Topo Gigio in Swansea

It's great to find a restaurant where the food is good, the service is great and the atmosphere lends itself to the occasion. This is our 4th visit to Topo Gigio, and it hasn't let us down. It's well worth a visit.

Thank you, Topo Gigio. Fantastic meal and exceptional service. Haven't visited for a while but will definitely be back soon!

Amazing food, amazing staff & atmosphere

Small and intimate restaurant. Lovely atmosphere and the staff were very nice :) the bread they gave to start was really nice with butter. The risotto was VERY delicious, I highly recommend it if it happens to be the special that day. The meatballs were okay, I expected them to be more flavourful but just wasn’t for our taste. The braised beef was so tender and so flavourful and delicious. The vegetables that came with it were also cooked perfectly!! Highly recommend this main dish. The sauce on the bolognese was also very delicious, but once it was mixed in with the pasta, the flavour was watered down and became a bit bland for our taste. For dessert, I ordered a cappuccino and a homemade tiramisu. They were both very tasty and complimented each other well! I recommend ordering them!! Everything we ordered added up to about £65 Overall, fantastic food, atmosphere and service. Better than any Italian restaurants I’ve eaten at in Swansea! Highly recommend to come down and enjoy a nice dinner there!! :)

A wonderful intimate restaurant. The service is impeccable, food is freshly cooked and the highest quality. Always a good wine selection. A winner all around

Back again for some food. Can't really fault anything. If you haven't been it's well worth a visit.

Old school menu but really good food

Wonderful little restaurant with amazing food, highly recommend :)

Amazing food!! Very authentic great service wish they was open more days of the week

The food was absolutely beautiful and the restaurant is so cozy and homely. Really enjoyed our visit and will be returning :)

Such a lovely, comfortable, welcoming place. Delicious food and excellent service. They cater for gluten free customers and gave good allergy advice. The aubergine starter was delicious and the cheesecake is to die for. Highly recommended.

Excellent Italian food and staff were very friendly and made a fuss of us as it was our anniversary

We've been saying for years we would go to Topo Gigios and are very glad we did. Delicious food, perfectly cooked, great staff and the perfect choice for our anniversary. We will definitely be going back. We are just sorry we left it so long to visit.

Lovely family owned restaurant and very delicious food.

One of the best restaurants in Swansea!! I’ve been going to this restaurant for years with family & friends and the level of service and the quality of food is excellent. I was there last Saturday with my cousin & his family who were only in Swansea for two night,,but it was the first request on their agenda.

Had dinner with a friend while on a visit to Swansea, quite possibly the best restaurant in the area. Authentic Italian cooking from the Puglia region, impeccably presented and really fresh. It's a fabulous, intimate restaurant with a lovely atmosphere, the service was professional and super friendly, and at the end of our meal we enjoyed chatting to the owner about Puglia. Highly recommended.

Beautiful food and excellent bservice

Amazing food fast friendly service amazing all round.

Very friendly staff and good dessert. However the main menu is a bit outdated and doesn't offer many vegetarian options. Furthermore, the decor is mostly outdated too, affecting the ambiance. Besides this, a very atmospheric restaurant.

Wonderful Italian restaurant with many delicious food options available. Decent choice of excellent Italian wines. Very friendly and attentive service. Relatively inexpensive given the very high quality of the cuisine.

The Staff were lovely, food amazing and just a great experience. Will definitely be visiting again.

Excellent safe service in Thames strange times. All staff were super friendly and the food was absolutely stunning. Would pay another visit definitely if on the area

Awesome food in a lovely, relaxing and safe environment. Thank you x

Absolutely fantastic, would recommend to everyone. Amazing food, amazing atmosphere.

Enjoyed a delicious meal here on Friday with family. Excellent service and generous portions. Felt very safe with Covid measures in place. Will be going again soon.

Really good covid measures, distancing, screens, face shields, gloves and regular sanitising. Lovely food with good portions and vegan options, including delicious vegan pesto. Good service with really friendly staff.

Great food, good service lovely atmosphere will def be going again

Excellent variety of food on menu, lovely atmosphere and brilliant service, will go there again and again. Brilliant for any occasion.

Fantastic & efficient. Staff were helpful food was beautiful & piping hot on arrival. No hanging around waiting. Highly recommend.

Lovely food.good service would go back

Very good family run restaurant with good food and friendly service.

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Have loved eating here for over 20 years. Cheryl is lovely and Gino is an amazing chef.

I recently visited for one of my 40th Birthday celebrations. As we were a group of 8 we had to pre-order but no deposit was required. The table was decorated with confetti and birthday banners adorned the walls near our table, which was a nice...

Lovely good and very accommodating! One of our party is vegan and the chef designed a starter and created a pasta sauce on the day! Very much appreciated and would recommend to anyone!

Nice place , nice food an wine , could do with some nice wine glasses ! And a new c d ?

Excellent food, excellent service. Would heavily recommend the meatballs, absolutely delicious!

fabulous meal and service went with the family for the misses birthday and they had decorated special for the birthday with a cake and outstanding starter and main.. definitely going again

As always, food and service were both top notch. Great decor and atmosphere at a reasonable price for quality. One of our favorite date and birthday party spots. This time they even worked us into an already booked out Saturday night.

Always a good welcome and top notch food. A very good win list. Civilised surroundings . Well worth a visit on that special occasion. The best of the best. Dress smart!

Fantastic first class service and exela

Lovely family run business with great quality genuine authentic Italian food. Fabulous food, great service, lovely sized portions and a cosy and friendly atmosphere. Can’t wait to go back. Highly recommend.

Great food, chilled atmosphere and lovely staff

Not been to Topos in years and suddenly thought of it... what a wonderful restaurant and can see why it is probably the oldest restaurant in Swansea and still going strong. Beautiful food, extremely good service one could not ask for more. The setting is...

Google said open but walked there only to find closed until September 21st.

Found this little place on the off chance. The staff we very nice and welcoming and the downstairs had a cosy feeling to it, the toilet on the other hand! well I think they have a spook!! The food was nice and was piping hot...

Superb food, superb friendly service from a couple who have owned and run the restaurant for almost forty years. Husband runs the kitchen and his wife runs the front of house.

I've gone past this hundreds of times over the years but finally decided to try it out. Very small inside, very authentic. The food was incredible. Every morsel was full of taste, particularly the homemade deserts. To top it off, the liqueur coffees were perfect,...

Stunning family run Italian restaurant on St Helens road Swansea. Been here a few times and for good reason. If you like Italian food this is the place to go.

I found out that this is the second longest running restaurant in Swansea so to be open for over 30 years says that the owners must be doing something right! Attentive service, good quality food, relaxed atmosphere and value for money. Would recommend to anyone...

We found this little gem in a quiet neighborhood last night. It was bright and cheerful. The decor was lovely and the music selection conducive to relaxing. The selection was impressive for a small restaurant. I had two starters, which were more than enough. The...

Melhor restaurante em swansea!!excelente ementa e confeção da comida. As sobremesas são caseiras e divinais! Excelentes ingredientes. Destaque para o...

Swansea 'little Italy' food and service excellent, a true taste of Italy.

Came here as a birthday party for 10 last Friday. the restaurant was fully booked and busy. All our starters and main courses were served promptly together with great attention from the staff. The food was glorious and of the highest quality and taste. we...

Excellent service from beginning to end, the music beautifully complemented our wonderful dining experience. The food was cooked to perfection and the home made dessert was delightful. 10/10

Fab restraunt would recommend it

Favourite restaurant anywhere. Food always amazing and always to our taste. Really enjoy this dining experience.

I had a prawn cocktail starter which was pleasant, although the bread was some cheap roll from a supermarket, certainly not home baked, the main of veal saltimboca was awful, no flavour in the sauce, it seemed to have a lot of cornflour in it,...

Oh dear. So very disappointed. I travel a lot & like to support small local independent restaurants but I made a mistake tonight. Garlic bread starter was tough to cut to start but when the pesto pasta arrived my heart sank. A jar of Sacla & pasta at home is much better for about £1. Very, very over-priced for what I got, especially when I know what I've eaten elsewhere for less. I chose the window seat, but it was cold & draughty. Thank goodness I can claim this back on expenses.

Always perfect. Wine, food, service excellent! Worth every penny. Lovely.

We had no ad food nothing to write home about but what let them down was while we were eating out desert the staff were taking the bins out through the restaurant and we called a taxi the lights were turned off before we left and as we left they bolted and locked the door we felt really unwelcome

Another wonderful meal with friendly staff

We went to Topo Gigio as a group of friends on a Saturday night. All had different starters and main meals and everyone enjoyed what they had. The food here has always been first class albeit a little on the pricey side. The service is...

I recently went to Topo Gigio for an evening meal out with friends. The staff are very friendly and helpful and the food was as good as the service - superb. This is an Italian restaurant but I would say if you want a pizza...

Once again Topo Gigio has top marks. It a shame that I cannot give a 100points out of 10. Cheryl and her crew are so welcoming. Once shown to our table we ordered a bottle of cold water and were given the wine list and menu. Bottle of wine came as we perused the various menu. We ordered Parma ham and melon to start. Absolutely delicious. The melon was at its best and the Parma ham was so fresh and plentiful. Our main course was fillet steak a la Pepe with gorgeous fresh vegetables. The sauté potatoes to die for. To finish, hubby had home made strawberry ice cream and I had brandy coffee. What a feast! Will be back in march for our anniversary. Thanks so much to Gino and Cheryl. Xxxx

Homely place, very cosy, friendly staff, tasty food. Don't expect anything too fancy, but the dishes a well cooked and reasonably priced. Would and probably will return..

Proper home cooked Italian food from a friendly family restaurant. Ask for off the menu for some tasty authentic Southern Italian fare!

My wife and I visited Topo Gigio midweek for an impromptu meal. We were recommended this establishment by a friend who said that he hadn't had a bad meal there. On entry the decor is dated but not terrible and adds if anything a little character to the place. We both ordered from the 3 course set menu ordering garlic mushrooms to start and beef in red wine for our main course. I was flabbergasted to her the microwave ping 30 seconds or so before my reheated mushrooms were served. The garlic mushrooms were ok but nothing to write home about. We were served a bread roll with our starter that which looked like it had been bought from a supermarket. Not the home made offering I have become used to when dining out at Italian restaurants. The main course was terrible. The sauce had split creating small pools of water that had separated from the tomato and wine probably from the freezing and thawing process. There were 2-3 slices of tender beef covered by the sauce which had no notable flavour. The mains were accompanied by sauté potatoes and veg. This was fine. My wife chose the tiramisu which had hard biscuits where they had not allowed the liquor to absorb. My cheesecake was very nice in fairness, served with a side of crushed hazelnut. We are unlikely to recommend this restaurant and will not return.

Been going to this restaurant for more than 33 years. It is still as amazing now as then. Food exceptional service fantastic atmosphere romantic. Nothing too much trouble. Run by a husband and wife team. Restaurant small and intimate highly recommend especially for a special occasion

When we arrived we were asked if we were the couple from the guest house (Mirador Town House) we were staying in. The guest house owner (who we had only told 10 minutes earlier where we were eating) had called the restaurant to tell them it was my partner's birthday.We were then shown to a table with Happy Birthday confetti on it. A nice touch so quickly executed and thanks to the Mirador too.We each had a main course and dessert plus drinks. Food was really tasty and portions good. Couldn't ask for better. Service was friendly, efficient and helpful throughout.

Probably the best restaurant meal we've ever had. My wife and I visited with friends at their recommendation and were very pleased with the food, the service and the atmosphere. Though three of us are non-meat eaters, we had plenty of choice from the fish and vegetarian selections available and all of us found the food quality to be excellent and the portion sizes just right. The lady who served us was polite, friendly and gave us exactly the attention required, without being intrusive. A very pleasant evening in a relaxed atmosphere and excellent value for money. Will definitely be returning.

Went for a meal last night and was very impressed. The food was stunning with the portions just right! Service was friendly and professional. Looking forward to going again.

Visited midweek so restaurant quiet. Service was attentive and very pleasant. The menu is a taste of true Italy. Food arrived cooked to perfection, hot and tasting fabulous. This husband and wife team have been serving classic Italian food for many years. This ensures the customer leaves very satisfied with the whole dining experience. Well done.

Just returned from a meal at Topo Gigio felt I had to write a review on behalf of this restaurant as the meal was so wonderful, everything from the King Prawn starter, the Fillet Steak and the home made coconut and Malibu icecream deserved a 10 out of ten. I have eaten at restaurants in over 50 different countries and this meal was one of the best ever.

My husband fancied some Italian food and I remembered Topo Gigio, even though I hadn't been there for about 20 years. We were greeted with friendly smiles and a polite manner. The food was delicious and you get plenty of it! We also had a 'shared', dessert, which was perfect. We were able to park right outside too. We will be back!!!

Been going here now and then for years. The food is very much 'British Italian' and except for the specials unlikely to scare more conservative eaters. All the portions are large. Excellent fish, good pasta, and superb cheesecakes and home made ice creams. If there is a criticism its that the food choices are fairly heavy and solid. It's not the place to go if you fancy a rocket salad or a thin crust pizza.

Excellent food, generous portions and great service. I can't recommend Topo Gigio enough!