Chile North business partners (from left): Mara Welton, Spencer Welton, Carina Driscoll and Blake Ewoldsen
Mara and Spencer Welton are teaming up with Carina Driscoll and her husband, Blake Ewoldsen, to turn the Weltons’ Chile Colorado food cart into a Burlington restaurant, café and bar called Chile North. It will open the first week of July in the former location of Smitty’s Pub at the Ethan Allen Shopping Center on North Avenue.
Driscoll and Ewoldsen cofounded the Vermont Woodworking School in Fairfax. Driscoll, who is the daughter of Jane O’Meara Sanders and stepdaughter of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), ran for Burlington mayor in 2018.