Antidote

Fantastic meal! I would happily eat the Roasted Vegetable Salad every day for the rest of my life. We sat at the bar and had wonderful service. The bartender was spot on with his recommendations and very personable during our visit. My husband had the brisket and biscuit and was also pleased with his meal. We would definitely recommend this place!

Grabbed a drink here last night. $ 5 switchies and nice bartenders, had a great time in Vergennes!

This cozy little restaurant and night club has excellent food. Great nachos, excellent soup and my main course was delicious. Menu is a bit small. Extremely nice service.
Simple, rustic ambience.

Randomly lost on our way to Stowe from NJ. Starting to get dark and the town looked inviting. This place was the bomb! No reservations so sat at the bar. Our bartender Jill did us well, great selection of beer and wines. My girlfriend claims hands down best veggie burger she’s ever had! Salt and vinegar fries to die for as was Cheryl’s chocolate pie. I had the pork chop special, no complaints here!

This is the kind of place that keeps me coming back for the food and service. I’m not climbing down the steps, stumbling down the slanted entryway and past the straight back booths to the dimly lit bar area for the atmosphere. Using the flashlight on our phones to read the menu we ordered a salad, wings and nachos. The brûlée was crisp and flavorful. So many drink options and flavorful food! As always everything was delicious The service was paced perfectly and attentive. The underground feel is starting to lose its initial novel feel but the food is consistently precise with a local focus that had me craving a window.

The food was very good. My steak was perfectly cooked. Good beer. I can’t wait to try a mixed drink! They look epic! There is live entertainment. Friendly staff. Attractive crowd. I do not like going to bars but I love going to Antidote!

We had the gazpacho soup with beans, the Vermont noodle bowl, and the special on chicken drumsticks that comes with Mac and cheese.
The Vermont noodle bowl was really nice. It had fresh ingredients and had a tangy taste to it. We finished it within 30 seconds and the waitress had a shocked look when she came back.
The chicken drumsticks and Mac and cheese was simple, yet flavorful and tasty.
For drinks try the Maple Manhattan.
The atmosphere was relaxed.

I really like it here. Great food and the servers are very friendly. I really enjoy coming here for a burger, fries and a beer. They have live music sometimes which is fun. They do get busy. Happy hour is fun too.

My husband and I tried this place recently and loved it! Our waitress was attentive and enthusiastic, the cocktails were good, the food was good, and the portion sizes were gigantic. We each got a salad and an entrée — I couldn’t finish my whole salad (which was really yummy), and I got the pasta carbonara which was more than enough for three full meals!

Excellent food with great prices. The only reason I gave it a 4 and not a 5 is that seating is limited and the restaurant is often quite loud. You should definitely call ahead. The house wine is usually delightful and their food is really amazing. Great local spot. BEST mac n cheese for miles!

Although I will say that the chef’s food was very well made — the service was TERRIBLE. If you want to spend $ 20 per person for a meal please take your business elsewhere because honestly between the rude host and our impatient and intolerant waiter our experience was a sure fire 1 star rating.
First we had made reservations but added an extra guest to our party — which really we should have called before to let them know — that was our bad. Instead of being flexible and reminding us to call next time, the hostess chastised us and told us that she would not be able to seat us anywhere because she had assigned us a booth and there was no wiggle room. We apologized for the inconvenience but then she was like well fine if you can squeeze then you can eat here I guess — as new time customers this was a surprising entrance into the restaurant.
Then once ‘comfortably’ seated in our booth — which by the way we had plenty of space — we meet our inattentive waiter JC. He took at least 10 minutes before he greeted us because he was chatting with the hostess. He came and said hi — did the specials spiel which was nice and polite. But besides making us wait 45 minutes for our food — which was luke-​warm when it arrived no where near hot because it must have been standing out under a heat lamp for at least ten minutes, when we would ask for something like utensils or the order of fries he never brought to our table politely — we had to ask him twice each time. Plus when we asked for something he would act as if it was the greatest demand in the world and that we were the worst table ever to have — when although we were squished and chatty, we tried to be as polite as possible.
As a new customer — although my steak was well cooked — (but not served hot) — and the restaurant did have quite a funky atmosphere — I will never be returning to this restaurant because of how unimpressed I was with the service — for this kind of price you’re better off going to other venues in neighboring towns. I’m all about supporting local, but not if the experience makes me and my party feel too inconvenient and unwanted to even return the food because it was served cold — plus God forbid you want the French fries you originally ordered with the rest of your meal!!?

Perfect Fries… Perfect «Rising Sun» Burger — Grilled local pork burger topped with house cured bacon, kimchee, cilantro, baby arugula and a fried Maple Meadows egg. Everyone else in my party — 3 had either traditional burgers or fish and chips, all were very happy with their meals.

The best casual fare ever anywhere. Amazing tacos and fajitas. To die for
turkey pot pie. Perfectly crafted cocktails. Nice and efficient wait staff.

Live music was playing when we entered on a Wednesday night. Ordered the Steak frite and turkey pot pie. It took a while for waitress to show up. Long time to get our drinks and even longer for our food. Steak didn’t have much flavor and the grilled green beans were half burnt. Pot pie did have a lot of turkey in it. Food was not worth the wait.

I love the atmosphere of this place. I’ve been twice now and the food has been wonderful. The mac n cheese is to die for and the veggie burger is one of the best I’ve ever had. My girlfriend ordered the turkey burger and the pattie was so over cooked, it was tasteless and dry. It happens; she sent it back and ordered the veggie burger in its place and it came lickity split and all was well with the world again! The service was super throughout.
The martinis are also great deal here. $ 14 doesn’t seem outrageous to me for a well made martini, maybe a touch pricey for VT… but, all martinis come with a sidecar, so you are essentially getting 2 solid martinis for that price. Well worth it, imho.

While on this trip to visit Sue’s family I knew that I wanted to take her parents out for a meal as they were going to be putting us up for the whole week and I thought that would be a nice thing to do for them. Sue’s mom had been to Antidote once before so she suggested it as a place for us all to go. A reservation was made for a Monday night and we headed to Vergennes.
We were seated in a booth in the front part of the establishment. The front part is the restaurant and the back part is a bar which also has tables as well as bar seating. Started out with a few drinks. I had a local cider, Sue’s Mom had a glass of wine and Sue had a mixed drink. When her drink came out she noticed there was lipstick on the glass. Our server immediately took it back and a new drink was brought back out. Most places might actually give you a drink on the house due to that, but that didn’t happen this time.
It was a cool evening and the Butternut and Potato Bisque ($ 4.50 for a cup) sounded excellent. It was just as I thought it would be. A good start to a good meal.
For my main course I had the Grilled Tuna Tacos ($ 13.95). Red chili rubbed tuna loin on Vergennes Laundry soft shell tacos, served with a spicy red chili sauce, guacamole, baby arugula and fried blue corn tortilla strips. The tuna came out rare (like it should be) and everything seemed to be very fresh. The soft shell tacos were interesting. Didn’t really fold all that well so most of the ingredients ended up being eaten separately. I didn’t really have any issue with that.
For dessert Sue and I split a piece of the seasonal Pumpkin Carrot Cake. I don’t usually go after carrot cake all that often, but the pumpkin part sold me.
A really nice meal and a good chance for me to get to know Sue’s parents better. We all had a very nice time and I would definitely come back again.

The Tree Huggin Down in the Dirt Veggie burger is AMAZING!!! We are from Indiana and were on vacation headed to NYC and found Antidote on Unilocal and decided to give it a try. Boy are we glad!!! There were 6 of us and every single entrée that was ordered was delicious! I had the veggie burger and let’s tell you it was the best I’ve ever eaten. The pasta carbonara was a very close second as well as the Tuna Tacos and D Le Bacon Blue Cheese Burger. As for drinks the Snow White Martini was wonderful and if your a beer lover you have to try the Blackberry seasonal beer. The service was impeccable and the prices very very reasonable for such quality food! Hope we can return again.

Despite a few issues with some beers being out of stock and some incorrect replacements being brought to the table, Antidote provided a delicious meal for a great price in its unexpected basement location.
A group of six adults shared a nice meal here on quiet Sunday night with reasonably free-​flowing drinks and lots of delicious food for under $ 200 including tip. I was visiting from out of town and liked the inclusion of so many local items — especially the delicious Vermont cheeses. There was a surprising amount of diversity in the dishes offered, and all were executed well. I enjoyed enchiladas with smoked chicken and red rice, and my husband’s ale-​braised pork platter was as impressively presented as it was delicious. The mussels in vodka sauce were another stand-​out at the table.
The service was fast and friendly, and the prices were great. If I lived in the area, this is the type of low-​key atmosphere with excellent food that I would seek out often.

This restaurant is the perfect when driving from Manchester to Burlington. It’s closer to Burlington than to Manchester, so it’s more like a 2/​3rds of a stop than half. But that’s ok. Do it.
Half of their menu is locally (within 13 minutes) sourced. AWESOME.
I had a Moscow Mule with candied ginger. It was decent. My boyfriend selected two beers from the beer menu, and very much enjoyed.
He went for the Pig Mac. Bacon, pork belly, porker burger, fried onions, arugula and bbq sauce. Super smokey and delicious. I had the corn dog and I’m SO glad I did! Corn dog was fantastic: great batter and great dog. The fries on the side were well salted. It came with 3 sauces… salsa verde, some mustard relish thingy, and a smokey tomato sauce. I asked for the horseradish mayo that comes with their fries normally, and that was my fav (with a close second from the mustard relish sauce).
It was dead on a Saturday at 4, but we ate in the back patio. Their servers don’t come on until 5, so that was a bit annoying (we were served by the very nice bartender, but he had a lot on his plate aside from serving us).
Get dessert. I had the maple crème brûlée. DELISH.

Still a great place. We stopped on a Tuesday night in June and it was crowded. Nice.
I had the special shrimp & scallop salad sandwich. Others had the flatbread and nachos. Everything was excellent, as was the wine & service.
A fun and happening place.