Breakfast Club: Misery Loves Co.

by Sally Pollak on November 17, 2017 at 12:32PM

Things looked up from there, starting with the "boozy coffee" I noticed on the menu. I ordered mine with a shot of house-made Irish cream.  It tasted like a warm coffee milkshake, with a bonus: I got lit.

Breakfast Club: Malletts Bay Diner & Bakery

by Sally Pollak on October 28, 2017 at 6:30AM

The plus in the equation — the benny of the Bene — peeked out between egg and muffin: house-made corned beef hash. Pam Scanlon, owner of the diner, came over to talk with me about her recipe and her restaurant before my first bite.

Breakfast Club: Oatmeal and More at Chef's Corner

by Sally Pollak on October 12, 2017 at 7:00AM

A bowl of oatmeal is a treat on a cool morning, but this day was warm enough for an al fresco breakfast on the restaurant's deck. The oatmeal at Chef's Corner is a satisfying riff on the classic: thick cereal made sweet and sticky with maple syrup, and topped with apple compote, dried cranberries and walnut pieces.

Breakfast Club: Eggs and Wild Spring Hash

by Hannah Palmer Egan on May 9, 2017 at 4:29PM

And about the ramps: Vermont's sustainable food community has been abuzz about the overharvesting of wild leeks and fiddlehead ferns every spring for several years now. Overharvesting is  absolutely an issue, particularly in Chittenden County, and largely thanks to commercial foragers who pick every plant in sight, then truck them to Boston and New York City and sell them to restaurants for $15 per pound.

Breakfast Club: Rustic Roots

by Julia Clancy on March 2, 2017 at 5:45PM

My popover love started at age 18. This old upscale American restaurant in my college town placed a hot, unadorned popover at the table after you ordered your meal — like a complimentary bread basket, but more ethereal.

Breakfast Club: P&H Truck Stop

by Hannah Palmer Egan on February 21, 2017 at 4:00PM

With or without the fruit salad, it's all epic and not that good for you — definitely a recipe for a lazy afternoon on the couch. But the regular breakfast is  available from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily and is a somewhat lighter affair. Last Friday, my two-egg breakfast ($3.79) brought perfectly over-easy oeufs with homefries and thick slices of buttered oatmeal toast, plus a heap of corned beef hash ($3.99) that was so soft and savory and comforting, I couldn't stop eating it.

A Pre-Ski Breakfast at the Parson's Corner

by Hannah Palmer Egan on January 17, 2017 at 2:00PM

And on that note, if you’re lucky enough to catch the on-again, off-again crab-cake Benedict, it's one of the finest this side of the Chesapeake Bay.

A Picnic Social Brunch

by Suzanne Podhaizer on December 16, 2016 at 8:00AM

The restaurant encompasses several seating areas, including an ample bar. We plopped down on some comfy couches in a room decorated like a hipster hunting camp — the wallpaper is plaid and fake deer skulls hang on the wall.

Worth the Drive: Limlaw Family Sugarhouse Breakfast

by Hannah Palmer Egan on October 13, 2016 at 8:30AM

Butter Coffee at Bread and Butter Farm

by Julia Clancy on October 10, 2016 at 5:37PM

Though Proia considers the things we consume to have an overt purpose beyond "fueling the machine," he recognizes eating and drinking as “performance-enhancing tools” that can be used to one’s advantage. Take butter coffee, for instance.