The day started cloudy and chilly again with a temperature of 60ºF (15ºC).☁️ 🥶I guess we shouldn’t really complain, as we were expecting it to be a lot colder up here! But I think it’s a good thing we fly home on Sunday, as I hear the weather is rather fabulous at the moment! 🌞

So, last night’s dinner in the award-winning restaurant! It was more than delicious, it was just fantastic. We are booked again for this evening.

The evening started on the right note when they presented us with our very own personalised menus!!

There were three choices to start with, a cold starter menu, a hot starter menu, main course and then at the end of the meal we would be presented with the dessert menu!

Our waitress told us we could order whatever we wanted in whatever order we liked. For instance, we could start with a main course and finish with a starter etc.

For the first course, we shared a cold starter of the house-made Harmony Hills pork pâté, fresh horseradish mustard, dried fruits and baguette. Oh my goodness, what can I say? The fresh horseradish was divine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the second course, we both had the saffron risotto, cheese, panko, North Point Community Farm roasted garlic aïoli and Small Town Culture fermented red onion. Again, just fabulous.

For the third course, Si had Slow cooked beef cheeks, cheddar grits, sautéed mushrooms and roasted North Point Community Farm garlic glaze and I had the 6oz grilled centre-cut beef tenderloin fillet, potato purée, petite carrots and turnips, haricot vert, fine herbs butter with pinot noir glaze. Heaven!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course by this point we were saying it was a mistake to have had the first course because we were struggling, but we still managed to find a little room for some dessert of course! Si had the vanilla crème brûlée described as custard, sugar crackle, almond tuile cookie and fresh berries and I managed one scoop of burnt banana ice-cream.

In my excitement for dessert I forgot to take a photo. Good enough excuse to have the same again this evening me thinks! 😂

All in all, it was one of the best meals we’ve had in a while. Looking forward to this evening’s meal but we will probably only have two courses …………… or maybe three with dessert of course! 😂

So this morning we decided to visit Lake Saranac, just up the road from Lake Placid but upon arrival we decided perhaps it was not the best choice. It didn’t seem to have a lot to offer, although I’m sure the locals would disagree! So, we returned to Lake Placid and decided to do the Mirror Lake Loop again but this time in reverse. That meant the start of the walk was via the Main Street shops and that suited me fine. More goodies to purchase! 😁👍

Here are some photos taken on our walk and some of the Inn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once back at the Inn we composed our letter to Hertz detailing all the problems we’ve had, so that when we return the car tomorrow we have all of our ducks in a row, so to speak. 🦆🦆🦆

We don’t imagine them dealing with the problems there and then, if only, but we can make them aware of our intentions. I’ve now found an email of where to send our complaint higher up the chain to Executive level. So, we will see what their reaction is and take it from there.

I forgot to mention in yesterday’s blog that when we started our hike up Mount Jo, in the car park was a Tesla charger! That surprised us rather! 🤔

Tomorrow we leave this wonderful place to travel to Boston, ready for our flight home on Sunday.

Hope you’ll join us there!

As always, thanks for reading!