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RESTAURANT JAMES SOMMERIN Penarth
FINE DINING now accompanied by FINE ACCOMMODATION as a top chef/patron branches out, adding STYLISH, TASTEFUL BEDROOMS to his award-winning restaurant.
The Esplanade, Penarth CF64 3AU 0800 470 1400
info@jamessommerinrestaurant.co.uk www.jamessommerinrestaurant.co.uk
B&B From £150 for 2
Must do Hosts
Walk along the pier and prom Louise & James Sommerin
Rooms 9 (All en-suite)
Ask anyone who knows anything about food in Wales and the name James Sommerin soon crops up. His track record as a chef speaks for itself – he has been there and done it all. A few years ago he decided to branch out for himself, opening his eponymous restaurant on the seafront at Penarth, a charming Victorian resort. Predictably, it has been a huge success, impressing diners and reviewers alike, most recently being awarded a Michelin star. Now, James and Louise have taken one step further by offering the complete ‘restaurant with rooms’ experience. The rooms are part of a striking gabled building that – along with the pier and promenade across the road – pays homage to Penarth’s period charm (it’s very different to Cardiff’s new waterfront just across the bay). Many of the rooms enjoy expansive sea views.
All, like the restaurant below, are defined by taste and quality. Discreetly modern and fashionably uncluttered, their neutral tones are charged with vivid splashes of colour and dazzling bathrooms with monsoon showers and baths. And like the rooms, much thought has gone into the Sommerins’ purpose-built restaurant. Cool, sophisticated and decked out in a palette of greys, browns and creams, it has a strong sense of place (menus with local ingredients to the fore, local art on the walls, and crockery echoing the surroundings). But the kitchen is star of the show, literally as well as metaphorically – you catch a glimpse of the busy team at work as you dine. Ask about the inclusive midweek dinner B&B packages – and don’t forget the afternoon teas.
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