Dakin Farm
Category: Food Specialty Food Cheese Shops Cheese Shops [Edit]
5797 Route 7Ferrisburg, VT 05456
(802) 425-3971
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Private Lot
3 reviews for Dakin Farm
3 reviews in English
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Review from Robert S.
Los Angeles, CA
7/17/2010
This farm store is more of a tourist attraction than most and it has a huge variety of Vermont origin foods. The items that are Dakin Farm specific include their cheeses, their maple sugar products and a lot of smoked foods.
They produce an excellent cheddar cheese with a nice sharp flavor that is mildly complex. The standout cheese at this location is their smoked cheddar. This cheddar is perhaps the best smoked cheese that I have tried with a strong and somewhat sweet smoked flavor and a simultaneous tangy cheddar flavor.
This location (there is also one in Burlington) has a lot of samples available for tasting, as usual, the aged sharp cheese (in addition to the smoked) is the best. -
Review from Ami M.
Turlock, CA
9/2/2009
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. -
Review from Liza M.
Reading, MA
4/4/2010 4 photos
3/28/10 - maple sugar open house weekend.
we went here for their pancake breakfast. bigger place but super packed! great huge pancakes, sausage (links and patties), bacon and fruit. coffee too. delicious! so many locals where there. almost everyone in line seemed like they had been there before. samples of syrup, smoked meats, cheese, jams/jellies, etc. large store.
