Nov 26, 2013 | Blogs, Press
With 2013 closing, the kitchen remains in peak form prepping for Topical Thursdays – a special wine dinner, and New Year’s Eve. All intermingled with the four weekends of year-end holiday season dining. Starting Wednesday, Jan. 1, we close the dining room (but not the...
Nov 19, 2013 | Blogs, Press
The first thing I notice upon arriving are the smells: the salt ocean air, fresh cut grass, a whiff of wood smoke. The ferry ride from the mainland takes only about ten minutes, but Lummi Island – the home of the Willows Inn – seems almost a world to...
Oct 31, 2013 | Blogs, Press
It was a sliver of the perfectly balanced sweet/salty, smoked reef-net salmon, simply presented on a cedar slab — I was a goner. Every nibble was unconsciously accompanied by a soulful ‘mmmm.’ I knew then that no matter how hard I tried to search out its equal, I...
Oct 27, 2013 | Blogs, Press
“Heavenly shades of night are falling, it’s twilight time…” Which means bed-time for the lush garden at Loganita Farm, with wake-up call set for March. But the garden is a light sleeper, awakening often throughout the twilight of 2013 to keep you freshly...
Sep 30, 2013 | Blogs, Press
With the first day of October came the last day of a Lummi Island centuries-old tradition: the reef-net salmon fishery. The last three of the boats and gear were pulled onto shore for idling until Summer ’14. But the salmon never stop running in our kitchen. The two...
Sep 27, 2013 | Blogs, Press
Most gastronomic bucket lists reserve the top spot for what is generally considered the world’s #1 restaurant, Noma, in Copenhagen. But quietly nipping at its heels is the remote Willows Inn on Lummi (rhymes with yummy) Island in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Not...