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CLASSIC NEW ENGLAND LODGING AND DINING
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Colby Hill Inn-Finalist in National Pancake Contest -
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Colby Hill Inn wins a "Best of New Hampshire" award for "Best Adult Dessert
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Renown Author tries Hand at Innkeeping
Boston Globe Review , March 5, 2006
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New Hampshire
Magazine's Bride - The Perfect Setting
Intimate
Inn
Most people choose to get married at a country inn because
they want their family and attendants to stay with them,
says Cyndi Cobb of the Colby Hill Inn in Henniker. “In a lot
of ways families and friends can come together for longer
periods of time than just the wedding and reception, so it’s
more like a destination as opposed to just going to a
wedding.”
The inn usually does a mix of a lot of smaller weddings that
tend to be under 50 people from the area who want a small,
intimate ceremony and dinner to larger events under tents in
their garden. “Our guests have had a lot of different ways
to have their weddings,” says Cyndi. She says she’s done a
casual poolside buffet with volleyball, badminton, bocce and
lawn chess. But she’s also done smaller, more formal
sit-down dinners inside the inn. Last year they hosted an
English couple who had lived in Hong Kong for a time. “They
had an eclectic group of friends from all over the world
staying at the inn for the weekend. At the wedding reception
they had 100 Chinese lanterns in the tent, specialized
flowers, and pence baked into the cake for good luck.” Plus,
the couple had taught swing dancing, so Cyndi and her
husband arranged for guests to have swing dancing lessons on
their back lawn during the weekend.
“We can’t do everything perfectly, but we know what we’re
good at,” she says. And what they’re good at is adapting to
their guests’ needs, especially when it counts. For
instance, when Cyndi and her husband first starting running
the inn there was a wedding where the bride forgot the cake
knife. So Cyndi ran home, dug around in her hope chest and
got the cake knife from her wedding day. “I cleaned it up
and shined it and used it for that wedding. Well, that knife
has now cut hundreds of wedding cakes through the years. I
hope that’s good luck; after all, we’ve been married after
so many years.”
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Colby
Hill Inn Receives Coveted Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
The Colby Hill Inn has been awarded
the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence by Wine Spectator
Magazine for the second year in a row. The award will be
announced in the August issue of the magazine.
The award recognizes a commitment to wine characterized by a
list that offers varied selections, has a thematic match to
the menu in style and price and that is presented in a clear
and accurate way. Currently less than 3000 restaurants
worldwide hold a Wine Spectator Award.
"It's a great honor to receive the award again, it puts us
in great company with other fine dining restaurants who
provide a wide selection of wines," said Mason Cobb,
Innkeeper and wine buyer for the inn. Cobb has spent four
years developing the wine list to match the creative menus
of acclaimed Executive Chef, Jeannine Carney.
The Colby Hill inn is a classic New England country inn with
15 guest rooms and fine dining open to the public nightly.
The inn is also a member of Select Registry, Distinguished
Inns of North America.
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Colby Hill Inn
Offers Regional Food and Wine - Concord Monitor, March 3, 2004
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Ski Magazine - Dec. 2004 issue
features
The Colby Hill Inn in a story titled "Bread and Board" .
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"SNOWED INN with a dining room
as sophisticated as its inn is charming, Colby Hill typifies
surprisingly rich dining and lodging options in southern New Hampshire
ski country." Southern N.H., by Sandy MacDonald
Though falling shy of the majestic White Mountains to
the north, southern New Hampshire's peaks (monadnocks, mostly, from the
Algonquin word for "stands alone") can still pack a wallop. Families, in
particular, will find all the skiing they could possibly require at the
local day areas, which have shown a remarkable resurgence in recent
years following a decade of decline.
With eight lifts and 1,510 feet of vertical, Mount Sunapee reigns
supreme in the region. The owners of Vermont's Okemo (and now Colorado's
Crested Butte) have sunk more than $14 million into this formerly
state-run complex since leasing it in 1998, and the TLC shows. Skiers
can enjoy gorgeous lake-view lunches at Sunapee's Summit Lodge.
Next up, height-wise, comes Tenney Mountain, a midstate sleeper with a
troubled past but promising future under energetic new owners, who see
it as a showcase for their warm-temperature snowmaking system. Gunstock,
at the south edge of enormous Lake Winnipesaukee, has been around since
1938. Like Tenney, it offers 1,400 vertical feet of terrain, and like
Sunapee, it has marvelous lake views. Ragged Mountain boasts a handsome
base area built to resemble a New England farmstead and the state's only
high-speed six-pack, accessing 1,250 vertical feet. Small but feisty
Crotched Mountain (875 vertical feet) is best known for its nightskiing.
The Swiss owners, who last year resuscitated it after 14 years of
dormancy, borrowed a page from the Midwestern resorts they own and
started running the lifts till 3 a.m. on selected weekends.
For those of us who occasionally need to sleep (and eat), New
Hampshire's southern half isn't as rich as the White Mountains in dining
and lodging options. If you know where to look, however, it's possible
to find charming rooms and extraordinary cuisine.
BEST DINING
Home Hill Inn in Plainfield (603-675-6165; homehillinn.com) is an 1818
Federal farmstead turned Provence-inspired Relais & Chateaux oasis where
Ritz-Escoffier-trained chef-owner (and competitive triathlete) Victoria
du Roure translates both locally sourced and jetted-in delicacies into
exquisite nouvelle fare. (Examples: roasted pumpkin risotto with black
truffle butter or line-caught wild Brittany sea bass.) A hearty bistro
menu-coq au vin and similar classics-is offered for a very reasonable
$39 prix fixe, but the only sensible strategy is to indulge in the
six-course gourmet tasting menu ($89, $154 with wine pairings) in order
to fully experience du Roure's genius.
Though the setting is less sophisticated (owners Cyndi and Mason Cobb
have spent the past four years de-quainting their 1820 tavern), the fare
at the Colby Hill Inn in Henniker (800-531-0330; colbyhillinn.com)
represents New England regionalism at its finest. Entrees ($23-$32)
range from roasted vegetable cassoulet to maple sugar-rubbed venison
with rhubarb chutney. Chef/owner Brian MacKenzie, a Beard House honoree
and Culinary Institute of America grad, is pursuing a similar path with
his five-course, single-seating candlelit dinners ($52) at the Inn at
Pleasant Lake in New London (800-626-4907; innatpleasantlake.com), and
fellow CIA alum Jeff Woolley puts out an impressive spread (entrees
$22-$38) with a splash of fusion at the Manor on Golden Pond in
Holderness (800-545-3141; manorongoldenpond.com). The Hancock Inn in the
colonial town of that name (800-525-3318; hancockinn.com) has been
welcoming wayfarers since 1789, though travelers of yore probably didn't
get pumpkin ravioli finished with cider cream. Among the entrees
($21-$32) is a particularly delicious house specialty, Shaker cranberry
pot roast.
BEST LODGING
All of the inns mentioned above double as legitimate sleepover
possibilities. Most luxurious among them is the Manor on Golden Pond.
Owner Mary Ellen Shields, who started overhauling this grand 1903
country house in 1999, has a gift for creature comforts as well as
aesthetic juxtapositions, so each of the 27 rooms ($180-$375) is
uniquely poised to surprise and please. The fireplace suites with double
jacuzzis are particularly nice.
The Colby Hill Inn ($115-$265) is nearly as luxe, with two similarly
accoutered carriage-house suites. Fifteen other rooms, tastefully
decorated in a traditional mode, are variously configured, some so as to
suit families. Built in 1850 and at one point a hit with the Hollywood
in-crowd (Pickford, Gish, et al.), the Rosewood Country Inn in Bradford
($119-$269; 800-938-5273; rosewoodcountryinn.com) is the kind of B&B
that's decorated from floor to ceiling. Some rooms are frilly enough to
set your teeth on edge (or, conversely, seduce couples who are big on
Victoriana). Others are merely formal and lovely. Everyone gets to enjoy
a hot tub set under the stars, as well as a truly stellar breakfast. For
a classic ski inn of the type you might remember from childhood (a
jumble of comfy furnishings, with jigsaw puzzles always at the ready),
consider the Inn at Crotched Mountain in Francestown (603-588-6840;
innbook.com/crotched), an 1822 farmstead on 65 hilltop acres
crisscrossed with five miles of cross-country trails. Not only are your
offspring welcome, pets are, too. And the room rate is a retro,
family-friendly $80-$140 a night.
BEST NIGHTLIFE
Nightlife? Ask a local, and you're likely to get a laugh. However,
culture-seekers have a world-class resource in Dartmouth College's
Hopkins Center for the Arts (603-646-2422; hop.dartmouth.edu), which
imports big-name acts. Hanover also has the Canoe Club (603-643-9660;
canoeclub.us) a music venue done up like an Adirondack camp. The Rynborn
Restaurant and Blues Club in Keene (603-357-1313; rynborn.com) is
another college-town option. For a lazy night out, claim a couch at the
nostalgia-laden Common Man Inn's Boiler Room in Plymouth (866-843-2626;
thecmaninn.com), where ski movies are projected on an expanse of
industrial brick. Or hey, you could always ski the night away at
Crotched.
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Colby
Hill Inn
New Hampshire Bed and Breakfast
Cyndi and Mason Cobb, Innkeepers
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The Oaks, PO Box 779, Henniker, New Hampshire 03242
Telephone: (603) 428-3281 Fax: (603) 428-9218
For Information and Reservations, U.S. and Canada Call Toll Free (800) 531-0330
E-Mail: innkeeper@colbyhillinn.com
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