Rockville , Maryland
My wife wanted us to take her out for brunch in the country for her
birthday so I made reservations at the Comus Inn for Sunday brunch.
The Inn is at Sugarloaf Mountain in Montgomery County MD. (Dickerson,
MD, about 10 miles south of Frederick MD) ...
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My wife wanted us to take her out for brunch in the country for her
birthday so I made reservations at the Comus Inn for Sunday brunch.
The Inn is at Sugarloaf Mountain in Montgomery County MD. (Dickerson,
MD, about 10 miles south of Frederick MD)
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Brunch was excellent. The Inn, the original part which was built
in 1860, has undergone a major renovation recently. The views
are nice, overlooking the rolling hills of the western part of
the county. The buffet brunch on Sunday features a pancake station
and an egg station. They will make any type of eggs you want and
bring them to your table so you don't have to wait as they make
them. I had some excellent Eggs Benedict, the eggs poached to
my specifications. My wife and son had the Eggs Comus, poached
eggs on home cured bacon over a slice of brioche with hollendaise.
The pancakes were so light they almost floated off the plate and
they would make them with whatever you wanted (Jake had blueberry
and chocolate chips)
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They also had a carving station with roast beef and roast pork.
The bacon and sausages were also very good, not overcooked and
very flavorful. Very nice cheese blinzes, a wonderful rockfish
in a lobster/champagne sauce, tiny muffins (chocolate and blueberry)
that were so light they melted in your mouth. The usual biscuts
with sausage gravy, roasted potatos, nicely done and crisp veggies,
a house smoked ivory salmon that was to die for, and a dessert table
that was out of this world.
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Service was superb. Plates were wisked away as soon as they were
done with, and when you left to get another plate of food, you returned
to a newly folded napkin and fresh silverware. Coffee cups were
always kept full, water glasses never empty. As I said before,
if you ordered eggs or pancakes at the buffet, they were brought
to your table as soon as they were done. The damage was $28 per person,
with drinks extra (coffee and tea came with the brunch) We all
left so stuffed it almost hurt, but thought it was an excellent
brunch.
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The Comus Inn has an excellent wine list which they were glad to
let me look at. Running to 24 pages or so, with almost 600 selections,
they have a cellar of about 4800 bottles. Of course this is Montgomery
County so the prices were high (after all the county is the wholesaler
and marks everything up 35%) Well balanced, there were some bottles
there that I hadn't seen on other wine lists in the county,
such as a 94 Ridge MonteBello, several years of Harlans, a 97 Grange,
several years of Latour, Haut Brion, etc. All in all an impressive
list, especially for this county.
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