Michael's On The Hill

Elizabeth, the sommelier was amazing. The wine was amazing - Kistler Pinot was delicious.

We ordered the following:

Shaved Vegetable Salad - English Pea Purée - Mint - Feta - Pistachios - amazing and highly recommend. I devoured the entire dish :)
Kids chicken tenders and fries - delicious (I love that this restaurant has a kids menu - thank you)
Carrot soup - great!
Maine Lobster - amazing. Tons of lobster meat
Salmon - the salmon skin was perfectly fried.
Cheese platter - delicious

The waitress was very nice and overall it was a great experience. Elizabeth, thank you for welcoming us to the restaurant and recommending the amazing California wine - Kistler.

We highly recommend this restaurant if you are in Stowe. Just don't use the car service - The Blazer Transportation which charged $85 from Stowe to this restaurant. Thanks Elizabeth for finding us an alternative car service.

Michale's On The Hill nestled in the Hill side in a quaint 1820 farmhouse in Waterbury Center, Vermont.

The Service is amazing and very polite and have a great knowledge of the dishes.

The food is very Flavorful and amazing. Everything was served with Beautiful presentation and at the proper Temp for peak freshness. Hat of to the chefs and the Bartenders.

Came here for dinner on a Thursday. We were seated in the new dining room. We ordered the Gold prix fixe, lobster, and chicken skillet. The food was very good and our server Kyle, was very good. The panna cotta was also good. The acoustics in the new room are not very good and when a large party was seated it was very loud. Nice decor though. Parking lot was a bit icy.

Food is amazing. The service was great as well- The server was knowledgeable about allergens in every menu item. Usually, they have to double check. I was very impressed!

The Gold + Platinum menus are well priced. Flavor combinations in the dishes are amazing. My favorites were the mushroom tartine (without bread for me) and the Lobster. The lobser was so different-nobody gets creative with lobster. The watercress purée + pea shoot salad paired so well with the lightness of lobster.

The drinks were delicious too- I had the Strawberry Rhubarb Martini & an Espresso Martini.

I can't imagine there is any better place to eat in the area! SO good!

Service was excellent! Food was decent- not great! At the elevated price point the beef tenderloin was drizzled with a teaspoon of pan juice and maybe a bit of salt and pepper- nothing else. Again it was a decent piece of meat just an uninspiring presentation. Glazed carrots were water logged - no glaze in sight. The potatoes were excellent! The salad was light on ingredients- a slight pile of cress with a few small crumbles of blue cheese!
All in all meal was ok- but fell short in creativity and standard of excellence!

Our dinner at Michael's on the Hill was good, but I wouldn't say so memorable that we will go again unless for their prix fixe menu. The views from the restaurant are indeed beautiful - only if you are seated at the west side along the windows. The table where we were seated was towards the back, by the door to the outdoor seating area - so the view factor may not necessarily be equitable.

My daughter and I shared three dishes: the summer corn soup with corn spaetzle (think: toasted corn), the greens and radish (run of the mill, a little tarragon in the dressing which was a nice surprise), the truffled mushroom gnocchi (more on this later), and the chocolate torte with mint ice cream (dense, but the fresh mint ice cream balanced the chocolate wonderfully and lightened this finisher for our meal).

I also got an Upside Dawn from Connecticut's Athletic Brewing Company which was wonderful - hints of passion fruit, guava, light flavor, delightful!

The gnocchi - it was noted to be truffled mushroom. I even got a couple thin slices in mine which was a wonderful surprise since most times truffle is just blended straight through a sauce unless shaved on top for presentation. The gnocchi was a wonderful texture - smooth, solid, not dense, The tough part was that the sauce was a lemon-based cream sauce. The lemon overpowered the flavor of the truffle all together, where I was expecting the truffle as featured to be able to sing through. Alas.

The prix fixe dinner seemed to have a couple additional dishes that looks really fun - think we will try that route next time to see what Chef drums up. And the service is really wonderful: attentive without being overly so.

Blown away. We began with the crabcake, followed by the lobster and then finished with dessert - he had the strawberry shortcake and I had the Panna cotta with a cappuccino. Cocktails all around - unbeatable service; attentive but not disruptive.

I wouldn't have bothered to write a review but we noticed after arriving home that my partner had been charged $5 for every refill of his tiny glass of iced tea. So the game is on. We went to this restaurant for a special occasion and spent a mint, which we expected. But the fact is, the meal was unmemborable, the service only okay, the environment in the large room we were seated in felt like a steakhouse. It should have been elegant for the money. If you are accustomed to fine dining, this may dissappoint. Try Luenigs in Burlington. Less formal but the food is delicious and people watching on a warm summer night on their patio is more fun.

Sunset, think sunset!!! The view from your table of the Green Mountains is one of the many things that makes Michael's awesome.
The seasonal squash soup could stand alone with bread and satisfy any appetite . The crab cake appetizer is not to be missed.
However the venison is out if this world and so tasty and generous there is not room for dessert.
The staff is attentive and not intrusive.
If you go to Stowe/Waterbury, don't miss this taste treat.

My husband and I dined on our actual anniversary while visiting on vacation from out of town to celebrate. The food was decent for a high-end restaurant - I've eaten at many and have had better and worse. The service wasn't bad either. We ordered the Gold and Platinum tasting menus. The cheddar cheese amuse bouche was the best part of the meal. Expertly prepared and so delicious. The rest of the meal was rather unmemorable though nothing was offensively bad. There was definitely an "all hands on deck" vibe to get the food out quickly and breeze through the courses but everyone was professional.

The main issue was the poor experience and the lack of ambiance. Michael's offers an 8:15 (and I believe an 8:30) slot on Resy. I booked the 8:15 slot and we were seated in a small room with a few other parties who were already working their way through their courses. Once the other parties in the alcove finished, the manager and other employees started literally dragging away tables and chairs as we were the last party in the alcove eating. This was about an hour into our tasting menu so a reasonable amount of time to still expect peace. I've never experienced anything like that in many years of fine dining. As we were finishing our desserts, we quietly joked between ourselves that we better hurry and finish before they took away our tableware.

When we were asked how our meal was at the end, we shared feedback about the special occasion being dampened by having the room broken down around us. I suspect the staff isn't very familiar with the expectations associated with their price point because they were apologetic but seemed genuinely surprised that we were bothered. Ultimately they comped our sparkling water and a glass of prosecco to express their regret when we pointed out the issues but, the fact is, it shouldn't have happened in the first place. It was rude and disrespectful. I would much rather pay full price for a great experience than have items comped for a bad one.

On our next visit we'll stick to the other farm to table restaurants in town where we had a much better experience.