:53PM

It's not every night that you can walk into a museum and feel fake snow brushing your face. Or, a few seconds later, watch cocktail demigod Dale DeGroff flame an orange peel in front of you, drop it into a glass of sherry and Absolut, and push it forward.

Alice Eats: 99 Asian Market Eatery

by Alice Levitt Posted on July 31, 2012 at 12:05PM

242 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington, 865-0226 It's been almost two years since 99 Asian Market added "Eatery" to its name, set up some simple seating and expanded its menu beyond made-to-order banh mi and a hot bar. I've eaten there plenty of times since, but for some reason, I've never shared the love on this blog.

Activists From Québec's Innu First Nation To Protest This Weekend's New England Governors' Conference in Burlington

by Ken Picard Posted on July 26, 2012 at 12:43PM

More than a dozen protesters from Quebec's Innu First Nation are due to arrive in Vermont this weekend to protest the Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers, being held in Burlington. They are protesting against the construction of a new hydroelectric dam on the Romaine River by Hydro-Québec, which they say would destroy their entire way of life.

Alice Eats: Wilaiwan's Kitchen

by Alice Levitt Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:15PM

34 State St., Montpelier, no phone Some restaurateurs try to make an impact with the size of their menus. Others are confident enough to know that it's the motion in the kitchen that counts.

Grazing: Froyo In The 'Hood

by Corin Hirsch Posted on July 20, 2012 at 6:33PM

For one of the healthiest cities in America, Burlington suffers from a curious lack of soft-serve frozen yogurt. There's Dakin Farm in Ferrisburgh, with its heavenly frozen maple yogurt, but I can't think of another place nearby to grab a swirl of the light stuff.

Alice Eats: Essex Bakery & Café

by Alice Levitt Posted on July 17, 2012 at 12:09PM

21 Essex Way, Essex, 878-1100 When I moved here from Connecticut in 1998, baked goods from the Essex were a definitive part of my Vermont experience. The chocolate-banana-mousse birthday cakes, the raspberry Charlottes — they were key parts of the taste of my adopted state.

Grazing: Cooling Ceviche at El Cortijo

by Corin Hirsch Posted on July 13, 2012 at 5:51PM

It's hot. Way too hot to use a stove, and maybe even a grill.

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