This is the third year we’ve stayed at Stephanie Inn and enjoyed their in house restaurant for meals. You can see past write ups by clicking 2025, 2025, 2024, 2024, and 2022.  The menu usually offers a meat or fish variation for the entrée in the 5 course tasting.  The first year we weren’t staying there but drove over for dinner.  There’s plenty of parking at the inn and lots of people celebrating special occasions there.  However, I prefer to stay there and make the short walk to dinner.  Also being a Central Time Zone person the early hour of 5:30 for dinner works well for me.   All the servers are good and want to make sure you enjoy your meal.  As all get seated they take wine/bar orders and then bring our the amuse bouche followed by the warm bread and butter.  When the first course has been served one of the chefs in the open kitchen comes out to go over the menu for the evening.  Following that the servers stop by each table and get your entée choice.  It takes a little over an hour and a half.  I heartily recommend the place – its a beautiful location and very cool breezy weather – which is nice when we are cooking in Texas.  Hope you’ll go and let me know what you think.  We’ve already made reservations for 2027! Continue reading →

Stephanie Inn sits on the Pacific Ocean coast overlooking Haystack Rock.  The 3 floor inn has a restaurant on the second floor which I’ve reported on before.  You can see those write ups by clicking 2025, 2025, 2024, 2024, and 2022.  We were fortunate to go back again this year and get to stay in the Oceanfront “Janice Kay” room, which we decided last trip was our favorite at the inn but must be booked well in advance.  It’s well positioned, just a few feet from the dining room where Chef Aaron Bedard remains Executive Chef.  The nights he was in the kitchen were the better of the four, which will be reported in 2 separate posts.  The format is a 5 course menu which also includes an amuse bouche and a choice of main entree.  I saw some adaptations, but those again must be made in advance.  You can reserve a table at the 5:30 time Sunday – Thursday with an additional 8:00 seating on Friday and Saturday, whether you are staying there or somewhere else.  It’s lovely to stay there as that also includes breakfast the next morning and a wine tasting with snacks every afternoon.  The dining room overlooks the mountain view side of the building which isn’t as fun as the ocean but also then doesn’t get the glare of the afternoon sun.  It’s get a high recommendation from me, enough so that we’ve already booked our 2027 stay! Continue reading →