Bed and Breakfast, Restaurants

Plas Bodegroes Restaurant with Rooms

Nefyn Road, Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales LL53 5TH

Tel: 01758 612363  Fax: 01758 701247

website: www.bodegroes.co.uk

Chris and Gunna Chown's Georgian Manor House has long been a destination for culinary pilgrims anxious to sample Chris's justly celebrated Michelin starred cooking. It's no surprise then to find that Plas Bodegroes styles itself as a "restaurant with room." Banish any thought though, that things outside the kitchen and restaurant might be something of an afterthought.

The 11 lovely rooms with their goose-down duvets, Egyptian cotton and views over the gardens are a delight in themselves. An avenue of two hundred year old beeches fronts the house, and wisterias and roses perfume the verandah.

It's impossible not to return to the food though. Chris's reputation is based on the modern interpretation of traditional dishes, with prime Welsh ingredients to the fore: laverbread, mussels, sea trout, sea bass, lobster, mountain lamb and Black beef, Carmarthen ham, Bara Brith & butter pudding with Welsh whisky ice cream.

The wines are as outstanding as the food, and Gunna supervises that the service runs smoothly and politely. The restaurant is open for dinner Tuesday to Saturday (also Sunday on Bank Holiday weekends) and for Sunday lunch. A truly great restaurant with really good rooms sums it up neatly.

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