November Newsletter: Your Gateway To Litchfield County
November Notes
It's with an immense sense of pride (and joy) that we welcome guests to Litchfield County and get to be the ones to suggest local cultural offerings and abundant natural beauty a few minutes from our front porch. Come for our amenities (Wildsmith bath products, consierge service, valet, first-in-class dining, a divine wellness facility in Belden bathhouse with treatments and therapies galor), and let us gently guide you to the glorious preserves past our doorstep.
Open Daily For Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
A serene place to start the day, meet a friend for a lovely lunch or dine sumptuously at dinner, Belden is open to the public, with reservations strongly suggested. Current dinner entrees include Octopus with Honeynut Squash & Smoked Yogurt; Cod with Parsnip, & Sea Urchin; and Braised Short Rib with Sunchoke & Persimmon.
THANKSGIVING
We still have rooms for your Litchfield County Thanksgiving! Chef Tyler Heckman will cook a bountiful prix fixe Thanksgiving feast with locally sourced ingredients, such as Chicory salad with quince & walnuts; Pumpkin seed bisque with honeycrisp apple; Roast local turkey, gravy with roasted squash with brown butter & hazelnuts or Braised short rib with persimmon & beef jus; and sides of Whipped potatoes, Stuffing, Cranberry sauce and Runner bean casserole; with Sweet potato vadouvan pie for dessert.
Belden bathhouse beckons with steam, sauna, Ofuro tub for hydrotherapies, NOHRD gym equipment, private Pilates and personal training. Wildsmith wellness treatments, such as Radical Botany Facials, massages and scrubs, use circadian rhythms, helping you to adjust your internal clock to the changing seasons.
“It was like that hush of spirit which we feel amid the bright, mild woods of autumn, when the bright hectic flush is on the trees, and the last lingering flowers by the brook; and we joy in it all the more, because we know that soon it will all pass away."
Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Litchfield resident.
Embrace festive energy with a Printing Workshop at Hollister House Garden (11/15). Recenter your intentions with Dan Harris, the renowned journalist, author and mindfulness advocate, for an engaging evening devoted to meditation.
Chef Tyler Heckman received a fantastic restaurant review in Litchfield Magazine by Charles Dubow for his seafood-centric menu.
And Belden was featured in a lovely piece in Quest Magazine by Brooke Kelley Murray. "In the heart of the Litchfield Hills, Belden House & Mews ushers a new chapter of style into one of New England's most historic towns."