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Life is sweet on Newport Drive, where supper on the Terrace Grille at the Bar Harbor Inn & Spa includes the greatest floor show since the Moulin Rouge: Frenchman Bay.<\/p>\nSummerguide 2010<\/p>\n
by Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n
Life is sweet on Newport Drive, where supper on the Terrace Grille at the Bar Harbor Inn & Spa includes the greatest floor show since the Moulin Rouge: Frenchman Bay.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re hoping to channel your inner Rockefeller, this resort has hit the spot since 1887. Having already fiddled with your demitasse spoon and sorbet the night before during a formal dinner at the inn\u2019s famous Mt. Desert Reading Room (where President Taft once dined), you now venture out to the legendary yellow-umbrellaed terrace for a lobster feast al fresco overlooking the bay.<\/p>\n
Except you can\u2019t overlook it. It\u2019s everywhere in sensurround as Acadia explodes before you: \u201cYou see Bar Island and the Porcupines\u2013lots of beautiful blue ocean,\u201d says Terrace manager Carrie Tooley. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing else like it in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then, because too much is never enough, diners watch as the glam schooner Margaret Todd<\/em> (adults $35) hoists its red sails at the end of the inn\u2019s pier and magnificently heads away, darting between islands as a cool breeze lifts the tablecloths.<\/p>\n But, what if (heaven forbid) someone doesn\u2019t want<\/em> lobster?<\/p>\n \u201cIt happens,\u201d Tooley says. \u201cWe have a char-grilled petite sirloin and shrimp skewer for $18.95, served with red potatoes and corn bread.\u201d<\/p>\n Fresh, elegantly restrained, and simple, the food is worthy; the luscious dishes play a flawless Carole Lombard to the show-stopping, Clark Gable views.<\/p>\n What to do but jump into your white ducks, download some Rudy Vallee tunes, and tell the swells you\u2019ve been coming here every summer since Hector was a pup!<\/p>\n![\"black-and-blueberry-mousse-in-a-cinnamon-and-sugar-fillo-shell\"](\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/black-and-blueberry-mousse-in-a-cinnamon-and-sugar-fillo-shell.jpg\" "\\"black-and-blueberry-mousse-in-a-cinnamon-and-sugar-fillo-shell\\"")
The favorite treat here, natch, is the \u201cMaine Lobster Bake ($35.95)\u2013New England clam chowder, fresh corn bread, fresh steamed clams and mussels, red potatoes, corn on the cob, and fresh blueberry pie that we bake right here on the premises,\u201d Tooley says.<\/p>\n