Feast your eyes in these hotel dining rooms.

from Staff & Wire Reports

Guidebooks toss around phrases like “unique” and “one-of-a-kind” experiences.

Maybe that’s because they’ve never been witness to real magic like the Reading Room at the Bar Harbor Inn, designed by William Ralph Emerson in 1887. This is sensual panoramic dining to conflate the senses: a butter-poached halibut of a view. A Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor of a view. If you really want to channel Edith Wharton and other ghostly habitués, come to the Sunday brunch. The ultimate fantasy: after dessert, step into the view and become part of the sunset with the schooner Margaret Todd in full view from the dining room.

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