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Some hotels should come with a warning label. Fearrington’s would read “Includes massive retail and residential components.” Eight miles from Chapel Hill, the 33-room inn is part of a purpose-built “village,” complete with shops and a 1,300-acre subdivision, but guests can easily avoid the larger complex if they desire. Fearrington’s own grounds encompass five gardens, but its soul is in its restaurant, which is folded into a 1927 farmhouse. British chef Graham Fox goes for broke, reinterpreting regional fare with a French twist (praline mousse with marshmallow ice cream). The rooms, which display original Southern artwork, have recently been renovated in a happy and unpretentious mix of checks and toiles.
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From Travel + Leisure, Apr 2006
“The property's soul and anchor is the gastronomic restaurant, folded into a plain but elegant center-hall farmhouse, built in 1927 with the requisite columned porch in the shadow of a still-extant 18th-century silo....” MORE>>
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