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Hotel Restaurants You'd Actually Eat In: Maine's White Barn Inn

Where: 37 Beach Ave. [map], Kennebunk Beach, ME, United States, 04043

The reputation of hotel restaurants as sad, overpriced affairs is quickly falling away as some talented chefs make the eateries destinations of their own. This week, Katherine Spiers is taking us to some of the best hotel restaurants in the world.

Kennebunkport, a seaside village in Maine, is known mostly for its position under the Bush presidencies as the "summer White House." The Walker-Bush clan has owned an estate there for over a century, hosting guests like Yitzhak Rabin and Billy Graham for the last 20 years.

The White Barn Inn, just down the way a bit, has served dinner to a few of these dignitaries as well—though the restaurant's more likely to be the setting for a marriage proposal. The huge barn, retrofitted and painted and decorated in country chic, certainly looks the part.

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