
Lodge Restaurant ~ Culinary Classes ~ Specialty Beer & Wine
Lodge Culinary Experience
Our Vision:
Our Adirondack Alps cuisine is a fusion of 21st C local "100 Mile" Adirondack seasonal tastes with Old World natural flair.
Our Culinary Journey
Begin
Relax in our Fireside Rathskeller or meander with glass in hand to one of the most spectacular and secluded mountain lake sunsets – where Einstein contemplated.
Explore
The Adirondack's only hand-crafted Wine & Beer Cellar with over 300 specialty beers and over 350 boutique wines.
Savor
A unique Adirondack Alps cuisine highlighting local "100 Mile" seasonal foods with Old World tastes from Lodge Garden Vegetable Strudels, Adirondack farm Grass-fed Beef Stroganoffs to fresh fish Rostis and smoked Old World roasts.
Delight
Continue your journey with the jingling bells of horse-drawn sleigh rides on our lantern-lit nature trails or paddle on still, reflective waters into our setting sun.
Complete
With savory desserts in our 1886 hand-hewn dining room, Fireside Rathskeller or in the seclusion of your hand-crafted lodging.
A Personalized Experience
Where the evening's menu of 8-12 seasonal entrees are personally explained to you,
Your table is yours for the evening,
And the culinary journey is our 25-acres – Adirondack Great Camp style
Feast with Our Nature
The Adirondacks were not only brazened by typical trappers and hunters in the early days but also by intellects, painters and composers who immersed themselves in our nature to be rejuvenated and stimulated. It is with this spirit and that of our own contemporary pioneering and Old World families, that Chef Cathy Hohmeyer blends her 21st century holistic and naturally spiced flavors. She stirs with the love of art like those before that is part of the heart-warming bouquet drifting from our hallowed 19th C walls. From the aromas of her hand-stocked soups and slow roasts you can sense what it must have been like for the writers and philosophers as they contemplatively dined. All of these essences together with "our nature" have created our holistic Adirondack spirit and what you will sense and savor in our Adirondack Alps culinary fusion. With our Great Woods as a key ingredient, you can savor our culinary art right in "our nature:"
- Dine in our 1886 hand-hewn Dining Room
- Savor lite fare in our Outdoor Beer & Wine Garden
- Interact with our Philosopher's Pub interpretive dinners in our Fireside Rathskeller or new hand-crafted Lake-view Retreat Center
- Creating a special, secluded memory? Have a personalized dinner in your hand-crafted lodging or in the privacy of our tent on our 3-acre lake shore.
- Meander Great Camp style for special celebrations where your table is our 25-acres. Begin with a lake-side sunset toast while your toes dance in the water. Stroll arm-in-arm to our Fireside Rathskeller and revel in the Adirondacks only hand-crafted Wine & Beer Cellar. Wander to our hand-crafted Lake-view Retreat Center or our 1886 hand-hewn dining room for a culinary celebration. Finish off the evening with an Adirondack Artisan cheese with a special wine & beer sampler in front of the warming fire of your hand-crafted lodging.
Jingling sleighs or sunset paddles await, while your culinary journey begins.
Lake Clear Lodge and Retreat