A cute rabbit standing back-to-back with a giant chef’s knife. The new logo makes it clear that this is not your grandmother’s Café Shelburne.
And you can get a taste of the locally focused French fare now. New chef-owners Bill Iliff and Weston Nicoll (right) began their soft opening last weekend. The restaurant is now welcoming diners, as long as they bring their own wine. Café Shelburne will open officially, complete with wine list by Lauren Taratoot, by November 15.
The wines will focus on bottles from the Loire Valley, which the chefs compare to Vermont, but with a warmer summer that allows the grapes to grow more delicious. The wines are predominantly biodynamic, but Nicoll says this is because “the small producers we want to get, that’s just how they’re doing it. That’s how their grandfathers did it — there’s just a word for it now.”
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