If rustic and finery can live harmoniously side by side, then here you are under their very roof. This dining room is surprising and solid and as honest as the day is long. And incidentally, you can set your watch by that as you enjoy the splendour of the sun as it dips into the water. You can be left sipping chilled Gamay wondering if you just heard or tasted the sun set, yet in no doubt at all about what you have seen.

Through the day and into the evening the warmth of the sun emanates around the room and the company you are in will finally realise that gazing past them through the window in silence is not rude; it is absolutely necessary