![]() Located just over the border from Massachusetts you will find the quiet town of Mason, New Hampshire, the home of Parker's Maple Barn. The Sugar House still produces maple syrup, following the old tradition of wood-fired evaporators. ![]() The Corn-Crib gift shop features all of their maple products along with many unique gifts like gift baskets and maple syrup tins. ![]() Over the years it has grown to become a very popular country restaurant serving breakfast and lunch. Yet I must say, we’ve been there during both very busy weekends and on a Tuesday morning, and not once have we ever been disappointed or felt that any wait time has not been well worth it.Parker`s Maple Barn has been a family establishment since the late 1960s when it was just a small Sugar House owned by the original Parker family. If you want to visit on weekdays, you won’t find yourself alone there but it’s a great time to go for obvious reasons (this is a very popular place). It has Southwestern, from dream catchers to very nice jewelry, clothing, household/décor items and a good collection of restful music CDs with a listening tower so you can hear before you buy. We’ve particularly found their gift shop a great place for stashing stocking stuffers and affordable token gifts (specialty recipe collections, kitchen gadgets and other things not found everywhere).ĭownstairs is another whole story. Parker’s also carries all sorts of interesting sauces from hot to not, some old fashioned candies, condiments and other novelty food items. Parkers sells not only its own maple syrup, but pretty much anything else that has maple in it including maple popcorn, maple cream, maple peanut butter, maple fudge and even maple jelly beans! What I’d highly recommend is their Maple Sugar though because it’s phenomenal on everything! It flavors and sweetens any cereal and if you lace it over cut up strawberries, peaches or other fruits or berries and then leave it to marinate at room temperature, the fruit yields a sort of liqueur (non alcoholic) that’s downright addicting! Maple sugar is also great for baking so if you’re tempted to buy a fair quantity while there, it absolutely won’t go to waste. And, of course, in season, the Sugar House is in full swing with famtours where you can see how 40 gallons of sap becomes one gallon of maple syrup. The saving grace to any wait there is that you can put in your name immediately upon arrival, and there’s a super fun country store/gift shop that has two floors of LOTS of affordable treasures. There can be a wait on weekends, especially Mother/Father’s Day weekends, and they don’t take reservations. Definitely a ‘bring-the-kids-and-guests’ kind of place. Everything was perfect Best breakfast ever Food is. We also love their comfy atmosphere and that the dining room looks out on nature because of their many windows facing their natural woods. Reviews for Parkers Maple Barn The best breakfast in the entire world. The restaurant part of Parker’s is a homey and rustic “breakfast all day” kind of place with a really good lunch menu also, and we have yet to order anything from either that we haven’t found delicious. A tucked away “find.”Īnd before going on, they do close each year from late December to early February, just so you know. It’s also under an hour from Keene, so we’re cross-referencing it there too.Ĭoming from almost anywhere though, it starts getting noticeably more rural by the mile so that when you get close you’ll think “Nahh, it couldn’t be on this back country of a road,” but that’s right where it is. Phantom Gourmet also touts it as a worthy drive from far and wide but it’s only 25 minutes from Nashua and about 18 minutes from Manchester if starting from the intersection of Rtes 293/101. People in Boston and beyond keep Parker’s on their hot list when wanting a nice drive and a taste of a different pace of life with something really yummy to eat and some great shopping.
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