Blue Boar Inn & Restaurant

I love weekend getaways!  There's nothing like a little time away to escape the humdrums and help you rejuvenate. Sometimes you just need to slow down and enjoy life.  Last week my husband and I discovered a fabulous place for a European adventure at the beautiful Blue Boar Inn & Restaurant in the heart of Midway, Utah.  

The Blue Boar Inn is an old-world European, chateau-style bed and breakfast with 12 elegant rooms that are named for famous literary figures.  Each marvelous room contains a fireplace, jetted tub, flowers, a fruit and cheese plate, and a huge comfy European style pillow top bed.  The inn itself is a masterpiece of turrets, wrought iron balconies, and hand-carved wood elegance.  As you come into the lobby you glimpse the warm, candlelit tables of the elegant Four Diamond restaurant which is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  The absolute delight of this romantic inn and restaurant are in the details.  They offer a turn down service complete with a single red rose, poetry, and chocolates on your pillows, fluffy white bathrobes, and extra delicacies at dinner, compliments of the chef. 

We stayed in the Elizabeth Barret/Robert Browning Suite complete with hand woven English floral rugs and a private balcony facing the Wasatch Mountains.  Usually the room runs for $295 a night, but because of a special Facebook deal that the inn and restaurant are running right now, we were able to stay in the room for $237.  This room rate included a fabulous 3 course dinner in the acclaimed restaurant, as well as a yummy complimentary breakfast. The room/dinner special goes from now until November 22nd and so if you can take advantage of this special, it's well worth it!

The Blue Boar Inn has an amazing restaurant with an equally amazing chef.  The food is scrumptious!  The restaurant has a very diverse menu with everything from fondue, to duck, to handmade schnitzel, and wild boar.  I ordered the fillet mignon with crab cake and tarragon hollandaise which was fabulous, along with a blue boar salad.  My husband was a little more adventurous and ordered the wild boar tenderloin with goat cheese and roasted beet puree along with a smoked salmon salad that was absolutely divine.  For desert we shared crème brulee and some amazingly rich, double-chocolate cake.  The service was exceptional.  Everything adorning the walls of the restaurant had a story, and our server, Kathy, was wonderful at relating many interesting tidbits.  Boar-shaped chocolates at the end of our awesome dining experience completed the perfect meal.  

Breakfast in the dining room was just as fantastic with choices like: made to order, Mediterranean omelets, smoked salmon Benedict, steak and eggs, and cinnamon swirl brioche French toast, among others.  The fresh squeezed orange juice was almost as luscious as the hot chocolate with whipped cream.  You definitely can't leave without having some!   Check-out isn't until noon and so there is even time for a nap after breakfast.

I have a lot of high praise for this amazing, colorful, storied, European-like chateau and so if you can get away for a romantic night, this is definitely a bed and breakfast worth repeating time and time again.  If you can't make a reservation before November 22, the Blue Boar Inn & Restaurant runs their marvelous special sometime again in March and April.  So keep checking their Facebook page.  We all need an adventure like this at least a couple times a year, don't we?  I know I can't wait to go back again!