Patrick’s

Very nice restaurant on the Mumbles waterfront serving carefully prepared, very good food. Fairly elegant décor and attentive staff. Per person dinner and drink was about £20. I wouldn’t spend that kind of dinner money every day, but this was an enjoyable evening meal.

Patrick’s is a good standard restaurant providing a varied menu of local and international styled meals. In general the meats and fish are cooked correctly but the vegetables sometimes disappoint.
I have visited Patrick’s on several occasions and have always enjoyed the overall experience, the staff are friendly are great with large and small parties. Their wine list provides a good match for their menu. Their pricing is at the higher end of the scale for Mumbles but I feel is worthwhile for the overall experience.

We have been coming to Patrick’s since it first opened on the sea front in Mumbles in the early 1990s. The food is excellent and although not cheap is well worth the price. As far as possible the produce is sourced locally and the meals are simply delicious.
The lunchtime menu at £9.95 includes two favourites of mine, the grilled fillet of sea bream and the grilled salmon fillet, which are both (and please trust me on this) excellent! The main menu is a little pricey so this is a place to come for a special meal– a birthday celebration perhaps?
Patrick’s also has 16 ensuite sea view rooms at £130 per night so if you want a special night away this is the place to stay!
A recent addition is the Lounge Bar where aside from just enjoying a drink, reasonably priced savoury snacks are available or if you have a sweet tooth scrumptious desserts are also on offer!

This has to be one of the most consistent restaurants in Swansea, and thankfully it’s consistently good. The restaurant specialises in British food cooked with local ingredients.
The meal started with a pre-​starter that was absolutely packed with flavour, followed by some fantastic home-​made bread with oil and balsamic vinegar. We opted for fish as our main courses. These were exceptionally cooked.
The staff were discrete and willing to let you take however long you wanted over dinner. After our mains we weren’t pestered to even see a dessert menu until we were ready and unfortunately we decided that we were too full as the desserts sounded great.
My only complaint would be that the tables could do with being bigger as they had to keep reorganising the dishes on the table to make them fit.

We knew this place was expensive but having had a blazing row decided it was worth splashing out on a decent meal and headed in here — the food was fabulous and well-​worth the £80 bill — a selection of warm breads arrive as soon as you enter which is great becasue I’m always hungry as soon as I start thinking about my food! My only complaint is that the place always (over my three visits) seems full of noise making it less than ideal for a romantic meal or catch-​up with friends last time I could hardly hear myself think — this may be a run-​on of the costs as the noise came from a groups of well suited men and women selebrating ‘slammers brithday’ — Patricks needs to be careful that these groups don’t scare off the customers and then head off somewhere else. Anyway the building was fab, the décor was great and the food was lush!

Patrick’s is a super fancy place in the Mumbles. I haven’t been in a few years but I do remember it pretty well.
It’s one of the best places in Swansea to come if you’re looking for a good-​looking restaurant that does modern mostly European cuisine in a fairly imaginative way.
I think when I came, I had duck with strawberries, which I remember being totally lush.
The décor is pretty swish, very modern, trendy and cool.
The prices are at the higher end of what you’d expect to pay in Wales’ second largest city.
As with many places in Mumbles, some great views if you’re by the window on a nice day.

This is one of the most expensive places to eat in Mumbles and certainly the priciest restaurant on the ‘strip’ of bars and restaurants along the front. Is it worth the price? We felt it was worth a go. This decision was taken because on a previous visit to Mumbles we had experienced a couple of dodgy Chinese meals, not to mention the most appalling and unforgettable Welsh cheeseboard, ordered at the Mermaid a couple of years ago: we had been eagerly anticipating some mouthwatering farmhouse specialities but instead got a ‘dartboard selection’ of grim cheddars dyed in vivid oranges and greens, robustly flavoured with Mexican chilli, sage’n’onion, etc. Grooh!
Anyway, back to the matter at hand: Patrick’s. On arrival we were seated in the very pleasant colonial-​style bar area where we enjoyed a gin & tonic with complementary char-​grilled monkey nuts. We visited the toilets which were clean and extremely pleasant, furnished with unguents and soft hand-​towels. Then we moved to the main dining area, light and decorated with modern paintings and arty light fittings. We were surprised that the wine list seemed a bit limited and unadventurous, although perfectly reasonably priced. We chose a low-​priced Rioja that was decent enough. We were encouraged to order a round of home-​made breads with oil. They were fine, but a bit damp and uninspiring. For my starter (around £7) I chose an imaginative rissole of Welsh beef on black pudding, with a poached egg. It was quite a substantial dish and very tasty. The egg seemed slightly overdone, although the yolk was still partly liquid, but I suppose everybody likes their poached eggs to be different. Thinking about it, they might have asked me how I’d like it cooked. Mr B had pork belly on a bed of haricot beans in a garlicky sauce that was, again, tasty although there was a touch too much ‘char’ in the char-​grilled pork. These were good starters, so we felt a bit let down by the main courses when they arrived. Mr B had a nicely cooked fillet of salmon with juicy king prawns in a sweet and sour sauce with Asian salad. It was a shame that the bed of salad was fridge-​cold as opposed to room temperature. I ordered a large grilled Portobello mushroom in pastry, topped with a Welsh blue cheese. For £15 I was expecting something pretty special, but it wasn’t. Actually the whole ensemble was super-​salty and super-​garlicky. I love salt and garlic, but this was overpowering. The blue cheese on top was an enormous wedge of such pungency that nothing else on the plate really stood a chance. The pastry, too, was undercooked. By contrast to the main dishes, the accompanying vegetables carrots, courgettes and cubes of potato were bland. Unfortunately, because we’d filled up on the bread, we had no room for puddings which looked very tempting on the menu. So to sum up, this was a good enough meal with very pleasant service, but on this occasion not worth the premium we were being expected to pay.