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Taste of Montpelier SPONSORS • Program Guide 2021 1
SCHEDULE
CAPITAL CITY
FARMERS MARKET see page 3
9am-1pm • 133 State Street
FEAST OF FOOLS see page 4
presented by Vermont Creamery
2-5pm • State St from Main to Elm and throughout town
COMMUNITY PICNIC see page 14
presented by Community National Bank
5-7:30pm • State House Lawn
AFTER-PARTY see page 17
presented by Barr Hill
7:30-9:30pm • Barr Hill Distillery, 116 Gin Lane
2 Taste of Montpelier SCHEDULE • Program Guide 2021
CAPITAL CITY
FARMERS MARKET
9am-1pm • 133 State Street
Stop by the Capital City Farmers Market, named one
of the best in New England by Yankee Magazine,
and see how much Vermont has to offer! Founded
in 1977, the Capital City Farmers Market has been
bringing local producers and customers from near
and far together to create this eclectic community
event for 40 years. Over 50 vendors sell locally grown and made
products, unique to Vermont and astounding in quality. Fresh
vegetables and fruits, quality meats, specialty cheeses, artisan
bread, baked goods, ethnic foods, herbs, plants, flowers, arts and
crafts, honey and maple syrup…the list goes on and on.
VENDOR LIST The Green Reaper
Heartwood Farm
Hillside Farm
Perrin Farm
Appalachian Gap
Huard Family Farm Provender Farm
Distillery
Iona Tea Red Hen Baking Co.
Art Tiles
Jesse French Red Moon Artisans
Belladore
Metalworks Taber Hill Soaps
Gluten-Free Bakery
Lazy Lady Farm Silloway Maple
Black Locust Farm
LePage Farm Squirrel's Crackers
Breadseed Farm
Live Forever Foods St. Johnsbury Distillery
Boheme Botanika
Mansfield Mushroom Sweet Rowen Farmstead
Carrier Roasting Co.
Co. Trenchers Farmhouse
Cate Hill Orchard
May Day Studio Union Brook Farm
Earth Rhythm Herbals
Mediterranean Mix Vermont Fermentation
Field Stone Farm
Mt. Mansfield Adventures
Fool's Farm Flowers Creamery Wildbranch Cider
Fusda Farm Owl Hill Farm The Wild Side of
Gracie's Tamales Pandora Farm Vermont
Taste of Montpelier CAPITAL CITY FARMERS MARKET • Program Guide 2021 3
FEAST OF FOOLS
presented by Vermont Creamery
2-5pm • State St from Main to Elm and throughout town
Stroll the streets of Montpelier
and enjoy a taste of our amazing
restaurants! Purchase your tasting
tickets at the Festival Booth on State
Street. Redeem your tickets at each
restaurant for small plates showcasing Montpelier’s culinary
offerings. On State Street, you’ll find even more culinary
delights, including food truck favorites and artisans showcasing
the best Vermont food products (with free samples!).
The State Street Festival Grounds features world-class
entertainment curated by artistic director Woody Keppel, co-
founder of Burlington’s Festival of Fools, and a cocktail garden
hosted by Barr Hill!
Don’t forget to vote for your favorite
bite to win the Best of Montpelier
Award, presented by Consolidated
Communications. Vote at the Info Tables on State Street.
4 Taste of Montpelier FEAST OF FOOLS • Program Guide 2021
FEAST OF FOOLS PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
VSECU Performance Pitch
on State Street
2:00 Red Trouser Show
2:45 Brass Balagan
3:30 Red Trouser Show
4:15 Brass Balagan
Union Mutual
Performance Pitch
in 60 State Street Parking Lot
2:00 Modern Times Theater
2:45 Wacky Chad
Modern Times
3:15
Theater
4:15 Wacky Chad
W hat Cheer? Brigade
4:45
leads a procession to the
State House Lawn for the
Community Picnic
Taste of Montpelier FEAST OF FOOLS • Program Guide 2021 5
6 Taste of Montpelier FEAST OF FOOLS • Program Guide 2021
FEAST OF FOOLS: ARTISANS OFFERING
FREE SAMPLES
Many will also offer items available for purchase.
Anderbell Acres is a lo- artisan breads, and pizza
cal farm selling PYO berries, crusts.
flowers and pumpkins. Stop
by to get flowers for the Com- Burtt’s
munity Picnic! Apple
Orchard is
Babette’s Table is a wom- a pick-your-own
an-run, artisanal cured meat apple orchard in
company. They make all their Cabot. They will be
products with local meat in selling cider donuts,
their facility in Waits- apples, cider, and corn.
field, Vermont. They
will be selling and Cabot Creamery
sampling their Co-operative has been
salami, frozen in continuous operation
sausage, and in Vermont since 1919, and
pancetta. makes a full line of cheeses,
Greek yogurt, sour cream,
Bonte cottage cheese and butter.
Bakery is Widely known as makers of
a gluten-free “The World’s Best Cheddar,”
bakery specializ- Cabot is owned by hundreds
ing in artisan breads of dairy farm families of
and baked goods. They Agri-Mark, the Northeast’s
will offer samples of their premier dairy cooperative,
gluten-free baked goods, with farms located through-
Taste of Montpelier FEAST OF FOOLS • Program Guide 2021 7
out New England and upstate special-
New York. izing in
naturally
Caledonia Spirits, mak- leavened sour-
ers of Barr Hill Gin, produces dough breads. They
landcrafted spirits right in sell bread through
Montpelier that celebrate raw weekly subscriptions as
honey and craft distilling, and well as one off orders every
uniting agriculture and cock- other Friday. They bake a
tail culture. Enjoy samples of variety of breads from coun-
their craft spirits, including try sourdough, baguettes,
Barr Hill Gin, Tom Cat Gin, seeded loaves and seasonal
Barr Hill Vodka, and Maple specials.
Vodka, along with house-
made ginger syrup and tonic Hinterland Market
syrup and raw honey. recipes are derived from
authentic recipes, some of
Daily Chocolate is a which have come directly
small batch chocolate shop from our friends in various
located in Vermont's oldest countries. They develop their
and smallest city, Vergennes. recipes for themselves until
Daily Chocolate is committed they reach a point where they
to keeping their ideas fresh, are enamored with consum-
their flavors inventive, and ing them themselves at which
their look beautiful — all point, they offer them to you!
while using quality ingredi- They will sample and sell
ents that are ethically and their soft pretzels, Caribbean
sustainably sourced. hand pies, hot sauce, granola,
kimchi, sauerkraut, and cold
Fig and Fennel Bread is pressed juice.
a home bakery in Montpelier
8 Taste of Montpelier FEAST OF FOOLS • Program Guide 2021Lake imagina-
Champlain tion can
Chocolates stir up.
creates extraor-
dinary chocolates Montpelier
using only the best Vineyards will
ingredients, including offer samples of their
100% Fair Trade Chocolate, red, white and rosé spar-
and local cream, butter, hon- kling wine, mead, cider, and
ey and maple syrup. Stop by co-ferments, unfiltered and
to sample one of our newest produced without sulfites
line of extra dark chocolate from Vermont-grown organic
bars with flavors like Golden grapes artfully fermented
Spice, Raspberry Jam, and right here in Montpelier.
Crunchy Quinoa.
Stannard Farm is a
Mamma Boocha fourth-generation farm in
offers craft kombucha the northeast kingdom. Their
tea. Mamma Boocha is maple syrup is certified
an endless source of organic and wood-fired. They
love and vitality offer maple cotton candy and
and desires other confections at summer
nothing more markets and events, and
than to be maple syrup year-round.
replicated in order to nourish
Vermont Creamery is
as many folks as possible.
a butter and cheese company
Not only is she living-giving,
based in Websterville. They
but she’s also got a flair for
plan to sample their artisan
fun, and has no problem at
cheeses, goat cheese, and
all mixing with the wildest
other products.
flavor combinations the
Taste of Montpelier FEAST OF FOOLS • Program Guide 2021 9FEAST OF FOOLS: USE YOUR
TASTE TICKETS TO ENJOY
Many will offer additional items for purchase.
Purchase Taste Tickets at the Montpelier Alive tables on State
Street. Proceeds from Taste Tickets benefit Montpelier Alive
and the Vermont Food Bank.
1 Ticket: $4 • 3 Tickets: $10 • 5 Tickets: $15
10 Tickets + $5 donation to Vermont Food Bank: $25
20 Tickets + $5 donation to Vermont Food Bank: $40
ON STATE STREET Joe’s Kitchen at
Screamin’ Ridge Farm
Enna Small Chili # of Tickets TBD
Thai Beef Salad • Veggie Curry with Joe’s Kitchen is a soup maker
Saffron Rice 2 Tickets Each with a pop-up BBQ and sea-
Enna is an International Deli food cafe down by Hunger
at 14 State Street offering take Mountain Coop. They source
out from 7 am to 3 pm daily. local ingredients and use
organic products. They will
Greene Mountain be offering a variety of their
Nutrition & Smoothies dishes for sale.
9-Ounce Smoothie 2 Tickets
Vermont’s only independently Julio’s Cantina
owned supplement store and Street Taco with house braised
smoothie bar. Enjoy their pork, pickled onions and Vermont
refreshing smoothies. Creamery goat cheese 2 Tickets
10 Taste of Montpelier FEAST OF FOOLS • Program Guide 2021Approaching its 40th anni- amazing local food producers
versary, the newly renovated of the Northeast Kingdom.
Julio’s Cantina offers great Their menu rotates with the
Mexican-inspired fare, mar- seasons to ensure the freshest
garitas, burgers and draft ingredients possible.
beers at our new bar and
blended indoor/outdoor din- Mo’s Backyard BBQ
ing room and patio seating. Small serving of smoked mac ‘n’
cheese with pulled pork
Kingdom Creamery 2 Tickets
of Vermont Mo’s offers the best BBQ
One small scoop 2 Tickets around. Delicious pulled
Kingdom Creamery is a pork, brisket, and smoked
generational farm producing mac ‘n’ cheese.
super premium ice cream at
their processing plant right The
on the farm in East Hard- North
wick, VT. Branch
Café
Kingdom Kreperie Sampling of
TBD Vegetarian Maki
Sweet and savory 2 Tickets
crepes using A cozy tea and wine cafe
fresh ingre- focused on nurturing our
dients that community with healthy,
highlight light fare using organic and
the local ingredients. We are also
an art gallery, featuring the
works of our talented local
artists.
Taste of Montpelier FEAST OF FOOLS • Program Guide 2021 11Oakes & Evelyn farm-to-cone just because it’s
Carolina-style Pulled Pork a catchy phrase. They are the
Steam Buns • Gnocchi with local farmers growing the flavor
mushrooms & tomatoes, corn, elements and making the ice
parmesan 2 Tickets Each cream on site at their farm.
A modern farm-to-table Fun...yes, they know fun with
restaurant located in down- cheeky flavor names and
town Montpelier, Vermont. entertaining serving staff.
This establishment is the cul-
mination of decades of toil
and more dreams than Three
can be counted. A love Penny
of local farms, arti- Taproom
sans, and scenery
Mini Cubano
merge to form
Sandwich
an inviting,
2 Tickets
tasty expe-
Three Penny Tap-
rience.
room offers modern
American pub fare focused
on local ingredients and
in-house made. Thoughtful,
knowledgeable service and
one of Vermont and New
Sisters of England’s most renowned
Anarchy and award-winning draft beer
Ice Cream selections.
Kiddie Cone
2 Tickets
Sisters of Anarchy
doesn’t throw around
12 Taste of Montpelier FEAST OF FOOLS • Program Guide 2021THROUGHOUT TOWN: Rabble-Rouser is a work-
er-owned chocolate factory &
Bent Nails Bistro cafe that carries confections,
(4 Langdon Street) local products, art, gifts, and
Coq-au-vin 2 Tickets chocolate confections.
Meatballs • Spinach-Artichoke Dip
1 Ticket Each Sarducci’s
Bent Nails Bistro is a live Mu-
(3 Main Street)
sic venue serving bistro-style TBD
food with a uniquely artistic Sarducci’s offers Italian
atmosphere. fare on the river with
outside seating,
Namaste friendly service,
(100 Main Street) and special
Tender Chicken Wings • Chicken cocktails.
Tikka Masala • Saag Paneer
2 Tickets Each
Vegetable Samosa 1 Ticket
The food at Namaste is a very
authentic taste of Nepal and
India. They use herbal spices,
which are very good for your
health. The food is always Woodbelly Pizza
fresh and organic. (79 Barre Street)
One Slice 2 Tickets
Rabble-Rouser Delicious sourdough pizza
Chocolate & Craft Co. made from the finest local
(64 Main Street) ingredients.
Magic Chunks (Chocolate-Covered
Granola) 2 Tickets
Taste of Montpelier FEAST OF FOOLS • Program Guide 2021 13COMMUNITY PICNIC
presented by Community National Bank
5-7:30pm • State House Lawn
Join us for a community celebration on the State
House Lawn. Purchase a picnic basket from one of
our participating Montpelier restaurants, fill up
a basket from the Feast of Fools Vendors on State
Street, or bring your own picnic. Some picnic options require
pre-ordering. See page 16 for additional information.
Enjoy live music on the Hunger Mountain Co-op Stage from
Inner Fire District and What Cheer? Brigade that is sure to get
you up dancing on your picnic blanket!
Please note that the consumption of alcoholic beverages is not
permitted on the State House Lawn.
14 Taste of Montpelier COMMUNITY PICNIC • Program Guide 2021HUNGER MOUNTAIN CO-OP
STAGE SCHEDULE
5-5:45
Inner Fire District
6-7:30
What Cheer?
Brigade
Taste of Montpelier COMMUNITY PICNIC • Program Guide 2021 15PICNIC OPTIONS J . Morgan’s Steakhouse
(100 State Street): Picnic
Caesar salad with chicken,
reate your own picnic
C
hard boiled egg, bacon &
from the vendors on State
fried onion strips. $14. Call
Street during the Feast of
802-223-5222 to order and
Fools!
ask for the picnic special.
ring your own picnic
B
akes & Evelyn (52 State
O
from home! The best
State): House Smoked
ingredients are available
Pulled Pork tossed with
at Hunger Mountain Co-
Carolina BBQ sauce,
op and the Capital City
Martin’s potato roll, Yukon
Farmers Market.
potato salad, tangy cole-
nna (14 State Street):
E slaw and a chocolate chip
Watermelon & Basil cookie. $16. Order online at
Salad: Pete’s Greens with tinyurl.com/tastepicnicbbq.
fresh watermelon, cherry
S arducci’s (3 Main Street):
tomatoes, sweet corn,
We offer a variety of dishes
Vermont Creamery goat
that would be great for a
cheese, pickled red onion,
picnic. Consider a delicious
fresh basil dressing, basil
caprese salad or antipasto
microgreens. $10. With
plate! Call 802-223-0229 to
chicken, $12. Call 802-225-
order.
6693 to pre-order.
hree Penny Taproom
T
amaste (100 Main Street):
N
(108 Main Street): “Smash
Enjoy a variety of delicious
burger” with fries, $11.50.
and traditional Nepali and
Come in and order with
Indian dishes. Call 802-613-
the host or bartender, or
3605 to order.
call to order: 802-223-8277.
16 Taste of Montpelier COMMUNITY PICNIC • Program Guide 2021AFTER-PARTY
presented by Barr Hill
7:30-9:30pm • Barr Hill Distillery, 116 Gin Lane
Keep the party going at the Barr Hill Distillery,
where you can enjoy landcrafted cocktails and live
music from Inner Fire District. Inner Fire District
was founded in Burlington in 2006 and performs a
compelling amalgam of Eastern-European folk, intricate origi-
nals, and songs of revolution. Its core sound features accordion,
clarinet, drums, bass and guitar.
Doors open at 7:30pm. Music begins at 8pm. Last call at the bar
at 9pm.
Limited food menu available. Order at the bar and seat yourself.
No reservations or assigned seating. Mask required indoors.
Taste of Montpelier AFTER-PARTY • Program Guide 2021 17You can also read
