The Barn is the island’s date-night heavyweight: an intimate room on the Spring House grounds where the kitchen is open, the grill burns actual wood, and you can watch your dinner meet the fire. It runs quiet by design — the room welcomes adults and kids twelve and up — which makes it the rare island table where the loudest thing is the grill.
What it’s like
Wood fire is the house signature, and the menu is built around what that grill does to good ingredients — appetizers through dessert, all of it carrying that faint sweet smoke. In the 2026 Best on the Block voting, The Barn finished runner-up for Best Restaurant in the category’s first year, pushing the beachfront heavyweight to a genuinely close finish — not bad for the quietest room on the ballot.
The setting does its part: you’re up at the Spring House, the island’s grand old hotel on the hill, which means the evening comes with a veranda view before and after.
The move
Book it — this room is small and sought-after, and walk-ins in August are a prayer. The play is sunset drinks on the Spring House veranda, then dinner at The Barn as the light goes. If the trip has one splurge dinner in it, this is a correct place to spend it.
Staying the night? The hotel upstairs has its own profile. Building the food itinerary? Start with the ranked list.