Simplicity
The Name of our Restaurant at The Mast Farm Inn is “Simplicity”.
Why "Simplicity"? Because that is how we hope you enjoy our gourmet organic fine dining restaurant at The Mast Farm
Inn; "Slow Food In A Fast World".
What we offer is gourmet slow dining of extreme quality and
freshness; a meticulous cuisine prepared with "Mindfulness",
mindful of our mountain region's heritage, and mindful of the high quality of the
natural ingredients, with a level of care and personal service second to none.
As the world moves forward, more and more
towards ever accelerating frenzy, we think we can probably all use more
caring and
"simplicity" in our lives and therefore in our dining. We live fast, we
eat fast, it often seems we even sleep fast, and yet we sometimes enjoy life, and
people, less and less. Perhaps sometimes the “instant gratification
a-la-carte” doctrine has
something to do with that. Back To Basics; maybe sometimes less is effectively more, and small is beautiful;
“Carry me back to the days I knew then.”
What makes a restaurant “less but more” and
capable of doing "more with less"? Among other things: a
lot of thinking, hard work, talent and care but also values and
convictions, and perhaps a bit of courage; sometimes the courage to be
different. From 1880 to 1996 The Mast Farm Inn Restaurant served
wholesome, farm style meals at a country gourmet standard of excellence
in a very homelike relaxed atmosphere. For a 10 year period we converted
to the expected a-la-carte dining and did great. But, we want to embrace that past,
that heritage, tradition and history. We want a step back in time. We want a restaurant you
can consider a personal haven of relaxed comfortable simplicity. Like
eating very very well at home. Where everyone shares the same meal.
We're still doing great :-)
We don't just want to make good home made food. We want to make the
home made food your Grandmother used to make if you lived on a farm in
North Carolina when
you were 6 years old, and when she won all the blue ribbons at state
fairs, and every day you got to sample the new things. Once in twenty
times she may have dropped the ball. But 19 times it was somewhere
between “very good” and “Heavenly Choirs at Mull Of Kintyre” because it
was a simple expression of respect, caring and culinary craftsmanship
also known in these parts as "real good cookin"
Like
Michael Pollan,
Alice Waters,
Frank Stitt,
Joel Salatin and
Barbara Kingsolver, We also want to make your food like food was made before it was
trucked cross country wearing pesticides and flavoring rather than
freshness and natural flavor, from a time before life offered so many
selections and options, before we all became confused. Simpler also
means fewer wasteful choices, more natural variety, slow food, slower
dining, local produce, traditions and taking the seasons into
consideration.
Your food will be as local, fresh, natural and organic as we can make
it. In the growing season, It will use produce from our own organic
farm garden, pasture raised meats, free-range dairy and eggs, and ingredients purchased as much as possible from
local organic farmers and growers. Out of season, it will still be as
natural and organic as we can make it, may come from further away; but
minus the chemicals.
First and foremost this means a four, or more, course fixed menu, at a
fixed price; one menu a night, each night different, made every day for
a limited number of people who said they were coming to dinner; Food
like Grandmothers made it at home on Sundays before the world became what it
is today. Not all progress is forward movement, often the past contains
treasures, and back to the past is often enough a step in the right
direction. We hope you will give “Simplicity” a try.
"Simplicity is the final achievement. After
one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity
that emerges as the crowning reward of art."
~ Frédéric Chopin
Far have I traveled and much have I seen
Dark distant mountains with valleys of green.
Past painted deserts the sunsets on fire
As he carries me home to the mull of kintyre.
Sweep through the heather like deer in the glen
Carry me back to the days I knew then.
Nights when we sang like a heavenly choir
Of the life and the time of the mull of kintyre.
Smiles in the sunshine
And tears in the rain
Still take me back to where memories remain
Flickering embers growing higher and higher
As they carry me back to the mull of kintyre
~ Paul McCartney
"In character, in manner, in style, in all
things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." ~ Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
The Mast Farm Inn
2543 Broadstone Road
Historic Valle Crucis
Banner Elk, North Carolina 28604
(828) 963-5857
stay@mastfarminnc.om
www.mastfarminn.com
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