Waybury Inn

The Waybury Inn is often in the news...

Read the article about the Secret in Room Number 9, from Yankee Magazine.

See what Vermont Magazine had to say about our "unpretentious fine dining."

The TV Food Networks "Best of" hosted by Marc Silverstein did a piece on the Waybury in their "Best of Winter Retreats" which featured our unpretentious fine dining and the Robert Frost Suite with the secret letters.  We were in the company of Deer Valley Resort and some other dynamic resorts around the country.

The Travel Channels "Epicurious" show with host and executive chef Michael Lomonaco featured the Waybury Inn creating fine food with locally produced Otter Creek Beer and Vermont Cabot Cheddar cheese

For you Boston folks, the Boston based "Chronicle" news channel 5 did an entire show on Middlebury and more than half of it here at the Waybury Inn, watching it makes us all glad we live & work here!! 

We were voted "Innkeepers of the Year" by our peers in the Inn keeping industry and by the members of the Vermont Lodging and Restaurant Association - what an honor!

The Addison Eagle's "Readers Choice Awards" honored us with the "Best of Inns, Hotels and Bed & Breakfast" in the region

From the Burlington Free Press
"A Feast of Movies"

Published: Thursday, February 22, 2007
by Melissa Pasanen, Free Press Correspondent

This Saturday, the Waybury Inn in East Middlebury will host its seventh annual Oscar night dinner with a themed menu carefully crafted around the five best picture nominees.

"I've always been a big movie fan," says co-owner Tracey Getty, who started the event the year after she and her husband Joe Sutton bought the classic country inn, which had its own Hollywood moment as the model for the inn in the Bob Newhart show.

If you can't make it to East Middlebury for the dinner (see details below), use the menu as inspiration for nibbles at your own Oscar-watching bash on Sunday.

The six-course meal created by chef Donna Seibert starts with an appetizer reception in honor of "Babel," the multicultural movie featuring locales and characters from Morocco, America, Japan and Mexico. The spread will include Mexican-inspired lobster tostadas, chicken flautas, and corn and poblano crepes; deviled mushroom tartlets and popovers made with Vermont blue cheese from the U.S.; and Moroccan vegetables, lamb skewers, and cream cheese and almond-stuffed dates.

The Japanese theme is saved for the first course movie, "Letters from Iwo Jima," the story of the infamous WWII battle from the Japanese point of view. The kitchen will artfully cut a shrimp so that it blooms like a flower in miso soup with crispy squid and soy beans.

After a palate cleanser of pomegranate sorbet, another Moroccan touch, the entree will star "The Departed," a crime epic featuring the Boston Irish mob. Getty, who scoured the Internet for ideas and background on all the movies, says she discovered that the film was shot in New York because it was too expensive to film in Boston, "so we wanted something beefy from New York and something from the sea from Boston." The result is a pan-seared beef tenderloin with creamy blue cheese and horseradish croutons paired with a large seared sea scallop -- a little movie-inspired surf and turf.

The salad course -- crunchy iceberg lettuce paired with citrus, walnuts and a sparkling wine vinaigrette -- was created for the quirky road trip movie, "Little Miss Sunshine" and its sunny California final destination.

But saving the best for last -- Getty is quite sure that "The Queen" star Helen Mirren will win best actress -- dessert is reportedly one of Queen Elizabeth's favorites, a yellow sponge cake layered with chocolate brandy mousse.

-- If You Go: The Oscar night dinner at the Waybury Inn in East Middlebury starts with a reception at 5 p.m. (don't worry, Joan Rivers will not greet you at the door). Dinner is $65 per person (tax and tip not included) with wines matched to each course. Call (800) 348-1810 or 388-9547 for more details or reservations.