Newport RI recap
Well I got back from my quick weekend get away on Monday and it has taken me until Thurs night to tell you about it. Very nice little trip, pretty much what I always envisioned New England to look like. I have been to Boston before though. No warm weather but no snow either. We stayed at the Castle Hill Inn http://www.castlehillinn.com/ and it was very nice, we had one of the little rooms in a cottage overlooking the water small but really nice and it had everything we needed. We had tea at the main hotel on Sat afternoon and also dinner Sat night. Breakfast was included but we got up too late on Sunday morning and we left at 4:45 Mon morning to catch our flight. Dinner was really tasty we had the 5 course tasting menu this is what I remember the first course was a soup poured around duck confit with a crispy piece of pancetta on top, I loved the soup but passed on the duck the dh only ate half of my duck it was so rich, the next course was 2 grilled scallops on top of something, another was toasted brioche with foie gras and a cherry spread, I had cod for my main course and then we split a cheese course and then a chocolate dessert. We split a bottle of Saviennieres which was very tasty. Our other meals were really nice also, lots of seafood which I love, I had oysters twice. Yum - I had thought they might be cheaper there being close to the source but no so not the case but they were very tasty, they are so low in calories too it is nice to splurge on something that is totally not off the healthy eating plan. I had lobster also and a crab salad.