Happy Dumpling (West Lebanon, NH)
The Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire doesn’t get a lot of turnover in restaurants, and when it does, there’s often a lot of local buzz, even if it’s something as relatively pedestrian as a Jersey Mike’s. That’s definitely the case for Happy Dumpling, which opening in West Lebanon’s Powerhouse Plaza, in one of the storefronts freed up when the NH Liquor store moved to their new building on Route 12A. They announced the restaurant in May, with an opening later in the year, and we got several months of eager anticipation on various local discussions groups to follow. So yeah, there’s some pent up demand for something new.