Bluebird Tavern is a neighborhood gastropub restaurant located on Riverside Avenue in Burlington Vermont. Our food is simple, refined, and celebrates the bounty of Vermont and the northeast region. Here, we share a deep commitment to real food and drink. We offer our convivial tavern as a throwback to the old public house, a gathering place for our community.

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Bluebird Tavern Blog

hand rolled garganelli with lamb sausage & mint October 12, 2009

If you zipped in the door of the Bluebird Tavern kitchen there is a good chance that you’d catch a glimpse of one of our cooks rolling out beautiful hand crafted pasta. It’s quite fun to watch the pasta dough transform into a variety of shapes and sizes. Most recently our sous chef Nate has [...]

scenes from opening week

phoebe, laura & aaron taking a break

the double burger

fun on the deck

terrine nibbles

frites!

deviled eggs on the board

aaron & nate end of the shift

laura mixing up a cocktail

the butcher board

the butcher board & cheese board

more lights!

This week all of the temporary work lights came down and our electrician Liam zipped around the building installing the amazing fixtures created by our friends at Conant Metal & Light.

The entry light has a bit of heft to it and it was a tricky install – luckily Liam and Tyler were able to wrestle [...]

Lights!

Yesterday we took down the temporary work lights in the bar area and replaced them with these awesome wine bottle pendants made by our friends at Conant Metal & Light. While the work lights were functional (and kind of cool if you like that industrial sheik look) they let off an eerie glow that made [...]

Renovation Update May 21

It’s been a busy couple of weeks at the Bluebird Tavern and the renovation project is rolling right along. If you have driven by lately you may have noticed that the buildings got a new look!

Pro-tech painters moved extremely quickly and had the whole exterior paint job done in one day – it was amazing [...]