Best gourmet hotels in Wales

It would be easy to miss Chris and Kirsty Harrod’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms, tucked away above a single-track road in a Wye valley hamlet – but miss it and you’d miss out.

Near the edge of town, a walk from the beach, this 19th-century town house is a popular restaurant with smart contemporary rooms – and a rather chic yurt.

A Georgian windmill sits at the heart of Wales’s first contemporary arts hotel, on the edge of the UK’s smallest city, a stroll from Caerfai Bay.

‘The friendliness and warmth of the people’ stand out at the Evans family’s relaxed restaurant-with-rooms, in a Georgian farmhouse on a working Pembrokeshire farm.

Carmarthenshire native Wendy Beaney and her husband, David, run this ‘stylishly minimalist’ restaurant-with-rooms in their thoughtfully restored Georgian mansion, which stands in wooded gardens overlooking the Tywi estuary.

The views roll out over the Vale of Edeyrnion to the Berwyn mountains, and provide a backdrop for the ‘superb’ food served in this restaurant-with-rooms.

Expect art and architecture at this ‘really grand’ Jacobean mansion set in gardens and parkland in the Wye valley, with views to the Black mountains.