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In a disappearing Adirondack icon: an original Lodge whose nearly 140 year history includes a stagecoach inn, a post office, and a trading post. It served as a cure cottage, was an illustrious speakeasy, and a grand hotel. Today, you begin by visiting the 1920s Speakeasy with a Hidden Beer & Wine Cellar and the Adirondacks largest selection of craft import beers and sustainable wines.
We fuse an 100-mile farm-to-fork culinary focus with Old World imagination. Chef Cathy Hohmeyer's family originally built the Lake Clear Lodge in 1886, sold it, and eventually Ernest Hohmeyer's European family purchased it nearly 80 years later.
We honor the timeless practices of local ingredients, slow cooking, vegetable stocks, bone broths, essential oils, and natural herbs and spices. This is all a part of the essences that are drawn from the hands of four-generations that continue to hand-cut the stocks, stir the slow roasts, and bake artisan desserts with imaginative recipes from a fusion of the Old World and Adirondacks.
Add to your experience with our nightly workshops and demonstrations.
A family-fun 30-minute cooking demo, where everyone rolls in the dough to make their own strudel! Then you can have your dough and eat it too – as your own creation for dessert!
Learn and taste the ancient roots of today’s elixirs. From the brews of antiquity and spirits of the medieval alchemists to critical historical moments that changed alcohol and whole civilizations, sip and discover up to six tasting tonics.
The Speakeasy Dinner is available during the winter as part of our Lantern-lit Sleigh Ride & Speakeasy Dinner. Click here for more information.
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