Greetings from Piseco Paradise

Our seasonal restaurant serves Inn guests and the general public from Memorial Day through Columbus Day weekends. Breakfast is available seven days a week from 8:00 am. Reservations are suggested (518-548-5500) and required for parties of six or more.

The 2011 season will include Goodness to Go lunch options, dinner service on selected nights, and a Sunday afternoon picnic in July and August featuring grill to order specialities. Visit the contact us section if you'd like more information.

Check out our Guest Book page to see what folks have said about our delicious offerings.

We believe that food brings people together and nourishment happens on many levels. Here at the Irondequoit Inn we have established a pantry, preparation practices and a menu that reflects a rich blend of tradition and innovation. We cook the way our grandmothers did, using ingredients that they would recognize and we take the time to fix/serve meals with careful, loving hands.

All our meals are cooked to order and made from the best ingredients we can locate as locally as possible. Many of our ingredients are organic, pesticide, hormone and antibiotic free. We are proud to feature eggs and meat from local farmers. Most of our preservative-free, artisan bread is made in Herkimer County by the Heidelberg Baking Company. We even grow some of our produce here at the Inn.

We are committed to serving meals that can accommodate vegetarian and gluten-free eaters. Many of us have become accustomed to a diet that has high salt and sugar with too many refined carbohydrates: you won't find that here. Let us acquaint with or help you recollect a different and healthier way. We believe you'll taste home-style goodness and want to share a meal with us again.

Sap Bush Hollow is a multi-generation family farm located in beautiful Schoharie County. We believe in stewarding our land as sustainably as possible, in order to ensure that it will continue to produce for many generations to come. All our livestock are raised on grass during the growing season, and are fed hay or antibiotic/hormone/animal by-product free grain, as their diets require. Jim Hayes, the farm manager is a retired professor of animal science from SUNY Cobleskill. Jim holds a Ph.D. in reproductive physiology and animal science and serves on numerous sustainable agriculture committees and organizations throughout the state and country. Adele Hayes manages the overall marketing and business operations on the farm. Adele is the former director of Schoharie County Planning and Development and the Schoharie County Industrial Development agency. She swears that life got a whole lot nicer once she decided to quit her day job and sell chickens for a living. Shannon Hayes, Jim and Adele's daughter, writes and works with her family on the farm. Shannon holds a Ph.D. in sustainable agriculture and community development from Cornell. Shannon's writing has appeared in Adirondack Life, Yankee, Graze, and Northeast Public Radio, and she is the author of three books: The Grass-fed Gourmet; The Farmer and The Grill and Radical Homemakers. Bob Hooper, the poor sucker, married into this crazy situation. In addition to chicken plucking, Bob does all the creative work for the farm - he constructs displays, does our artwork, edits our writing.

At Winters Grass Farm in Holland Patent we believe that the way a person farms affect s not only the farmer, but also the land, the community, and the people who buy from him. In essence, it affects many people. Our vision is to have a positive effect on the community as a whole. It is our goal to provide our customers with real food that is healthy, nutritious, and most importantly, food that tastes great. We do not use antibiotics or growth hormones, but prefer to implement methods that ensure that our animals are healthy and have strong immune systems. All of our systems are pasture based. We want the animals outside where they can get plenty of exercise, sunshine, and fresh air, and eat what they are designed to eat. We take pride in producing the highest quality meat that you will find in New York State.