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Each morning, we started with breakfast on the outdoor patio, prepared by the hotel's Blue Pointe Grille. The menu includes omelets, pancakes, waffles and the family favorite, almond-crusted stuffed French toast made with cinnamon bread and filled with cream cheese. The patio is even more popular at dinner, when Blue Pointe Grille serves a wedge salad, clams, seafood scampi and grilled sea bass over a mushroom risotto. Kids will like the pasta, steak and chicken dishes.
A good place for lunch in Watkins Glen is Green Mountain Bakery & Market, known for its salads, soups and long list of sandwiches. All of the Finger Lakes are surrounded by vineyards, so after a day of adventure, you can taste wines at lunch or dinner. On the east side of Seneca Lake in the hamlet of Hector, Red Newt Cellars offers an ideal setting to pair wine with some of the most innovative cooking in the region. Nearby, Stone Cat Cafe features a deck overlooking the lake with live music Saturday nights and Sunday Brunch.
After biking around the bluffs of Keuka Lake, we had lunch on an outdoor deck overlooking the narrow northern part of the lake at Heron Hill Winery. The Blue Heron Cafe takes full advantage of its locale nestled amidst the farmland to offer local seasonal fruit over field greens and a caprese salad with large fresh tomatoes. There's also an ahi tuna dish served on a bed of seaweed salad, and a lobster roll, chockfull of Maine lobster meat, that could rival any roll I've come across in Boston. The children dug into flatbread pizzas.
Near the Cornell campus in Ithaca is one of the most famous vegetarian restaurants in the country, Moosewood Restaurant. The same chef who writes the best-selling Moosewood cookbooks dishes out her yummy fare in person. If you ever want the kids to eat their vegetables, this is the place.
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