This post should also be called “When Guests Become Friends”, as it truly was that kind of a weekend at the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre! James D. Porterfield, historian and author of “From The Dining Car” and “Dining By Rail”, and “On The Menu” columnist for Railfan & Railroad Magazine, Read more…
The Elkhorn Inn’s first “West Virginia Wine Dinner Weekend” was a grand (and delicious) success! Chef Dan’s Kirkwood Winery ramp-wine-marinated, herb-crusted roast leg of lamb was delectable, and So good with the Watt’s Roost Winery Chambourcin! The dry Martin’s Mist Dry Creek Blueberry Wine was perfect with the prosciutto & melon 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…
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…
As readers of this blog know, Dan and I are planning two very special events at the Elkhorn Inn for May: our “WV Wine-tasting Weekend” May 14-16, and our “Dueling Dining-Car Chefs” Weekend May 28-30 with railroad historian and author of “From the Dining Car” & “Dining By Rail” James Read more…
May 14-16 the Elkhorn Inn will host a “West Virginia Wine-Tasting Weekend”, including two Chef Dan dinners, each accompanied by 3 different WV wines! We aim to prove, once and for all, that there are not only Great wines from West Virginia, but ALSO Great food with which to accompany them! 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…
We came back from our mini-getaway at Glade Springs & Winterplace just at the start of Another snowstorm, and woke up in the morning to be greeted by cardinals and songbirds too numerous to count at the feeders right outside the Elkhorn Inn’s dining room window! It’s been non-stop bird-watching, 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…
With the good, comes the bad, right?We’ve had a wonderful fall at the Inn. If I complained about Anything I’d be a criminally stupid idiot. Homer & Linda Hickam stopped by the Elkhorn Inn the night before the Coalwood October Sky Festival and Totally thrilled our guests (and us)! Homer Read more…