Over 100 people gathered on Saturday, Aug. 5, to honor Steve and Beth Dow and their 25 years of service as owners of Steve’s Park Diner in Middlebury.
The old Diner restaurant served up its last meal in 2018, and next month it’s slated to be removed from its longtime 66 Merchants Row spot in order to make way for an expansion of the adjacent Town Hall Theater.
The evisceration of the Park Diner by its conversion from the heart of working-class Middlebury to a tableau beside which the town’s elite can sip wine and eat from a prohibitively expensive out-of-town French restaurant ‘food truck’ while taking selfies … (read more)