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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined
well." Virginia Woolf
An amazing dining experience becomes a memory that you'll carry with you for
years to come, even after other details of your trip have faded.
The inns of Select Registry provide this kind of unforgettable
experience. Many are travel destinations, known as much for their food as their
hospitality and accommodations. ''We had the most amazing dinner here on our
honeymoon twenty years ago,'' says Jan, a repeat guest of an inn in New
England. ''Somehow, they've managed to improve upon our memories.''
Because Select Registry inns are unique and personal reflections of
their owners, the food and ambience vary dramatically from inn to inn. One inn
might specialize in authentic German cuisine, while another might offer an
informal backyard barbecue… or the utmost in elegant French dining.
Many of our inns offer a regional cuisine based largely on the produce of an
area or region. ''Whatever is fresh and local gets priority here,'' says a
Wisconsin chef, who begins a spring dinner with a mouthwatering appetizer of
wild leeks and fiddlehead ferns, followed by the ultimate delicacy from Lake
Superior: sautéed whitefish livers with crumbled bacon and bell peppers.
An Innkeeper in British Columbia gathers Dungeness crab for his dinner guests.
An inn in Washington serves more than one hundred varieties of wild mushrooms.
Maine lobster, Maryland blue crab, steamed Iowa sweet corn, a sweet-tart slice
of Door Country cherry pie… the list goes on and on. Why not experience these
delicacies for yourself?
And what about all of the wonderful Select Registry bed and breakfast inns that
don't have full dining, but that still offer all of the charm and service of
their cousins? With few exceptions, Select Registry requires that all of our
non-full service inns be located within short distance of local fine dining
establishments.
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