The meal that lingers in my memory, though, is lunch on the dining porch, which overlooks 22 acres of gardens.

Located on a hilltop overlooking the crystalline lake, the 1847 inn also has a dining porch, half covered, half open-air.

He turned and walked back across the empty dining porch and into the cramped inside dining room.

This pretty Victorian inn facing a park on the river has a dining porch that is much in demand.

There is also an enclosed dining porch with masses of windows providing glimpses of the canal.

She put her arm around my neck as we walked toward the dining porch and turned her head to look at me.

But the view of the water from the large dining porch takes visual honors.

Diners climb a steep flight of outdoor steps to the casual spot, with its canopied dining porch.

A magnificent inn and a restaurant, with an appealing outdoor dining porch.

The dining porch, enclosed in glass, with pine paneling, had plank tables, each set for eight.