The Catskills
in Upstate New York

Tucked away in the Catskills, Bovina Fermentory is a guesthouse, restaurant, and brewery all in one. Guests float in from woodland nooks for farm-style breakfasts, warm up by the stove after countryside rambles, then gather in the communal dining room for three-course kitchen suppers – think hot scones, duck bigarade with creamed parsnip, and blueberry cobbler.

Walking into First Bloom for the first time can be a slight sensory overload. There's basket after basket of in-season, ripe fruit and veg, more gourmet tinned and canned goods than you know what to do with and pastas of all different shapes and sizes. You'll have a hard time leaving this place without a bucket load of ever-so tasty ingredients. 

At the acclaimed The Henson, old-school oil paintings contrast with paint-splattered tiles at Matilda, the on-site restaurant by NYC duo Jeremiah Stone and Fabián Von Hauske Valtierra. The menu spotlights locally foraged ingredients in inventive dishes such as lightly smoked Hudson Valley trout with clams and green garlic, or beets paired with red endive and a smoky yuzu vinaigrette.