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A morning in the Dee Valley
The estate sits low in the valley, the river at its foot and Snowdonia's edge above. Walk it before breakfast — the frost lifts off the lawns first, then the smoke from the chimneys finds the trees.
Snowdonia · Wales
Palé Hall
A Victorian country house in the Dee Valley, looking toward Snowdonia — twenty-two rooms, a working wine cellar, and Luke Selby's kitchen at Henry Robertson.
La note
A Victorian house held in the Dee Valley, with the mountains as backdrop and the river within walking distance. Luke Selby's kitchen at Henry Robertson is the reason a long weekend extends; the wine cellar and the whisky lounge are the reasons the evening does.
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Les particularités
- Style
- Victorian country house, in the Dee Valley
- Rooms
- 22 — sixteen at the Hall, six at the Bryntirion Inn
- Tables
- Henry Robertson, the gastronomic table; The Hearth, the chef's table
- Kitchen
- Chef Partner Luke Selby
- Cellar
- A barrel-vaulted wine cellar, bookable for dinner
- Best for
- A long weekend in Wales, walked along the Dee
- Season
- Late spring through October; the valley clearest in May
Palé Hall is a Victorian country house in the Dee Valley, on the eastern edge of Snowdonia. It was built in the 1870s, kept guests as long-standing as Queen Victoria and Sir Winston Churchill, and now keeps a different kind — twenty-two rooms across the Hall and the Bryntirion Inn next door, taken slowly.
The kitchen is the reason most weekends here run a night longer than planned. Chef Partner Luke Selby holds two tables — Henry Robertson for the longer evening, the Hearth for the chef's table — and writes both from the season. The wine cellar, brick-vaulted and lit between the racking, can be booked for the dinner that wants the room. The whisky lounge keeps the hour after.
The estate is what surrounds the rest. The river Dee runs at the foot of the lawn — beat enough for fly-fishing — and the sculpture trail walks out from the gardens into the woodland. London is four hours by car, two by train and the last car; the trip back will feel longer.
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Dinner at Henry Robertson
A drawing-room dining room — gilded mirror, marble fireplace, pale tables in the middle of the floor. Luke Selby keeps the kitchen close to the season; the menu reads like the week the chef walked through on the way in.
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A late hour in the whisky lounge
Through a wood-panelled doorway, a small bar in the back of the house. Take it after dinner; the cellar runs deep enough that the choice can be a long one.
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