Local crêperie the Skinny Pancake will expand to the Burlington International Airport by this winter, according to a source at the airport and an article written by co-owner Benjy Adler in a local magazine.

The eateries, slated to open in mid-December, will include a Chubby Muffin kiosk across from the check-in counters and a full-service Skinny Pancake café in each of the two concourses, says Ryan Betcher, who handles marketing, leases and contracts for the airport.

Skinny Pancake owners Benjy and Jonny Adler began their business with a mobile cart in 2003. Their mini-chain has grown to include two restaurants — one each in Burlington and Montpelier — and a café in the Old North End, the Chubby Muffin. 

Corin Hirsch was a Seven Days food writer 2011 through 2016. She was also a dining critic and drinks columnist at Newsday from 2017 to 2022, and contributes to The Guardian, Wine Enthusiast and other publications. She’s spoken often on colonial era...

6 replies on “Skinny Pancake to Open Three Eateries at Burlington Airport”

  1. “Adler adds that this will be ‘the first-ever local-foods restaurant in an American airport.’ Not quite.”
    Hilarious.

  2. Hey iwantstevescat: check out all those examples 7D put in there of local food in American airports…there are token gestures to local food at those airports. A little bit of cheese on a pizza, a garden growing in an airport (very cool, for sure). We couldn’t find a single example of a local foods eatery–a place where all the proteins are local, all the cheeses are local, the vast majority of produce was local in season–in an airport. So, FOR REAL, we are “quite likely” the first ever local foods eatery in an airport. We can’t prove it (yet), hence the ‘quite likely’ caviat to start the statement. But all hilariousness aside, PLEASE find an example of an eatery in an airport 1/2 as local as we are in the food being sourced…and we’d be THRILLED for the movement as a whole.

  4. The comment is about the writing, not about the work your company is doing. I’m all for the local foods movement, but frankly, couldn’t care less about who’s the first.
    I was laughing about what appears to be a bit of snarkiness on Corin’s part since the quote directly follows the paragraph where she says you basically snubbed her for an interview.
    I notice that the quote in the article has now been edited to reflect your “likely the first” sentiment.

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