FACT SHEET
Hours: Dinner from 6 PM.Closed Mondays. Visit our website for up-to-the minute information.
Menu:International Cuisine A la carte menu from $23 / Extensive wine list
Price Fixed Menus:
Four Course Vegetarian Menu $55
Four Course Wine Tasting Menu $85-95 with wine to match each course
Multi course Feasting Menu $75 six courses
Credit Cards: Amex / Visa / Master Card / Diners Club / Carte Blanche / Discover
Banquets: We welcome private cocktail and/or dinner parties.
Rehearsal dinners are our specialty.
Atmosphere:a) Rustic stone walls of the old-world wine cellar make for a unique experience.
Whether romantic dining or a small celebratory group, tables drip with lace.
Seats up to 12 at a square table.
b )Brick-walled garden room accommodates up to 20 (if it’s cold enough, a fire burns in the brick hearth
Brick floor, climbing ivies adorn windows which overlook herb garden and patio.
c) Our peach colored vaulted room with polished wood floor, features
comfortable upholstered chairs and chandeliers. Seats 20 to 30
Larger groups use both upstairs rooms which have a small, common reception area.
Style: From food to decor, an eclectic blend of classic and contemporary. Likewise, music ranges from classical to jazz,
and decor from traditional to modern. Tables are topped with damask linen, silver flatware and hand blown crystal.
A stylized fresh flower arrangement or modern sculptures each table.
Dress:“Smart casual.” Sweaters are common in the fall & winter. Jeans are OK, but better to leave the holes at home. Emblazoned T-shirts & sweatshirts may be out of place, yet we want guests to come as they feel comfortable. Jackets optional. Usually we can accommodate both more formal as well as casual requests.
Awards:SantéSpirit Award 2006
SantéCulinary Award Regional Innovative 2005
VT Dept. Tourism & Mkt. honored for 20 yrs as 2002
Robert Mondavi Culinary Award of Excellence 2001
“50 Distinguished Restaurants in the US” Conde Nast TRAVELER 1/93
“Top 25 Restaurants in America” Food & Wine Magazine 8/92
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Mobil Travel Guide / AAA
Vermont Restaurateur of the Year: VT Restaurant & Lodging Association
DiRoNA / Distinguished Restaurants of North America
Fine Dining Hall of Fame Nation’s Restaurant News
Features:Emeril Lagasse and Friends, Food Network
Great Chefs of the East Discovery Channel
Superchefs Cookbook by Karen Gantz Zahler
"Outstanding, worth a special trip." Mobil Travel Guide over 15 years
“One of the most romantic restaurants in America,”
from “Perfect Tables in the World.” Esquire, October 1999
“...flawlessly sophisticated food....” Travel & Leisure 2/97
"Hemingway's tries to recapture the lost art of dining---and succeeds. The focus is on the experience instead of on trends and design.
Not unlike Vermont itself." Travel & Leisure 1/97
"viva la difference!...consistently superior...." Vermont Magazine 11/91
"...excellent...graceful...delectable...." Condé Nast TRAVELER 10/91
"...undeniably grand." Travel & Leisure 1/90
"...one of the outstanding restaurants in the galaxy." Ski New England 11/90
Wine Spectator Award of Excellence since 1990
"...a 'must' for any visitor." The Robb Report 12/89
"Overwhelmingly the choice as best food in the area...." Snow Country 10/88
"... deserves a Nobel as surely as its namesake did." New England Monthly
“Selected as one of America’s Outstanding Restaurants by
the International Institute for Dining Excellence, Ballantine Scotch Ambassador 25 award, ‘85/ ’86
SLANTS:
ANNUAL DINNERS:
JUNEAsparagus and Morel Dinner / harbinger of summer
JULYWine & Food Festival Dinner pairs our acclaimed food with wines promoted during annual Killington Wine Fest
SEPTWild Mushroom Luncheon, Lecture, Forage with local mycologist
OCTFarmer’s Harvest Dinner farm fresh products with local farmers as guests
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ART or LITERATURE DINNERS: e.g. dinners based on Cookery Notebooks of Claude Monet; Like Water for Chocolate,
and A Movable Feast-- the latter based on fiction & non -fiction accounts of Ernest Hemingway at the table; in a bar; on a boat.
AUTHOR DINNERS: Hotel Pastis / Found Meals of the Lost Generation / The Vermont Cheese Book with author,
Ellen Ogden / Appetite for Life (Julia Child biography with author, Noël Riley Fitch)
MISC: Tango Dinners (with dance instruction and demonstration by Broadway dancers) / Renaissance Dinners
(required dress and medieval recipe inspired)
Our monthly wine dinners began in 1982, with winemakers, winery owners and /or winery representatives. These gave way to
our nightly Wine Tasting dinner.
ROADSIDE EDIBLES: in spring and summer we incorporate roadside edibles into our menus. Some roadside edible examples
we have found near us: wild cranberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, dandelions, yellow wood-sorrel,
small fruiting crabapples, Japanese knot weed, purple flowering raspberries, fiddlehead ferns, asparagus, horseradish, ginger,
cat-tail, nettles,ramps (wild leeks), mushrooms.
Menu Examples:
Wild Salmon with Ramps and Yellow Wood-Sorrel Salad
Fiddlehead and Nettle Soup with Red Pepper
Baby Vermont Pheasant with Wild Asparagus and Mushroom
Confit of Duck Strudel with Thorn-apple Chutney
High-bush Cranberry Compote with Ginger Ice Cream
Black-Haw Berry Tart with Currant and Cider Sauce
Appetizing wedding vows: Vermont’s marriage friendly code allows Hemingway’s to offer a Justice of the Peace
ceremony with dinner. The evening includes a ceremony, a celebrated feast for two with personalized keepsake
menu, a bottle of Champagne or just a premium Champagne toast, as well as a pair of hand blown Champagne
flutes as a wedding or renewal of vowels souvenir.
Custom Cuisine: We take pride in handling requests to modify dishes to suit many special diets, and we do it
without sacrificing the integrity of cuisine.
Atkins, wheat free, gluten free, vegan, organic, Pritikin, you name it--just tell us ahead.
VT: High tech country: We’ve been saying for years that you CAN have your cake and eat it too, living in the
country, even as just a getaway, is a reality. Visitors find Vermont a balance between Old-World tradition and
modern culture--a combination of low country and high tech.
VT: A MORE THAN ONE SEASON RESORT: Hike, bike, swim, boat or fish numerous lakes & streams, have great
golf North, East, South & West of us, play tennis, go antiquing, ski both down hill or cross country, snow shoe,
and of course, fine dine!
Plate Full of Proposal
Being named by Esquire as “One of the most romantic restaurants in America,” focuses our attention to Hemingway’s ambience and service. Of course the food is always delicious, but in extraordinary circumstances we have risen to an occasion to help make the most of an engagement proposal.
