Steak and French fries, an old fashioned cocktail, and falafel from Peg & Ter s Valentine s Day 2020 marked a top day of business for Peg & Ter s in Shelburne. The restaurant on Route 7 threw a party with music by the Hokum Brothers; couples and non-couples attended the festivities. It was so much fun, Peg & Ter s co-owner Johnny Helzer said. We finally got some momentum and then it was just, like, boom! A month after the holiday, restaurants in Vermont were forced to halt in-person dining in order to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Not yet two years old, Peg & Ter s had been finding its place in the community: a bar for grown-ups, with cocktails and tapas-style plates. You d go for the gin and stay for the Brussels sprouts.
click to enlarge Jonathan Davis of Pie Society I have been obsessed with pie since I was very little, Jonathan Davis said. He was explaining the roots of his latest culinary enterprise, Pie Society, which launched in August. As evidence, Davis offered an autobiography authored in kindergarten that highlighted his love of apple pie. The young foodie also documented a mythical world populated by creatures who ate only pie. Davis, now 28, went on to work at a number of Vermont bakeries, restaurants and confectioners, including Mirabelles Bakery, then in Burlington; the Spot in South Burlington; and Vermont Cookie Love in North Ferrisburgh. In late 2015, he opened the Starving Artist Café in South Burlington in the Davis Studio, an arts education center and school founded by his mother, Teresa Davis.