The Dragon Hotel

After a multi-million-pound refurbishment, The Dragon has been brought smartly into step with contemporary aesthetics. The location is right on the money too - smack in the centre of town, and with handy beauty and leisure facilities. The buzzy Dragon Brasserie has ringside seats looking through floor-to-ceiling windows onto the high street action, and a smart modern look involving hues of coffee and chocolate, darkwood tables and wooden floors. The cooking suits the setting, offering no-nonsense modern European dishes with a strong allegiance to local produce, as in Welsh goats' cheese and tomato tart with pesto dressing, followed by oven-baked salmon with a laverbread crust and spring onion crushed new potatoes. Desserts pursue the theme with the likes of bara brith bread-and-butter pudding with sauce anglaise, or Penderyn whisky and chocolate tart.