Friday, March 6, 2020
Two large-screen televisions behind the counter broadcast one show from breakfast through lunch: Parkway cooks frying eggs, grilling burgers, plating roast turkey sandwiches and serving fries.
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Thursday, February 27, 2020
La Brioche set up shop in another restaurant operated by the culinary school, NECI on Main, at 118 Main Street.
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Monday, February 17, 2020
On Saturday, February 15, the City of Burlington issued a precautionary boil-water advisory due to a water main break. Starting in the South End and eventually including most of Burlington and a small part of South Burlington, the advisory disrupted one of the busiest weekends of the winter for the city’s restaurants, with Valentine’s Day coinciding with the President’s Day long weekend.
Residents were advised to boil water for one minute before using it for drinking, cooking or washing dishes. Food establishments had to make the tough decision whether to close and lose business or to navigate the challenges of safely feeding a packed house without their usual water supply.
At the Great Northern on Pine Street, the first sign of trouble came at the end of Saturday brunch. “The pressure got funky around 3 o’clock,” chef and co-owner Frank Pace said. Thirty minutes later, Pace received the alert from the city’s emergency system. The restaurant’s next door partner, Zero Gravity Craft Brewery, closed right away. Pace and his wife and co-owner, Marnie Long, went fact finding with the brewery’s general manager, Margaret Leddy.
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Monday, February 10, 2020
Chef-owner Samuel Palmisano announced Monday that Pulcinella’s will be relocating within South Burlington from 100 Dorset Street to 1710 Shelburne Road, where Lakeview House Restaurant currently operates.
Jon Templeton of Larkin Realty confirmed that Lakeview House Restaurant will close at the end of February, making way for Pulcinella’s to move in.
Pulcinella’s will continue to serve at its original location through March 28 while Palmisano refreshes and redecorates the Shelburne Road restaurant space. He and his wife, Kyla Drew, who manages Pulcinella’s dining room and bar, plan to open in the new spot on April 1.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
ArtsRiot, the Burlington restaurant, music club and event space at 400 Pine Street, is “shifting resources and refocusing,” according to George Lambertson, the restaurant’s former chef and co-owner of the business.
The restaurant-bar was closed for four days, January 19 through 22, without notice. It reopened on January 23 with reduced hours, an abbreviated menu, fewer staff and counter service only.
Lambertson is also back in the kitchen. “I’m cooking,” he confirmed. Chefs Mojo Hancy-Davis and Chris Donnelly — who started the Carte Blanche food cart in 2018 — had replaced Lambertson in October when left to travel around the U.S. Lambertson could not verify the status of their employment.
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Thursday, January 23, 2020
The Daily Planet opened in 1982 on Center Street in Burlington. Houghton, who has owned the restaurant for 28 years, called the sale “bittersweet,” but said the new ownership would be a positive step for the business and Burlington.
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Monday, January 6, 2020
The café will close its downtown location on January 25 and open the week of February 10 at 3060 Williston Road in South Burlington, according to a press release and a Facebook post.
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Saturday, January 4, 2020
The pizza party at 39 Esplanade — former site of On the Rise Bakery — is the day before the restaurant’s official launch on Wednesday, January 8. It is the second location of Stone’s Throw, which opened its original site on Main Street in Fairfax in November 2018.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Owner Brenda Nadeau is retiring and closing the café and roastery that was founded by her parents, Skip and Beverly Blakely, in May 1994. Drip coffee will be free on Monday as a thank-you to her regulars, she said.
“We’re doing heavy discounts on everything, and giving away drip coffee,” Nadeau said. “We’re just trying to give back to our people.”
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Monday, December 16, 2019
The newest Skinny will be at 454 Mountain Road, site of the former McCarthy’s Restaurant, which closed in the fall after 45 years in business.
"It's pretty cool," Adler said. "They're passing the torch."
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