Harbor House Inn

Elk, US

To dine at Harbor House is to imbue a culinary snapshot of place and time. Seemingly floating over the Pacific, on the dramatic westerly reaches of Mendocino National Forest – north of Sacramento – it’s anchored by the key tenants of refined farm-to-fork dining and sustainability. On the pass is Matthew Kammerer, whose confident, contemporary dishes reflect the wild seascape and forested mountain surrounds of the lodge-like inn – all local redwood, floor-to-ceiling glass, cosy corners and 11 suites and cottages. Up his sleeve is an arsenal of foraged and homegrown ingredients from a kitchen garden often blanketed in a coastal fog that permeates herbs and heritage vegetables with unique salinity. It all plays out over a terroir-led tasting menu of eight or 12 courses with uses of fire, steam and smoke enhancing the region's unique coastal flavours – manifested in the likes of black code smoked over bay laurel, Douglas fir and campfire butter, and squab with farm thinnings and ground cherry.

Key Information

• Tasting menu from $325
• Lunch and dinner: Thurs – Mon
• +1 707 877 3203
• Visit Harbor House Inn's Website

Location

5600 South Highway 1, Elk, California, CA 95432