Indian Springs Vineyards Tasting Room in downtown Nevada City is a welcoming place to stop in, sample some wine or perhaps sit in the front window and have a glass.  Our friends at Indian Springs have offered us a special “Friends of Outside Inn” promotion.  Post a comment on this blog post and tell us your favorite variety of wine and I’ll draw 5 lucky winners next Friday, April 6th for a $2 glass of wine coupon.  Cheers!  And if you were thinking of entering the contest for the free professional photo shoot and web design by John Burnett the deadline is today, Friday March 30th.  Click here for more details.  And the lucky winners for last week’s Matteo’s Public promotion are: Karen McCann, Ralph Jaggi and Susie Bavo.

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Pearl came to visit us over the weekend, she loved her stay in the Paddler’s Suite.  She joins the Outside Inn flickr   club of furry friends of the Outside Inn.  We allow dogs in 13 of our 16 rooms, so if you have a dog and want to visit Nevada City, give us a call, 530 265 2233.

Looking for a casual place to have lunch in Nevada City?  Check out Matteo’s Public, open for lunch Tuesday through Sunday.  Matt is offering a special giveaway to Outside Inn’s fans, post a comment on this blog post about your favorite thing about Matteo’s Public; is it the beer sampler, the live music, the patio or the sliders?  Three winners will win a lunch special coupon, buy one entree, get one 50% off.  Winners will be selected on Friday, March 30th.  Take a friend, pop in and visit Matteo’s, tell them we sent you.

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Sierra Farm to Table brought a Equinox Dinner to the Stonehouse and treated an intimate gathering of people to a delicious meal with local, organic and sustainable ingredients.  Jim Gates, owner of Nevada County Free Range Beef, was the special guest for the first banquet style meal.  Shanan Manuel and Pauli Halstead hope to continue to share their love of food with Nevada City, through classes, events and catering.  With a menu of the included sausage crostini with chard, red onion & Sierra Pale Ale mustard, Nevada County Free Range beef stew with beer & tequila and chocolate Guinness stout cake, I’d say they’re off to a fabulous start.

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The Outside Inn’s blog likes to help promote local activities, events and businesses.  We have partnered up with John Burnett Photography to offer a special contest to one lucky Nevada City/Grass Valley business.  The prize is a Free Website & Professional Photo Shoot, which will include:

Website with up to six pages (wordpress based).
Widescreen photographic format
2-3 Hour photo shoot on location (of your business,  or service)
content writing, making it a virtual turn-key operation.  Interview the client to assess what pages are needed and get an outline of key points per page
$3500 value
Note: Static site only, no e commerce or catalog sites. Must be a business with a physical address located in either Nevada City or Grass Valley. Does not included hosting or domain name fees. Entrants must provide hosting with WordPress functionality (typically around $8/mo for basic hosting.)

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It doesn’t snow in downtown Nevada City very often, so it’s always amazing to see Outside Inn covered with a blanket of snow.  I’m glad I snapped these photos early, because the photos below were both taken today, within hours of each other.

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Sierra Knolls Winery Bear River Tasting Room is easily located on Highway 49 just past Combie Road.  For St. Patrick’s Day they celebrated with a “Bit ‘o’ Blarney Day”, complete with Irish snacks, fiddlin’ by Doug Fulton and a special discount on all wines.  Stop by their tasting room Thursday-Sunday and sample either the Saravese, Cabernet Sauvignon or the Chocolate dessert wine.  Kid, dog and picnic friendly, bring along the crew and make an outing out of it.

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Living Lands Agraian Network hosted a soup night tonight at the Stonehouse for a fundraiser for the Food Love Project.  A fabulous event for a rainy winter night, full of delicious soup and bread, local wine and good friends.  Special thanks to Flour Garden, New Moon Cafe, Briar Patch, Peaceful Valley, Deer Creek Elementary School, In the Kitchen, Sierra Farm & Table and all the volunteers who helped.

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Cafe Mekka, Nevada City.  They’re updating their Facebook page and needed some new photos, so I went digging through the various posts from the last year (click here for my first post, here for the Local Roots Food Tour with tasting of Temple Coffee, here for the Nevada City Boardwalk and here for Sheila Cameron’s art for the Wild & Scenic Film Festival Artist Showcase).  And then I decided to stop by and sample Yuba Chai while meeting a friend and took some more photos (top left mug).  As a special thank you to Outside Inn and Cafe Mekka fans, I’m going to give away 5 buy one get one free coupons to Cafe Mekka, just post a comment on this blog post about what you like about Cafe Mekka and I’ll draw the winners on Friday.

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Nevada City Miner’s Foundry and Paul Emery Presents brought the Joe Craven Trio for their CD release party.  Nevada County is fortunate to have such amazing live music in a number of great venues (Center for the Arts, Vets Hall, North Columbia School House, Nevada Theatre, Miner’s Foundry, Haven Underground).  A special shout out goes to KVMR for supporting local and not-so local artists and continuing to enrich the community.

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