Blue Moon Cafe

We made reservations for valentines day. The food was excellent. The menu changes monthly. The service was excellent and we did not feel rushed especially on a busy night like valentines day. I would highly recommend Blue moon café. We look forward to returning

Our family had Christmas Eve dinner here this year. The warm hospitality and excellent service were only surpassed by the excellent food. We started with the poached pear salad, with curly and Belgian endive and the apple rutabaga soup. For entrees, we had tenderloin with horseradish smashed potatoes and golden beets and arugula and venison with juniper berry wine sauce. The portions were generous and beautifully plated. The owner recommended a great bottle of wine. A lovely evening in a beautiful room. Highly recommended.

My wife and I both had great dinners. The servers were excellent and knowledgeable, ask details about how the meals are served. Everyone around us seemed very happy with their dinners.

Great scene in the lovely town of Stowe, but meh.
Drinks: Shy away from cocktails, the mixology skills are lacking. I had to send mine back. The beer list is sparse, Yards 60 minute is their best. Wine list is fine.
Food: Meh. Our salmon was overdone and on a hefty pile of buttery mashed potatoes and 2 buttery brussel sprouts. I would have rather had a crisp side salad, but this was not an option.
Gazpacho tasted «blah». Just purée. No real spice. The scallops were a little better, but the miso overwhelms.
Ambiance is nice. Good for groups. You can set up a long table. Plus I love the color blue.
Overall — way too pricey for what they serve.

Very underwhelming. Food was just ok. Wine list was u impressive. Décor was terrible. Cheap pine everywhere. We wouldn’t go back.

I’m with Ian and Amy G, as well as Dan W, on this place. Portions are a little too bite size. The dishes could use a little more pizzazz. Only come here because my parents love fine dining, and this is truthfully the closest you’re going to get in Stowe, VT.

The Blue Moon Café was a spectacular restaurant. The service was very nice, smart and attentive. The food was reasonably priced but amazing. I highly suggest that after your amazing dinner at this restaurant, you top things off with the Belgium Chocolate Pot which is like a molten lava cake. I really loved the Blue Moon Café and will definitely be going their again.

This place is really just no that good especially for fancy expensive nice food. Service is great which is what you should EXPECT from a place like this. Good drink selection too and bottled beers.
The appetizer portions were offensively small. I know I love big portions and that cheesecake factory sized portions should not be the norm but my crabcake was the size of a susan b anthony dollar coin. I should expect more than that.
I had the short ribs too which were ok I have definitely experienced far better in my lifetime. The scallops had a weird off flavor too them as well. I got the chocolate pot for dessert which was definitely filled fairly with chocolate and kind of like a molten cake but to be honest the flavor didnt really stand out to me.
Save your money and go elsewhere there is so much great dining ion stowe to waste a precious night in Stowe here.

I really don’t understand the hype about this place. After reading several reviews and getting a recommendation from the owner of our rental home, we had high hopes. The location is quaint. The décor and atmosphere are cute and intimate. Little bar when you first walk in. For a place located between so many amazing craft beer distributors, you would expect a little more than their incredibly small beer menu which included two local craft beers — one priced at $ 27. The service was friendly and attentive. The food on the other hand is so amazingly unflavorful. It’s surprising to find such perfectly cooked food with little to no seasoning. I don’t even think they bothered to use salt or pepper in any of the dishes we ordered (with the exception of my Duck). The chef managed to cook each dish exactly as it was meant to be but completely failed on flavors.
Appetizers;
Amy ordered the Parsnip and Pear Soup and I had the Duck Confit Salad. The Duck was COVERED in salt. I could barely make out the flavor of the Duck in any bite other than the perfectly crunchy skin. The salad was just ok. Amy’s soup tasted like boiled parsnip broth with some thickener added for consistency.
Dinner:
Rabbit Manicotti dressed in a squash purée with sauteeed spinach. So bland. The rabbit had zero taste and the pasta used did not taste fresh. The squash purée was desperately lacking salt and pepper, the simplest of ingredients. After I dumped salt and pepper on the dish, it became a lot more edible. Amy had the Mustard Crusted Salmon. The mustard seeds were slightly more burned than they should have been and literally had no flavor whatsoever but did offer some texture to the fish. Beneath the salmon was a bed of beet-​infused mashed potatoes. These were just ok, but probably the best part of the meal. The salmon was a good cut, but again had close to no flavor and was really lacking a sauce or a glaze or anything really to highlight its flavor.
I am always impressed by the high acclaim for an eatery that completely misses the mark. I don’t know how the Blue Moon Café garners such praise, but we will never go here again. The clue that we should have left before the entrees came out was the salt smothered duck they served. Had we not traveled several hours after an awesome camping trip in southern Vermont, and eaten close to nothing for breakfast and lunch, we would have left this place starving. I can quite honestly say that I ate MUCH better the last two nights camping in the woods and cooking over a fire.
This place is expensive and the chef is clueless when it comes to seasoning. Find dinner elsewhere.

January 31,2013 Stowe, Vermont
Enjoyed our dinning experience very much. All staff were very accommodating, friendly, and, the food was great: presentation and taste.

A group of us were at the restaurant for their Feb. menu. I had high expectation of this place but I find the food just okay and the price for the appetizers and deserts way too high.
The kale potato soup was average, the crabcake was very good. The prices for the entrees were on par with other high-​end restaurants in the area. I didn’t like my selection of cured salmon though. I gave it to others at the table and no one liked it. For $ 7.5, you get 3 very tiny scoops of ice cream, not much bigger than the melon scoop size. That’s really high for what you get, very disappointed.
One thing I found odd was the salt and pepper shaker at the table, one would think freshly ground pepper would be a given. Fortunately, it was available when I asked for it.

I stopped in at Blue Moon while out with my girlfriend and her family at Stowe this past week. The overall ambiance of the establishment is extremely nice. It’s intimate, but yet also has a bar-​type setting for those looking to just swing by and get some drinks.
We had a table of 9, and while annoying as big groups are, Blue Moon’s service was extremely efficient. i ordered the Butternut Squash with Grilled Chicken and Greens, and it was exquisite. The crab cake appetizer was also delicious. It was a bit more on the expensive side, but as I say, you always get what you pay for!
Service was prompt and friendly, and the overall vibe from Blue Moon was definitely pleasing. If you;re in Stowe and want a nice dinner, stop in here for sure.