I’m a little afraid this is either too narrow or too broad, but it doesn’t hurt to ask if people have thoughts. The facts are these!
I’m from New Hampshire, but my wife is not, and it only recently struck me that she’s never been to the White Mountains, never done the Cog Railway, etc—all the stuff at the north end of the state. On top of that, my father moved to Lancaster and I never see him anymore because that’s a hell of a hike from Nashua. On top of THAT, we keep meaning to go to Super Secret ice cream in Bethlehem, and THAT’s a hell of a hike.
So we’re spending a long weekend at the Omni Mount Washington in a couple weeks, and I’m Googling around, Yelping and Redditing around, figuring out restaurant possibilities for:
- Lunch along the way. Since we’re driving from Nashua, this probably means somewhere around Concord. My thinking is that anything south of Concord is somewhere we could go to when we’re not headed north on a trip, and anything toooo far north of Concord will mean that we’ll still be full when we near Bethlehem. The likely itinerary here is Nashua–lunch–Super Secret–check in at the hotel.
The Googling etc brings up New Everest as a possibility. We have Nepalese near us, but it’s of the “Indian restaurant plus a few Nepalese things” type, so New Everest has a lot that we otherwise have to go to Manchester or Portsmouth to get.
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Lunches near to where we’re going to be anyway, which is to say: Bretton Woods, where the hotel is; Bethlehem, where Super Secret ice cream is; Lancaster, where my father lives; and places on the way from one to the other.
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We have two full days plus the afternoons before and after, and depending on the weather, probably we’ll do the Cog Railway on one of those and hop over to somewhere in Vermont on the other (likely the same day we do Lancaster). There is no special reason or destination in Vermont; it’s simply that it’s somehow the only New England state I’ve never been to, because I don’t ski, and every time I had friends going to Vermont, they were going there to ski.
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Does anyone recommend the hotel restaurants at the Omni Mount Washington? The reason I keep mentioning lunches is because I have awful night vision, so I really limit how much night driving I do, and in early September, sunset’s going to be what, like 7pm. I’m expecting we’ll be having dinners at the hotel, whether that means the on-site restaurants, Doordash (?), or leftovers from lunch. The negative reviews I find of the hotel restaurants mainly complain they’re too expensive; I can live with that if the food is good.
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What we like: we have no allergies or avoidances and no children. We eat a lot of Asian food, a lot of pizza, Middle Eastern or Greek when we can get it, and my death row meal would probably be a cheeseburger if the jambalaya from Coop’s wasn’t on offer. And we like trying new stuff! I just ordered some Ethiopian barbecue for Labor Day. Early September is a terrific time for New Hampshire produce, so definitely bonus points for anywhere taking advantage of that. Feel free to recommend things that are none of the above, though!
Thanks in advance. I have a thread I’ve been meaning to make recommending some southern NH South Asian places, I’ll do my best on that.
