The Bird & Bottle Inn

As a teenager I was a camp counselor in Putnam county. A billboard for the Cork and Bottle restaurant was where we turned off rt.9.

It's not open now!

While the food was ultimately very good (particularly the strip steak), the service was wanting. When my steak came out overdone -- It happens! No big deal! -- the waiter was seemingly frustrated when I asked to send it back. Especially when the chef undershot a little and it came back too rare. A perfect medium-rare can be difficult, sure, and customers are often wrong about the cook they really want. All this is true. But a customer should really be able to get their steak done the way they prefer without issue at an ostensibly fancy place like this. All that said, the actual food was good. Nothing unique or interesting, but good.

So sweet and great. Interesting evening vibes. But beyond beautiful and kept vintage and perfectly cozy. Get the porch room!

Pleasant and peaceful escape from the rest of the world, easy drive to cold spring. Hiking trails abound, a few you can walk to (up Indian Brook road is moneyhole trail). The restaurant is good, opens for late lunch and dinner, a happy hour many weeknights. The b&b has three rooms in the 1761 house, above the restaurant, and one in a detached cottage. We did not find the noise from the restaurant to be a bother at night.