Award Winning Dining

The Thousand Islands Inn has been honored many times for dining excellence. It is one of only four restaurants in New York State to receive the 2007 Golden Fork Award of the Gourmet Dinners Society of North America, attesting to its widely respected excellence in fine dining. Other awards include the Silver Spoon Award of the Gourmet Dinners Club of America and a special proclamation by the Governor's Chamber of New York State. Thousand Islands Inn also holds the highest rating of all Clayton restaurants by both AAA and Mobil Travel Guide. It was featured as one of New York State's most outstanding restaurants in the August 2000 edition of Gourmet magazine and highlighted in the 2002 edition of the New York State Dept. of Commerces' gourmet dining publication "Vine & Dine."

Most recently the Inn, 'Original' Thousand Island Dressing and 1000 Islands Fishing Charters have been featured 33 times since 2005 on the Travel channel's Taste of America series with Mark DeCarlo.

Dining at the Inn is a pleasure enjoyed by both local folks and visitors from across the United States and Canada and around the world. The Inn's varied dinner menu offers Prime Rib, broiled steaks and chops, and broiled, fried and sauteed veal, poultry, seafoods, local fresh water fish and wild game. In addition to our regular menu, the dining room also features a special "Early Bird" menu for diners seated between 5 and 6 P.M. and nightly gourmet dinner specials served throughout the evening. Full service breakfasts are offered on Saturday and Sunday mornings and complimentary Continental breakfast is offered our rooming guests every morning.

On an historical note, the Inn is also where popular Thousand Island Dressing was first served to the dining public back in the early 1900's. Needless to say, Thousand Island is the official house dressing at the Thousand Islands Inn. The Inn also bottles its own 'Original' recipe of this popular condiment, making this the most unique of all 1000 Islands souvenirs for visitors to take home to share with friends and family. The dressing sells for $6.95 for a 16 oz. bottle and is available at the Inn throughout the operating season and on line throughout the year.

Congenial Atmosphere

For those lazy afternoons and evenings after a fun-filled day in the "Islands", there is no better place to relax than the Inn's Lounge. Decorated in a rustic Early American decor, the lounge's offerings include over 150 kinds of imported and domestic wines, beers, ales, "spirits" and cordials.

While enjoying your favorite beverage in air-conditioned comfort, you will enjoy watching, by the hour, the many ships from around the world that pass by the Inn, only a few hundred yards off shore, through the St. Lawrence Seaway.

The conversation and hospitality that abounds in the lounge has made the Inn one of the most popular social gathering places in all of the 1000 Islands.