6a00d83451b91969e20133ecdfc20e970b-200wiDuring Restaurant Week, there are any number of ways to plan your meals out. And if your priority is a table with a view, at least two eateries are ready to oblige.

Burlington seafood mecca Shanty on the Shore is perched on the edge of Lake Champlain; here, diners can jumpstart their $25 dinner with a plate of fried calamari tossed with garlic butter and banana peppers, move on to a maple-ginger broiled salmon, and finish off with Shanty chocolate mousse pie, just as the sun goes down.

In a hillier but no less spectacular locale, the Foundry Pub & Grille at Jay Peak offers a view of the mountain as well as a $25 dinner menu full of morsels such as duck pockets in an apple-cinnamon yogurt sauce and grilled sirloin with roasted-shallot Marchand de Vin sauce and parsnip puree. Those that manage to leave room for a vanilla-bean crèmé brûlée or chocolate lava cake might need a splash through the Pump House to burn it all off.

To find out more about Shanty on the Shore, click here.

To read about The Foundry Pub & Grille, click here.

This article appears in Apr 11-17, 2012.

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 drinking and is the author of Forgotten Drinks of Colonial New England, published by History Press in 2014.