click to enlarge Courtesy UVM Lane Series; Naughtons Audiences see double at the latest UVM Lane Series installment: a performance by twin pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton at the University of Vermont Recital Hall in Burlington. The stupendous sisters stun audiences with a program of classical duets for two pianos and for four hands on one piano. The Secret Garden Wednesday 18 click to enlarge Courtesy Of Beowulf Sheehan Camille Dungy Burlingtonians bask in the words of renowned author and poet Camille T.

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click to enlarge Daria Bishop Tandoori chicken and vegetable thali at Laliguras Indian Nepali Restaurant. A s the Seven Days food team reflected on the state of Vermont's dining scene at the end of 2022, one of the unexpected highlights was an explosion of global cuisines. In a state where farm-to-table tends to drive the conversation — and where we have wood-fired pizza coming out of our ears — a new wave of Afghan, Argentinian, Bosnian, Colombian, Dominican, Filipino, Haitian, Indian, Iranian, Iraqi, Jamaican-British, Korean, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Somali and Taiwanese pop-ups, food carts, market vendors and restaurants is more than welcome.

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click to enlarge Daria Bishop Crab cake appetizer As if his remark had been scripted for me, a patron at Pauline's Café on a recent Thursday night paused on his way out to tell chef-owner David Hoene, "I always get the crab cake when I come here, but tonight it was the best of all." My husband and I had just finished our meal at the almost 50-year-old South Burlington restaurant. We had ordered a chorus line of Pauline's classics to determine which would earn "" acclaim, including the crab cake appetizer ($15), French onion soup ($10), pork schnitzel ($24) and bananas Foster ($12).

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click to enlarge Courtesy Celina Ellison (left) and Maura Fitzgerald of in front of the future scoop shop aims to open a retail store at 21 Commerce Street in Williston by May 1, director of operations Maura Fitzgerald said. The scoop shop will be a couple of buildings away from the former Sealtest dairy ice cream plant into which the 19-year-old company moved its production from Grand Isle in 2022. "Too many people knock on our door, especially in winter, and ask if we scoop here," Fitzgerald said.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of John Labbe The Westerlies & Theo Bleckmann Innovative brass quartet the Westerlies and in-demand jazz vocalist Theo Bleckmann team up for This Land at Robison Concert Hall at Middlebury College's Mahaney Arts Center. This powerful program celebrates social justice music and protest songs and features beloved works by the likes of Bertolt Brecht, Joni Mitchell and Woody Guthrie. Lamb Session Saturday 8 click to enlarge Courtesy Of Marshall Webb Pride Hikes Outdoorsfolk of all ages, orientations and identities gather at Shelburne Farms for a Pride Hike cohosted by Audubon Vermont, Pride Center of Vermont and Outright Vermont.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Carley Stevens-McLaughlin Kevin (left) and Frank Peters Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and generations of mathematicians have spent their careers trying to approximate its value. For bakers and brothers Frank and Kevin Peters, pie necessitates plenty of calculations, too. No matter how much they increase their output each year, their customers still can't seem to get enough. The week before Easter, at Sam Mazza's Farm Market in Colchester, bakery manager Frank was fine-tuning his usual preholiday pie calculations.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Will Keeper Will Keeper Burlington's Radio Bean becomes a gay bar for the night at Queer Takeover , an evening featuring everything from a queer comedy hour to live music by acts including Catwolf and Will Keeper. There are drag performances by Miss Czechoslovakia, Virginia Thick 100 and the Moondance Twins; a DJ set by Genderdeath; and HIV and COVID-19 tests courtesy of Pride Center of Vermont. Phoning It In Saturday 15 click to enlarge Courtesy Of Michelle Leftheris Michole Biancosino The Middlebury College Mahaney Arts Center's New Directions Spring Arts Festival kicks off with the premiere of Momentary Exchange , an experimental theater event created by assistant professor Michole Biancosino and visiting artist Todd Anderson.

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click to enlarge Jeb Wallace-Broduer Abdoulaye Niane harvesting eggplant at Khelcom Farm At six feet, seven inches, Abdoulaye Niane towers over almost every crop he tends at his half-acre urban farm, located behind his family home in a quiet Berlin neighborhood just off Route 302. The sunflowers along the back fence of Khelcom Farm are a notable exception. "This is the first time I grew sunflowers," Niane, 49, said with a grin. "They are as tall as me." This year's growing season also marks the first time that the Senegalese native and former machinist has run his own farm and raised vegetables for sale there.

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click to enlarge File: James Buck Sweet potato sandwich at Knead Bakery in Burlington Burlington's vegan dining scene lost a staple this week when Knead Bakery closed its doors after service on Monday, September 5. Rob Blum and Isabelle Clark opened the plant-based bakery and café at 294 North Winooski Avenue in January 2018. They announced the business' permanent closure in an online statement on September 1. "As we step away to focus more on our growing family, we will hold on tightly to all the amazing moments, friendships, and things we have learned owning Knead," the statement said.

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click to enlarge A beloved space in St. Albans is heating up once again. Shawn Careau will open Off the Rails at One Federal on Thursday, October 27. Off the Rails is the first solo restaurant for chef-owner Careau, 34, who has been in the industry since he was 14. "It's wood-fired European fusion," Careau said. "I'm taking a lot of the European influences from places I've worked and loved," including Chittenden County restaurants such as Hinesburgh Public House, Waterworks Food + Drink, ¡Duino! (Duende), Bella Luna and Vermont Tap House.

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click to enlarge Daria Bishop Fresh doughnuts from Sweet Wheels Donuts on its last weekend of the 2022 season On October 4, when Charles Reeves and Holly Cluse announced the upcoming closure of Penny Cluse Café, their beloved downtown Burlington breakfast and lunch spot, Reeves told Seven Days, "I always thought there would be a time in my life where I'd step away from it, have a regular life for a while." Working in the restaurant business, especially as a chef and co-owner like Reeves, does not make for a regular life.

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click to enlarge The Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival, a rootsy shindig 17 years strong, once again visits the Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site with a lineup that includes Craig Bickhardt (pictured), Sarah King, the Speckers and Reggie Harris. Early birds on Saturday get a pre-show: Shakespeare Alive! A Bard-Based Variety Show from local favorites Stand Up Shakespeare. Flavor Town Saturday 3 click to enlarge © Johnfoto | Dreamstime Garlic Town, USA< Downtown Bennington transforms into Garlic Town, USA, a celebration of all things allium — and a stinkin' good time.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Dijizhi, a corn and bean soup with beef, with yucca blossoms and Nada'ban, Apache corn bread Nephi Craig is White Mountain Apache on his mother's side and Diné (Navajo) on his father's. He grew up mostly in Whiteriver, Ariz., on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, where he baked cookies and brownies with his mother from a young age. "We didn't have a lot of money," Craig, 42, said in a recent phone interview. So, he packaged and sold the home-baked treats to neighbors. "It gave me a sense of worth.

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click to enlarge Courtesy of Tenfold Engineering A rendering of one of Tenfold's units when it's fully extended. David Jaacks, a Springfield entrepreneur with a degree in architecture, hopes to transform the way the world lives with an expandable steel-frame cabin that can set itself up on legs in a variety of locations. The patented home is designed to leave the factory the size of a 20-foot-long shipping container. At its destination, the legs come down automatically and the building rises, enabling the truck to drive out from underneath it.

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click to enlarge Melissa Pasanen Michael Li of Lee's Asian Mart A large Asian grocery store opened on September 18 in the Blue Mall at 150 Dorset Street in South Burlington. Lee's Asian Mart occupies the renovated, 7,000-square-foot space that was most recently Vermont's sole Outback Steakhouse, which closed in May 2020. Open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., the market offers produce such as fresh (not dried) dates and lychees; frozen prepared foods and ingredients, from fish balls to boneless chicken feet; refrigerated items such as kimchi and salted duck eggs; and packaged goods and snacks, including rice, bottled sauces, and KitKats flavored with strawberry or green tea.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Jenna's Coffee House Two Sons Bakehouse and the nonprofit Jenna's Promise have partnered to open a café at 38 Main Street in Johnson by the end of October. The business will employ women in recovery from substance-use disorder, some of whom will live in the nonprofit's sober housing facility above the café. Open daily from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., the café will offer baked goods such as bagels, croissants and cookies; sandwiches such as falafel or turkey, bacon and avocado on sourdough bread; and coffee and espresso drinks made with beans from Jenna's Promise Roasting, another of the nonprofit's workforce development ventures, also in Johnson.

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click to enlarge Everyone's brain works differently, and no one should be ashamed or made to feel like an outsider because of it. That's the message of All Brains Belong VT, a Montpelier nonprofit founded by physician Melissa Houser. The group aims to connect, serve and advocate for children and adults who identify as "neurodivergent" — a description that encompasses everything from learning disabilities to ADHD to autism. "We think it's important for kids to grow up knowing that there's not one 'right' way to be in the world," Houser said via email.

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click to enlarge Jeb Wallace-Brodeur Justin Lefebvre After a long day cooking in a Mad River Valley restaurant kitchen, I crave the social connections I found working in wine bars and restaurants in Los Angeles and Manhattan — not to mention the almost obligatory post-shift drink. Shortly after moving to the valley in late 2021, I noticed a lack of late-night options. One evening after I finished a shift, Warren's Hostel Tevere popped up on my Google Maps search. I was intrigued. A hostel is not the first place that comes to mind when I think of a bar or restaurant, but I had driven past the place several times and decided to give it a go.

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click to enlarge Luke Awtry A freshly slaughtered meat bird at New Village Farm Chicken slaughter features vividly among Michaela Ryan's earliest memories. The founder-owner of New Village Farm in Shelburne grew up on a farm in southern Québec. She was 3 years old when her father killed a meat bird, and it escaped his grasp to become the proverbial chicken running around with its head cut off. "A headless running bird is one of my very first memories," Ryan, 52, said. "It was definitely traumatic.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Irene Kim Linda Furiya with her knife-sharpening equipment Linda Furiya wants to help people who suffer from what she calls "dull-knife shaming." A guest offers to help with meal prep. You hand over a cutting board and a sharp knife. After a few minutes, the guest asks, "Um, do you have another knife?" By which they mean a knife that is actually sharp. Enter Furiya's alter ego, Madam Cutler, the face of the knife-sharpening service the Shelburne resident launched in the summer.

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click to enlarge Courtesy ACORN Food Hub manager Jessica Purks with an order of local produce for Bobcat Café & Brewery At the height of the season at Reap & Sow Farm in Monkton, Matt Lasser hardly has time to eat. Lasser, 32, is the operator and co-owner of the two-acre diversified vegetable farm. With a tiny crew, he grows, markets, sells and delivers produce, such as green-and-purple striated dragon tongue beans and sweet honeynut squash. The 4-year-old farm's revenue comes about equally from the Burlington Farmers Market, a 100-member CSA, and sales to Burlington-area restaurants and catering companies, Lasser said.

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click to enlarge Melissa Pasanen Taylor Watts of Monarch & the Milkweed Downtown Burlington's buzzy Monarch & the Milkweed will serve its last egg-white-crowned Tonka Puff and butterfly-garnished Monarch cocktail the weekend after Thanksgiving — but the bar will go on. During December, the current team, led by operating manager Taylor Watts, will run the venue under a temporary moniker, Devil Takes a Holiday Cocktail Lounge. It will offer a holiday-themed cocktail menu, an expanded wine program with more bottles available by the glass and food cooked on-site by guest chefs, Watts said.

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click to enlarge ©️ Seven Days Breakfast sandwich with Birch Hill English Muffins When Vermont Bread abruptly closed in April 2021, I stuffed my chest freezer with packs of the Brattleboro-based bakery's English muffins. A year later, rations depleted, I felt the local muffin void. And I wasn't the only one. "They had become part of our routine," Eric Hill of Jericho said. "We ate those English muffins at least two or three times a week." Hill and his wife, Sarah Marianacci, wanted something better than the standard grocery store brand that touts its "nooks & crannies.

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click to enlarge Chicken tikka masala, garlic naan and samosa I'm a lover of all things garlic: bread, knots, pickled and powdered. So my mouth watered as a server set a plate of steaming naan covered in finely minced garlic on the table during a recent lunch at the in Middlebury. The toastiness of the golden brown, bubbled flatbread balanced the generous portion of allium, rendering the naan just garlicky enough. The bread was not only delicious but also useful. As the menu states, "An Indian meal without bread is not complete," and restaurant manager Narender Kaur insisted that my friend and I order some that her husband, chef Gurdip Singh, had baked in a clay tandoor oven.

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click to enlarge Jordan Barry ©️ Seven Days Cinnamon roll, fruit tart, Anjou pear melt and turkey BLT from Leunig's Le Marché Café Is there anything more dazzling than a pastry case full of fruit-topped tarts, chocolate-coated cakes and multicolored macarons? While many forego such sweets in the name of New Year's resolutions, the Seven Days food team continues its January tradition of celebrating them. We welcomed 2021 with a story on doughnuts and 2022 with one on croissants and kouign amanns.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Deven Bora of Early Bird Catering A Colchester native is returning home to open a grab-and-go breakfast and lunch spot at 506 Porters Point Road. On December 5, chef-owner Deven Bora, 27, will start serving breakfast and lunch sandwiches, burritos, coffee, smoothies, soup, hot-bar dishes, and take-home dinners at Early Bird Catering in the former location of Big Apple Deli. The shop will also serve as the home base for the catering business Bora started earlier this year.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Barbecue tray at Shakedown Street BBQ & Grill Something's shakin' in Stowe. In mid-December, Stowe Cider will open Shakedown Street BBQ & Grill and an updated event venue, Shakedown Lounge, at its production facility at 17 Town Farm Lane. The restaurant will offer a full barbecue menu, including smoked meats, vegan and vegetarian dishes, and gluten-free options. The 50-seat taproom will continue to pour a rotating menu of draft ciders, local beer and Vermont-made spirits.

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click to enlarge Courtesy The new wine bar at the Windjammer Restaurant When the Windjammer Restaurant announced in June 2021 that it would no longer offer its beloved salad bar, a period of collective mourning ensued — or collective outcry, depending on which social media comments you read. As of mid-December, the longtime South Burlington restaurant has transformed the boat-shaped space that once held that salad bar into an evening wine bar. "Doing something different after over 40 years of having something the community loved is a hard pill to swallow," general manager Dan Phelan told Seven Days.

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click to enlarge Courtesy Of Manuel Harlan Mateo Oxley Shakespeare's much-loved romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing gets an art deco refresh in a new National Theatre performance, streamed live at Catamount Arts Center in St. Johnsbury. Starring Katherine Parkinson and John Heffernan, this production transposes the action to a midcentury fantasia called the Hotel Messina on the Italian Riviera and features pastel costumes and unrestrained laughs. Hit the Slopes Friday 2 & Saturday 3 click to enlarge Courtesy Of Ian Anderson Daymaker, Warren Miller Entertainment's annual winter sports film Skiers and snowboarders who just can't wait to get out there tide themselves over with Daymaker, Warren Miller Entertainment's annual winter sports film screening at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury and the Flynn in Burlington.

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click to enlarge Kirk Kardashian Mel and Damaris Hall When Damaris and Mel Hall started selling samosas at Vermont street festivals in 1993, they made 30 at a time. Damaris, a trained chef from Kenya, was in charge of the cooking, while Mel, who grew up in Memphis, Tenn., set up the Coleman camp stove and the cash register. Today, as the owners of Global Village Foods in Quechee, the couple have roughly the same roles they had 30 years ago, but the scale is vastly different. With a 12-person staff, the company produces 5,000 samosas and 2,000 bulk entrées and ready-to-eat meals per day — all allergy-friendly, with gluten-free and vegan options.

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