Britannia Inn in Swansea

We enjoyed a delicious Lamb Sunday Roast with the best homemade Yorkshire Puddings we’ve ever tasted. A lovely atmosphere in this cosy and historic “inn” located in a special place on the Gower Peninsula with spectacular views of Carmarthen Bay: The staff are very friendly and welcoming. The homemade desserts are strongly recommended..our favourites: The Sticky Toffee Pudding and the Vanilla Cheesecake with Mango Sorbet. Thank you for an unforgettable experience…we will be back!!

Had a really great experience at the Brit. The food was excellent. The atmosphere was relaxed and had a fantastic energy which made it perfect for a chilled evening out. What really stood out the most was the fantastic service. Special thanks to Issy, Millie and Paige - they were super friendly, had great conversation, and genuinely seemed to enjoy what they were doing. It makes such a difference when the staff create a welcoming vibe like that. They handled everything smoothly and added a personal touch that took the whole experience up a notch. Definitely planning to come back very soon - great place, great people!

We've been a few times. Each time it's been the same - uninspiring food, poor quality, overly salty, lacking in flavour. The chef clearly doesn't care anymore. Cheap sausages with lumps of gristle served with instant mash, a spoonful of onion relish from a jar and ready-made gravy. Chips that have been obviously cooked hours ago then refried. The kitchen here has no pride and is just churning out something that resembles the menu descriptions with the minimum of effort and cost. It never ceases to amaze me how poor pub food manages to usually get five star ratings from so many. I can only put this down to the legions of people who must be eating processed food at home every night and for whom something that didn't come out of a microwave is exquisite gastronomy. Either that or they're several pints in by the time the food arrives. Probably both.

A vast menu, much incorporating local ingredients, making choice difficult. Cockle and laverbred, lamb croquets starters, oxtail tagliatelle and duck leg mains, were all excellent, created with flare and love. Very impressed. If anything, the tagliatelle portion was too large, but excellent nonetheless

Visited for the very first time and had Sunday lunch that was outstanding. There was plenty of choice of starters, main courses and desserts but we opted for a 2 course meal of starter and main course at £22pp. My starter was lamb croquettes whilst hubby had prawn cocktail. Both were superb and plentiful. For main course I had turkey whilst hubby had lamb. The meals were very substantial and served with plenty of veg & extra gravy. The staff were all very friendly and attentive and the whole dining experience couldn't be faulted. We will be back.

Several of us went for lunch recently, I ordered a chicken curry unfortunately a vegetable curry was served. I complained and was told the dish would be changed, but the same curry was served with some limps of chicken added! Very disappointing!

Atmosphere was lovely, the food was delicious and service excellent! It has been consistently good since we have visited a dozen times over the last six months

Place was beautifully decorated and was busy too. We managed to get a place in the restaurant due to the lovely staff that were very accommodating. Excellent service that matched with the delicious food. We had the the crab special which was refreshing and not too heavy and filling, perfect for someone like me who likes to save room for dessert.

We visited a few years ago and it was a nice experience, so we thought we should visit again when we were in the area recently. The pub is nicely decorated, the food was very nice but the staff attitude was a little bit disappointing. They chose to chat behind the reception and to discuss personal matters when customers in the pub could clearly hear the whole story instead of maybe pay more attention to customers themselves in case they would like to order another drink.

Visited here in the week and had the Burger which was outstanding, so we decided to have a Sunday lunch here also. Quaint pub with lovely stone walls and a great place to have a pint and food. The Sunday lunch arrived and I can best describe the food as disappointing. Although the food was extremely tasty and the beef was mouth watering, I can best describe it as slightly less than warm. Also there was very little gravy to accompany the dinner, so we ordered an extra serving of gravy. There was four of us and the amount of gravy would not fill an egg cup, and at £3.00 a serving, I thought this extremely excessive. Two deserts and agin it was slightly less than warm. Overall extremely disappointing when we had an earlier meal in the week which was delicious. A generous 3 stars when we would have given it as 2.5, which the four of us all agreed upon.

We had lunch at this lovely old pub based on previous reviews. What a gem of a place! It was a beautiful sunny day and the outdoor area with great views over the sea provided a fantastic setting. The Welsh shoulder of lamb was really melt in the mouth, as was the Welsh Lamb Tagine and the Thai Chicken curry. Very nice to find a pub menu that had different things on it to the usual and clearly the chef knows what he/she is doing! The restaurant also looked lovely in case of inclement weather.

The Britannia is the most cosy pub I’ve been to in a long time! The food is absolutely fantastic I couldn’t recommend this place enough! Especially the steak and ale pie, bursting with flavour. The staff are ever so friendly, very happy and chatty, especially the two waitresses called Helen and Izzy if I remember correctly, received the best service from these two. However there was this young girl with dark hair who was very grumpy and standing there on her phone a lot throughout service especially with customers there, which is absolutely disgraceful and unprofessional!Also wearing her hair down which was also not the best as me and my husband were scared if we got hair in our food!! Other than that we were so so happy and will definitely be coming back! Thank you so much for an amazing meal. :)

The Gower is one of the hidden gems of the UK - stunning even on a cold blustery Autumnal day. And this pub is the perfect place to have a hearty lunch after being battered by the weather...

this is a beautiful country pub serving homemade local food at a very high standard! would defiantly recommend! keep up the great work!

Just had a few days in Horton, in the Gower and drove over to the Britannia Inn. Not been before were recommended by friends to go. My husband had the soup and rabbit casserole. I had soup and a fish pie. The food was excellent and staff very obliging. Look forward to going again.

My partner and I visited the Britannia inn during a mini break as recommended by some locals on the beach and we were not disappointed! We sat in the main bar in front of the fire in a cosy little corner and were made to feel very welcome. The staff were very friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. The drink selection was good, they know how to look after their beer and serve a good red wine. The specials boards had just the right amount of choice on them, as did the main menu. We had mussels to start with and the lamb for our main meal, both were absolutely superb! Both meals were well presented, well cooked and carefully thought out with flavours and textures working well together. The juxtaposition of modern vs traditional meant that you were getting traditional food with a much finer dining experience. I would highly recommend the Britannia Inn and will be returning as soon as possible! We've been back home over a week now and are still talking about our meal here!

loved the fact the food was locally sourced and the views are to die for! my only criticism is that my steak came with a gravy type jus on it, that wouldn't of been a problem if i hadn't already ordered a pepper sauce. a heads up would of helped. but all in all a very pleasant visit!

the food could be so much better. My case is as follows......just up the road at The Greyhound Inn they do these wonderful baguettes and sandwiches absolutely stacked with high quality ingredients with a bowl of handcut chips that is a dream lunch....however the Britannia does a tuna sandwich with a smear of tuna, a hint of salad and the most weirdly seasoned chips Ive ever come across, they werent exactly bad , just inappropriate.....I had an aftertaste for hours afterwards. But! This is a lovely pub and anyone who ever finds themselves in this are should make a visit.....Ive been going there after a beach day, with my kids for years and now my kids are grown-ups (allegedly!) I still would want to go there!

There was no pretentious clap trap here. Food was lovely, well-cooked and well-preserved. The staff were working hard and we're calm, efficient and friendly. We came to celebrate our pearl wedding anniversary on the Gower and this meal finished of a lovely day with our daughter and her partner.

Great food, reasonable prices, friendly, informal, dog friendly = great holiday choice pub. Choice of bars and outside eating, lovely village pub/restaurant.

A lovely refined place to eat. Very expensive with fine dining. Couldn't afford to go there very often. Young lad very efficient. Food was lovely though. Compliments to the chef.

A lovely quiet restaurant food ok, the gentleman was very helpful.a bit out of the way to get to in the winter, but a lovely drive in the summer would be fine.

Called in for lunch while on a full days walk in wet weather. Ate in the public bar, very comfortable traditional bar. Very prompt and friendly service, I had a steak baguette and my wife a tuna baguette, both came with chips and both were excellent and very good value. Looked like some decent beers on draught but as it was lunchtime and another six miles to walk, we had two pots of tea - £1.50 per pot, cheap! Menu looked good and based on the quality of our food at lunchtime I would like to return for a full meal sometime.

I am a regular visitor to this beautiful area and thought I'd try the Britannia Inn as a treat for the kids as they hardly ever eat out. I called in at lunchtime to ask if I should/could book a table for 6.30 and was told that it would not be busy. We arrived at 6.45 and there was already an hour wait for food. The garden is lovely at the back with nice views, an aviary, some rabbits and a plastic climbing shoe for younger children, so we stayed. After waiting 20mins at the bar we ordered food which came surprisingly quickly but it was a joke, the salt marsh lamb burger for £10 was very thin, not what you would expect for a local burger, it came with a ramekin of Chips on a small board, a bit of lettuce and tomato in the burger and a pappy white bun that broke as soon as I tried to eat it. The children's sausage and chips was a reasonable size, (with more chips than the adult burger meal) and a small salad but the pasta dish was tiny, approx half a mug full just dropped in a bowl, and nothing else! We ate in about 5 minutes and left to find more food as we were starving. The lack of shops open at 8pm and an hour wait for take away chips at the next pub meant that we all went hungry, we were camping nearby and it was our last night. I thought meals at pubs like this were a thing of the past, why try and save money by reducing things like pasta and chips and have guests leaving hungry? I worked out that the pasta and tomato sauce meal the kids had would cost me about 15p to make at home which I paid app. £4 for. Very disappointed, seems like a rip off tourist trap, avoid if possible, I certainly won't be going again. On the plus side, the staff were very friendly even though they were very busy. I think the chef needs to look at portions and the owner needs to eat there with some kids because I only saw disappointed parents.2 stars only for the location and staff, 0 stars for quality and quantity of food. No excuse these days£35 for 1 adult and 3 children incl 7 soft drinks. Reasonably priced if the food was up to it.

OK - so the Britannia has had lots of 'excellent' reviews, so what went wrong?I don't usually bother with restaurant reviews, as I generally just pop into place for something basic, like coffee and cake. Usually, they're fine, and it's the sort of food and drink that's easy for anyone to prepare. Not so with the Britannia.Here's what happened...I ordered a latte, toasted teacake and a scone with jam and cream. Even the lousiest beach caFe has been able to manage this during the previous several weeks of travelling. The boy behind the bar at the Britannia simply messed up everything.* Despite having a 'proper' coffee machine, he managed to provide something awful and instant, which took some vigorous stirring on my part to get it dissolved. It wasn't latte. I doubt it was even coffee.* Ping! That'll be the microwave warming up my toasted teacake. It was stale, and must have been toasted a day or two previously, and bunging it in the microwave didn't disguise this,.* Ping! That'll be the scone... stale... rock-hard. It came with a tiny blob of jam and a little puff of cream from an aerosol can.Net result... Three simple items that a chimpanzee could prepare... completely ruined!Congratulations Britannia. You have earned my first ever 'terrible' review of any UK establishment. You're in the restaurant business, so I don't need to waste my time telling you how to do your job. You should know how to do a simple latte, teacake and scone. If your staff can't do that, then for heaven's sake find someone who can!The place wasn't busy when I was there, but looking round the bar, I noticed glum, unsmiling faces, and people leaving large amounts of uneaten food on their plates. A bit of a bad day all round?

Nestled in a valley in North Gower the Britannia is a real surprise. Outside and immediate interior dont look promising but sit down, have a pint of Gower Gold and enjoy excellent food in the bar or restaurant/lounge. Kids welcome, the Britannia has a big outside space overlooking the Loughor Estuary.Food not served all day and when we were there booking recommended in the restaurant.