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1 review for Dakin Farm
Ever since we put maple syrup over pancakes, Aunt Jemima is a thing of the past. And ever since we ate pancakes with maple syrup fresh from the boiling pan, it's hard to settle for syrup from the bottle.
And that's why we made a trek all the way to this farm. Every year, toward the end of March, a Vermont Maple Open House Weekend is celebrated and several farms participate and welcome the public to their grounds. Check out http://www.vermontmapl... for next year's schedule. We chose Dakin Farm for their all-you-can-eat breakfast plus other activities they have promoted.
Breakfast was great. They cooked everything on the spot-- the pancakes, the sausages, the bacon and of course, the maple syrup. But before you get your breakfast, you have to fall in a long line that serpents around the smokehouse. Consider it a free tour! And as you come close to the breakfast assembly line, payment is collected. Pay by cash or credit card. When we visited last March, Pancake Breakfast was $6.75 for adults and $3.38 for children, exclusive of tax.
Then, they'll give you a plate and give you a few pieces of everything. Bottles of maple syrup stand waiting on tables all around the store. But we took some of the fresh samples given out at the smokehouse and used those.
The experience was sweet. But, I think it would've been sweeter if everybody didn't have to wait that long for their breakfast. I mean, if it's an eat-all-you-can thing, people can just serve themselves, right? With such a long line, you would just get discouraged if you fell one sausage short.
After breakfast, there seemed nothing much to do except to browse at their other products. We expected some live music going on and some guided tours showing maple tree tapping but things were going slow that day. Save for a giant maple syrup bottle and an old tractor that the kids clambered on, there wasn't much for us to see anymore. So we bid goodbye to the farm.
If interested only in their products, they have a store on Dorset Street in Burlington. You'll only miss out on the smoke that makes you smell like fresh maple sap.
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