Eating in the City of Good and Evil
Asian Sushi
BENTO, 197 College St.,
Burlington, 497-2494 Looking for great grab-and-go sushi? At Bento, the fish and vegetables are admirably fresh; the rice is sweet, fluffy and perfectly cooked. Veggie rolls are $3, while a spicy salmon-avocado roll tops out at $6. Not in the mood to go raw? Try a bento box filled with varied Japanese salads, a heaping helping of rice and your choice of protein, from teriyaki and tsukune to hamachi collar.
Dim sum
A SINGLE PEBBLE,
Grab-and-go at Bento 133 Bank St., Burlington, 865-5200 Why waste calories on General Tso’s chicken when you can taste the rainbow via tons of small plates? Here servers make their way through the room with delicious treats as soon as each emerges from the kitchen. Fluffy buns filled with pork? Why, thank you. Stop whenever you’re full — each costs a few dollars. We bet you’ll keep going.
Sweet Treat Mint chip smoothie
ECO BEAN & JUICE. Picture the best mint-chocolatechip shake you’ve ever had. Now imagine it with made with all-natural ingredients. Not as good, right? Wrong! This healthy smoothie will satisfy your sweet tooth with a base of mint — you won’t taste the spinach — mixed with banana, raw honey and almond milk. The chips are tiny pieces of cacao — chocolate in its purest form.
34 34
Cinnamon bun
file photo: matthew thorsen
688 Pine St., Burlington, 497-2075
MAGLIANERO, 47 Maple St., Burlington, 861-3155 Maglianero is no Starbucks. The high-quality, ethical roasts are reason enough to love this hipster haven. But even if you skip the caffeine, you’ll want to glory in the sugar high of the cinnamon bun sold at the counter. Made by Little Sweets, of fine dining restaurant Hen of the Wood, this is everything that you love about Cinnabon, multiplied a billion times. You can also find Little Sweets pastries at Hotel Vermont and the Courtyard Marriott.