About Us

Welcome to Nipper's Cafe.  Adam and I grew up in Manchester, VT.  We attended the local high school Burr & Burton Academy, in fact we were in the same homeroom.   We reconnected and moved back to Vermont  at which point we bought our first restaurant.

We take pride in our small mom & pop restaurant which is family owned and operated.  We have owned a couple of restaurants in downtown Manchester over the years. We purchased the Stamford Motel from Karen's parents in 2005 and added Nipper's Cafe & Steakhouse in 2011 where we served breakfast and dinner.  We sold the motel and restaurant May 2022.  We were fortunate to be able to keep the Nipper's name.  We had purchased several buildings downtown in 2018. Our tenant moved out June 2020 and we opened the Cold Cow Creamery for our daughters to run, since it was during COVID and our kids needed to make money for college. The Cold Cow Creamery is a successful dairy bar during the summer and it will return Memorial Day weekend 2023. Our youngest child will return home to run the dairy bar.

We hope that you enjoy your meal and we cherish the customers that find us and choose to dine with us.  We consider this restaurant a work in progress. We are striving to create a casually elegant ambiance, offering you a delicious home-cooked meal while serving you the freshest, highest quality ingredients with a very friendly level of service.  We believe strongly that delicious food is made with the best ingredients.  All of our soups, sauces and two of our dressings are homemade.

Since we are so small we believe it's all about the customer having a quality experience and a delicious home cooked meal. Come and taste the experience for yourself. 

If an issue arises please let us know, so we can try to remediate the issue while you are here. We try our best to have everyone leave with an exceptional experience, in hopes that you will choose to visit us again in the future.     

Cheers,  Adam and Karen