Spillian Food and Drink.
Flavors from the mountains. Flavors from our guests.
What is the food that has meaning to you?
Flavors From The Mountains
A Sense of Place
We create meals that capture both the energy and essence of Spillian and the terroir of these mountains. And while it’s deeply grounded in place, our cuisine is like jazz, with elegantly inventive flavor profiles inspired by seasonal ingredients.
We are proud to be working with the Inn at Kirkside’s Catskills Food and Farm Connection program, bringing together tan extraordinary group of farmers in the Catskills, some new, some working fourth generation farms; and the hospitality community in innovative ways to make farm to table foods a powerful reality for the region. Together, we are exploring fields and farm stands to see what is peaking, and inspire both our chefs and our guests to understand the beauty and meaning of food that springs from the ground around us. We do all of our baking in-house, from Geno’s baguettes, from co-founder Leigh’s dad’s recipe, to bagels that rival any Brooklyn bakery, apple turnovers in hand-crafted, old-school folded puffed pastry, and our vegan and gluten free seed crisps crackers. (That we’re working on taking to market!)
In the winter, we host workshops and special pop-up events at the Spillian Imaginarium, open to the public, with feasts that are quite magnificent. Menus emerge from what has caught our attention – a flavor, a color, an idea , the theme of the gathering – and we gather around the grand table at Spillian to savor food and salon-worthy conversation. We’ve used this approach to food to inform how we offer meals for weddings.
Flavors From Our Guests
What is the food that has meaning to you?
We believe that food sits at the heart of both the ritual and celebration of any extraordinary gathering. For weddings, we invite couples to imagine a menu grounded in the food that has meaning to you. We are enchanted by how people answer this question: sometimes it’s family recipes, or cultural reflections and combinations; sometimes it’s meals that they’ve made together or discovered during their travels. And sometimes it’s food that they simply love, whether casual or grand.
We work together with you to create truly custom menus for rehearsal dinners, wedding dinners, breakfasts, brunches, and even late night snacks. About four months before your arrival, we invite you to come for a tasting of the wedding dinner menu, and our chef is on hand to walk through every dish with you, ensuring that it exactly what you’ve been dreaming. We hear from couples and their guests that they’re still talking about the food at Spillian years after the wedding. Which is as it should be!
Whatever you’re dreaming, we can make happen. From full-on vegetarian or vegan to barbecues and pig roasts, we are delighted to explore how flavor can shape your wedding.
Inventive Drink
Local, hand-crafted, and infinitely creative.
Our bar is stocked with a rich array of wines, beers, and spirits. We feature award-winning beers from our friends at Upward Brewing Company over the mountain in Livingston Manor, as well as spirits from local distilleries. Our Co-Founder Mark Somerfield is a UC Davis-trained oenologist and a brilliant mixologist, and is delighted to imagine special tastes and signature drinks with you, both cocktails and cocktails.
One of the favorite traditions that has emerged at Spillian is our mixology contest. Guests are presented with a variety of local spirits, mixers, garnishes, and other toys to invent their own favorite drink, name, and story about it to reflect the region, the event, or the season. Winners are added to our array of signature drink offerings, such as the Catskills Trout Tale: a dollop of local maple syrup and mint from our garden, muddled and then mixed with local vodka and seltzer water. (Part of the delight of this drink is that it looks like a mountain stream!) Ask us about offering a mixology contest as part of your wedding weekend here.
And in the non-alcoholic world, we also offer our own Cat’s Love Tea: a blend of mint, rose petals, elderberries, sumac, and hawthorn that echo with flavors native to the Catskills. We invented it with a couple who wove a high tea into their celebrations, and it’s become a real hit!
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