Eat in South End / Pine Street, Burlington

Speeder & Earl's Coffee Pine Street

• ★ 4.1
• Café
• $

Order Speeder's Blend espresso

Family-owned Vermont roastery and cafe since 1993. The Pine Street cafe in the South End Arts District is the more relaxed of the two outlets,

Brio Coffeeworks Cafe

• ★ 4.2
• Café
• $

Order Single-origin filter, lightly roasted

Woman-owned specialty roastery and cafe inside the Soda Plant building on Pine Street. Nate and Magda Van Dusen launched in 2014; specialty lightly-roasted.

Scout & Co. Pine Street Bakery

• ★ 4.5
• Bakery
• $

Order Daily-changing pastries from the Pine Street kitchen

Scout's Pine Street kitchen at 696 Pine bakes the pastries that stock the Old North End and Winooski cafes. Sourdough sandwiches and grab-and-go.

Brio Coffeeworks

• ★ 4.8
• Coffee roaster
• $$

Woman-owned roastery in the Soda Plant on Pine Street; Nate and Magda Van Dusen launched in 2014. Specialty lightly-roasted single-origin focus;

Speeder & Earl's Coffee

• ★ 4.0
• Coffee roaster
• $$

Family-owned Vermont roastery and cafe since 1993; the Pine Street cafe is the public face. Roasting facility is in Williston (not open to the public);

Maharaja Spice

• ★ 4.4
• Street food
• $

Try Indian curries, samosas, biryani

Indian food truck parked in front of Switchback Brewing on Flynn Avenue. Curries, samosas and biryani; pairs with a Switchback Ale next door.

Burlington Farmers Market vendors

• ★ 4.5
• Street food
• $

Try Rotating prepared-food stalls

The Saturday market in the South End brings 80-plus vendors including a rotating roster of prepared-food stalls. Empanadas, momos, breakfast tacos in summer.

Zero Gravity Craft Brewery

• ★ 4.7
• $$

Zero Gravity opened in 2004 inside American Flatbread; the Pine Street brewery opened 2015 and absorbed the Great Northern as the current Beer Hall.

Switchback Brewing Co.

• ★ 4.5
• $$

Switchback opened in 2002 under master brewer Bill Cherry; the first 100 percent employee-owned brewery in New England. The Beer Garden and Smokehouse.

Queen City Brewery

• ★ 4.4
• $$

Queen City has 16-plus taps that rotate through German lagers, English ales, monastic styles and Scottish winter warmers from the renovated South End.

Burlington Beer Company

• ★ 4.5
• $$

Burlington Beer Co. moved its taproom from Williston to a 14,000-square-foot former brick warehouse on Flynn Avenue in 2021. 48 taps and a 46-foot bar;

Citizen Cider Press House

• ★ 4.4
• $$

Vermont's biggest cidery closed its Pine Street pub April 2025 and opened the Press House Pub at 180 Flynn Avenue October 2025, consolidating production.

Burlington Farmers Market (Summer)

• ★ 4.7
• Market
• $

Saturday flagship moved from City Hall Park to 345 Pine Street in the South End for the 2024 season. 80-plus farmers, prepared-food vendors and craft stalls.

Burlington Winter Farmers Market

• ★ 4.5
• Market
• $

The winter market runs twice a month November-April at the Burlington Beer Company taproom on Flynn Avenue. Hot-house greens, root vegetables, cheese, meat,

South End Art Hop

• ★ 4.4

The South End Art Hop fills 1.5 miles along Pine Street September 11-13, 2026. SEABA is the organiser; food trucks at every block and the Pine Street.

Burlington Farmers Market (season)

• ★ 4.0

The weekly Saturday farmers market is its own food festival across the season; 80-plus vendors with prepared food, produce, cheese, meat and crafts.

Cooking with Stephanie

• ★ 4.7

Chef Stephanie Gurrieri has run small-group classes since 2019 from her South End kitchen or in the client's home. Three-hour hands-on; pasta, Thai, Indian,