Get $40 (Two $20 Vouchers) Towards Lunch or Dinner for Only $20 at Bar Louis in The Hotel Fauchere!

The Historic Hotel Fauchere opened in 1880, with twenty-four sleeping rooms and other apartments, including a beautiful dining room at the rear of the house enclosed with glass. Louis Fauchere, a native of Switzerland, immigrated to the US in 1851 where he soon found employment as a Master Chef at New York's famous Delmonico's Restaurant. In his early career in the US, he also worked (probably in the summertime) at Delavan House in Albany and at the Fort William Henry Hotel on Lake George.

In 1867, Fauchère moved permanently to Milford, Pennsylvania, purchasing a small saloon, known as the "Van Gorden & La Bar" and previously known as "The French Hotel" which is believed to have been owned by relatives of his wife, Rosalie Perrochet Fauchère, who had come to Milford as part of the French settlement in the early 19th century. Louis Fauchère's, (known in Milford for years as "the crazy Frenchman"), innovative cuisine and stylish innkeeping was a hit in Pike County and by the late 1870’s, he had plans for a larger and grander building would world during the winter months at restaurants in New York City. The large red brick gothic-revival house on Catharine Street, to the east of the present Fauchère complex, became known as Delmonico´s Cottage. It is called this because that is where Mr. Delmonico and his family, from the famed restaurant, would stay when visiting their former chef, Louis Fauchère, at his elegant country establishment. The Delmonico connection was important to the success of the Hotel Fauchère as Delmonico´s was the first and most famous restaurant in America in the mid 19th century. Having worked there was a credential any chef would envy; to enjoy the friendship of its famed proprietor was a rare prize, which contributed greatly to the cachet of the Fauchère.