Things To Do in Burlington

A curated guide to Burlington, Vermont — built for the Burlington Brief.

All rights reserved: this code is published for viewing only and is not open source (see LICENSE).

Static HTML + vanilla JavaScript, no build step required.

Previewing locally

python3 -m http.server 8000

Then open http://localhost:8000.

Small Bites (small-bites.html)

One combined, filterable menu for every food spot within a walk of the Church Street Marketplace — down to the waterfront, along lower Pine Street, and into the near Old North End (a 900m radius from Church & College). Data lives in data/small-bites.json; the zone is declared in scripts/small_bites_roster.py (South Burlington city center and the Winooski circle can be added there later).

To refresh the menus:

1. python3 scripts/small_bites_roster.py — rebuilds data/small-bites-roster.json from data/restaurants.json (zone membership, dedupe, websites).
2. Re-scrape the menus: for each roster row, fetch the restaurant's own menu (site, linked ordering platform, or PDF) and write one JSON file per restaurant into a working directory — this step is agent/LLM work; the required per-file schema is documented at the top of scripts/build_small_bites.py. Rules: never guess a price, third-party menu sites (Yelp/Grubhub/DoorDash…) don't count, record gaps honestly as menu_status: "unavailable", and capture a deal only when the menu/site states it.
3. python3 scripts/build_small_bites.py --menus <that directory> — validates and merges everything (plus verified deals from data/deals.json) into data/small-bites.json, and regenerates data/small-bites-call-list.md, the phone list for confirming deals.

Questions / bugs

File an issue or reach out to the Burlington Brief.