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Palé Hall Hotel & Restaurant

“Elegant modern cooking in a grand setting.” - AA Inspector

LOCATION

BALA, GWYNEDD

Official Rating

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Awards

Book Direct

Occupying a tranquil position in Snowdonia, Palé Hall Hotel & Restaurant is steeped in history. Previous guests at this impressive late 19th-century pile include Winston Churchill and Queen Victoria and the dining room is named after Henry Robertson, for whom the house was built. A grand space with high ceilings, ornate plasterwork and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking extensive grounds, tables are dressed in crisp linen. The modern British cooking is refined and technically on point. Try the Cornish cod, turnip blanquette, lemon verbena and smoked pike roe or Creedy Carver duck breast, crispy titbits, salt-baked beetroot and hibiscus.

Awards, accolades & Welcome Schemes

3 Rosette Award for Culinary Excellence

AA Wine Award (Wales)

AA Notable Wine List

Facilities – at a glance

Children welcome

Credit cards accepted

Private dining

Vegetarian menu

Wheelchair access

Palé Hall Hotel & Restaurant

Llandderfel, BALA, LL23 7PS

Phone: 01678 530285

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Features

Facilities

Seats: 40
Private dining available
On-site parking available

Accessibility

Wheelchair accessible
Assist dogs welcome

Opening times

Open all year

Food and Drink

Wines under £30: 28
Wines by the glass: 15
Cuisine style: Modern British, Classical
Vegetarian menu

Also in the area

About the area

Discover Gwynedd

The county of Gwynedd is home to most of the Snowdonia National Park – including the wettest spot in Britain, an arête running up to Snowdon’s summit that receives an average annual rainfall of 4,473mm. With its mighty peaks, rivers and strong Welsh heritage (it has the highest proportion of Welsh-speakers in all of Wales), it’s always been an extremely popular place to visit and live. The busiest part is around Snowdon; around 750,000 people climb, walk or ride the train to the summit each year.

Also in Gwynedd is the Llyn Peninsula, a remote part of Wales sticking 30 miles out into the Irish Sea. At the base of the peninsula is Porthmadog, a small town linked to Snowdonia by two steam railways – the Welsh Highland Railway and the Ffestiniog Railway. Other popular places are Criccieth, with a castle on its headland overlooking the beach, Pwllheli, and Abersoch and the St Tudwal Islands. Elsewhere, the peninsula is all about wildlife, tranquillity, and ancient sacred sites. Tre’r Ceiri hill fort is an Iron Age settlement set beside the coastal mountain of Yr Eifl, while Bardsey Island, at the tip of the peninsula, was the site of a fifth-century Celtic monastery.