This has been quite a week- in the very best way! As Inn-Keepers, it’s a wonderful thing when guests truly become friends, and that is what these last few weeks have been about! I’ll start with this weekend, when Tony “The Trout” Wheeler gave us a day’s fly-fishing lesson on Read more…
Here are the menus for the Elkhorn Inn’s “West Virginia Wine Dinner Weekend” May 14-16, and our May 28-30 (Memorial Day Weekend) Gourmet Railfan Weekend: “Dueling Dining-Car Chefs” with historian, author, and Railfan & Railroad columnist James Porterfield! (And if these menus don’t make you drool, there’s just no hope!):May 14-16 Read more…
Through no fault of our own, heaven knows, we missed the 71st Ramp Fest of Richwood, West Virginia. 
And we were Seriously bummed, because the “Feast of the Ramson”, in THE Ramp Capital of the World, is something Chef Dan and his Foodie Wife have been aching to attend for 8 years! Read more…
Last night (Monday) was Erev Pesach (the evening on which Passover begins), and Dan and I made a lovely Passover Seder at the Elkhorn Inn: We had handmade Shmurah Matzah (THE best matzah!) from Chabad of Morgantown, West Virginia, and that made it a VERY special Passover, indeed! This is the Read more…
This is my absolute favorite photo from St. Paddy’s night in Bluefield WV: Chef Dan, The Other Dan, and Terry (a.k.a. BluefieldView), flatfootin’ outside Gary Bowling’s House of Art, to the banjo, guitar, & uke of the great George Robertson Band playing “Fox on the Run”…We had a really fun evening, Read more…
My tongue is hanging out and I’m exhausted. After weeks of licking my lips over the Burpee and Park’s seed catalogs, fantasizing over their color photos of Jumbo This and Giant That, dogearing the pages with my favorites, and then freezing up the computer with 25 pages (more color photos! OMG!) Read more…
Yesterday, in the midst of our newest snowstorm, I ran outside on the front porch as the Pocahontas passed the Elkhorn Inn and snapped pix thoughtout the day… even in the dusk… When I downloaded them, the “dusk” ones were totally black- you couldn’t see a THING! The flash on our Read more…
That banging sound you’ve been hearing is undoubtedly my head slamming against the wall. My computer finally crashed & burned last week, something it’s been threatening to do for awhile now, and this time it knocked me for a loop, disappearing (temporarily, I hope…) 8 years of business email addresses Read more…
Just came back from a WONDERFUL 2-night mini-getaway, skiing at Winterplace & staying at the Glade Springs Resort in Daniels, WV. I must say that outside of the Elkhorn Inn, the Glade’s restaurant at Glade Springs has THE finest food we’ve ever eaten in West Virginia! Chef Dexter Burgess created Read more…
New year, new snow! As I write this, the Pocahontas RR is chugging by the Elkhorn Inn- again! It’s been a fab few days for railfans since New Year’s, with almost non-stop trains and pushers going by! It’s also been Wicked Cold here lately- at the moment it’s a “brisk” Read more…