Photo courtesy of Caspian Oyster Depot Photo courtesy of Caspian Oyster Depot JUSTIN AND SOPHIE Wright are the duo behind Caspian Oyster Depot, a pop-up fresh fish and local provision market in Bristol.
Photo courtesy of Justin and Sophie Wright
Hopefully you’ve had the pleasure of ordering and enjoying the fresh fish that’s being delivered to Bristol’s Main Street every week. Wait, what? Fresh fish in our beloved, alas land-locked, Vermont?
Yes. But there’s a catch.
Justin and Sophie Wright the married duo who opened Caspian Oyster Depot as a pop-up fish and local provisions market at Tandem in late December are going to pause their business on April 16. Why? Well, first, the couple is expecting the arrival of their baby in early May, and second, Tandem needs the space back for their busy summer season.
When
Woodland Baking & Coffee opens this spring at 394 Mountain Road in Stowe, both halves of its name will have equal weight. It s not just a bakeshop, and it s not just a coffee shop, owner
Matt Carrell said. The menu will feature whole-grain pastries such as croissants and canelés made with various kinds of flour milled by Most people eat just one kind of flour, but we wouldn t accept that for any other food, Carrell said. If most of your baked good is made up of flour, then that s going to be the prime mover of flavor, and you can really change that by using different grains.
Wellfleet oysters at Caspian Oyster Depot Years from now, as I scroll back through my pandemic-era food memories, one will stand out among the takeout boxes and the meals I m already sick of cooking. On New Year s Eve, I stood out in the snow under the biggest, brightest full moon, trying desperately to wield an oyster knife without stabbing myself. It was a surprisingly celebratory way to end a terrible year, and the oysters once I figured out the trick to opening their rough shells were damn good. I had Caspian Oyster Depot to thank for those fresh, briny bivalves and the fresh start they gave 2021. A few weeks later, when I called Sophie and Justin Wright, owners of the Bristol business, they said they d also rung in the year by moon gazing and slurping back shellfish in the snow. So had many of their other customers. In a time when gathering is out, we d managed to have a simultaneous experience, if not a collect