The café space in City Market’s downtown Burlington store at 82 South Winooski Avenue will reopen on March 30 after a four-month closure, the co-op grocery store announced in an email to members. This is the second winter that City Market has closed the downtown café due to concerns over frequent security incidents. On February 18, the downtown store shut its doors for most of the day after a shoplifting attempt that involved assaults on four people, deployment of a fire extinguisher and broken glass.
As reported by Seven Days, spokesperson Cheray MacFarland confirmed that the two-store co-op laid off 12 employees last week as it struggles with declining sales “driven by local and national inflationary pressures and challenges affecting the downtown business climate.”
Moogs Joint, a restaurant, bar and entertainment venue at 1015 Route 15 in Johnson, appears to have closed permanently. An owner of the building, who declined to share her name, said it had been listed for sale since December but she did not know when the restaurant closed. According to a real estate listing, the 2,240-square-foot building on 1.67 acres is on the market for $350,000.
Moogs Joint, which opened in 2019, was a sibling business to Moogs Place in Morrisville, which remains open, according to an unidentified employee who answered the phone. Owner Tom Moog did not respond to an emailed request for confirmation of his Johnson business’ closure.
The original print version of this article was headlined “Crumbs: City Market Downtown Café to Reopen; Moogs Joint Closed in Johnson”
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