Right on Swansea Bay front, The Observatory cafe and bar is undoubtedly the most dog-friendly place to get a really good brunch or an boozy drink looking over the sea, with indoor and outdoor seating over the sand. I’d say it’s probably the most ‘aesthetic’ venue in Swansea, with great-looking food and interiors, as well...
I officially have a new favourite place to eat in Swansea – a newish restaurant called On the Rocks, in the old lifeboat building on the Pier in Mumbles. It’s a steak restaurant, which serves you your meat ‘blue’, which you then finish off on a hot plate at your table – and genuinely –...
When it comes to good food and coffee in West Cross, there’s slim pickings – so thank God for Rag and Bone cafe which is located at the ‘top shops’ in West Cross Swansea (136 W Cross Ln, West Cross, Swansea SA3 5NG) – which is one of my favourite places to eat in the...
When friends from outside of Swansea come to visit, Gin and Juice in the Mumbles is where I take them. Firstly, the restaurant is beautiful – It’s a real show stopper with a log burner, plants (a LOT of plants) and an indoor/outdoor conservatory – which means you can look out at stunning Swansea Bay...
Mumbles Coffee in Swansea is no doubt, one of the most popular spots in the village. There’s the main cafe on the corner, the booth in the arcade and its little brother Microlot, on Dunns Lane – all super busy. They take their coffee very seriously – partnering up with local businesses and sourcing ‘the...
Fika is one of the newer places to eat and drink in Newton Road, Mumbles (though it’s been around a couple of years) – but it’s become a firm favourite thanks to its food’s quality and value for money. When I heard a bagel place was moving into the vacant building, I was a bit...
Mumbles Coffee is maybe… maybe… the best coffee in Swansea. The main cafe and the separate booth on Newton Road is always so busy. It doesn’t matter whether it’s the height of summer with all the tourists or it’s pouring down in November – there will be a queue for coffee. But locals know about...
The Lighthouse, which used to be the Swansea institution, Castellammare, on Bracelet Bay is a chilled-out restaurant with what I reckon are THE best views in Swansea. If you’re sitting outside on a sunny day with some wine – it’s genuinely one of the best places in the world to be. So to get a...
The Mermaid restaurant is an iconic Mumbles institution (I feel like I use that phrase a lot, but it just is – it’s been around for donkey’s years and the locals love it). Right on the main Mumbes strip in Swansea, with outside and inside seating – The Mermiad is famously dog-friendly and is always...
When driving into Swansea from the M4, you won’t be able miss the Towers Hotel, with its iconic, red brick Victorian Tower poking out from behind the trees. I must have passed the Towers Hotel and Spa a million times growing up in Swansea and had yet never driven off the main road to take...
