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 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...
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...
