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Dan’s Diary: Old Inn on the Green’s $25 Prix Fixe Menu
Theoretically, it’s mud season, but there is snow everywhere and last night the moonlight gave the Old Inn on the Green in New Marlborough a storybook, Currier & Ives feel. It takes only 25 minutes for me to drive there from Falls Village through the dark, twisting back roads of Canaan and Southfield, but when I arrived I felt like I’d gone all the way to Vermont. Is there anything more romantically New England than the Old Inn on a cold night with its woodburning fireplaces and dining rooms lit only by candlelight? Is there anything more generous than a robust three-course menu (plus two canapes with your cocktail and a truffle with your coffee) with a glass of house wine for just $25? The Old Inn calls this its “Winter Welcome” menu and it’s available on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays (you can also order from the regular a la carte menu.) But innkeepers Peter Platt and Meredith Kennard are not cutting any corners. The first course is an aromatic carrot-ginger soup or a salad with red beets, apples and blue cheese. The main course choices include a filet au poivre and pan-seared calves liver with mustard sauce and roasted vegetables and mashed potatoes. Dessert is a warm, molten chocolate cake with cinnamon gelato. Our meal reminded us why the Old Inn is so many people’s go-to special occasion restaurant. The Winter Welcome menu was transformative and restorative, making a run-of-the-mill late-winter Wednesday night feel like a special occasion.
March 4, 2009 at the Old Inn on the Green: Filet of beef, the candlelit dining room, calves liver with bacon
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