Jordan Barry

2 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Jordan Barry

click to enlarge On April 17, the Mad Taco opened a food truck behind the seasonal Gardener's Supply outpost at 2545 Shelburne Road. The local Mexican biz takes over for Morgan Brook Farm, which operated the food truck on the site of the torn-down Sirloin Saloon in 2023 and 2024.

3 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Jordan Barry

click to enlarge I don't have a hard rule about drinking on the job — after all, it's a food writer's obligation to taste everything. Still, I don't often sip a beer while I'm interviewing someone. It was a different situation when managing partner Josh Weber cracked open a classic blue can at Switchback's Beer Garden & Tap House a couple of weeks ago. Sure, it's a brewery, and we were talking about beer.

3 weeks ago | sevendaysvt.com | Jordan Barry

click to enlarge After almost 20 years of owning the Old Lantern Inn & Barn in Charlotte, Lisa and Roland Gaujac are under contract to sell the popular wedding and event venue to a group of local investors, led by operating partner Solomon Bayer-Pacht. The Gaujacs will continue to operate the Old Lantern Inn, a small bed and breakfast adjacent to the venue property on Greenbush Road.

1 month ago | sevendaysvt.com | Jordan Barry

click to enlarge The concession stand at Burlington's Oakledge Park is getting a beachy upgrade. In late May or early June, local food trailer biz So-Full Sisters will open at the park, serving iced lattes, breakfast sandwiches, salads, snow cones and its popular waffle bowls.

1 month ago | sevendaysvt.com | Jordan Barry

click to enlarge Agri-Mark, the Waitsfield company that owns Cabot Creamery, issued a voluntary recall for a single lot of Cabot Creamery premium butter this week. The recall, announced on Wednesday, April 9, was due to internal "finished product testing revealing an elevated level of coliform bacteria," the company said in a statement.