The Belted Cow Bistro’s chef/owner, John Delpha, earned his culinary stripes in some of Boston’s best kitchens. These days he has full reign over the local ingredients in his own kitchen, while partner Caitlin Bilodeau runs the dining room–an excellent combination of beautiful food and relaxed yet top-notch service. Seating options include a cozy alcove […]
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Top 20 Vermont Events
Call ahead to confirm dates, times, and admission prices. For hundreds of fairs, festivals, exhibits, shows, and other fun activities, go to: YankeeMagazine.com/events MAY 1-2: WOODSTOCK, Spring Farm Festival. A weekend packed with traditional spring activities at Billings Farm & Museum, including the annual shearing of the Southdown flock. Farmers demonstrate plowing skills with oxen […]
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Vermont Local Secrets 2010
Best Literary Stopover NAULAKHA, Dummerston Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book not in steamy India but in the sober kingdom of southern Vermont. His former home has been restored and is available to groups. 707 Kipling Road. 802-254-6868; landmarktrustusa.org Best Stargazing STELLAFANE CONVENTION, Springfield Quirky doesn’t begin to describe this annual convention of “amateur telescope […]
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Vermont Best Lodging 2010
Best Romantic Escape RABBIT HILL INN, Lower Waterford Massages, hiking paths, and an intimate fireside dining room all do their job to light the fire for romance. But perhaps just as important is what the inn, nestled in the Northeast Kingdom, doesn’t have: TV, WiFi, or even a reliable cell phone signal–so you can disconnect […]
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Vermont Best Restaurants 2010
Best Use of Local Flavors BELTED COW BISTRO, Essex Junction Try the two-bite “sliders,” made with local pork and served with spicy kimchee slaw and ginger- and-scallion relish. Another seasonal highlight: butternut-squash soup, enhanced with a whisper of maple syrup. 4 Park St. 802-316-3883; beltedcowvt.com Best Community-Owned Restaurant THE BEE’S KNEES, Morristown When this hippie-ish […]
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Vermont Best Bargains 2010
Real Bistro Prices TIP TOP CAFE, White River Junction The word “bistro” has been so abused it might as well be dropped from the English language–except that every once in a while, a place comes along that epitomizes the concept, with simple but creative food (such as orange-infused salmon and ginger-and-pork meatloaf), candlelit table service, […]
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Vermont Bests 2010
Yankee‘s Editors’ Choices for the best food, lodging, and things to do in the Green Mountain State are here. Don’t miss the Best Bargains and Local Secrets, too! You could win one of three fabulous New England getaways in our Editors’ Choice Photo Contest. Get details!
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Vermont Best Attractions 2010
Best Place to Time-Travel VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM, Montpelier Not just another history museum, this revamped Vermont-focused institution is modern in its immersive approach. Riffing off the state’s anthem “Freedom and Unity,” it re-creates pivotal environments from the state’s past, including an Abenaki village, the Green Mountain Boys’ Catamount Tavern, and Calvin Coolidge’s summer White […]
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Lake Willoughby
Lake Willoughby sits in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, its southern end wedged spectacularly between a pair of shaggy, slouchy mountains that flank the lake like bookends. Mountains have the merit of always adding grandeur to a landscape, and when mixed with a shimmering expanse of water, the whole scene can approach the sublime. The lake nearly […]
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Vermont Dining by the Water
Ever since we were little, our dad, hailing from the Green Mountain State, had warned us about avoiding the “tourist traps” along Route 4. The town of Woodstock, he claimed, was “something Disney would have created.” As for Quechee, we weren’t allowed to stop at the import shop Scotland by the Yard, or the gift […]
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Waterbury, VT: Hen of the Wood
We wish we could take credit for discovering Hen of the Wood, but Food & Wine magazine, the New York Times, and the James Beard Foundation, among others, have already bestowed their highest praise upon executive chef/co-owner Eric Warnstedt. And with good reason: Warnstedt is putting his money where his mouth is when he says […]
Brattleboro, Vermont’s most famous landmark seemed destined to die—but the townspeople had other ideas.