Five Spice Cafe, Burlington VT, fire

[signothetimes53]

Kitchen fire today at the Five Spice Cafe in Burlington has pretty much destroyed this long-established restaurant. It has been ruled accidental, but with damages estimated at $750K according to the local news report, this can't bode well for the restaurant's future.

[chilihead]

I only ever encountered really, really, bad food there. It is no culinary loss, though I feel bad for those whose livelihood has been compromised.

[OCatswell]

Too bad. Always and OK place to go. The tables were elbow to elbow very much like Leunig's... Food was hit or miss the last couple of years- Not what it used to be.

The Burlington FD should be commended for saving the rest of the block!

[kozmikarl]

I'm glad you said that. Five Spice food weirdness aside, that building is shoehorned into the block. A lot of memories went up in smoke but many, many more people would be out of work if the fire dept. hadn't jumped on it as quickly as they did.

[Addisonchef]

A friend and I were talking about how we needed to get there for dim sum soon. Too bad we waited. :-(

[OCatswell]

had recently changed owners...

[jhberkley]

So sad. I will miss the dim sum.

[kaszeta]

Ouch, that was one of my favorite places in Burlington. Hope they can sort this out with insurance, otherwise, I hope the staff manage to find good positions at some of the other good places around there.

[Jestner]

Thanks for the update. I think updates like this are just as important as food op'eds.

[phoebek]

Too bad! That was a favorite of ours when visiting friends in Burlington.