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A Weekend of Love

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Valentine’s Day 2023

Spend Valentine’s Weekend in the small historic Town of Ashland, Virginia.

We’ll be serving a special Valentine’s Dinner on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening.

Lodging is currently available!

Valentine’s Dinner Hours:

Friday, February 10, 2023
5-10pm
Saturday, February 11, 2023
5-10pm
Sunday, February 12, 2023
4-7pm

$50 per person

Our regular menus will be served for lunch and brunch.
Gluten free, vegetarian, and vegan options included!

View Our Valentine's Day Menu

Call for your preferred reservation:
804-798-3100

(Leave a detailed message if we miss you.)

Looking for a gift for your valentine?

We will have a variety of gift baskets available for your loved one, your child, and even your pet.

Check back for updates!

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Convenient Location, Easy Parking

Traveling from Richmond, Virginia for your Valentine’s Dinner? The Henry Clay Inn is only 19 miles north of Richmond, straight up I-95, to the Ashland exit.

Traveling via Amtrak for a Valentine Weekend Getaway? The train station is directly across from our Inn. Hop right off the train and enjoy your new home away from home.

 

Share the love! Next time you come for a visit, take a photo and tag us @henryclayinn on Facebook or Instagram. We would love to see and hear about your experience with us.

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First Thanksgiving Supper

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Gratitude

In honor of the first Thanksgiving, we invite you to our celebration of gratitude. Join us as we pay tribute to the past and commemorate our roots with a magnificent feast.

Sunday, December 4, 2022

3pm to 7pm (Last seating at 7pm)

$50 per person

 

View Our Dec 4th Supper Menu

Why are we celebrating Thanksgiving on December 4th?

“The annual Thanksgiving holiday tradition in the United States is documented for the first time in 1619, in what is now called the Commonwealth of Virginia. Thirty-eight English settlers aboard the ship Margaret arrived by way of the James River at Berkeley Hundred in Charles City County, Virginia on December 4, 1619. The landing was immediately followed by a religious celebration, specifically dictated by the group’s charter from the London Company. The charter declared, ‘that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantation in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God.'” (wikipedia)

And so this Sunday, we celebrate the first Thanksgiving. Join us!

Call for reservations:
804-798-3100

(Leave a detailed message if we miss you.)
 

Reservations available from 3pm to 7pm on December 4th (last seating at 7pm)

 

We look forward to the holidays and hope we can bring some extra joy to you and yours.

 

Next time you come for a visit, take a photo and tag us @henryclayinn on Facebook or Instagram. We would love to know what you think and hear about your experience with us.

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Small Intimate Wedding at The Henry Clay Inn

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Last weekend we had the honor of hosting a wedding for a beautiful couple with their family and friends. The ceremony took place on the upper veranda, open to the parlor. A light meal followed, hors d’oeuvre style, served in the banquet room. It was a lovely evening!

Small, intimate events are our specialty. If you have a celebration coming up and would like to take consider our Inn, please fill out our event form for details.

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Interested in hosting your next event with us? Visit our Events page for more information. We look forward to hearing from you.

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook for updates & specials.

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Join Us for Thanksgiving 2022

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No Shopping No Cooking

No Cleaning No Stress

Just Give Thanks and We’ll Do the Rest

Join us for Thanksgiving Dinner this year

We are all craving connection, simplicity, less stress, and more time with family and friends. In light of this, we are trying something new this year by offering Thanksgiving dinner here in Ashland at The Henry Clay Inn. We want you to be able to relax and enjoy your celebration.

Our lodging during Thanksgiving weekend is also open and at the time of writing this, we do have availability. Whether you are from out of town and looking for a stress-free holiday getaway, or are local and want to get out of your house for a couple of nights or need extra room for out of town guests, we’re here for you. Convenient to Richmond, Virginia, let us be your home away from home.

And to our supportive community that has ordered take-out these past couple of years for the holidays, we have not done away with this entirely. We are offering a limited amount of take-out for Thanksgiving, purchased per person same as our dine-in menu. The supply chain for our proteins is unpredictable so please get your orders in early for best availability.

View Our Thanksgiving Menu

Call for reservations:
804-798-3100

(Leave a detailed message if we miss you.)
 
Reservations available for 3pm and 5pm on November 24th, Thanksgiving Day.

All reservations must be made by November 16th.

 

We look forward to the holidays and hope we can bring some extra joy to you and yours.

 

Next time you come for a visit, take a photo and tag us @henryclayinn on Facebook or Instagram. We would love to know what you think and hear about your experience with us.

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Our New Sign!

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We are now even easier to find thanks to our beautiful new sign. Quite a lot goes into the making of a sign – from the initial vision, design, town approval process, manufacturing, to install.

To work through the process, we enlisted two local companies to help us. BigTree, located in Ashland, VA, for initial vision, design, and town approval process, and Woodcraft Sign Shoppe, located in Chester, VA, for manufacturing and install. We are over the moon excited about the result and grateful for their partnership.

Here is a look at some of the manufacturing process.

Next time you come for a visit, take a photo with our new sign and tag us @henryclayinn on Facebook or Instagram. We would love to know what you think and hear about your experience with us.

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Ashland Garden Club Celebrates 100 Years

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This week we welcomed the Ashland Garden Club to celebrate their 100th year. Quite the milestone – congratulations!

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We truly enjoy being a part of community celebrations. Thank you for choosing The Henry Clay Inn to host your 100 year anniversary!

 

Interested in hosting your next event with us? Visit our Events page for more information. We look forward to hearing from you.

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook for updates & specials.

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Porch Dining is Back

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Thank you everyone for your continued support these past couple of years; we wouldn’t still be here without the kindness and loyalty of our customers and staff.

We are grateful and excited to have our restaurant open again, and offer the Ashland favorite – porch dining and train watching. Keep an eye on our Dine page for current hours; we are still figuring out what works best.

Here are a few items from our tastings as we prepared to re-open.

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And did you know we’ve been expanding our partnerships? More of our dishes are now made with ingredients from local Virginia farms with sustainable and regenerative practices. Supporting our local community is important to us, as is high quality ingredients from healthy soil.

Another new offering is our Bar Menu on select days from 3pm-5pm. You’ll often find a flatbread variation as shown above with seasonal toppings available during this time.

Whether you’ve dined with us before or not, we do hope you come give our new menus a try. We think the dishes are pretty fantastic.

 

Follow us on Instagram and Facebook for specials.

For dining and/or lodging reservations, call 804-798-3100. We look forward to your visit.

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2021 Gratitude

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As 2021 comes to an end, we would like to extend our deepest gratitude to all of our customers. Whether you have been with us for 100 years or just visited for the night, we are truly grateful. You have helped us become part of the thread that is woven into the fabric of the community.

Have a safe, healthy, and Merry Christmas and best wishes to you all for the New Year. We hope to see you again soon.

—Beth and the Team at The Henry Clay Inn®

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Our Front Porch

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One of our unique features is our spacious porch. It provides the perfect setting for socially-distanced outdoor dining.

Great food, great drinks, and great friends have allowed us to create a lot of memories. Recently, we hosted an engagement party for a local couple. We were humbled when their family chose our porch to celebrate their milestone.

The party serves as an important reminder. We don’t just serve food and drinks. We serve as a place to create memories and bookmark the chapters of your life.

In the coming year, the world will reopen. The happy couple will embark on an amazing journey that will include many memories. Our team will always be honored and proud that they started it here with us.

While 2020/2021 has taken away a lot, it has given us a reminder that love still conquers all. And love is certainly in the air on the porch at The Henry Clay Inn®. It is the closest thing we have to magic.

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Reopening Our Restaurant

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The year 2020 is one like we’ve never experienced. Our once big world became very small. The hustle and bustle of everyday life came to an abrupt halt. Simple things like trips to the grocery store became a cautionary tale. At The Henry Clay Inn®, the silence was deafening. No longer was it possible for our extended family from all across the globe to travel to our historic Inn. Our rooms and our hearts were empty.

These changes created a time of soul searching and reflection for our team. After speaking with our neighbors, we decided to reopen our restaurant. It was something that we were working towards doing, but as the saying goes, “there’s no time like the present.” While not expected, we were bound and determined to make our reopening special.

We started with curbside pickup service for Easter Dinner. The response from the community was overwhelming and resulted in a sellout. It was humbling and inspiring. Next up was Mother’s Day, which again was a hit. Father’s Day didn’t just bring the warm weather. It brought the reopening of our spacious porch for outdoor, socially-distanced dining.

Great food. Great drinks. Great friends.

And so the comeback of The Restaurant at The Henry Clay Inn® began.

See what we’re serving now.

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