You know that a restaurant is intensely anticipated when it gains more than 100 followers in its first 24 hours on Facebook. But not every restaurant is the brainchild of Elena Gustavson, the program director at the Center for an Agricultural Economy in Hardwick.
Gustavson’s social-media presence may be blowing up, but she doesn’t plan to open DownStreet Eats at 3075 Main Street in Cabot until mid-September.
Gustavson’s locavore pedigree is enough to get many diners excited, but the chef-owner admits that she hasn’t yet reached out to many of her farmer friends in the Cabot and Marshfield area to source the new restaurant — though she plans to.
Locally focused restaurants are a dime a dozen in Vermont these days. But Korean food is not.

