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It’s Springtime in February at Boreas B&B in Long Beach, Washington!

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

I'm trying a new recipe--Pineapple Toasted Macadamia Bundt Cake!

The mini-daffodils are blooming and the banners flying on a sunny day!

The thermometers have been reading in the 70’s in the sun and in the 60’s in the shade and we are ever so grateful to celebrate this precious sunshine in our mild winter season.  If we say this too loudly, winter will return, as gentle as it has been this season. So shhhhhh!  It has snowed in March the last two years;  just when we thought we had sailed through winter into springtime. Long Beach, Washington weather is tough to predict–and always a surprise–but thinking back the 15 seasons we’ve been here, this isn’t all that unusual for February!

I baked a Pineapple Toasted Macadamia Nut coffee cake for one of the pastry courses for our guests for tomorrow’s breakfast.  Fine breakfast cuisine is our tradition at Boreas Inn and we hope that we rank with the best in the west at our romantic beach getaway in Long Beach, Washington!  I will post the recipe on our website when I get a chance.

The mini-daffodils are so bright and hopeful on the front deck of the inn and the banners are bright against our residence.  I have been fighting the urge to buy more spring plants–but know if I do, we will have a freeze.  Guests are walking on the beach, exploring the lighthouses and dining at The Depot, Pelicano Restaurant and Jimella’s tonight for dinner.  The best dining in the state of Washington is right here on the Peninsula. Lucky us!

The Dunes Suite awaits you!

We have rooms available for next weekend, the 26th and 27th of February–and even the Dunes Suite awaits your escape to the beach.   The gray whales are cruising by and the North Head Lighthouse and the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center is a great place for spotting them!  On occasion, they approach the jetty and scrape off their barnacles.  Next weekend at the World Kite Museum, the Asian New Year Celebration continues with the spectacular kites of Malaysia and Singapore.  The Kite Museum has the largest private collection of kites in the entire world and is well worth a visit–walking distance from Boreas!

So come dine at the source, sleep in the lap of luxury and play at the prettiest beach in the Northwest.  Make each day a cause for celebration and we will be your co-conspirators in planning a quick getaway to Long Beach!

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Boreas Inn named in Four Categories in the 2010 “Best of the Discovery Coast”!

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

News flash! The Chinook Observer just released their reader’s survey results for the 2010 “Best of the Discovery Coast” and Boreas Inn scored in four categories! We were named “Coziest Bed and Breakfast” and “Most Romantic Get-away” and placed second for “Best Coffee” and third for “Best Omelette”. Wow! Kudos to Cafe Mam from Eugene, our organic, shade-grown, free-trade coffee with our own Boreas Blend– French, Italian and Espresso. We couldn’t be more pleased! We still have a couple of rooms open for our New Years’ Day Celebration with Crab Cakes and Champagne! Come to the beach! (And of course, we will be watching our Ducks win the Rose Bowl!)

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Rooms with a View for the Holidays!

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

We’re open for Christmas and even cooking prime rib for our guests!  We still have rooms open on Christmas and the weather is sunny! None of our favorite restaurants are open for Christmas Day, so we’re inviting “orphans” and our guests to a prime rib potluck.   Christmas Eve dinner is royally celebrated at our best dinner houses so you will have a great evening out.  Then you can come home to the Inn, so pretty with decorations from our annual guest Holiday Decorating Party.  New Years’ Day Crab Cake and Champagne Brunch is included, of course, if you spend a couple of nights over New Years’ with us.    Here’s our January 1, 2010 Menu! Reserve now!

Boreas Inn’s 2010  New Years’ Day Crab Cake and Champagne Brunch

Boreas Inn's 2009 Five-Course New Years' Day Brunch

Boreas Inn's 2009 Five-Course New Years' Day Brunch

MENU

STARTERS

Chilled fruit soup with five berries and soft cream

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Boreas Famous Butterscotch Sticky Buns

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Apricot Tarts with a delicate Cream Cheese and Butter Crust

Champagne

Orange Juice

Coffee and tea

ENTREES

Fresh Dungeness Crab Cakes with Romesco

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Scrambled Eggs with Cream Cheese & Smoked Salmon

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Wild Porcini Mushroom and Sausage Gravy

Served over Fresh Chive Butter Biscuits

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Be a Hero in your Household!

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Make a date with your sweetheart to come to the beach this weekend! We have openings all weekends and especially for our 8th Annual Wild Mushroom Celebration Weekend October 30-Nov.1.  Check out our website, www.boreasinn.com/packages for details and availability for this  great event.  We are waiving our two night weekend minimum for Water Music Festival, which starts tonight. We have a couple of rooms open and it promises to be a stormy, but warm weekend!  We’re offering our Walk-in Special rate of $150 for this weekend (October 16,17) and next weekend (October 23,24) welcoming one night stays for this Saturday night, October 17th–we have two rooms open!

Start your day with a three-course brunch at Boreas!

Start your day with a three-course brunch at Boreas!

Come visit, we’re a bit lonely!

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Boreas Inn’s 8th Annual Wild Mushroom Celebration

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Veronica Williams brought us the most exquisite, gigantic lobster we've seen!

Veronica Williams brought us the most exquisite, gigantic lobster we've seen!

Boreas Inn’s 8TH Annual Wild Mushroom Celebration!

This year’s Wild Mushroom Celebration is October 30th-November 1st. The cost includes a two-night weekend stay with our amazing breakfasts and A 3-course Wild Mushroom and Washington Wine Dinner at The Depot.

The DEPOT Restaurant

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Boreas Bed and Breakfast

Wild Mushroom Celebration Wine Dinner

Saturday, October 31, 2009 6:00 PM

Meet & Greet

Italian Zardetto Preseco

First Course

Sherried Chanterelle Mushrooms & Goat Cheese Crostini

Arcane Pinot Gris, Oregon

Second Course

Pan Seared King Salmon on

Wild Mushroom Risotto topped with Chanterelle Mushroom Cream

Mt. Baker Viognier, Washington

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Chargrilled 6 oz Filet Mignon on

Wild Mushroom Risotto with Chanterelle Mushroom Cream

Capstone Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon, Washington

Third Course

Chocolate Truffle Truffled Tart with

Truffle Honey Whip Cream

Ross Andrew, Syrah, Washington

Our Sunday morning breakfast will be our annual Wild Mushroom Breakfast featuring Veronica Williams, our professional forager, as guest hostess and discussion leader. We will add two extra courses onto the Sunday breakfast to make it even more decadent! As an add-on special, Veronica will take you foraging on Saturday for wild mushrooms for an additional $50 per person. The cost of the basic package is $550 plus tax per couple. $590 plus tax for The Dunes Suite.  Add a massage…book now for this special event!

“Gorgeous,spacious rooms with comfy beds and luxurious bathrooms.” SF Chronicle, July 2006.
THIS SPECIAL IS GOOD FOR NEW RESERVATIONS ONLY AND PLEASE MENTION THE SPECIAL WHEN YOU CALL OR MAKE AN ONLINE REQUEST. This offer cannot be combined with the use of gift certificates.  A three-night minimum applies and offer cannot be combined with any other specials. Applicable only to Boreas Inn.

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Boreas Inn named 2009 “Top 5 B&B” in KING 5 TV’s “Northwest Best Escapes”

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Thank you for picking Boreas Inn on KING 5 TV’s Northwest Best Escapes as one of the “Top 5″ Bed and Breakfasts!  We are thrilled to be among the winning group and know that without our guests’ wonderful reviews and votes, that we would not be named with such worthy inns.  This is a great reward and knowing that we are appreciated is truly the best thanks we could have, other than a fully occupied inn!  Come visit and help us celebrate being a Long Beach, Washington Best Escape!   Adding to the KING 5 “Northwest Best Escapes” awards, Long Beach was voted “BEST BEACH” and the Boardwalk in Long Beach was voted “Best Place to Kiss”. The North Head Lighthouse was voted #2 “Best Lighthouse” and the Cape Disappointment Lighthouse was voted #3 “Best Lighthouse”.    So in summary, Boreas is on the Best Beach and five blocks from the “Best Place to Kiss” and 10 minutes from two of the best lighthouses!  How cool is that?  Thank you to KING 5!

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Vote for Boreas Inn on KING 5 Best of the Northwest !

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

We have been honored to be nominated for King 5’s Best of The Northwest in the Bed and Breakfast Category.  As one of our many friends and family members, we know you share our excitement about this nomination!  Now let’s Rock The Vote! Bill and I would be grateful if you could take a few moments out of your busy lives, remember the respite that is Boreas, and follow the attached link to our photo and name and give us a “yea” vote!

Most of you have friends and family who know Boreas Inn.  I’m sending this letter out to only a few of you.  It would be so appreciated, if you are so inclined, if you would forward this email to your friends and family who know us. You are all #1  with us, let’s make Boreas #1 with King 5!  Here’s the link:

(Scroll down until you see our image and name–it wanders around the two pages of nominated inns.  Just press the button and your vote is in!!)

If you haven’t come to visit recently, please come see us!  Business has been down as you might expect, and we would love to welcome you back!  If this email is a duplicate, please excuse me!     Please look forward to a newsletter in the next month or so!

Bill and I send our thanks and our very best to you!  Write us if you haven’t been in touch!

Warm regards from Susie and Bill

Oceanside view of Boreas Inn

Oceanside view of Boreas Inn

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Northern Departure to Play Long Beach Bluegrass Festival, March 27-29

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

These guys can play!

Northern Departure,  a new bluegrass band based out of Seattle, is composed of four extremely talented young men who play with their hearts.  Their intricate banjo, guitar and fiddle music will make you HAPPY.  It’s hard to believe they haven’t played together for years!   I listened to their music on YouTube and was blown away by their talent.  So come stay at Boreas Inn March 27, 28, 29th and attend the 5th annual Long Beach Blue Grass Festival.  Along with Northern Departure, Charlie Sizemore, Lee Highway, the Cascade Mountain Boys, Old Circle, Ferm Hill, Runway Train and a couple of other banjo picking, fiddling, singing, guitar playing geniuses will be lining up to entertain you.  There will be 20 45- minute sets, workshops, jams and a band scramble.  Sunday morning is all gospel. The entire festival is within a mile of the Inn, so if you play or sing, bring your voice, your instrument and your sweetheart and have a ball.  We will take care of making your dinner reservations!  This will be a weekend to remember–you will forget your troubles and tap your toes until they hurt.  Eat the finest breakfast around after you snuggle down and sleep in your lofty featherbed at Boreas Inn.  This event is just one of many festivals on the Long Beach Washington Peninsula.  There is always something happening here!  Reserve early!!  Mention this blog and you will receive $25 per night discount on a two night minimum stay!

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“Mug Shot” Boreas Inn’s new Deneen Pottery Mugs!

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

For years we had famous hand-thrown Deneen Mugs (Cloth & Clay was the original company name).  We recently decided to re-design the mugs with our logo instead of the pen and ink rendition of the inn, and in working with the talented staff at Deneen Pottery, we came up with new mugs! They are simply gorgeous.  We picked two different color combinations: dark blue with hunter white marbling and dark blue with pale blue/white marbling.  We have them on sale for $17.95 per mug or $34 for two.  Deneen Pottery ’s head honcho, Niles Deneen, is a joy to work with.  We are so tickled with the three dimensional depth of the logo and the photo’s I took do not do the work justice.  Being hand-thrown, these mugs are painstakingly hand-crafted.  A rarity in today’s outsourced world!  If you’d like a mug, we can send them to you! (We have to add $8.00 for shipping plus tax.)  Please let us know if you’d like one or two.  They are collectible.  We may soon be having a special with a free mug for a two night stay!  So watch for that!  Check out my “Mug Shot”!

Our Brand New Logo Mugs

Our Brand New Logo Mugs

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World Kite Museum Event “China Then & Now” February 7th & 8th

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

World Kite Museum—
Originally uploaded by Bee Ah See

This weekend promises to be another fine World Kite Museum event in Long Beach, Washington! To honor Chinese New Year,  “China Then and Now” is a celebration taking place on February 7th and 8th from 10 am-4 pm at the World Kite Museum, right down the street from Boreas Inn. There will be exhibits including Chinese kites, puppets, stamps, hand painted silk and bamboo kites and photographs. You will be able to participate in cultural and artistic events. There will be Mah Jong games with demonstrations and “Make it and Take It” Projects with some of our finest local artists. You can learn to make Asian Greeting Cards with Annie Unwin, discover Sumic Painting with Chris Goodwin and the Kite Museum staff and volunteers will guide you in Chinese lantern making, Chinese knotting and Red Paper Cutting. So if you would like to see, experience and even take home a project that you have made, this event promises to be not only visually beautiful, but a fun and interesting experience in making your own souvenirs! It’s been warm and beautiful at the beach, so come experience a unique mid-winter weekend in Long Beach. We have a couple of openings at the inn and will set up your dinners at our local favorite spots. This will be a glorious weekend! (There is also a clam dig this weekend!)


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