Obituary: Blondini’s

Published April 17, 2007

By Rob Booz

We can’t officially call it dead, but in a Jimmy Hoffa kind of way Blondini’s is definitely sleeping with the fishes. Once a UVM breakfast mainstay, the food cart has been missing all semester. More than just a greasy spoon on wheels, the run down cart was the only place on campus to buy cigarettes and coffee in one stop. The morning line of jittery students waiting for their fix was constantly the longest, eclipsing its surviving family members: Pam’s, Ali Baba’s, and the little Chinese place that folds your fork in your napkin for you. We can only speculate as to what led to the demise of Blondini’s, possibly a long overdue health inspection, or maybe the owner finally succumbed to a staff infection after years of working in the dilapidated truck. Let’s face it: the place was a dive. Yet we love dives, and without Blondini’s to serve us black coffee and cigarettes we may never be as hip again. Blondinis’s you will be missed.

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