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End the year on a “sweet” note at Sooke Harbour House!

Posted by Frederique on 1:39 pm in Activities, Innkeepers Blog | Comments Off

End the year with us at Sooke Harbour House on a sweet note with wonderful desserts from our Pastry Chef extraordinaire Matthias Conradi, share the evening with friends in our cozy Garden Room to the sound of dancing music…The evening starts at 10:00 pm. Music, sweets,bubbly sparkling wine, party favours, $35.00 per person. We still have guest rooms available if you want to be there for the first day of 2012! After a gourmet breakfast served in the privacy of your room, participate in the Polar Bear swim that takes place in front of our...

The Story of the Whiffen Spit Secret Christmas Tree!

Posted by Frederique on 12:18 pm in Innkeepers Blog | Comments Off

http://www.sookevoicenews.com/whiffinspittree/ There is always more that we don’t know about a Christmas Tree that appears all decorated every year on Whiffen Spit, it is truly the magic of Christmas. Bring a souvenir and leave it on the tree…… a wonderful tradition and a secret that is best kept secret for as long as possible! Merry Christmas to all from all of us at Sooke Harbour...

Sooke Harbour House quoted as one of the most important places in the 40th Anniversary Issue of Western Living

Posted by Frederique on 2:32 pm in Innkeepers Blog, Press Releases | Comments Off

The Gardens at Sooke Harbour House ’1979 “Now that everyone gushes about their three month-old hobby garden, it’s easy to forget that, when Sinclair and Frederique Philip first served guests homegrown tomatoes in their fledgling inn, they were starting a revolution in food” as seen in the December issue of Western Living Magazine, 40th Anniversary Issue featuring the 40 Most Important People, Places & Things. In 1979 when we bought the small Bed & Breakfast that Sooke Harbour House was we never dreamed that we...

Holiday Season Newsletter

Posted by The Innkeepers on 11:26 am in Innkeepers Blog | Comments Off

The Festive Season is approaching connect-follow-subscribe Dear Friends and Guests, It is hard to believe that 2011 is quickly coming to pass! We at Sooke Harbour House are busy preparing events, activities and wonderful packages in what we hope will interest and delight you. Bring the girls, Laugh, Share… for a wonderful day full of relaxing, rejuvenating, de-stressing and pampering. Enjoy great friends, fantastic spa services, good food and at the end of the day a very restful sleep…… because “Girls just want to have...

Sample Christmas Menu

Posted by The Innkeepers on 2:00 pm in special menus | Comments Off

Wild Mushroom Consommé Locally foraged winter Chanterelle, Pine, and Morel mushrooms, Juan de Fuca Sot Shrimp, Oxeye Daisy greens and a chive and white truffle drizzle Paired with 04 Rose Brut Blue Mountain, Okanagan Valley Or Sooke Harbour House Salad Wild an dcultivated herbs and lettuces incorporated with Belgian endive, frisee, with candied pumpkinseeds, red currants and a toasted hazelnut, house honey and Winter Savoury vinaigrette Paired with NV Brut Blue Mountain, Okanagan Valley ******************************************************...

Second Mushroom Foray and Dinner – November 5th, Saturday

Posted by The Innkeepers on 3:15 pm in Archived | Comments Off

For all who missed our first event on October 23rd, we offer another opportunity to join us for an amazing mushroom foray, informative presentation and masterpiece 4 course dinner of wild mushrooms, prepared by our chefs who have had the chance to work with over 25 wild mushroom varieties all year around and are able to present each at it’s best as well as surprise you with creative uses of wild mushrooms right down to a mushroom ice cream. Please join us. The foray begins at 11am at Sooke Harbour House and is free to Slow Food members...

Christine Stufano Simpson

Posted by Gallery on 10:54 am in Artist Directory, Paintings | Comments Off

Raised amongst the temperate rain forests, mountains and endless shorelines of Vancouver Island. Christine Stufano Simpson has always been deeply moved by nature’s immense beauty. Since her adolescence she has attempted to express this wellspring of sinspiration through photography, painting, and mixed media. A self taught painter, she prefers to work primarily with acrylics. Recently she has been moved by the synergies between nature...

Maureen O’Connor

Posted by Gallery on 8:15 am in Artist Directory, Jewelry | Comments Off

I am a jewellery designer, glass bead artist, and silversmith. The work of creating a piece of jewellery is extremely engaging and stimulating. Making jewellery provides me with the opportunity to play with colours and textures, and to express myself as I experiment with the age-old fascination of personal ornamentation. It is always my intention that the person who wears my jewellery will be positively affected. The history of glass beadmaking goes back 4000 years. Silversmithing is also an ancient art. The approach to these two practices...

Slow Food Mushroom Event, Sunday Oct 23rd

Posted by The Innkeepers on 2:39 pm in Archived, Mushroom Blog | Comments Off

Join Sinclair Philip and his knowledgable friends in an educational and fun wild mushroom foray focusing on local, wild, edible mushrooms. This foray is for the beginner mushroom hunter. You will learn about several edible mushrooms and visit our beautiful forests. Upon return to Sooke Harbour House that afternoon, Sinclair Philip will show a Power Point Presentation on edible mushrooms. The event will conclude with a 4 course “All Mushroom Dinner”. Dinner will start at 7pm in the Garden room at Sooke Harbour House. ...

Good times between Girlfriends, a spa getaway at Sooke Harbour House

Posted by Frederique on 2:13 pm in Activities, Innkeepers Blog, Services, Spa Services | Comments Off

A wonderful day at Sooke Harbour House, relaxation, rejuvenation, de-stressing, a pampering day with Great friends, fantastic spa services, good food and at the end of the day a very restful sleep…… How many days and nights do you want to...