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While some eateries are adding options, for others, the game is over. River’s Edge Coffee Shop and Grill, on Riverside Avenue in Burlington, closed its doors last Sunday.

Ann Marie Silva, who owned the quick stop with her husband Bert, attributes the loss to the widening of Riverside Avenue, which wound up last summer. “We were the new kids on the block before the construction started; we really didn’t have our feet planted in the ground, and when it hit, it hit hard.”... Read more

“Is there any nostalgia more powerful than the exile’s passion for the food of home?” That was the question U.K. Guardian writer Alex Renton asked back in April on his blog Word of Mouth. He went on, “Koreans dream of kimchi, East Africans write poems about ugali; Brits abroad get Marmite DHL-ed to them.”

Another blog noshtalgia.blogspot.com is... Read more

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders easily gets constituents lathered about health care, education and the environment. But last Saturday he met his match when he hosted a town meeting with Eric Schlosser, and the Fast Food Nation author got a near-capacity, crowded Burlington City Hall Auditorium really fired up about sustainable agriculture.... Read more

Hail and high winds can be romantic if you’re at home in front of the fireplace with a bottle of wine. But if you’re suspended in a tiny, swaying gondola high above Mount Mansfield, the experience can be harrowing.... Read more

It’s no secret that the current economic climate is tough on restaurants, which rely on folks feeling flush with disposable income. The trend has been illustrated by the shuttering of such diverse eateries as Sean & Nora’s in Barre, award-winning Christophe’s on the Green in Vergennes and Tortilla Flat in Burlington.

This week’s casualty is River’s Edge Coffee Shop and Grill on Riverside Avenue in Burlington. More on that later . . . (Click here)... Read more

Amigo’s Cantina in Middlebury was a Tex-Mex standard for 20 years, so when the taco joint closed this spring and the building re-emerged as an Italian restaurant with a striking red and black façade, people took notice. The new eatery, Doria’s, opened on May 1 and threw its grand opening celebration earlier this month.... Read more

When the thickets burst with summer fruit, we fill our fridges with raspberries and blackberries, but fresh elderberries are hard to find in markets. Maybe it’s because it takes a basketful of the small, inky things to yield, say, a respectable batch of elderberry pancakes. Or maybe it’s because some varieties of the fruit are toxic before they ripen.... Read more

Did Fast Food Nation change the way you think about burgers and fries? The book’s author, activist Eric Schlosser, joins Senator Bernie Sanders in Burlington this Saturday for a “town meeting on the politics of food.” The topic: “From Fast Food Nation to Sustainable Agriculture.” The writer and the politician met recently during a successful effort to improve wages for exploited tomato pickers in Florida.... Read more

Until recently, Jeff Egan had his head in the clouds as the head chef at the Cliff House Restaurant, which is perched on the slope of Mount Mansfield and accessible by gondola. Now he’s falling to Earth as the new executive chef for Vermont Discovery Cruises. Egan will put his talents to use in a tiny kitchen on the company’s yacht, the Moonlight Lady, which set sail on its first luxury tour of Lake Champlain last weekend.... Read more

Montpelier, Brattleboro and tiny Chelsea beat the Queen City to the punch, but starting this winter, B-Town will finally have a year-round Farmers’ Market.

Featuring meats, cheeses, baked goods, pickles and preserves, and hearty winter vegetables, it’ll happen monthly from November through April at Memorial Auditorium. The first market is Saturday, November 22, the weekend before Thanksgiving, and locals can purchase their provender on the third Saturday of each month thereafter.