Before breakfast, we offer our guests an early coffee and tea service for early risers to enjoy in front of the fireplace in our living room or take back to their guest rooms. You can sip your coffee or tea in our specially designed hand-thrown stoneware mugs with an artist’s rendering of The Buttonwood Inn by Deneen Pottery.

Later in the Dining Room, a full gourmet breakfast is served beginning with either home-baked Pumpkin Walnut, Banana Coconut, Lemon Poppy Seed, or Rhubarb Honey Ginger breads. Other starters may be Apricot Orange, Maple Oatmeal, or Golden Raisin Scones, Buttonwood Donut Muffins, Maple Cinnamon Rolls, Apple Pecan, Banana Walnut Crunch, or Pumpkin Pie Spice Muffins, warm Fruit Crisp with Granola topping, or a cool fresh Fruit Salad with Raspberry sauce topping

Savory entrees may include a Mushroom Sausage and Cheddar Cheese Strata, Baked Cheddar Cheese and Asparagus Omelet, Eggs Benedict on Maple Ham and Chive Biscuits Topped with Cheddar Hollandaise Sauce, or Scrumptious Scramble with Goat Cheese and Chives along side Potato Cakes or Southwestern Hash.

Sweet entrees may consist of a Pecan and Wild Maine Blueberry French Toast, a signature breakfast that is also a featured recipe in the Bed and Breakfast Guide for Food Lovers, a Bed and Breakfast Collection by Pamela Lanier (published October 2010 and also available at Barnes and Noble). We also serve “lighter than air” Yeasted Belgian Waffles, or Pancakes of several varieties like Lemon-Scented with Blueberries, Banana-Pecan, Apple-Cinnamon, Blackberry-Cornmeal, Light Oatmeal, or Whole Wheat with Strawberry Sauce. These entrees are served with New Hampshire made maple syrup and either thick-sliced bacon or Paula’s homemade breakfast sausage patties.

All of our foods are prepared fresh with local New Hampshire products and we serve award-winning maple syrup purchased from Fullers Sugarhouse in Lancaster, NH. Note that most entrees can be modified for gluten-free, vegan, diabetic, or vegetarian diets.

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A variety of English teas, hot chocolate (in colder months), or lemonade or iced tea (in warmer months) are served each late afternoon in our Dining Room. Paula will also bake a treat of either Fudgy Chocolate Brownies, Oatmeal White Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Fruit and Nut Cookies, Pecan Shortbreads, Coconut Macaroons, Triple Chocolate Walnut Cookies, Orange Cardamom Madeleines, Pear Pistachio Ginger Blondies, Peanut Butter Chocolate Whoopie Pies, Cold Oven Pound Cake, Coconut Cupcakes with Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting, Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting, or German Chocolate Cupcakes, just to name a few.

Guests can enjoy their refreshments in either our spacious but cozy Living Room or Mt. Surprise Room warmed by the fireplaces when it’s cold outside. On warmer days, guests like to relax in one of the rockers on the front porch watching the hummingbirds, or sit in an Adirondack chair near the flower gardens taking in our mountain views listening to the birds sing.