Food And Wine Festival At The Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire
A festival of fine food and wine at The Mount Washington Hotel & Resort, February 6-8, will feature the talents of the resort’s executive chef, James Dyer, and his culinary staff. This celebration of gracious gastronomy will start Friday, February 6, with a four-course dinner, at leisure, in the hotel’s elegant dining room. Appointed with Tiffany glass windows, crystal chandeliers and romantic candlelight, the dining room features live musical accompaniment to dinner that invites couples for a dance between courses. Following dinner, the acoustically perfect Conservatory becomes the setting for a serenade of chamber music served with coffee and cordials. For a livelier end to the evening, The McClenathans provide contemporary dance music in The Cave. A true speakeasy during Prohibition, the granite walls and brick archways of this grotto still provide the perfect setting for discreet imbibing or a romantic rendezvous.
Saturday’s fine food and wine events include culinary demonstrations, a kitchen tour, and beverage sampling. A full slate of outdoor activities features downhill skiing and snowboarding at Bretton Woods, Nordic skiing and snowshoeing, ice skating, snow tubing, swimming in the outdoor heated pool or horse-drawn sleigh rides through the snowy woods. A guided gourmet snowshoe tour is scheduled for 11 a.m. Nordic Center staff will lead snowshoers to a gourmet picnic set in the forest. A fee of $45, per person, includes snowshoe rental, trail pass and gourmet picnic. Saturday evening’s highlight is a Wine Dinner Festival with expertly selected fine wine pairings to complement food offerings at a dozen chef-attended stations. From freshly shucked oysters and clams to chef-carved roast sirloin and capon, Thai-style stir-fry, Ceasar salad, sushi and sashimi, this festival of flavors will crescendo with extravagant dessert demonstrations by guest chefs Glen Bosse and Stephen James, Executive Pastry Chef from The Balsams.
Children are welcome to enjoy the Mount Washington Kids’ Camp and Teen Scene Friday and Saturday nights. These evening programs are complimentary for hotel guests and include dinner plus supervised age-appropriate activities.
Another chamber music concert in the Conservatory will offer a soothing aid to digestion, or guests may dance away the calories with another rousing night in the Cave.
A special Food and Wine Festival lodging package is available to weekend guests of The Mount Washington Hotel. Starting at $290 per night, double occupancy. Accommodations include breakfast, dinner (including the special wine dinner on Saturday), use of the resort’s amenities and all weekend activities. All festival activities are open to resort guests and the public at no charge, except the guided snowshoe tour picnic ($45 per person and reservations are required) The Wine Festival Dinner is $75 for the public and reservations are required. For more information or to make a reservation, please call 877-873-0626, toll free, or visit www.mtwashington.com
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January 30, 2004
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