We’re excited to serve our 35th Thanksgiving Dinner to the public on Thursday, November 24. The 5-course meal is just $55/person and includes soup, salad, sorbet, entree, and dessert. Thanksgiving Dinner is served from 12 noon to 6:30pm at Rittenhouse Inn’s Landmark Restaurant. Reservations are still available, particularly during the 12 noon to 3pm slot. (Are the Green Bay Packers playing or something?)

Here is a sneak peak at the menu:

Soup

Harvest Bisque: Purée of local marigold, buttercup, butternut, carnival, and delicata squash sweetened with WI maple syrup and served with balsamic syrup and pepitas.

OR

Lake Superior Chowder: Fresh local whitefish and trout simmered with clams, fresh herbs, carrots, celery, onions, potatoes, sweet cream and butter.

Salad

Fresh Baby Greens: Mixed organic greens tossed with dried cranberries, goat cheese, toasted pumpkin seeds, and balsamic vinaigrette.

OR

Spinach with Honey Pecan Dressing: Baby spinach tossed with apples, Buttermilk Blue cheese, red onions, toasted pecans, and honey pecan vinaigrette.

Sorbet

Apple Cider-Champagne

Entrée (Served with vegetables du jour and cranberry sauce)

Classic Roast Turkey: Oven roasted turkey with gravy, house made sausage-sage stuffing, mashed potatoes, and green beans.

OR

6th Street Market Ham: Double smoked 6th Street Market Ham with au gratin potatoes and artisan macaroni and cheese.

OR

Alaskan Salmon: Wild line-caught Alaskan sockeye salmon grilled and served with savory wild rice and puttanesca sauce: a flavorful mélange of tomatoes, onions, capers, olives, anchovies, oregano, and garlic.

Dessert

Classic Pumpkin Pie with Whipped Cream

OR

Chocolate Lava Cake: With molten truffle center, raspberry sauce, and vanilla ice cream.

OR

Rum Baba: Yellow yeast cake dunked in spiced rum and served warm with sautéed Bayfield apples, housemade caramel sauce, and almond Florentine cookie.

OR

Classic Rittenhouse Ice Cream Sundaes: Choose from hot fudge, buttered rum and turtle sundaes.

Don’t forget to join us for our 35th Annual Wassail Holiday Dinner Concerts in December and experience a magical evening celebrating the spirit of the season, complete with choir of carolers and a festive holiday meal. Dates available online at www.rittenhouseinn.com/specialevents.htm

There was a week this past summer when two separate guests said to me, “This room looks so much nicer in person than it does on your web site.” I immediately knew it was time for some fresh photography, so I did a little research and I made a few calls.

On a sunny two-day stretch of October we had the pleasure of hosting Paramount Pixels for a photo shoot of the Rittenhouse Inn, Le Chateau Boutin, and the Rittenhouse Cottage. We shot rooms. We shot food. We shot exteriors. Basically we ended up with hundreds of images, which we narrowed down to about 50 favorites.

One thing we love about working with Paramount Pixels is the end result! We were first captured by Don Trueman’s post production genius, and how he can turn an ordinary photo into something much more vibrant. We soon learned that he’s a great shooter too. The fact that the Truemans ran an amazing B&B in Duluth for years really helps: as former innkeepers, they shared in our vision and turned it into… a vision!

As a fellow innkeeper said, it’s “amazing the way that Paramount Pixels can make a photo look the way your eye sees a space rather than just the way a camera lens sees a space.”

We are most pleased with the results, and look forward to sharing the images on our web site, blog, facebook pages, etc. over the upcoming months.