El Portal Sedona

Description:

• Although El Portal is primarily a deluxe inn, it also serves superb dinners on Friday and Saturday nights. While many of the diners are guests at the inn, the meals are open to the public by reservation. These dinners provide anyone who is not staying at this inn a chance to lounge around in the courtyard and living room/dining room, and get a sense for what it's like to stay here. The menu is short and usually includes about a half-dozen entrees and an equal number of appetizers and salads. Lamb shank wrapped with pork pâté and rack of elk with chili-infused bordelaise sauce are just two examples of the sorts of entrees you can expect. If the baked brie is on the menu, don't even think of resisting; this dish is heavenly.

• © Frommer's 2012

Awards:

Frommer's

•  Highly Recommended 2010