Table + Tonic

The Restaurant

Table + Tonic occupies the cafe wing of the Local Grocer building at 3358 White Mountain Highway — a solar-powered farm-to-table operation that has been the cleanest serious-eating address in the Mount Washington Valley since opening in 2018. The dining room runs about forty-five covers across a bright main floor of reclaimed-wood tables, a long counter facing the open kitchen, a small bar where the herbalist's cocktails are built, and an attached small-batch grocery shop that sells the produce, eggs, cheeses, and pantry goods the cafe uses. The grocer-and-cafe model — borrowed from Brooklyn's contemporary farm-to-table movement and implemented in northern New Hampshire — gives the room a transparency that the area's traditional dining rooms cannot quite match.

The cooking is unambiguously organic, local, and committed — the kitchen sources its own produce from an on-site farm and supplements with a carefully edited list of New Hampshire and Vermont producers (Brookford Farm dairy, North Country Farms eggs, North Country Smokehouse bacon, Vermont Quality Meats lamb, and a daily delivery from the Mount Washington Valley farm cooperative). The breakfast programme — made-to-order through 3:00 PM daily — runs scratch eggs Benedict on house-baked English muffins; a buckwheat-and-blueberry pancake plate with Vermont maple; an organic-yogurt-and-house-granola bowl; and a vegan-and-gluten-free counter-menu that runs parallel. The lunch programme anchors on scratch-made sandwiches and wraps, deli sides, fresh soups, and salads using the day's farm pull. The Thursday-through-Monday dinner — opened in 2022 — runs a tighter chef's menu of about a dozen plates designed for the table to share.

The drinks programme is the room's parallel argument — a farm-to-glass cocktail and mocktail menu built by an in-house herbalist who works the bar nightly, with ingredients drawn from the on-site farm and the surrounding White Mountain wildflower foraging programme. The signature pours include a smoked-rosemary Old Fashioned, an elderflower-and-cucumber gin sour, a beet-and-citrus mocktail, and a fire-cider hot toddy that has become a winter-weekend institution. The wine list is short but careful (about thirty bottles, biased toward biodynamic European producers). The coffee is locally roasted, fair-trade, and organic. For a solo lunch, a clean weekday dinner, or a serious Mount Washington Valley breakfast, Table + Tonic is the answer.