The Tastes of Summer: Seven Seasonal Staff Favorites Around Vermont

What does summer time in Vermont style like? Crisp, salty snack shack fries. Teetering swirls of creemee. Refreshingly tart native ale.

We requested Seven Days staffers to disclose the place they head to take a giant chew out of the season.

Adam’s Berry Farm

985 Bingham Brook Rd., Charlotte, 578-9093, adamsberryfarm.com

After a hike up Mount Philo, I prefer to cease by Adam’s Berry Farm for a farm-made fruit popsicle. Flavors equivalent to blueberry-lime, raspberry-mango and strawberry-peach-ginger are delightfully scrumptious and funky me to the core. It is the proper deal with on a scorching summer time day.

— Elizabeth M. Seyler

Beansie’s Bus

Battery Park, Burlington, beansies.com

My style of summer time is principally greasy fries and massive burgers, as a result of life is brief. My jam is Beansie’s Bus. As quickly because it’s good and the solar is shining, I am on the bike path, cruising town. There is no higher technique to ensure you do not burn too many energy than stopping by Beansie’s for a double bacon cheeseburger. You’ve got acquired the park, the lake and even the police station subsequent door in case you overdo it.

— Chris Farnsworth

Canteen Creemee

5123 Foremost St., Waitsfield, canteencreemee.com, 496-6003

I am exterior within the Mad River Valley, and I simply went swimming within the river. I head to Canteen Creemee and order the grilled scorching canine with sauerkraut or kimchi and a blueberry-and-honey-lemon creemee twist. I can eat with my fingers, hearken to rock and roll within the car parking zone, steal my pal’s onion rings, discuss loud, and watch handsome, sweaty individuals freak out over their meals. A few of us are barefoot.

— Sally Pollak

Queen Bee’s Snack Bar

1915 Hardscrabble Rd., Bristol, 989-8607, Queen Bee’s Snack Bar on Fb

Ensconced in woods, Queen Bee’s emerges mirage-like on a winding dust street. It is the definition of a hidden gem, and nothing says summer time like wandering aimlessly via Vermont’s countryside and discovering one thing you by no means would have in the event you’d caught to the principle roads. I all the time order a corn canine, onion rings and mozzarella sticks to share, and a peanut butter cup or Oreo Beehive, the snack shack’s model of Dairy Queen’s basic Blizzard.

— Jordan Adams

Steamship Pier Bar & Grill

3643 Route 2, North Hero, 372-4732, northherohouse.com

Vermont boasts superb pure magnificence, however, particularly throughout the summer time, I miss the ocean. To console myself, I hunt down waterfront lobster rolls. The Steamship Pier Bar & Grill within the Champlain Islands delivers a superb execution of the basic in a vacationland setting. If I squint and take a giant chew of sun-dried tomato aioli-dressed lobster, I can virtually think about I am oceanside. A frozen piña colada tasting pleasantly of sunscreen kicks {the summertime} vibe into excessive gear.

— Melissa Pasanen

Vermont Cookie Love

6915 Route 7, North Ferrisburgh, 425-8181, vermontcookielove.com

I simply realized that Chessters, the Vermont-made ice cream cookie sandwiches as soon as ubiquitous in native gasoline stations and normal shops, had been discontinued by Burlington-based Rhino Meals in 2019. Sob.

Now, after I’m feeling nostalgic for the summer time tastes of my youthful days, I’ll head as an alternative to Vermont Cookie Love’s roadside Love Shack for the Lovewich, a more energizing, selfmade and endlessly customizable tackle the ice cream sandwich. You possibly can layer any onerous ice cream between a pair of cookies of any taste. As a purist, I might go for traditional vanilla ice cream and chocolate chip cookies, however you could possibly additionally go for, say, sea salt caramel ice cream between Snickerdoodles, or espresso ice cream between chocolate chip butterscotch cookies.

— Carolyn Fox

Zero Gravity Craft Brewery

716 Pine St., Burlington, 497-0054, zerogravitybeer.com

Zero Gravity Craft Brewery calls its “shiny and spritzy” ale, Frankie, “everybody’s summer time crush.” And, for the previous two summers, it has been mine. Brewed with tart cherry, calamansi and crimson pomelo, Frankie is an ideal canoeing, river-swimming, backyard-gardening, entrance porch-sitting, lake-floating beer — refreshing, moderately low in alcohol, fruity and enjoyable. I adore it a lot that I purchased Tevas that color-coordinate with the can.

— Jordan Barry