Pistou is a restaurant in Burlington Vermont.
Pistou is a place to eat, drink and congregate with great satisfaction. Here that satisfaction comes from the enjoyment of something delicious. It comes from the experience of food and wine carefully selected for their excellence and without concession. Pistou is the kind of restaurant we love to find ourselves in.
What we offer is delicious and always interesting - maybe even a bit challenging.
Welcome to Pistou. Eat and drink well.
We serve our customers the best of what we can offer them. This may mean obsessively sourced, foraged ramps and morels in the spring; aged comté from the Jura plateau or a rare, artisanaly produced olive oil from a tiny winery in Piedmont.
Our food is informed by our respect for French tradition and our interest in classical preparation. We make use of contemporary technique when it preserves the integrity of our carefully selected ingredients and presents them precisely and in harmony.
In our dining room we offer a two-course prix-fixe menu and an optional dessert. Our offerings change frequently. They are seasonally driven and always revolve around the best of what is available to us. It's not uncommon for our entire menu to be written at 9:00 AM after our farmers and purveyors visit the restaurant with their goods. We occasionally offer supplements to our prix-fixe menu. We hope you have fun at our tables. We hope you'll share and enjoy everything.
We also offer a Bar & Lounge menu, available only at our small bar and at the high-top table for up to six, affectionately known as "the lounge" (we're a pretty small restaurant). Here you might find grilled octopus, charcuterie, oysters, and cheese plates. The food is meant to be enjoyed with a bottle of wine. It's a nod to our favorite wine bars - and that very special way of eating and drinking they do so well. We don't reserve these seats, so drop in with friends, share a bottle, and a few plates.
Wine is at the heart of what we do at Pistou - it is central to how we enjoy our time at the table, and we aim to make it central to the time you spend in our restaurant. In fact, you won't find much else to drink here. A meal at our restaurant is incomplete without a bottle of wine.
Pistou is an outpost for terroir, a place for exploration, and a platform for small growers and winemakers. We are lucky enough to count many of these growers among our friends and colleagues - and we are always honored to have the opportunity to share their wines with our guests.
We are also lucky enough to sell only the wines we like to drink. For the most part, those wines are French. They are always honestly produced gastronomic wines. We happen to like as little manipulation as possible between us and the grape.
Our list will cover your thirst and your need for meditation. If you're spending some time with us, you can always expect to find wines from the Beaujolais, Champagne, Corsica, the Loire and the Rhône. Also, Burgundy. Always Burgundy.
Our wines change a lot - so we write them on a chalkboard. If you want to know what's on that chalkboard, we frequently post our list on our Facebook page.
How often do you get to spend a couple of hours eating and drinking with a James Beard award winning author of two widely acclaimed and controversial books? Wine writer published in the New York Times? The Wall Street Journal? Time Magazine? Not too often, I'd bet. Well, here's your chance.
On Thursday, May 23rd, Dedalus and Pistou will be hosting Alice Feiring, Author of the books Naked Wine and The Battle for Wine and Love. Alice will be joining us for a book signing at Dedalus. After the signing, we're going to have a small, private dinner/wine party at Pistou. We will serve a seated, family style dinner for 25 guests. The price of dinner includes a copy of Alice's book, Naked Wine which Alice will be happy to inscribe for you.
We will feature between 6 and 8 natural wines. Max is planning a seafood heavy first few waves of food (think oysters, uni, scallops, lobster - whatever's fresh and beautiful), followed by a large format entree and plenty of spring vegetable sides.
Dinner Begins at 8:00
$120/Person (includes a copy of Naked Wine)
Please call: 802-540-1783 for a reservation.
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We are located at 61 Main St. in Burlington, VT on the southwest corner of Main St. and South Champlain St.
Pistou is open Tuesday through Saturday from 5:30 PM to 9:00 PM.
Reservations are recommended for tables. Our small bar is seated on a first-come, first served basis.
We are closed Sundays and Mondays.
Please use the reservation widget below to reserve a table. Thanks for thinking of Pistou. We look forward to your visit.
Pistou Reservations
