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Expand Your Culinary Skills & Enjoy Great Food & Wine

Learn something new during your next getaway by spending a weekend cooking with us. These getaways are held during our winter season. The cooking class weekends feature Chef Matt Finarelli. You will eat & learn how to prepare 4-course gourmet meals. Wines from local wineries will be served. See the menus below for the cooking class weekends.

What’s Included:

2-night stay with full hot breakfast Saturday & Sunday mornings
Wine tasting with an expert from a local winery & hors d’oeuvres on Friday night
Cooking class (mostly demonstration) with wines on Saturday night

What You’ll Do:

Arrive on Friday afternoon or evening, when you’ll meet the chef and be treated to some delightful appetizers prepared for your enjoyment. We have arranged a wine tasting of Virginia wines at the inn featuring an expert from a local winery. These wines will be paired with the meal you help prepare on Saturday night.

Enjoy a full hot breakfast Saturday morning.

Explore the beautiful Middleburg area countryside on your own — we have lots of information on fun things to do in the area on our website at www.BriarPatchBandB.com, such as visiting local wineries & craft breweries, horseback riding, hiking, scenic drives, shopping at the wonderful shops in the area, or visiting Civil War sites.

On Saturday evening we will gather in The Fox Den at Briar Patch (our event building) for the cooking class where the chef will demonstrate, and guests will help prepare (and consume!) a 4-course meal. The chef will discuss the many aspects of preparing gourmet meals, including how to prep, how to pre-cook and hold, and how best to present the dishes. And, of course, recipes will be provided. Wines will also be served with the meal.

Enjoy another full hot breakfast Sunday morning.

Menus for the Friday evening hors d’oeuvres and the Saturday night cooking class dinner can be found on our website at https://www.briarpatchbandb.com/cooking-classes.htm.

These are sure to be fun weekends of good wine, fine food, and new friends.

Please email us at info@BriarPatchBandB.com or call us at 703-327-5911 to make your reservation for this fun cooking class weekend.