American Flatbread may be the best pizza in Middlebury. Utilizing a primitive, wood-fire oven, the concept of the restaurant calls back to communal style eating. It’s also located in the Marble Works. Middlebury used the Marble Works as sawing and finishing mills for an Italian based marble company. The water mill at the falls, which can be viewed from a scenic, gigantic Adirondack chair powered the entire mill. The earl 20th century brought the downfall of manufacturing in Vermont. In 1931, the mill complex closed. The buildings sat vacant until 1987, when the Marble Works Associates bought up the majority of the structures and turned them into a space for offices. In the past ten years, many local businesses have opened unique restaurant facilities.

At Flatbread, we ordered a 1/2 cheese pie and a 1/2 goat cheese and olive pie. It was very, very tasty,

Also two admissions counselors came to trivia yesterday and used their superior age to steal away the prize. Meg and Samantha, we’re talking about you. See you next time…