Seven Daysies 2016
All the Best: Food, Drink, Arts & Entertainment, Shopping, Services and Outdoor & Recreation
Best housemade ice cream
Lake Champlain Chocolates (Burlington) & Island Homemade Ice Cream (Grand Isle)
Best lunch
The Farmhouse Tap & Grill (Burlington) & Prohibition Pig (Waterbury)
Best breakfast/brunch
Penny Cluse Café (Burlington) & 158 Main Restaurant & Bakery (Jeffersonville)
Best burger
The Farmhouse Tap & Grill (Burlington) & Prohibition Pig (Waterbury)
Best real estate agent
Brian Boardman, Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman Realty
Best women’s casual clothing store
Ecco (Burlington) & Salaam Boutique (Montpelier)
Best pizza (restaurant)
American Flatbread Burlington Hearth (Burlington) & Positive Pie (Barre/Hardwick/Montpelier)
Best draft beer list
The Farmhouse Tap & Grill (Burlington) & Prohibition Pig (Waterbury)
Locals Pick the Best of Vermont: Seven Daysies 2016
Food, Drink, Arts, Entertainment, Shopping, Services, Outdoors and Recreation
Best creemee
Burlington Bay Market & Café (Burlington) & Vermont Cookie Love (North Ferrisburgh)
Best locally owned grocery store
City Market, Onion River Co-op (Burlington) & Hunger Mountain Co-op (Montpelier)
Stylist with Secret Talents: Nathan Jarvis
Age: 37 Occupation: stylist at Indigo Town: Burlington If you know theater or music in Burlington, you know Nathan Jarvis. For years, he’s been bringing a touch of phantasmagoria to the club scene by staging “pop-eras” with his synth-pop band, Rue M. A veteran of local theater productions, he memorably held the stage solo as…
Best family restaurant
American Flatbread Burlington Hearth (Burlington) & Piecasso Family Pizzeria (Stowe)
First-Rate Fashion Guru: Hiroka Nakahira
Age: 39 Occupation: sales associate, Old Gold Town: Burlington Vintage dresses, cowboy boots and gorilla suits — you’ll find all that and more at Old Gold on Burlington’s Main Street. And the sales associates are as colorful as the inventory. Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Hiroka Nakahira joined their ranks a couple of years…
Small-Town Arts Impresario: Doug Anderson
Age: 63 Occupation: executive director, Town Hall Theater Town: East Middlebury Google “Doug Anderson,” and you’ll find a Tolkien scholar, an American gospel singer, a New Zealand rugby player and a Scottish wildlife photographer, among others. None of them is Doug Anderson, executive director of Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Though, as he points out,…
Best Beer Geek Enabler: Meg Schultz
Age: 38 Occupation: owner, Meg’s Events Town: Moretown One afternoon, many winters ago, Meg Schultz sat at the bar at Mad River Glen enjoying an après-ski brewski with Lawson’s Finest Liquids brewer Sean Lawson. “We should plan our own beer fest,” Schultz recalls one of them saying. The following September, the event planner — a…
Good Food Samaritan: Ren Weiner
Age: 30 Occupation: baker, Miss Weinerz Town: Winooski Most locals know Ren Weiner for her doughnuts, which she delivers each weekend to local spots such as Scout & Co. and Pingala Café & Eatery. The pillowy fried treats come stuffed with fresh berries or sour cherries, or maybe sprinkled with candied violets, crisped herbs or…
Modern-Day Samuel de Champlain: Chad Abramovich
Age: 27 Occupation: creator of the blog Obscure Vermont Town: Burlington “Forsaken places.” “Weird travels.” “Cemetery safaris.” For the past four years, urban explorer Chad Abramovich has chronicled all of those and more on his blog, Obscure Vermont, pairing evocative descriptions with striking photos. Abramovich’s fascination with less-trodden places goes back much further, to his…
