Hi everyone and welcome to our blog! This is the first post of what we hope will be many that will compile to form a guide to Middlebury restaurants and beyond. We decided to create this blog because we are both extremely passionate about food, particularly eating it, and we want to share our passion with all of you! When we arrived as freshmen, we were fortunate enough to have the wisdom of the upperclassmen on our soccer team to guide us to the best sandwiches, soups, salads, steak, etc. around. In the past three years, as we grew better acclimated with Middlebury and the surrounding community, this informal knowledge base has grown. However, we both recognize that our time in college has seriously lacked an official source for reviews of local restaurants that everyone can access, and so here we are creating one ourselves.
Almost every student arrives at Middlebury completely unfamiliar with the local area. As freshmen, having been thrown into an unknown setting with new forms of pressure and stress, many seek comfort in food (hello, freshman 15…). Through this blog, we hope to help these lost souls find the best place for Chinese takeout, the most delicious pizza, the juiciest burger, or whatever else you might be craving, all at a college student’s budget. While we’re not by any means encouraging an unhealthy lifestyle, we find it a crime that those new to this campus cannot enjoy the best food that Vermont has to offer. As students become better acclimated to the campus and the hectic pace of college life, dining out can take on a different meaning. The craving for comfort food gets replaced with a need to break out of the everyday routine, to try something different than the fallback Proctor quesadilla, or to escape the confines of the campus even for an hour. We’d like to help every student, freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and even you old seniors, find the hidden gems of the Middlebury area because, as we have learned in our past several years, the food around Middlebury is, in a word, phenomenal.
For the most part, Middkids eat their meals in the two dining halls, with the huge exception of when parents come to visit. For foodies (lovers of great food, not to be confused with our superstar Canadian freshman soccer goalie) like us, these infrequent visits are to be cherished and taken advantage of. While we love our parents to death and enjoy every second of their visits, we’ve found that the time is much better spent (and much better appreciated) when it takes place over an outstanding, mouthwatering and college student budget exceeding meal. Throughout this month, we’re hoping to splurge a little on ourselves to bring you information on the best parent friendly establishments that Middlebury and the surrounding towns have to offer.
We’ve found that these two categories will cover the majority of the situations that Middkids face when choosing restaurants and we hope that through our reviews, the Middlebury student population will venture out of our campus boundaries and eat all that the town of Middlebury and the nearby communities have to offer. If you are currently in a love affair with food and want to know about the best dishes in town or are just looking for somewhere to grab a bite to eat, follow us as we embark on a month of delicious meals, full stomachs, and happy minds. Our first review will follow shortly!
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