The Blue Stone

This is a warm and vintage feeling place with great food. We had the pizza, burgers, wraps, and fries. All of it was delicious. For the burgers and wraps they had a small side salad with a vinaigrette that was outstanding. I would definitely stop. I wish we had made it on a weekday to check some of the downtown shops as well.

The garlic knots appetizer was very good, and so was our pizza. Our kids got a boring cheese pizza, but it was even good. We had a blackboard pizza, which depends on what ingredients the chef had that day. Ours had roasted chicken, potato strings, spinach, and scallions with a brown butter cream sauce. We ate 2 10" pizzas, a 10 piece garlic knots, and 4 non alcoholic drinks for $50. A little pricey, but worth it.

After looking at all of the positive reviews and gorgeous pictures of pizza at The Blue Stone earlier this winter, I was eager to bring my friends here after a long day of skiing at Stowe. We were a large group of 5 so originally we were pleased there was only a 15 minute wait. That’s where things started to go downhill. We all decided to grab drinks at the bar before we sat down and were greeted with no warmth from the bartender. When I asked if there were any sours on draft, she was quick to tell me there were none on draft right now, and offered no other suggestions before walking away. Its fine to help other people out that know what that want, but I felt completely brushed off by how she provided no follow up and immediately walked away. We were all ravenous and wanted to put in an order of garlic knots, and the bartender cautioned against it because it would take a while and our table would be ready soon. Thank god we ended up getting the garlic knots because they arrived just as our table became ready, so the hanger was quelled momentarily. The garlic knots were wonderful. Everything else was not. Once seated, our waiter took what must have been 10 minutes to greet us and ask if we wanted anything to order. He was pleasant enough, but completely unaware of how to wait a table. He never circled back for refills, and we consistently had to flag him for more water. We ordered mushroom poutine, two pizzas, waters, and more drinks. The mushroom poutine came with with so few cheese curds you could count them on two hands. We requested more, but my the time they arrived the fries and the gravy were cold. The pizzas were lukewarm, and unfortunately, just bad. (One was the “Farmer’s Daughter” the other was ones my friends created.) If we weren’t starving and tired of waiting we would have sent them back. TLDR: Would I ever go back? No. Are the garlic knots their one saving grace? Yes. It makes it to two stars for that and only that.