Three months after Knead Bakery closed, the house at 294 North Winooski Avenue in Burlington’s Previous North Finish is a vegan restaurant as soon as once more. chef-owner david quintana and prepare dinner jeff hodgdon thrown out Slowly with a comfortable opening in mid-December; are aiming for a grand opening on Saturday, January 14.
The co-chefs are placing collectively a menu of “vegan junk meals and elevated vegan dishes,” Quintana mentioned.
“It is a enjoyable, inventive, tapas-style tackle it,” Hodgdon added.
To this point, dine-in service has included small plates like buffalo cauliflower, beetroot tartare, and kimchi on house-made buns, in addition to bigger sharing plates like a tofu plate. Most menu gadgets are $10 or much less, and plenty of are gluten-free.
Each Quintana and Hodgdon come from the world of the cellular meals enterprise; Quintana has run the Burlington headquarters two ugly vegan meals truck since 2019, and Hodgdon based the corporate seitan the new deal in 2018, launching a meals cart in 2022. The 2 cooks met whereas working at Winooski’s Mule Bar final winter.
A conventional restaurant was at all times Quintana’s purpose, he mentioned, although he’ll proceed to run Dos Feos within the hotter months. Just like the meals truck, Despacito’s menu nods to its Puerto Rican roots, providing empanadas, mofongo, picadillo made with the Unattainable Burger, and coconut flan.
Quintana and Hodgdon will complement their dinner service with beer, wine and mocktails. They’ve opened up the house so as to add seating and plan to supply leisure sooner or later.
Cafeteria service throughout the day can be in progress. Despacito to accomplice with Middlebury’s Iluminar Espresso Roasters to acquire Puerto Rican beans.
“We are attempting to place the items collectively to open the cafe,” Quintana mentioned. “That is what the group was used to,” she added, referring to the cafeteria service at Knead Bakery. “I get it.”