The Yeats Room of Ballymaloe is a restaurant, It is a fine dining facility that was awarded one Michelin star for each year in the period 1975–1980.
[2][3] The Michelin Guide awarded the restaurant the "Red M", indicating 'good food at a reasonable price', in the period 1981–1994.
In 1964 the Allen family, who had purchased the Ballymaloe estate, converted the old dining room into a restaurant.
The oldest parts in the present Ballymaloe House can be traced back to an Anglo-Norman castle built on this site around 1450.
[8] In the time Ballymaloe House was awarded the Michelin star, Myrtle Allen was the head chef.