The fully renovated Elmore Store reopened on July 4 and has gradually added prepared food offerings, culminating in the return of locavore pizza in mid-August. The lakeside general store at 1208 Route 12 is now operated by Becca and Tim Lindenmeyr, who also own Farm Craft VT, a seed-to-soap producer in Shelburne. They developed the pizza menu in consultation with Blair Marvin, co-owner of Elmore Mountain Bread. She makes the long-fermented, naturally leavened dough from Vermont-grown, freshly milled flour and parbakes the crusts in her bakery’s wood-fired oven to sell to the store, where they are finished for dine-in and takeout. Toppings are sourced largely from local farms and food producers.
The Elmore Mountain Bread crusts make the store’s pizza “a unique new product, not seen anywhere else,” Becca, 55, said.
Marvin, 45, is also board president of the Elmore Community Trust, which owns the town’s general store. She was involved with Fire Tower Pizza, which operated in the store until it shut down in May 2023.
“I love the Elmore Store, and I love Becca and Tim, and I’ll do anything I can to support them,” Marvin said. The small bakery she co-owns with her husband, Andrew Heyn, also sells bread to the store for retail sale and its sandwich menu. “The more that I can make and sell from the bakery to my community, the happier I am,” she said.
The Elmore Store serves pizza Wednesdays through Saturdays, 4 to 7 p.m., and Sundays, 3 to 6 p.m. Pies include plain cheese made with Whitney from Greensboro’s Jasper Hill Farm; pepperoni from Vermont Smoke & Cure in Hinesburg; the Supreme with locally farmed mushrooms and Vermont Salumi fennel salami from Barre; and the rotating Fancy veggie special with a caramelized onion white sauce and seasonal vegetables from farms such as Long Winter Farm in Stowe.
The Elmore Store kitchen team also makes breakfast sandwiches, baked goods, salads, and sandwiches featuring local meats, such as roasted chicken salad with basil mayonnaise and arugula on Elmore Mountain Bread’s whole wheat sliced Pullman loaf. Freshly prepared grab-and-go meals include chicken tikka masala and stuffed peppers.
The store also has a creemee window, although it does not currently offer Vermont’s signature flavor. While the nearby Elmore Sugarhouse’s seasonal creemee stand is open, Becca said, “Out of respect for them, we don’t do maple creemees. It’s a small town.”
This article appears in Sept 24-30 2025.
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