My travel companion and I cannot say enough nice things about this little gem…read more For starters, in a small town of lots of over processed foods, this place offers fresh and clean foods. The coffee is good, the food is excellent (breakfast and beyond) and the staff are little rays of sunshine. The seating is indoors, outdoors, and the restrooms are clean. I'm vegetarian and he is Muslim, and we were able to find great snacks and full meals at this place without issue. If you are in Swansea - please try this place. Opens at 9 and closes at 10.

The Premium Steak House located at 12, The Strand, Complete with car park directly opposite and on…read morethe street parking also available.The best place to eat steak in Swansea. I spend quality time with friends and family here.

New Years Eve at the Polyn…read more What a great all round evening again for the four of us. All the staff working hard to make it so enjoyable With a super meal David Silver

Friends we were visiting in nearby Nantgaredig booked this place for Saturday night dinner and I am…read moreso glad they did. They have a straight forward pricing system, £30 for three courses (which is compulsory on Friday and Saturday nights) with supplements on certain dishes. For the quality of the food and the great service, I think this is amazing value. For a starter I had the Hazelnut Crusted Goat's Cheese, Marinated Golden Beetroot. The goats cheese was deliciously smooth that went perfectly with the thinly sliced beetroot. For a main I had the Crispy Roast Belly Pork, Caramelised Apples. And boy was it crispy... just on the outside mind, with succulent belly meat on the inside. I think its the best pork belly I've had thus far. The place is decorated very tastefully with some really fantastic photography on the walls. The staff were on the ball, not only with our group of ten, but I could see them work the floor from where I was sitting and they worked it well. Every member was polite, friendly and always wearing smiles. Y Polyn rocks and I hope I get to go back here again.

The Art Cafe is a Fab Paint Your Own Pottery Cafe on Station Hill…read more You choose a ceramic pieces of pottery, and then using the great selection of paint you can paint on your own design, either to take home on the day, or if you want a piece you can use for food and drink come back a few days later to collect your kiln fired piece. This is great fun, and the selection of pottery means there is something for everything, adults a kids. For kids they also do parties, and the smiles on the faces on their way out says it all. You can have teas and snacks while you paint, or you can just eat without painting. A great experience - really fun

It's a lovely park very close to where we live, with a large lake and some small ones, where people…read morelike to feed the ducks and swans (and occasional seagulls). Great for walks in the woodland and around the lakes. The cafe is quite good and fairly inexpensive, though not much for vegetarians (why can't cafes keep some veggie burgers in the freezer to offer in addition to all the meat burgers?) Today there was a potato and cheese pie on offer which looked nice, though more choice would be good. The staff weren't particularly friendly, though not actually hostile. They could try to be a bit more welcoming though. On the plus side, it's pleasant on the inside of the building with occasional school exhibits and information about the park, and large windows overlooking the largest lake. There are also a few tables outside.

Over the years the Gnoll Park has changed a lot and when they added the Visitors Centre it was…read morecertainly a change for the better. The centre is situated next to the children's play area and the lake which has a huge variety of ducks, which is always a firm favourite with the children and you can purchase bags of food for them from the shop inside the Visitors Centre. There is a wealth of information on offer for both children and adults and the centre is a firm favourite with my granddaughter (though I suspect that the food and the ducks have a big part to play in this). All in all an excellent day out for everyone and best of all it's free, including the parking.

The Pantry, Neath Market: I was once locked in a pantry in Balmoral Estate. I was in my pants,…read morearmed with two pork chops, fending off a demented chef, a squirrel with two tails, a bad-tempered bobcat called Gerald, and Elton John singing something about blowing out candles with his wind. It was a strange Tuesday... Saturday in Neath; what could be better? 1. A brutal colonoscopy 2. A weekend in Monte Carlo 3. Being hung, drawn, and quartered 4. Tea for two at The Ritz A few things do spring to mind... I wandered past a wedding: the bride looking pretty in white, a drug-addled maniac waving his hands in the air like a wacky inflatable car wash mascot (he was happy, at least), and a deranged woman who offered to sell me discounted washing powder outside a Wetherspoons. The last one bothered me. I didn't approach her; she approached me and said, "Would you like this box of Vanish, special deal, five pounds?" I said, "No thank you." Neath truly is a melting pot. I was done with the basic shopping I had to do and decided to call into the market. I hadn't been for some time. I was very hungry by this stage, and it was then I happened upon The Pantry. I walked inside the café and I was transported back to school. Made me chuckle. There was one table at the back of the café available, and I sat down. I ordered a large breakfast with a black coffee from the very nice young man with red hair (failed to catch his name, so he will now be called Carrot Top) and sat back to people-watch. Opposite me was a man who bore a striking resemblance to Larry King in red suspenders. There was another couple to my left. I wonder where Cedric is these days... haven't seen him in a while. Probably off kicking an otter off a skyscraper. Weird hobby. My black coffee arrived and it was delicious. Very good. Then my toast arrived, and again, this was excellent. They used a farmhouse loaf with lashings of hot melted butter. Then my breakfast arrived. For some reason, I didn't have mushrooms. I didn't mention it, as I could see they were very busy. The bacon was thick and cooked well. The sausages had a good flavour (nothing spectacular, but good hearty sausages). The egg was good; the white was a little jiggly if I was being very, very picky. The beans and the tomatoes were of good quality and very tasty. And all this for £7.95. Holy moly! The quality and the flavour are top-notch for that price. I was more than happy. As I was paying, HE arrived. Cedric... "You otter, you philatelist, you insane fundamentalist!" Cedric spat. "You swine, you sub-par cobbler, you aardvark knobbler!" I responded. "I thought you were banished to a Tesla dealership in Slough?" "I have returned, Bernard. And this time I want to be friends!" I was struck. Emotional. My heart broke. My mind filled with ideas of forgiveness. I nodded solemnly. "Not a chance!" I said. I raised my mighty LeCox (my magic wand) and waved it in the air. "LeCox, LeCox, show him my boot. Show him out. Shoo him away. May he never return a year from now or today!" He turned into a blobfish with a ginger Bob Ross afro. "Oops. Must have done that wrong!" I chuckled. I considered taking Blob Ross home, but decided against it. Maxwell may get peckish again. My fish tank is not a pick and mix snack bar Maxwell... The Pantry, Neath Market 5/5 (you can't argue with the value for money and the quality. Superb.)

A very popular cafe at the top of the Cliff on the narrow lane from Marcross to Nash Point…read morelighthouse. It's located where the South Wales Coastal path crosses the stream at Mash Point. The cafe has stunning views of the little valley and cliffs below. It's small with a few tables inside and three outside, and serves a range of drinks, sandwiches, burgers, cakes and ice creams. It's spotlessly clean (as are the attached public toilets), though the owners are famous for asking walkers to remove their boots before entering. There's a small grassy parking area, for which the charge is £2, payable at the cafe.

Love this place. Me and my husband hung out at Coffee Punks twice during our visit here. We really…read moreliked the atmosphere and the music. It was great for getting a little work done. Today I had the avocado on toast. It was excellent! I didn't get it with the cilantro that it comes with but it was really delicious and quite filling (in a good way). I also really enjoyed the iced soy latte with agave. It was perfect.

I had read some good reviews of this place, but cannot say my experience matched them. I went there…read moreat lunchtime, which I assumed would be a peak time, but despite this the place was virtually empty (2 other customers). The first thing I noticed was that it was rather over-priced. A small slice of mass-produced, artificial-tasting cake was around £3.50 - really this should have been priced at half that or less. The selection of cakes was small and mediocre, and all were way over-priced. Coffee was ok, and typical of a coffee chain - nothing special. You got waitress service, but she forgot to bring my cake over so I had to go back up and get it - an apology would have been nice, but none was received. I had read somewhere that the location provided an interesting spot to sit and watch the world go by - seriously?!?! The windows look out onto the Kingsway, which is a busy one-way street so all you get to see is a Swansea traffic jam. They are trying to target students, but I think their prices are too high for this even with a student discount card and if today's absence of customers is anything to go by I do not think they are succeeding. In order to balance things out a bit, I thoungt the interior was nicer than the average chain coffee shop, but not really inclined to go there again.