A cup of Spicy Virginian Peanut Soup (not-to-be-missed), followed by gourmet salads and crisp greens, then grilled salmon, maybe a little gnocchi and thick slices of beef. To finish? Your choice from a dessert table brimming with decadent treats. (Think chocolate mousse bombs and vanilla panna cotta.) Now that’s mmm mmm good.
The lunch buffet at the Boar’s Head Inn has quite the following. When we stopped by this week, we noticed a room full of loyal clientele. The setting alone is delightful. A recipient of the AAA Four Diamond award, the Old Mill Room is graced with timbers dating from 1834. Having survived burning despite orders from both Generals Grand and Custer during the Civil War, the gristmill was relocated from its spot on the Hardware River– now a preserved, and celebrated, “Virginia artifact.”
Remarkably genteel establishment. As a visitor from out of town, my sister treated me to a fantastic luncheon experience at the Boar’s Head Inn. You know a place is wonderful when it is time to leave and you just don’t want to! Lovely summertime dining fare with a lakeview, weeping wilows bending in the breeze. Perfect spicy peanut soup and fresh, crisp, light, satisfying salads with a choice of dressings.
Let us not forget a most perfect selection of dainty artistic desserts such as the finger size eclairs and lovely tiramisu. I was most fortunate! The bread pudding had just been brought from the kitchen to the dining room dessert area. What s choice. A fairy sized fruit tart or a taste of bread putting? My sister insisted I try the fairy fruit tart; but alas, I was drawn to the bread pussing! As you’ll might agree, why not a taste of each? The tart was chock filled with in season local fresh fruit, beautifully arranged ; arranged within a lovely fluted whole wheat pastry yummy tart shell; this fairy fruit tart is hugely refreshing, please.don’t be fooled by it’s small size! I couldn’t resist : the bread pudding, and I’m glad I didn’t. It was to die for (all in caps, please). Just sweet enough, not cloyingly sweet with barely but exactly the correct amount, of nutmeg! The texture was simply smooth and light.. the very best bread pudding I’ve every had in multiple decades! And when I opened the rounded helmet protecting the bread pudding, I was most pleasantly surprised to see noone had yet helped himself/herself to it.
I hope everyone who visits Charlottesville will experience the joy of dining at the Boar’s Head Inn!
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