As we sat down to our first real meal of the honeymoon I thought it would be a great idea to snap an iPhone picture of each meal I ate during the trip. I always have my iPhone with me, and I’m always taking crappy pictures of my food with it so clearly this idea was meant to be.
Sadly, I would often be so hungry that I would either: start eating before I remembered to take a picture OR finish eating before remembering to take a picture. I did, however, manage to snap pics of 22 meals over the course of 8 days. Here they are, in order consumed from the earliest to the latest:
Bennington, VT
I’m not sure who thought putting the insides of a chicken pot pie into a bread bowl was a good idea, but they were absolutely correct. This was our first real meal of the honeymoon and we had it at the Perfect Wife. Very good, and the prices were reasonable.
One of the great things about staying at a bed and breakfast is that you get both a bed AND breakfast (genius!). We were the only guests at breakfast our first morning, so I couldn’t refuse the big bowl of fruit (not a fan of fruit). I covered it up with yogurt and only ate the cantaloupe.
After the disappointing fruit (which was only disappointing because I don’t like fruit, mind you) the good innkeeper at The Inn on the Covered Bridge Green made up for it with some delicious eggs benedict.
Our lunch stop was the Blue Benn Diner. If you’re ever in Bennington, VT you have got to stop at this tiny diner (it is one of those dinners in a train car). The hot chocolate was great, as was the…
Eggplant thing that I got. I asked the waitress what she would recommend, since the menu is huge, and she said the stuffed eggplant was the way to go. She didn’t steer me wrong.
Not having enough colonial experiences in Philadelphia we decided to have dinner at Ye Olde Tavern. The pictures aren’t great because that place is dark. I mean, seriously dark. These were some cranberry fritters that we got whilst waiting for our meal. Pretty good.
The cheese plate was the highlight of the meal for both Marisa and myself.
I ordered the tournedos of filet mignon, which is filet mignon topped with lobster served with béarnaise. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t mind blowing either.
This was our last breakfast at the good old Inn on the Covered Bridge Green and it consisted of lemon and blueberry pancakes. They were good, sadly I had a childhood trauma involving blueberry pancakes (watch me tell the story of my trauma and eat some blueberry jam!) so I didn’t really enjoy them (though I soaked them through and through with maple syrup, which seemed to help). The bacon was very good.
We spent a lot of time in random stores during the honeymoon and the Vermont Country Store has got to be the most random of them all. However, the Bryant House Restaurant that is next to their location in Weston, Vermont is very good. I had the Yankee Pot Roast open face sandwich. I wish they could FedEx one to me tomorrow. Very tasty.
Rutland, VT
I thought the Mountain Top Inn and Resort was a little more rustic and secluded than it actually was, but they make a mean french dip!
Maple Sugar and Vermont Spice makes the best pancakes I have ever had in my life. Above you see an order of their sugar and spice pancakes. After we finished our breakfast I turned to Marisa and said, “We have to have breakfast here again tomorrow.” Read on to see if we did! (Spoiler alert: we did, and it was just as good).
Hanover, New Hampshire
We somehow found ourselves in New Hampshire where we saw Fame (don’t ask). I was craving some Asian food so we stopped at Yama II. This soup was tasty but super hot.
The pad thai was very good, indeed. The place really had a ‘college town eatery’ vibe that I dug.
Rutland, VT
I told you we went back! This time I had the breakfast sampler with pancakes, two eggs, two pieces of bacon, and two sausage links. And a maple syrup chaser.
Lake Placid, NY
Kanu is the restaurant inside the Whiteface Lodge, and it is very good. Not pictured were two appetizers that we shared: a mac and cheese to die for and some very good grilled scallops. My entree was the pulled pork which was porktastic. Sadly, the baked beans weren’t cooked all the way through so I didn’t eat them. The cornbread was good though.
Breakfast was included in our rate at the Whiteface Lodge, so you can bet your bippy that we had breakfast there. Best of all it was a breakfast buffet (and a very good one at that). I must have eaten seven of those cinnamon roll things.
At this point Marisa decided that we hadn’t been eating enough vegetables (“Wait, bacon ISN’T a vegetable?!”) so we had some raw veggies and hummus for lunch.
Milano North is responsible for this, and it was much better tasting than it looks in this picture (it kind of looks like gagh, which you might know as Klingon Blood Worms). Marisa wasn’t a fan of her dinner, but they did give us a free dessert (which I devoured before my iPhone could snap a pic).
One bagel, two toppings. Madness!
Mt. Tremper, NY
I did not have high hopes for Brios, but my chicken parm was very good. There were a few too many screaming children here for my taste, but that isn’t the restaurant’s fault.
When we saw that the menu featured four different types of multigrain pancakes we knew we had found the right place for Marisa (damn, hippy). The omelet was very good, and the toast was fantastic (they bake their own bread). Sweet Sue’s is worth a stop if you ever find yourself in Phoenicia, NY.