A third location of beauty store and day spa Mirror Mirror has opened in the former Peg & Ter’s restaurant at 5573 Shelburne Road, joining the original in Burlington and an outpost in Stowe. Similar to the Stowe setup, the Shelburne version includes an upscale cocktail bar for sipping while you shop.
Called Fig, the cocktail bar occupies the previous restaurant’s bar and dining room, while the rest of the space has been renovated to house Mirror Mirror’s retail shelves and spa rooms. Bar director Nick Roy — an alum of Peg & Ter’s as well as Ferrisburgh’s Starry Night Café and Burlington’s Hotel Vermont and Monarch & the Milkweed — leads the team.
“We’re offering high-end cocktails in a beautiful space in Shelburne’s main hub,” said Roy, a Shelburne resident, noting that the business model Mirror Mirror founder Lindsay Chisholm has created in Stowe with cocktail lounge Après “really works.”
“And Shelburne is going to be even more exciting,” he continued, “because we’re catering to our local community as a place to come and hang and enjoy.”
The bar currently opens at noon and features a thoughtful menu of nonalcoholic drinks along with its cocktails, including a pear flip with housemade pear shrub and egg white. The modest food menu will expand with time but is focused on snacks such as Vermont meats and cheeses, local breads, and “a nice warm soup” for now, Roy said.
Fig’s cocktail menu includes house-blended whiskeys and infused spirits. The bar opened in mid-October, after Montpelier distillery Barr Hill‘s nationwide Bee’s Knees Week, but one of its early staples is a riff on that classic: The gin is infused with chamomile tea and brown butter sauce, then clarified and combined with lemon juice and honey.
This article appears in Oct 30 – Nov 5, 2024.
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