Summer 2004

Pub & Grub

Good food, friendly faces, and low prices...What could be better?

By Sara Race
Photo by Vermont Pub Photo File

Vermont Pub & Brewery
The enticing entrance to the Vermont Pub & Brewery

 

Sure, plenty of restaurants serve good food. Sometimes it's even inexpensive. But what price do you have to pay to eat a wallet-friendly meal these days? Wobbly tables? A sore rear end? Or cranky service? There just always seems to be something missing! If you’re sick of never maximizing your dining experience, you have to visit Vermont Pub & Brewery. It definitely offers the whole dining package!

For starters, Vermont Pub & Brewery could not be more conveniently located. Just around the corner from Burlington’s Church Street, rests this magnificent establishment. After a long day of shopping, the brewery is the perfect place to relax and chow down. A big screen TV greets you at the door, while lively chitchat and music abounds. With all this excitement, you may think it is targeted to a younger crowd, but people of all ages feast here.

Where else can beer lovers, vegetarians, and thrifty spenders all get together under one roof? As one of Vermont’s unique breweries, the Vermont Pub and Brewery offers a hardy assortment of specialty beers, and hard cider. Youngsters can choose between homemade black raspberry, lime, and mandarin orange seltzers, or the Pub’s very own root beer. If it all sounds so good, you can’t decide, try a pint of “Shandy” (a specialty beer mixed with lime seltzer) for just $3.50.

If beer doesn’t entice you, no problem! This place has so much more to offer. Vegetarians, watch out. You may not be able to button your pants after this trip. If the kitchen makes it meaty, they also make it leafy. No more feeling left out when your friend bites into that 2-inch burger…now you can join right in. Try the vegetarian Reuben with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, Russian dressing, and the works for just under $6.00. If you are sick of paying $5.00 for a side salad, Vermont Pub & Brewery is one of the only restaurants left who understands that most people don’t eat a small bed of lettuce for their entrée. It only charges a couple dollars for fresh greens. Everybody likes French fries and this Pub knows it! Brew house fries, gravy fries, cheese fries, and sweet potato fries are all reasonably priced around $2.00-$3.00. The only place to get cheaper fries is McDonalds, and let me tell you, these are much better.

As good as the food is, it wouldn’t taste the same if it weren’t hand-delivered with tender loving care. The servers are friendly, professional, and extremely precise. In a packed dining room, they will make you feel like you are their only customer. Make sure to catch your server’s name. If it’s Gretchen, expect to be treated like royalty!

If you like delicious food, friendly service, low prices, and an upbeat atmosphere, you should make Vermont Pub and Brewery your next road trip.

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Well worth it!

It beats eating Ramen.

You'd be better off eating at McDonald's.

Even the rats won't eat here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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