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Where can you get gyros, red Thai curry, Philly cheesesteaks and Junior’s Italian pizza? At the beach, of course. Memorial Day brought the opening of a seasonal stand called the BEach housE on Burlington’s North Beach. Owners amIr JusufagIc and sanI PasagIc have been managing partners at JunIor’s Downtown since April, but each also runs a Church Street food cart.
The snack shack will soon offer 40 to 50 seats on an adjacent patio and serve most of the Amir’s Kebab menu, including a new Thai curry dish that Jusufagic learned from the chef at his former Church Street neighbor, Bangkok Bistro. Even vegetarians will be well fed with salads, freshly fried falafel and pizza brought down from Junior’s. Once the summer is over, the hits will keep on coming. Jusufagic and Pasagic’s deal with Burlington’s Department of Parks and Recreation includes running
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few longtime signature dishes — such as grilled, sesamemarinated salmon — with new flavors. The peeps behind the bar will be mixing up specialty cocktails blended with local spirits to go with a host of new apps such as kimchi-topped Korean tacos and grilled skewers of beef flavored with lemongrass. Hot and cold noodles, stir-fries, egg rolls, miso and coconut-curry soups, and a few other Asian-inflected entrées round out the menu. “None of the stir-fries is over $10,” Brandt says. Like most restaurant owners, he ran into a few delays on the road to reopening, and he emphasizes that Pacific Rim’s second debut is a
packaged meals consisting of mixed vegetarian and vegan Turkish appetizers. There’s sweet stuff, too: Don’t miss Bozkurt’s pistachio baklava and hazelnut Turkish delight. Speaking of sweets, Williston’s Maple Tree Place finally has a replacement to feed the crowd that once flocked to Ben & Jerry’s after the movies. shawn zhEn opened Vermont’s first Yogurt cItY franchise there last week. At the grand-opening celebration on Saturday, June 1, all 14 self-serve flavors and 42 toppings will be free, says manager wEnDY Lu. She and Zhen are already looking to expand to Burlington, Lu adds, and have been scouting locations.
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the snack bar at nearby Leddy Park Arena, which will serve an abbreviated version of the Beach House menu all year. — A. l.
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began its soft opening at Burlington’s 163 Pearl Street on Monday, May 20. The mother-and-son team of nazan BozKurt and EfE ÇImrIn has filled the airy, white-walled space with
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After a two-year absence from the Burlington foodscape, the staff of Pacific Rim Asian Café is slinging salmon and bibimbap again in a new spot on lower Church Street. On Tuesday, owner rIch BranDt opened the doors of the reimagined Pacific Rim after a light renovation of the former Sky Burgers space at 161 Church Street. He added a “prominent” full bar and a new menu that weaves together a
Less than two months after opening, the owners of Burlington’s uva wInE Bar have changed its name as a result of a trademark objection from a similarly named restaurant in New York City. Uva — which means “grape” in Italian — will instead be known as vIn Bar &
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soft one, at least for now. “We thought, All right, what the hell. We’ll just open and then work out the kinks later,” he says. Another new addition: outdoor seating, which Pacific Rim lacked during its 11-year run on St. Paul Street. Diners can soak up the sun at lunch and dinner every day except Monday.
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Jusufagic has owned amIr’s KEBaB since 2006, while Pasagic took over wIcKED mountaIn hot Dogs four years ago. Favorite dishes from all three businesses are on the menu at the Beach House. Manager LuKE aPfELD, a 6-foot-7-inch University of Vermont basketball forward, began training his fellow college athletes last week to run the stand throughout the summer. They’ll prepare Hebrew National hot dogs in two sizes, including 10 specialty dogs named for local celebrities such as UVM basketball coach John Becker. Jusufagic says he hopes to get local potatoes for hand-cut French fries; most produce will come from the sam mazza family farms, he says.
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