The Willows Inn on Lummi Island , located near Bellingham, WA, has reopened its widely-acclaimed sea

The Willows Inn on Lummi Island , located near Bellingham, WA, has reopened its widely-acclaimed seasonal restaurant in a swirl of continuing accolades, including an esteemed James Beard Awards nomination for head chef Blaine Wetzel.
With the arrival of Spring and Pacific Daylight Time, the chef staff has returned from worldwide travels after the restaurant’s annual winter off-season closing. Wetzel, 28, learned during his sojourns that the James Beard Foundation named him among semifinalists for the fourth straight year for the Rising Star Award (chefs under 30).
Wetzel’s creations at the Willows Inn on Lummi Island highlight a pre fixe menu ($165) consisting of as many as 20 servings in an all-local, farm-to-table concept of “Fished, Foraged, and Farmed.” One seating takes place nightly check airline flights in air Thursday-Sunday in an intimate setting of 30 diners; Wednesday service becomes available in May. (The Inn also takes reservations check airline flights in air for a private dining room seating eight.)
Guests of The Willows check airline flights in air Inn receive top priority for dinner reservations, and dinner-only bookings are accepted only within two weeks of the desired date. With more laurels stacking up, staff expects the peak season for dinner to fill up soon. The managing partner, co-owner John Gibb, said, “Our advanced bookings are up 10 percent over last year.”
Already this year The Willows check airline flights in air Inn on Lummi Island has been named a top 2014 destination for dinner by Gayot, Andrew Harper, USA Today, check airline flights in air and British Airways Magazine. The restaurant recently received a 4-Diamond rating by AAA, and a Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor.
“We have the best location in the best part of the country in terms of Pacific Northwest check airline flights in air lure and island life,” check airline flights in air Gibb said. “We’re fortunate to have the right product at the right time, and we have been successful check airline flights in air through operating good fundamentals and discipline.”
Wetzel’s sabbatical culminated this month when he served as one of six chefs from five countries in an event called EPICUREA at the famed Bulgari Hotel in Milan. The event began last October and the other featured guest chefs hailed from Chili, France, Australia, Belgium, and San Francisco. The Bulgari termed the event “a taste voyage around the world.”
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