One of my favorites! Love the hot pepper relish for the sandwiches. Pastries are delicious too…read more Staff is wonderful

i built my own "hot sandwich" at the bakery it was cold and not toasted the "maple ham" tasted…read morehorrible and there was some sort of tomato or pepper puree on my cheese and the cucumbers were dry also my "butter spread" looked and tasted nothing like butter my dad didn't like his ceaser salad either the rest of my family liked their blt's though don't recommend at all as a picky eater

Great coffee and conveniently located! Grabbed a cappuccino and mocha in the morning. There's not…read moremuch pastry/bread to choose from. Better to just grab coffee and go.

Lovely Brio Coffee, decent chai and the best granola bars around. Super friendly efficient service,…read moresmack dab at the base of Lincoln Peak. Coffee trucks rock and this one is special.

A quirky little spot in Rochester! I love when coffee shops and bookstores are in conjunction with…read moreeach other. A variety of pastries, food, and beverages, as well as local Vermont merchandise. Lots of fun little things to look at inside. Good service, good coffee. Nice place! Check it out if you're passing through.

Charm: 6 stars. Comestibles: 3 stars…read more We took the "back way" home from VT this winter break, a strategy that avoided interstate traffic, but also occasionally situated us behind slow-moving tractors and trucks on one-lane country roads. Overall, we enjoyed the way's meandering charm, especially when we stumbled upon places like Sandy's Books and Bakery in Rochester, VT (which made me immediately think of you, Mercedes). Per the headline, Sandy's is a used bookstore with original, classic, 1960's and 70's era finds from Agatha Chrystie, Isaac Asimov, etc... newer books about foraging, mysticism, and other fun things; locally made candles, soaps, walking sticks, crocheted hats; and locally made food products in / adjoining the cafe. There are numerous rooms on two floors where you can take your time to slow down and enjoy a book. (Fiction, science fiction, horror and mystery are upstairs!) Cafe tables are set up in many of these semi-private reading rooms so you can enjoy a coffee or pastry alongside a good read. Places like this make me swoon and had we not been on the clock, I would've loved to browse for hours and hours. The setup certainly invites that, as do the friendly local patrons. Sadly, we had to peel our children away from smelling each and every homemade soap and candle, and from trying to fence with the beautiful, polished, natural wood walking sticks (pickaxes, our 8 year old called them), and get our food order to go so we could make our an appointment (for race ski sharpening ) in time. What we tried: - Broccoli and potato quiche, made with a gluten free tortilla crust -- delicious and homemade, with tender, custardy egg -- but undersalted by our standards and made with very little cheese. The eggs had an interesting and unexpected faint whiff of vanilla. - Roasted carrot and lentil soup -- soup made with small green lentils was conceptually great, but overly sweet and served with what could've been a wonderful bread roll, but one that was microwaved and inedibly rubbery as a result. We would've enjoyed diced carrots that had been cut smaller than these 2" slices, but that's a preference. - Apple cider donuts -- I'm sure these would've been amazing fresh out of the fryer, but sadly, these spheroids (not rings) of fried dough were dense, oily, and well past peak freshness (two or three days old?) on our Friday morning visit. - Morning glory muffin -- moist, not overly sweet, very good - Cafe au lait -- you're told to fill a mug with pre-made coffee from the dispenser and to come to the counter for the steamed / frothed milk, which was unexpected for me. The coffee on our visit was watery. Baked goods (including cookies of all sorts), looked so lavish and amazing that I'd come again to try other items, but really, it's the overall experience that charms. Food and drink may not be the winning components, but perhaps I don't mind when a bookstore is so darn welcoming and charming. Bookmarking for a return visit.

Catered mostly to Middlebury College students. Relatively expensive, the chai is from the Tazo…read moreconcentrate box and not particularly memorable.

This is a typical Middlebury College hangout place. I don't know how I feel about a college-owned…read morebusiness and I also wonder how it sustains itself, but it's still kicking and thriving as we speak. The smoothies are good, but as a broke college student, I don't have the money to be buying smoothies regularly. (I instead find myself here when free food and drinks are involved!) (I do however want to say that my friend Juniper, a trusty employee of this establishment, had invented the Juniper smoothie, and it's pretty good. I'm not sure if it's still on the menu, but if it is, I'd give it a try for the heck of it.) The baristas are typically student workers, and they are some of the friendly faces that you may expect to see on campus. The roster of students working here also always changes as each class graduates or goes abroad every year. As a meeting space, this place is pretty ideal. Plenty of booths to sit and do work at, plenty of tables to do the same, there's even a conference room to host events like dinners or meetings.

Olsen's is my favorite place to get a creemee in Vermont. I love the black raspberry stacked on…read morechocolate. The chocolate/vanilla twist is fabulous too. They always have fantastic music playing at just the right volume too.

Wow excellent ice cream. It made my wife smile and enjoy her cone. The service so good. A place to…read moresit outside and watch the world go bye eating ice cream

This place has FABULOUS ice cream! This is our second time here, and it has been great every time…read more Cookies and ice cream....yay! There is a nicely shaded area you can sit to eat. There was a fairly long line when we got there, but it went very quickly....so don't despair if you see that happen..moves fast...then another line forms...then they are out. Seriously, don't drive by this place.

We came to Vermont Cookie Love as our first food stop in Vermont because of the maple creemee…read morereputation this place has. On our way up to Stowe, VT from Saratoga Springs, NY, I had read about this place while planning a trip to VT. Every trip includes food stops, and this happened to be our first ! So while this place makes an impressive selection of cookie flavors, of which we availed ourselves to most flavors, we also weren't about to leave without getting a maple creemee (Vermont's answer to soft-serve ice cream). We didn't care that it was before noon, and we hadn't even eaten lunch. The creemee was AMAZING !! The maple flavor was beautiful, and mixed with the creamy goodness of the soft-serve, WOW is all I have to say. Just WOW !! So glad I read about this place and made a point of stopping. As for the cookies, we bought one of each of most flavors they offered. I couldn't make up my mind, so I picked the following: Snickerdoodle - sugar cookie with cinnamon First Love - chocolate chip Puppy Love - peanut butter chocolate chip Mother's Love - butterscotch with chocolate chip True Love - oatmeal with dried cranberries Enduring Love - coconut, oatmeal, chocolate chip, almond and dried cranberries There are about 4 other flavors we didn't get on the day we were there. They also serve other flavors of creemees, and all kinds of hard ice cream, too, but I didn't care about any of that. I got what I wanted and was real glad I did !! By the way, we didn't get to the cookies until a day or two later, and they were still really fresh and moist ! Find your way here. You'll be soooo glad you did.

Chocolate connoisseurs' dream…read more ++ Ambiance is small yet well stocked quality chocolates. Located immediately next to MIDD Falls. The tiny access path next to a gear shop is easy to miss. +++. A big variety of high quality domestic and international chocolates is found here. I've never been with so many dark chocolates before! A huge plus ++. They carry the prior local Frogs Hollow chocolatier's chocolate that I love, here :)). +. Price is high but worth it ++. Service is friendly and knowledgeable MY RATINGS - - - Inhumane -- Disgusted - Don't bother =. Missed the Mark +. Good ++ Better +++ EDIBLE... WHERE have you bee my LiFe!

Right on the main street in Middleberry, but easily missed is a staircase leading down into a…read morechocolate heaven just before you cross the bridge. I almost missed it and you shouldn't. This isn't your usual chocolate shop where somebody's making a little chocolate bits that you can buy and stick in a box and nibble on. This is a true purveyor of exotic chocolates from all around the world. They even carried the ones covered it and short-lived Middleberry chocolatier who left for Tennessee changed the name of their chocolate and is now carried at this very location. We brought home three different chocolate bars and one is better than the other, and Al recommended by the purveyor who clearly knows his stuff. So definitely put this on your must go to list when you're strolling Middlebury . We search out the best chocolate place at every location we visit from cape may's Luisa's Chocolate Bar to the best of the best in New York such as Vouges. Adagio completely satisfied our hard to please chocolate craving! DO NOT MISS!

Really fun outdoor experience picking apples. Afterwards I…read moregot a Dreamie which is a creamie but on a fresh warm apple cider donut and it was AMAZING. Service was laid back and friendly.

Best balcony views of our Vermont week: gorgeous grounds, scenery. Friendly staff offered cider…read moresamples. Highlight: Dreamee Supreemee--sounds gimmicky but it's one of my best desserts ever (dessert snob here). Every element harmonizes perfectly, pure bliss. Would return to Vermont just for it.