Llanos del Hospital Restaurant and Café

This is the dining room of the Hotel Hospital de Benasque, at Llanos del Hospital: the last place with a table and a roof before the Aneto, at 1,750 metres and 13 km from Benasque, where the valley road ends. The house describes it as a high-mountain restaurant serving home cooking with local produce, and beside it is a café that works without booking.

Two rooms for two paces

The restaurant is for sitting down to eat unhurried, and you must book. The menu is in Spanish, French and English. The website does not publish dishes or prices: the full menu is downloaded from its page.

The café is the carved-wood room, with a sculpted tree in the décor, a fireplace and tables with television. It does not take bookings: it is for dropping in mid-morning or when coming down from the pistes for something hot.

Lunch times, in sittings

• Weekdays: lunch from 13:30 to 15:30.
• Weekends and public holidays: two entry sittings, one from 13:30 to 14:00 and another from 15:30 to 16:00. If you are late for yours, you are moved to the next one.
• Dinner: two sittings, at 20:30 and 21:30.
• Breakfast for guests: entries every half hour from 7:00 to 9:30; you choose yours at reception when you arrive.

With the weekend sittings it pays to plan: if you ski in the morning at the Nordic area, the first one leaves you the whole afternoon, which ends at 17:00, when the trails close.

A reserved table includes parking

The hotel car park, with a barrier and number plate reader, is free for guests and for anyone who has booked a table at the restaurant: the booking guarantees you a space. If you are only going to the café, leave the car in the public Vado car park, free and with toilets, about 400 metres away. Motorhomes are not allowed in the hotel's.

Booking and getting there

Book by phone on 608 53 60 53, online on their website or at [email protected]. From Benasque it is 13 km of road with 600 metres of climb and stretches without coverage; in winter take chains and call the hotel beforehand to find out the state of the access. The entry for the Llanos del Hospital road summarises it.

Dogs, outside

The establishment does not admit animals in the restaurant, café or hotel, and asks that they not be left tied at the entrance to the building. Outside, on the trails and surroundings, which are inside the Posets-Maladeta Natural Park, they must be on a lead.

Who comes up to eat here

Cross-country skiers, groups coming down from snowshoeing, such as those on the guided outing to the Forau d'Aigualluts, and families spending the day in the snow without lifts. If you stay overnight at the Hotel Hospital de Benasque, dinner is right here and you save yourself driving down the road at night.