Two central Vermont businesses owned by local restaurateur Brian Lewis have undergone big changes this fall. In Montpelier, Filibuster Café is now Filibuster Restaurant & Bar, with a new menu and dinner service. In Middlesex, the sushi menu at Filling Station has been replaced by barbecue. Filibuster's expanded hours — daily from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. — began on September 30. The nighttime addition makes the most of the restaurant's elegant location in a former bank at 45 State Street, Lewis said. "We thought there was an opportunity in Montpelier to provide a really nice style of dinner, and we have the talent in the kitchen to do it," Lewis told Seven Days. Filibuster's new menu includes shareable small plates and entrées such as filet mignon, pan-seared half chicken and bouillabaisse — similar to the food Lewis cooked during his 15 years in kitchens on the West Coast, he noted. The restaurant's daytime menus, in place since its January opening, have also been updated to reflect a "French-style ambience and feel," Lewis said. Offerings include classic eggs Benedict and veggie hash for breakfast and pub burgers, fish and chips, and harvest salad for lunch. Filling Station opened in a former service center at 970 Route 2 in 2021 and built a following for its unique menu of sushi and burgers. But the sushi part was unsustainable without more specially trained staff, Lewis said. In early September, the restaurant's concept switched to house-smoked barbecue. "We had to go in a different direction and provide something for people that we could do for years," he explained. The new menu features St. Louis-style ribs, a smoked brisket-and-kimchi sandwich, smoked chicken wings, pulled pork, and a burger. An expanded menu of sides is soon to come and will be available by the pound for takeout, Lewis said, targeting ski tourists. The original print version of this article was headlined "Changes at Montpelier's Filibuster Café and Middlesex's Filling Station"…