Higgins House

Central Florida Food, Wine and Beer Section

We offer exclusive and private beer, wine and mead tasting's some of which are made right here at the Higgins House.  We also mix in commercial and micro-batch wines, beers and meads which we purchase from some of our favorite local stores.  The managers of the Higgins House Victorian Bed and Breakfast thought we would share some of our favorite places where we select our great food, wine, beer and cheeses.  We spent many years traveling the world on a quest to seek the best places to find and enjoy these treasures.  What we love most is that after our long crusade, we discovered that much of the best selections could be found right here in Central Florida.  Here is just a short list of our favorite local places and homebrew experiences.  Come back to this page soon to see the list grow.

Higgins House Pub Crawl Around Downtown Sanford

During your visit to Downtown Historic Sanford, be sure to tour around the town on a Pub Crawl.  If you're crawling for beer, then stop by The Emerald Hen Irish Pub, The Alley Blues Bar, and the Hollerback's Willow Tree where the beers are flavorful and plentiful.  If it's wine you're after, then be sure to visit The Sanford Wine Company, Da Vinci's, Hollerback's Willow Tree, and the First Street Lounge and The Alley Blues Bar

Higgins House Wine Dinners

Wine Tasting, Food Pairing and Seminar Schedule

The Higgins House is excited to announce our monthly Wine Dinners and seminars.  Each Dinner will be held on the first Saturday of every month at 7:00pm.  Dinner typically include 4 gourmet courses with desserts and each course is meticulously paired with a regional wine from the country of the month.  Every month a different Country will be represented ranging from France, Italy, Germany, America, South Africa, Spain and other regions.  During each course Chef Kittie and Chef Steve along with guest speaker sommeliers will discuss the foods and wines in detail with an explanation of the regions and the grapes from each country.  If your curious on what these Wine Dinners are like, check out some of the highlights of our Italian Wine Dinner.

Tickets are available on a limited basis, so if you are interested, book early.  For a schedule and regional style for each of our Wine Dinners, please visit our Wine Dinner Schedule and our Calendar of Events pages. 

Higgins House Specialty Beer Dinners and Tastings
To compliment our Wine Dinners the Higgins House also offers Specialty Beer Tasting Food Pairing and Seminars which will be held on the first Friday of each month at 7:00pm.  During our Beer Dinners, we will be pairing regional beers from a selected country with gourmet foods from that area.  Beer styles from France, Belgium, Germany, Chez, America, the Baltic's and many other regions will be examined, discussed and tasted each month.  The Higgins House award winning Home Brewer and Meadmeister (Steve DellaSala) will conduct much of the seminars with the support and help of other National and Master Beer Judges.  A

Tickets are available on a limited basis, so if you are interested, book early.  For a schedule and regional style for each of our specialty beer tasting's, please visit our Calendar of Events page. 

Higgins House Behind the Scenes Menu

Grocery List

The Higgins House Victorian Inn always offers the best foods, wines and beers available to our special guests and visitors.  Chef Kittie creates an extensive grocery list and has a staff travel all over the state to many different specialty stores so that we may in turn provide you with one of a kind entrees that will delight your taste sensations.  Guest Chef Steve's talents were featured in The Orlando Sentinel Good Eating Section in December 2004.  But if you can't make it to our Inn and you'd like to check out our favorite stores where we acquire our treasures, then visit our new Grocery List Section and you too can create your own Higgins House entree's.

Higgins House Favorite Restaurants

When you are done dining in our Inn, we recommend you visit some of our Favorite Restaurants located throughout Central Florida.  Many of them are walking distance from our Inn, but others are well worth the journey via auto.  This list will definitely be growing weekly so be sure to check back often. Favorite Restaurant Guide.

Beer, Wine and Mead Competitions

Comments from Steve DellaSalas.  As a Homebrewer, and Meadmaker, it's hard for me to separate my hobby from my careers.  So in light of my mead, beer and wine passion, I have decided to add useful information to anyone interested in entering or attending in a homebrew / mead competition.  The first one that comes to mind is the 10th Annual Meadllennium put on by the Central Florida Homebrewers on Saturday, January 27th 2007.