It’s no secret bed & breakfast inns offer some of the most fabulous breakfast cuisine found anywhere. We have a hard time picking our favorites so we’ll temporarily yield to the judges at the Select Registry Inn-Credible Breakfast Cook-Off. The contest is to recognize the best “inn” breakfast in North America. We’re proud that two of our inns won the gold prize in their categories: Casa Laguna Inn and Spa of Laguna Beach, CA, won the gold medal in the “Professional Chef Category” with their dish “Dungeness Crab Benedict with Choron Sauce, Fried Shallots & Curry Oil.” Inn at Riverbend of Pearisburg, VA, received the gold in the “Innkeeper Category” with their dish, “Breakfast Sushi.”
The finalist teams, which consisted of professional chefs and innkeepers from the best bed and breakfasts and inns in North America, competed for the gold, silver and bronze medals during a live culinary competition, at Select Registry’s Annual Conference on November 10, 2008, at the Williamsburg Lodge in historic Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.
Centries were judged by an esteemed judging panel with superlative culinary backgrounds on the following criteria: Creativity, Presentation, Overall Appeal and Taste. Chefs and innkeepers participated in the competition, creating an original breakfast “main dish.” Though each recipe was unique, the one ingredient in common was eggs.
Winners of the Professional Chef Category:
Gold:
Casa Laguna Inn and Spa of Laguna Beach, California: “Dungeness Crab Benedict with Choron Sauce, Fried Shallots & Curry Oil,” submitted by Cale Falk.
Silver:
L’Auberge Provencale of White Post, Virginia: “Provencale Eggs Benedict with Caramelized Onion Tartlet, Merques Sausage, Vegetable Stew and a Garden Sorrel Hollandaise,” submitted by Alain Borel and Scott Myers.
Bronze:
1906 Pine Crest Inn and Restaurant of Tryon, North Carolina: “North Carolina Granny Smith Apple & Sweet Vidalia Onion Quiche,” submitted by April Wilson and Amanda Greene.
Winners of the Innkeeper Category:
Gold:
Inn at Riverbend of Pearisburg, Virginia: “Breakfast Sushi,” submitted by Linda Hayes and Eric Hanson.
Silver:
Swann House of Washington, D.C.: “Swann House Sunday Morning Swans,” submitted by Patrick Richardson & Rick Verkler.
Bronze:
Goldmoor Inn of Galena, Illinois: “Pumpkin Medley French Toast,” submitted by Patricia Goldthorpe.
Visit our bed & breakfast recipe page for recipes from all of the winning inns and to find thousands of other fabulous recipes.
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