A little corner of the old country, on Main Street.
Rustic Roots is a family-run pizza and pasta kitchen where the dough is mixed by hand, the sauce simmers overnight, and the door is open from four to eight every evening. It is the kind of place where you walk in as a guest and leave as a regular.
Open today · 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM · (802) 933-3655
Dine-in & Takeout
Slow food, warm room, no shortcuts.
We opened Rustic Roots because we wanted a place in Enosburg Falls where a family could share a proper pie, where a Tuesday dinner felt like a small occasion, and where the pasta was actually made in-house. Nothing about that has changed.
The recipes come from a grandmother's kitchen in Brooklyn and a farmhouse just outside of town. The flour is American, the tomatoes are San Marzano, and the basil is grown three miles from where you'll be sitting. We keep the menu small on purpose. Everything on it is something we would feed our own family on a Sunday evening.
What we are known for
A handful of dishes that leave the kitchen most often. Start with these, or browse the full menu for the rest.
Cold-fermented dough, a hot oven, and patience.
Our dough rests for 48 hours in the walk-in cooler before it ever sees the oven. That long, cold ferment is what gives the crust its blistered edge, its chew, and the faint tang you can't fake with a quick rise. We stretch each pie by hand. No rolling pins, no presses.
The oven runs hot enough that a sixteen-inch pie is done in six minutes. That is not a marketing number. It is the temperature we watch all night, and the reason the cheese stays milky instead of browning, and the reason the bottom of the slice holds up when you fold it. Which is, after all, the only correct way to eat a New York slice.
Rolled every morning, cooked every evening.
The pasta you order at seven o'clock started as a sheet of dough at ten in the morning. Our fettuccine is rolled and cut in the back kitchen, dusted with semolina, and left to rest until it is ready. We do not buy dry pasta for the dishes that should never use it.
The lasagna takes the better part of a day. The ragù cooks down for four hours. The béchamel is whisked by hand, never blended. The sheets are rolled thin enough to see the light through them, then layered with just enough filling that the whole thing holds together when you cut it. It is the dish we are proudest of, and it is the dish we sell out of first.
On Main Street, in Enosburg Falls.
We are a small room, about forty seats, a short walk from the bridge. There is street parking out front and a public lot a block over. The kitchen closes at eight sharp, so the last seating is at seven-thirty.
Address
383 Main St, Enosburg Falls, VT 05450
Hours
Daily · 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Phone
(802) 933-3655
Email
[email protected]
Skip the wait. Order online, pick it up hot.
Our takeout menu is the same as our dining room. Place your order online, choose a pickup time that works for you, and we will have it bagged and ready at the counter. No delivery — we are a small kitchen and we want every pie to leave the building the way it should.
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