Simplicity


The Name of our Restaurant at The Mast Farm Inn is “Simplicity”.
Why "Simplicity"? Because that is what we would like our restaurant to be, to express and what we would like to offer you, our guest, out of respect and caring. Because as the world moves forward, more and more towards ever accelerating frenzy, we think you can probably use more "simplicity" in your life and therefore in your dining. We live fast, we eat fast, it often seems we even sleep fast, and yet we enjoy life, and people, less and less. Perhaps the “instant gratification” doctrine has something to do with that. Maybe sometimes, less is effectively more; “Carry me back to the days I knew then.”

What makes a restaurant “less but more”? Among other things: a lot of thinking, hard work, talent and care but also values and convictions, and perhaps a bit of courage; sometimes the courage to be different. From 1880 to 1996 The Mast Farm Inn Restaurant served wholesome, farm style meals at a country gourmet standard of excellence in a very homelike relaxed atmosphere. We want to embrace that past, that heritage, tradition and history. We want a step back in time. We do not want a restaurant like every place else. We want a restaurant you can consider a personal sanctuary, in this place, at this time.

We don't just want to make home made food. We want to make the home made food your Grandmother used to make if you lived on a farm when you were 6 years old, and when she won all the blue ribbons at state fairs, and every day you got to sample the new things. Once in twenty times she may have dropped the ball. But 19 times it was somewhere between “very good” and “Heavenly Choirs at Mull Of Kintyre” because it was a simple expression of love, respect and caring.

We want to make your food like food was made before it was trucked cross country wearing pesticides and flavoring rather than freshness and natural flavor, from a time before life offered so many selections and options, before we all became confused. Simpler also means fewer wasteful choices, more natural variety, slow food, slower dining, local produce, traditions.

Your food will be as local, fresh, natural and organic as we can make it. In the growing season, It will use produce from our own organic garden farm, meat and ingredients purchased as much as possible from local organic farmers and growers. Out of season, it will still be as natural and organic as we can make it, may come from further away; but minus the chemicals.

First and foremost this means a four, or more, course fixed menu, at a fixed price; one menu a night, each night different, made every day for a limited number of people who said they were coming to dinner; Food like real Grandmothers made it at home before the world became what it is today. Not all progress is forward movement, often the past contains treasures, and back to the past is often enough a step in the right direction. We hope you will give “Simplicity” a try. It may be revolutionary

Mull of kintyre
Oh mist rolling in from the sea,
My desire is always to be here
Oh mull of kintyre

Far have I traveled and much have I seen
Dark distant mountains with valleys of green.
Past painted deserts the sunsets on fire
As he carries me home to the mull of kintyre.

Sweep through the heather like deer in the glen
Carry me back to the days I knew then.
Nights when we sang like a heavenly choir
Of the life and the time of the mull of kintyre.

Smiles in the sunshine
And tears in the rain
Still take me back to where memories remain
Flickering embers growing higher and higher
As they carry me back to the mull of kintyre
~ Paul McCartney

 "In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Mast Farm Inn
2543 Broadstone Road
Historic Valle Crucis
Banner Elk, North Carolina 28604
(828) 963-5857
stay@mastfarminnc.om
www.mastfarminn.com

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