ham at the Hotel Healdsburg

You know how, when you visit most hotels, you get a “complimentary breakfast” with your stay?

I use the quotes because most of the time that is no one’s idea of a good breakfast, even if it is free. Dry toast, slightly burnt, or an overly chewy bagel, if you’re lucky. Fruit, most of the time out of season and bruised. Lukewarm coffee. No thanks.

However, if you should ever have the chance to stay at the the Hotel Healdsburg, you will change your mind forever about that complimentary breakfast.

The restaurant in the hotel is a Charlie Palmer restaurant, so we assumed that dinner would be good. (The folks at Kingsford took care of the rest of our meals, so we don’t know how the Dry Creek Kitchen really is.) We didn’t expect breakfast to be fantastic. And free.

I could describe it all, but that’s not necessary. Just know if you ever go there, you’ll have a lovely light-filled room, white tablecloths, hot coffee, everything fresh, and more than you could ever eat in one sitting.

The bacon was crisp. Perfectly crisp, not burnt and not flubby. And that ham. That ham was just-enough salty, with just-enough fat, and a pleasant smoky taste that lingered in the mouth wonderfully.

I wish I knew from where that ham came.

We might just have to go back.

Dry Creek Kitchen
Hotel Healdsburg
317 Healdsburg Avenue
Healdsburg, CA 95448
Tel: 707.431.0330