The Everett Hotel

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"A boutique hotel option offering centrally located accommodations for visitors planning outdoor adventures or train excursions in the region." - Lydia Mansel Lydia Mansel Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight years of experience editing and writing for both brands and online publications—with a particular focus on travel, fashion, and lifestyle. She’s also the founder of the travel site justpacked.com.  Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines

"Downtown Bryson City is home to the welcoming Everett Hotel and its restaurant, the Bistro. Although famous forits crepes, the Bistro'smountain trout preparations rival the finest riverside camp cooking, including, notably, the trout cakes, a highlight of the Southern cuisine–driven tapas menu. Ingredients are sourced locally and seasonally, and many are organic. Although the rustic, candelabra-lit atmosphere is relaxed, reservations are recommended, especially during summer and on weekends. Guests at the Everett enjoy complimentary breakfast and weekend brunch, and many eat here multiple times during a visit to the Smokies."

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"Just 13 miles southeast of the park, the Everett Hotel & Bistro in charming Bryson City feels (and tastes) like an upgraded campground cookout. The warm, rustic decor is outfitted with polished wood paneling, candelabras, landscape portraits, and antlers. It looks like an upscale mess hall, albeit a mess hall with a full bar and leather chairs. Ingredients are sourced as locally as possible, and the house specialty is trout, available as trout cakes with remoulade, or pan-seared in a cornmeal crust with red quinoa and baby spinach. Other Southern-tinged specialties, all of which are available for takeout, include she crab soup, grilled Springer Mountain Farms chicken with fig chutney and prosciutto, and the open-range meatloaf, a carnivorous feast made with four locally sourced meats: Creekstone beef, Durham Ranch bison, Border Springs lamb, and K&B Meat’s pork sausage. The Bistro also has breakfast (complimentary for hotel guests) and a drink list emphasizing wine and North Carolina beer." - Matt Kirouac