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Find Your Inner Sous Chef!

Find Your Inner Sous Chef!

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Find Your Inner Sous Chef!
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Become Sous Chef for a Night in the Virginia Wine Country!

3 days | 2 nights
Pricing: $1,796 (For Two People, Double Occupancy)
Availability: Year-Round Based on Your Travel Dates

Package includes:

  • 2 Nights, The Lafayette Inn - Deluxe Guestroom For Two (Dbl Occ)
  • Country Inn Breakfast Each Morning
  • Chef’s Tasting Adventure with Wine Pairing
  • Hands-On Cooking Class with the Chef
  • Sous Chef For A Night!
  • Innkeeper-In-Residence Mini-Workshop
  • Self-Guided Wine Tour
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Cooking Among the Blue Ridge Foothills

Find Your Inner Sous Chef Among the Beautiful Blue Ridge Foothills!
Have you ever dreamed of putting on a chef’s jacket and masterfully creating several delicious and impressive meals...to the appreciation and rave reviews of your guests?  Here’s your chance to make your dreams a reality under the tutelage of Chef Alan as he shares his secrets at this award-winning Inn near Charlottesville, Virginia. You’ll spend lots of private time in the kitchen learning the tricks of the trade in preparation of your “Big Night” as you become his Sous Chef for the evening. The next day, pinching yourself to make sure it wasn’t a dream, head off with your special lunch into Virginia Wine Country on a self-guided tour all mapped out by your hosts.

 

The Lafayette Inn

The Lafayette Inn - Deluxe Guestroom For Two (Dbl Occ) map

Lovely comfortable oversized room in the main building, originally part of the 1840 ballroom, furnished with antiques, featuring a Queen sized Four-Poster bed. There is a gas fireplace, a/c and free wireless. A historic landmark, having gone through many previous “lives” as everything from a stage coach stop to a hospital, there has been much change here, before becoming an Inn. You’ll enjoy wonderful linens and oversized towels along with locally produced soaps and shampoos. Great food, comfortable accommodations and history at it’s best!
Country Inn Breakfast Each Morning

Country Inn Breakfast Each Morning

You will enter the Tavern in the morning, and discover it has been transformed into a lovely café with delicious aromas of your fresh Country Breakfast about to greet you. Exclusively for guests of the inn, breakfast is included in your package, and is decidedly different from your everyday fare. Prepared with care by the Inn’s staff, breakfasts is an enticing reason to get out of your comfy bed in the morning to start the day!
Chef’s Tasting Adventure with Wine Pairing

Chef’s Tasting Adventure with Wine Pairing

Held in an intimate setting, lit by candlelight, you will be personally guided through a multi-course carefully mapped culinary journey with your chef acting as skilled epicurean tour guide. Specially selected wines will accompany your tasting adventure, making this an evening you will be sure to remember from beginning to end. The Chef takes pride in providing an elegant and approachable experience...Sophisticated Southern...where guests feel at home without sacrificing the elegance of white linen service offered by fine dining establishments.
Hands-On Cooking Class with the Chef

Hands-On Cooking Class with the Chef

Warm and cozy, the home-style kitchen and atmosphere of the Lafayette Inn focuses on an experience that is more easily adaptable to your own kitchen. After spending several hours with Chef, and armed with your newly gained confidence, you’ll be ready to wow your friends and family when you return back home. Spend quality time with Chef Alan as he goes about his prep work, showing you step-by-step the skills you’ll need to prepare for the next stage of your Culinary weekend.
Sous Chef For A Night!

Sous Chef For A Night!

You’ll put your newly acquired culinary skills to good use as you begin to prep fresh ingredients that will be used as the foundation for this evening’s meals. The guests begin arriving as you join the chef - confident in your assigned tasks. Before you know it, the evening has flown by, delicious meals have been prepared and you’ve done it! You’ve become a Sous Chef. Bravo! Join the Chef and his wife for a wonderful meal and some wine as you celebrate a night’s work well done. FYI: Bragging rights are included at no extra charge.
Innkeeper-In-Residence Mini-Workshop

Innkeeper-In-Residence Mini-Workshop

Have you ever dreamed of owning an intimate bed and breakfast or small inn? Here’s your chance to get up close and personal as your host provides a small taste of the key elements necessary to run a successful operation. You will be introduced to the planning and preparation of meals, taking reservations and guest check-in, housekeeping, property management, purchasing supplies, and basic sales & marketing techniques. If you have ever thought about giving it all up and moving to the country to experience your dreams, let your host guide you along the perils, pitfalls and pure pleasures of owning your own bed and breakfast. Who knows, next year you might be welcoming your own guests!
Self-Guided Wine Tour

Self-Guided Wine Tour

The owners will give you everything you need as you set out to explore some of the local wineries including a Gourmet Artisan Cheese Lunch Box for two. You can nibble away on this lovely repast as you drive through the beautiful pastoral countryside on your way to the award winning vineyards where delicious tastings await you. The Innkeepers will be pleased to assist you in planning your route to several nearby wineries.
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