The Drawing Room
Mar Rd, Braemar, Ballater AB35 5YN
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July 2025
Food quality excellent
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July 2025
After a misty walk along the Dee, Mom and I settled into the Drawing Room’s scarlet-paneled salon, where a fireplace crackled beneath a discreet Picasso. Our afternoon began with the hotel’s one-hour art tour, stories of Jacobite relics and contemporary pieces that primed the palate, before we were ushered to starched...
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June 2025
Do you want to feel like royalty? Do yourself a favor and please visit this part of the hotel. The staff is exceptional, the selection of drinks, cocktails and mocktails, and whiskey is phenomenal. Also, there is a huge Picasso right there.
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From The Drawing Room
The walls are adorned in The Fife Arms tartan, which was designed especially for the hotel and the room is richly furnished with Scottish art and antiques. It is a place to relax and unwind over coffee or an evening drink. The room’s ceiling was commissioned by Chinese artist, Zhang Enli, who is renowned for painting directly onto the walls or ceiling of a room to create an immersive, nostalgic environment. For ‘Ancient Quartz’ Zhang took inspiration from cross sections of Scottish agates, whose deceptively simple exteriors conceal a dazzling array of colour and texture.
