CHEZ HENRI

The restaurant opened just before Christmas in 1964 and Borel reports that procuring food 50 years ago in Vermont was harder than it is now... "It was very hard to make the menu because there was no food in Vermont! I wanted to offer a green salad and I'd have to order a case of iceberg lettuce. I had to get mussels from a customer in Boston and pastries from a friend in Montreal," he said, recalling that Ole Moseson used to bring him smoked salmon from Norway, but only for his personal consumption... "Everything is an accident in life," said Henri Borel, owner of Chez Henri Bistrot in Sugarbush Village, referring to how he ended up running the popular French restaurant for 50 years.

Primary location: Warren United States