Best Late Night Eats in Burlington
Burlington, Vermont — updated August 21, 2026
Burlington kitchens close early by big-city standards, so the real question is which ones are still plating food after 9 on a weekend. These bars, breweries and restaurants hold out the longest, with the posted hours and the nights they shut down.
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Late night in Burlington is a modest ambition: most kitchens here stop at 9 on a weeknight, and the places that push past 10 are mainly bars and brewery halls with food service attached. The two useful clusters are Lake Street near the waterfront and the Pine Street brewery corridor south of downtown, plus a few downtown rooms that keep the bar going after the dining room has closed. Below, in order of how late they actually stay open, with the caveat that several of these post different hours on different listings.
1. Foam Brewers - Burlington
The latest close of anything on this list: Foam's posted hours run to midnight on some nights, including Saturday, when the door opens at 10 AM. That makes it the default answer when it is 10:30 and everything downtown has stopped cooking. Food is a rotating selection of beer, cheese and charcuterie rather than a full kitchen, so plan on grazing. At 4.7 across 1,228 reviews, this is a well-settled rating, not a small-sample fluke. The hours differ between the brewery's own site and third-party listings, so confirm the night you want before walking down Lake Street.
2. Hen of the Wood - Burlington
The Cherry Street bar runs 4 PM to 11 PM every day, an hour past the dining room, which serves 5 to 10. That gap is the point: arrive after a show or a late shift, take a bar seat, and order off whatever the kitchen still has going. Menus change daily. It carries a 4.7 from 1,352 reviews, the largest review base of anything here and the strongest evidence on the list that the rating is real. Seats at the bar are the ones that go last, so a late arrival is often an advantage rather than a problem.
3. Pizzeria Verità
Open seven days, 5 to 9 Sunday through Thursday and 5 to 10 Friday and Saturday, which makes it the most reliable proper sit-down meal after 9 on a weekend. Dine in or takeout. On Wednesdays margherita pizzas are $5 off, a useful detail for a midweek night that ends at 9 rather than 10. The 4.7 rating comes from 971 reviews, enough volume to trust. The St. Paul Street room is small and fills on weekend nights, so a 9:30 walk-in on a Saturday is a gamble worth calling ahead about.
4. Zero Gravity Brewery
The Pine Street beer hall is open daily from 8 AM to close, with the full food menu running 11:30 AM to 9 PM Sunday through Thursday and until 10 PM Friday and Saturday. Coffee, beer and waffles are a separate morning menu, 8 AM to 2 PM daily, which is worth knowing if your late night runs long enough to become an early morning. Rated 4.6 from 755 reviews. Rooms close at 9 PM Sunday through Thursday and 10 PM on weekends, so this is a 9:45 last-order proposition, not a midnight one.
5. Bluebird Barbecue
On Riverside Avenue, and the only full barbecue kitchen here: brisket, ribs, pulled pork, smoked wings, from-scratch sides, barbecue ramen, Vermont beer and margaritas. Service starts at 4:30 PM and the posted end is 8 to 8:30, so this is the earliest true dinner cutoff on the list. It is closed Monday and Tuesday, and listings disagree on Wednesday, with the restaurant's own social posts showing Wednesday service and Yelp showing Thursday through Sunday only. Check before driving over. The 4.5 rating comes from 1,254 reviews, a proven number rather than a promising one.
6. Citizen Cider
Included for the size of its following rather than its hours: 4.5 from 1,610 reviews, the second-largest count in this guide. The Flynn Avenue building houses food, drinks and retail alongside the cidery, which presses with Vermont and New York apples on site. The catch is closing time. Posted hours start at noon and end at 7 or 8 PM depending on the day, which makes this an early-evening stop that happens to sit in a late-night guide because the room and the crowd are worth knowing about. Go before the dinner hour ends, not after.
What we left off
The South Burlington Barnes & Noble on Dorset Street was in the previous version. It is a national chain and a bookstore, not a late-night kitchen, so it is out on both counts. Queen City Brewery on Pine Street also came up in research and is not listed here: its taproom closes at 8 PM Sunday through Thursday and 9 PM Friday and Saturday, and the available information describes 16-plus taps of classic beer styles without a food program, which puts it outside the premise of this guide.