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Bent Hill (Braintree, VT)
Bent Hill One of the bigger pieces of news I had gotten on the local dining scene last summer was that Bent Hill Brewery was now serving food. I’ve always liked that brewery, and was actually a bit...
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The Fairlee Diner (Fairlee, VT)
The Fairlee Diner (Update: On April 3, 2022, the Fairlee Diner closed for good. The owners had been looking to sell the place, and decided to finally close. Hopefully someone else can buy the place,...
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The Cluckin’ Cafe (Pittsford, VT)
The Cluckin’ Cafe During the pandemic, one of the things we started doing, due to spending a lot more time making dinner at home, was investing in a wine membership from one of our favorite Vermont...
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Carlita’s Cocina (South Royalton, VT)
Carlita’s Cocina (Update: Just a few weeks after I posted this review, Carlita’s Cocina had a major fire and shut down. That’s the bad news. The good news is that as of November 2022, they’ve moved...
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BlackRock Steakhouse (Springfield, VT)
BlackRock Steakhouse At one point last summer, my friend Geoff declared “I’m craving a good steak”. Well, aside from Jesse’s Steakhouse in Hanover, NH, the general Upper Valley region doesn’t have a...
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Johnny Boys Pancake House (Rutland, VT)
Johnny Boys Pancake House This summer we also had annual trip over to Lake George, NY for the Ohana Luau By The Lake (“The Best Little Event in Tiki”), which had us doing another nice morning drive...
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Taco Cat Cantina (Randolph, VT)
Taco Cat Cantina If there’s been one noticeable change in the culinary scene around Northern New England, it’s the recent appearance of more than a few decent taco joints sprinkled around the area,...
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Oakes & Evelyn Health Check (Montpelier, VT)
Oakes & Evelyn As our regular readers know, here at Offbeat Eats, every once in a while we do a “health check”, revisiting one of our favorite spots and see how things are doing. We first visited...
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Pizzapalooza (Marlboro, Vermont)
Beer Naked/Pizzapalooza In late October, right before the snow started to fly around here, we got together with our friend Alex for a set of short hikes in Marlboro, Vermont around the old Hogback...
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Good Measure Pub and Brewery (Northfield, VT)
Good Measure Pub and Brewery Back in 2019, I talked a bit about Northfield, Vermont, the small Vermont town nestled in a valley just west of I-89, and it’s growing food scene. Particularly, I had...
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Health Check: Hartland Diner (Hartland, VT)
The Hartland Diner,going strong As our regular readers know, here at Offbeat Eats, every once in a while we do a “health check”, revisiting one of our favorite spots and see how things are doing. We...
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Bistro Midva (Windsor, VT)
Bistro Midva After quite a bit of international travel, late April had me arriving back home in the Upper Valley just in time for Carol’s birthday, and we used it as good excuse to try out a place...
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Kingdom Table (St Johnsbury, VT)
Kingdom Table A fairly recent trip up to the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont had a passing through St Johnsbury a handful of times, and it gave us a good opportunity to check out a bunch of well-regarded...
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Zoey’s Double Hex (Manchester Center, VT)
Zoey’s Double Hex In June, before several of our planned hiking and backpacking trips, we decided to do a warmup hike up one of our favorites: Mt Equinox in Manchester, VT, which unlike the Green...
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Wit & Grit (Randolph, VT)
Wit and Grit Mid-summer, we were meeting up with friends in Burlington, VT for one of the monthly Tiki events a Venetian Soda Lounge, and it gave us one of our relatively rare opportunities to grab...
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Shanty on the Shore (Burlington, VT)
Shanty on the Shore One of the obligatory parts of living in New England is that you’ve occasionally got to give into the urge, and go find a seafood restaurant and get one of the hallmark dishes of...
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Carlita’s Cantina (South Royalton, VT)
Carlita’s Cantina Back in mid ’22, Carol and I had a pleasant visit with friends in South Royalton, VT, stopping off at Carlita’s Cocina, which was a semi-permanent food truck in one of the large...
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Oakes & Evelyn Re-Opening (Montpelier, VT)
Oakes & Evelyn Oakes & Evelyn in Montpelier has been my favorite Vermont restaurant for the last few years. They were our first “real” post-pandemic fine dining experience back in May of 2021...
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Whetstone Station (Brattleboro, VT)
Whetstone Station As mentioned in the previous post, a few weekends ago I was hiking with my friend Alex on Wantastiquet Mountain, located in Hinsdale across the river from Brattleboro. After a...
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Haymaker Bun Co. (Middlebury, VT)
Haymaker Bun Co. Several times a year, we end up traveling just north of Middlebury, VT to pick up wine from Lincoln Peak Vineyard. As I mentioned a while back in our review of The Cluckin’ Cafe, that...
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