Parkside Café is a relatively new spot in a relatively new commercial plaza in Hinesburg, Vermont. Hinesburg is mostly a bedroom community south of Burlington and quite a prosperous one. Nice place to live but shopping and dining options are few. But with the new shopping center, there's hope that could change - within reasonable affluent exurb zoning limits, of course.
We stopped at Parkside Café for lunch over the weekend while out doing errands. It's a pretty casual affair - order at the counter, they bring it to the table. It's clean. It's reasonably friendly - the two staff at work were in the late high school/early college age range. It's... fine.
As far as the offerings, they did better on the coffee than they did on the food. My wife's been complaining about American coffee ever since we got back from our Spain/Morocco adventure but she was pleased with what she got - latte, I think. My burger was fine but it was an awfully flat, uninteresting patty. I expect a lot better for $15 (once upon a time, a burger in that price range seemed so exotic - now it's practically average). My wife didn't even finish her BLT, usually her dependable standby. First, she wasn't pleased there was (unlisted) cheese. Then she realized all she really wanted was the bacon so she ate only that. The rest wasn't so exciting.
So, a mixed bag. I'd stop for coffee again but probably not a meal.
Bummer that their food didn't turn out to be better. But the coffee sounds good!
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