Our restaurant has been designed to ensure that you enjoy your meal while looking out over the mountains, gardens, children's playground, stable, streams and ponds. You may also choose to be served at the bar and continue mingling with friends or process your emails at the multiple computers there. Attentive and friendly waitresses, fireplaces, classical music, wood paneled walls and original works of art, all add to the congenial atmosphere.
Chefs will cater to your tastes and dietary needs and make the most of fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs from our organic garden and surrounding agricultural area.
We pride ourselves, on fresh, imaginative food prepared with quality and locally sourced ingredients. The salad bar has over 15 fresh ingredients, mostly organically grown. Box lunches, with sandwiches prepared any way you want, with our homemade whole grain or white bread, fresh juices and fruit, are recommended for your hikes in our 400 hectare cloud forest resort within two parks.
To ensure an early start for your hikes or birding tours, breakfast starts at 6:30 AM. Continental breakfast is served buffet style and includes cut fresh fruit (melon, watermelon, gourmet bananas, papayas, pineapples), fresh orange juice or fresh fruit shakes (maracuyas, guanabanas 'sour sop', strawberries, blackberries, etc.), fresh homemade bread, butter, cheese, jam, jellies, granola, varied cereals, soy and regular milk, hot oatmeal, raisins, honey, coffee and tea. American breakfast is also served with such amenities as omelettes, scrambled or fried eggs, pancakes, french toast, etc. Hot chocolate or cappuccinos served anytime throughout the day or night.
Regarding meals for cabin residents, guests may bring their own food and cook themselves in the equipped kitchens, have meals catered and brought to their doorstep, have a cook prepare meals in their own cabin kitchens, or walk (25 minutes) /drive (20 minutes) to the hotel restaurant. We can arrange for a pick-up at your cabin and drive you to the lodge at any time.
If you choose to prepare meals in the your cabin, we can provide food items from our restaurant's stock, at cost plus 20%. Our stock includes vegetables, lettuces, fruits, fish, chicken, cold cuts, cheeses, soy milk, spices, fresh herbs, regular and soy milk, homemade bread and pastries, granolas, cold cereals, wine, beer, juices, etc. We will also be happy to drive you to a nearby supermarket or you may purchase snacks such as granola bars, canned goods, etc., from our store at the reception desk.
Regarding the cook's service at the cabins, here is how this works: she buys food items, from our restaurant or supermarket, we drive the cook to your cabin where she cooks, serves and cleans the dishes and cookware. We later pick her up to take her back to her home. She arrives about an hour, before you wish your meal to be served, and cooks in your cabin. The cost of a cook: $35.00 per meal plus the cost of ingredients. Cabins are always stocked with basic items such as salt, pepper, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, sugar, fresh ground coffee, tea bags. There are non electric coffee makers, tea kettles and orange juicers and from our kitchen we provide oranges, among other fresh fruit at market prices.
