Food and Wine – Chefs’ Favorite Dishes of 2013
Food and Wine Chefs' Favorite Dishes of 2013. Some of the country’s best chefs reveal their favorite bites of the year.
Seasonal Servings
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...
Food For Thought – Willows Inn – Lummi Island, Washington
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 itself. Lummi,...
Vogue – Generation Noma: Four Chefs from the School of René Redzepi
“The guests dining at Noma should feel a sensation of time and place in their very bones,” René Redzepi says in the introduction to to his 2010 book on Nordic cuisine. Just a decade ago, when Noma opened on Copenhagen’s waterfront, the young chef committed to a bold...
JustLuxe – Willows Inn on Lummi Island Might Be Worth A Pilgrimage For Big Time Foodies
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...
“Heavenly shades of night are falling, it’s twilight time…”
“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 served. The...
Last day of a Lummi Island centuries-old tradition: the reef-net salmon fishery
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...
Examiner.com – The Willows on Lummi Island perfect for culinary girlfriend getaway
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...
Stark Insider – Travel with Janice Nieder: Waxing poetic about Lummi Island
If there’s ever a contest for the “poster child” for a YOLO (You Only Live Once) meal, the Willows Inn, located on Lummi (rhymes with yummy) Island in the Pacific Northwest would certainly get my vote. Food pundits from N.Y. Times, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and...
Deconstructing Dinner – Restaurant Profile: The Willows Inn (Video)
The Willows Inn is a secluded retreat located on Lummi Island, WA. The Inn has become a culinary destination and their mantra – “Fished, Foraged, and Farmed”. Chef Blaine Wetzel sources ingredients from Lummi Island fishermen, the surrounding forests and beaches, and...
Andrew Harper – The Willows Inn
Gastronomic retreat in tranquil setting on Lummi Island, a 10-minute ferry ride from the mainland north of Seattle, with 21 accommodations both on site and scattered around the island as much as a mile and a half from the main lounge and restaurant. Off-site lodgings,...
Through the eyes of the a70 – The Willows Inn Restaurant – Lummi Island
After fellow foodie friends posted about their experience to this amazing restaurant just an hour and half away from Vancouver (plus a short ferry ride), I knew I had to dine there some time. In fact, it was featured in 2011 by New York Times as “10 Restaurants Worth...
Ellen’s Northwest – dinner on an island
In April, D gifted me with something I’d been dreaming of experiencing for a long time: dinner at the Willows Inn on Lummi Island. Many things have been written about Chef Blaine Wetzel’s arrival from Copenhagen’s noma and subsequent influence on the small inn perched...
A picture is worth a thousand words – First Harvest Dinner
Going by an old adage – a picture is worth a thousand words – this will be the longest blog in our history (maybe any blog’s history). Several thousand ‘words’ worth. One of the most significant, colorful food events of our year is the First Harvest Dinner with...
FoodTy – A photo set on Flickr
Dinner at Willows Inn, Lummi Island on September 1, 2013
Jet City Gastrophysics – Dining Northwest Style at The Willows Inn
Two and a half hours north of Seattle, on a small island, resides a bed and breakfast that serves up Michelin star quality food where the ingredients are all locally sourced. It sounds like the beginning of some mysterious story, a combination of the remoteness of...
Follow Me Foodie – Lummi Island, WA – A behind the scenes look at the 2nd Annual First Harvest Dinner at The Willows Inn Restaurant
A behind the scenes look at the 2nd Annual First Harvest dinner at The Willows Inn on Lummi Island. So you thought I already wrote about the juiciest and sauciest parts of the 2nd Annual First Harvest dinner at The Willows Inn? As good as Blaine’s carrot juice and...
Food For Thought – A photo set on Flickr
Dinner at The Willows Inn with Chef Blaine Wetzel on August 15, 2013.