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Innkeeper's Delight: The Wakefield Inn
By Susan Laughlin Friday, June 1, 2012

Sometimes the best way to own your own restaurant is to have it at the heart of an inn. Janel Martin admits she gets bored easily. Being the owner of an inn is surely the cure. She has run the Wakefield Inn single-handedly for the past five years, most assuredly since her recent divorce.

Dining Guide

If you're looking for a place to eat in New Hampshire then check out our new online NH Dining Guide. The online only guide features more than 15 cuisine categories and is searchable by region. Besides location and contact information you'll get the inside scoop on these restaurants including cost, meals served, locally sourced menus, new restaurants and restaurants that accept reservations.

Cuisine

NH Magazine Innkeeper's Delight: The Wakefield Inn
Friday, June 1, 2012
Sometimes the best way to own your own restaurant is to have it at the heart of an inn. Janel Martin admits she gets bored …
NH Magazine "Certified Local" restaurant: Margarita Grill
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Taking the road less traveled can make all the difference The state has initiated the first annual restaurant week and it's time to hit the …
NH Magazine The Next Episode: The Chatterbox Café
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Spilling the family beans for all the world to see. Lynn Malone has had a struggle. She lost her husband to cancer five years ago …

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Best Breakfasts in NH

Rise and shine. It's time to head out for a real New Hampshire breakfast. We covered the state looking for a morning meal that offered charm, history or a fresh take on breakfast classics. Sure, your favorite corner spot may not be listed, but with so many options we had to make hard decisions and focused on places with a little something extra to offer.

NH Magazine Where to find the best breakfast in northern NH
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Check out some of our favorite breakfast places in northern New Hampshire. Offerings include: Polly's Pancake Parlor, Yesterdays, Texas Toast Eatery, Benton's Sugar Shack and …
NH Magazine Where to find the best breakfast in eastern NH
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Check out some of our favorite breakfast places in eastern New Hampshire. Offerings include: Airfield Café, Friendly Toast, Roundabout Diner, Mary Ann’s Diner and more. …
NH Magazine Where to find the best breakfast in southern NH
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Check out some of our favorite breakfast places in southern New Hampshire. Offerings include: City Room Cafe, Riverwalk Cafe & Coffee House, How's Your Onion? …
NH Magazine Where to find the best breakfast in midstate NH
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Check out some of our favorite breakfast places in midstate New Hampshire. Offerings include: Red Arrow Diner, Republic, The Egg Shell, Purple Finch Cafe and …
NH Magazine Where to find the best breakfast in western NH
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Check out some of our favorite breakfast places in western New Hampshire. Offerings include: Yankee Chef, Lou's Restaurant, The Riverhouse Cafe and more. The Riverhouse …


Local Food Lover's Guide

Where's the beef, or the chicken or the eggs? Fill your basket at a nearby farm or shop at specialty markets that are helping to support local agriculture. It's better for you and better for our state. Here are nine guides to get you started.

NH Magazine Food Lovers' Guide: Fresh Produce
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Yes, please eat your vegetables. There are more reasons than nutrition to visit businesses that sell fresh produce, - especially this time of year. Sure, …
NH Magazine Food Lovers' Guide: Farmstead Raw Milk & Cheeses
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Whey to Go! Boggy Meadow Farm - 400 acres of cornfields and pasture on the banks of the Connecticut River - has been farmed since …
NH Magazine Food Lovers' Guide: Fish
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Fish Tales: From the Docks to You At Free Range Fish & Lobster sustainability is almost as important as freshness. "We try to sell only …
NH Magazine Food Lovers' Guide: Local Markets
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
That's Special - Organic products are just one reason to shop at local markets. One of the best growing food trends in New Hampshire is …
NH Magazine Food Lover's Guide: Bread and Pasta
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
With the Grain: All the Pastabilities Valicenti Organico is a mom-and-pop operation that produces fresh pasta, ravioli and sauces in a renovated farm kitchen in …
NH Magazine Food Lovers' Guide: Local Meats
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Meat Up: These Farmers are Home on the Range Keira and Brian Farmer have a home where the buffalo roam in Warner, and their homegrown …
NH Magazine Food Lovers' Guide: Asian Specialty Markets
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
A World of Goods: Look East for Healthy Cuisine Saigon Asian Market is truly a supermarket of ethnic foods. Set on its own parking lot …
NH Magazine Food Lovers' Guide: Venison
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Raising Deer: Vegetables or Venison, It's Your Call Joseph and Patricia de Almeida are flatlanders from Massachusetts living their dream on the 140-acre Corn Hill …
NH Magazine Food Lovers' Guide: Herbs and Condiments
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
On the Side: A Cottage Industry It's hard to think herbs and New Hampshire and not conjure our state's version of the "Secret Garden" - …

Slice

NH Magazine Sweet Surrender: Cupcakes
Friday, June 1, 2012
There may be a show called "Cupcake Wars." There may be food trucks plying the streets of New York with newly invented flavors that earn …
NH Magazine Brunch
Saturday, June 2, 2018
What better way to wind down on the weekend than over a relaxed brunch with friends or family? Linger over it with anything from piles …
NH Magazine Meatballs: A Love Story
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Meatballs roll into our lives from happy places, like our grandmother's kitchen table or our family's favorite restaurant. Whether Swedish meatballs or Italian meatballs or …

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Libations

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NH Magazine This Bud's for Two: A Classic Collins Topped With Bud Light Lime
Friday, June 1, 2012
Mixologists using bud light lime instead of club soda. Budweiser has added a twist of 100 percent natural lime juice to their ever-popular Bud Light. …
NH Magazine Drink Skinny
Saturday, June 2, 2018
Drink Skinny Margarita Mix, created by Steven and Christy Cegelski in Tilton, is not to be confused with Skinnygirl Cocktails, which come with alcohol included. …
NH Magazine Snap
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Herbal appertif has local roots. Root and Snap are two herbaceous botanical liqueurs produced by Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction based in Pennsylvannia. …
NH Magazine Verde Sole Zinfandel
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
When is wine really local? Christian Vitone, of Amherst, has created a really nice Zinfandel as his first release for his new company, Vitone Family …
NH Magazine Smuttynose Winter Ale
Sunday, January 1, 2012
This winter cozy up by the fire with a blanket and a bottle of Smuttynose Winter Ale. Brewed at Smuttynose Brewing Company in Portsmouth, this …
NH Magazine Happy Birthday, Redhook
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Redhook Brewery, one of America's first craft breweries, was established in Seattle and later traveled across the country to New Hampshire's seacoast. This year marks …
Fall in the North Country: Moat Mountain
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Fall is a great time to take a road trip to the North Country. The dog days of summer are over and whether you choose …

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Quick Look

NH Magazine The District
Friday, June 1, 2012
The District - with its warm colored walls, pendant lamps, large-format paintings and welcoming bar - just earned a spot on my "Favorites List" for …
NH Magazine Taylor Brothers Sugar House and Creamery
Sunday, April 1, 2012
At the Taylor Brothers Sugarhouse and Creamery in Meriden, Holsteins and Shorthorn peer out from picturesque red barns on a property lined with apple trees. …
NH Magazine The Farm Bar and Grille
Thursday, March 1, 2012
A new restaurant is trying to make a go of it in the former Wings Your Way building on the corner of Elm and Bridge …

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Recipes

NH Magazine Strawberries Romanoff
Friday, June 1, 2012
Yields six servings 1 1/2 pounds strawberries, hulled and sliced 1 cup orange juice 2 tablespoon sugar 1/2 cup heavy cream, cold 1 pint vanilla …
NH Magazine Gluten-Free Chocolate Raspberry Fudge Cake
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
If you have decided to give wheat, rye and barley the heave-ho to live a gluten-free life, there are delicious alternatives awaiting you. TV Chef …
NH Magazine Pan Roasted Wild Salmon
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Braised lentils and a sweet and sour salad make the perfect complement to wild Alaskan salmon appearing soon in fish markets. Serves four Salmon 4 …

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Field Notes

NH Magazine Hickory Nut Farm
Friday, June 1, 2012
When Phil and Donna-Lee Woods retired in 2000, little did they know retirement would bring a new and very busy career. They bought their farm …
NH Magazine Inn to Inn Spring Herb Tour
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Visit an inn, take home an herb garden. Savor the season at the 4th Annual Inn to Inn Spring Herb Tour. On June 2-3 join …
NH Magazine Adam's Seafood & Fish Market
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Rest assured, the fish at this Keene market is fresh. Fish - four letters that together demand freshness. At Adam's Fish Market in Keene you …

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Features

NH Magazine Hot New NH Restaurants
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
It's been another tough year for the economy all round but - in spite of dismal economic forecasts - chefs and restaurateurs continue to open …
NH Magazine Food Lovers' Guide: Fish
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Fish Tales: From the Docks to You At Free Range Fish & Lobster sustainability is almost as important as freshness. "We try to sell only …
NH Magazine Hot New Restaurants
Monday, November 1, 2010
It's been another tough year for our local restaurant industry with several fine dining restaurants closing and everyone else tightening ship. New concepts are being …
NH Magazine A Rhapsody In Brew
Friday, October 1, 2010
Love will make people do remarkable things. That may account for the devotion that goes into the making of great craft beers. It also helps …
NH Magazine The Grass is Greener
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Eating grass is what cows have always done — that is, until farmers started feeding them mostly corn after WW II. But now the age-old …
NH Magazine Chocolate Challenge 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Hot chocolate. No, not the stuff in the mug with marshmallows, but delectable chocolate desserts with a touch of chile pepper. We challenged four locally …
NH Magazine Hottest New Restaurants
Sunday, November 1, 2009
If it takes a match to set a fire under you, the latest round of new restaurants in the state are heating up their efforts …
NH Magazine Hot New Restaurants 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
The table is set. The door is open.Act One is about to begin.In spite of the miserable economy, a good number of brave chefs are …
NH Magazine Four Wines - Four Chefs
Thursday, January 1, 2009
We started with the wine — great wine from California that will be part of the Winter Wine Spectacular in Manchester on January 29. Each …
NH Magazine Chocolate Challenge 2009
Sunday, February 1, 2009
We asked two bakery cafés to present us with a chocolate dessert that was beautiful, wonderfully chocolate and incorporated a “secret” ingredient of ginger.We impaneled …

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