Tywyn Promenade · Gwynedd
The Victorian Slipway
A seafront restaurant with a proper menu and a bar to match, on two floors, and a terrace upstairs looking straight out over the beach.
Two floors, one restaurant — scroll down
- 2016Family-run since
- 4.3/5TripAdvisor, 213 reviews
- №5of 28 Tywyn restaurants
- 3Cask ales on tap
The restaurant
A seafront restaurant, family-run since 2016
A full menu and a proper Sunday roast downstairs, opened in July 2016 and still run by the same family. Book a table by the window and you're looking straight at Tywyn beach.
The kitchen keeps to honest, generous cooking — a full à la carte menu alongside a Sunday roast that regulars talk about for its value and its choice of homemade puddings. Vegan dishes are made on request, and the dining room is warm and candlelit.
There's a bar running alongside the dining room, with a warm welcome for children and dogs alike — dogs are especially welcome by the bar when the weather turns, and there's a jukebox, a fruit machine, and a screen for the football for anyone settling in for a drink.
At the bar
Three real ales, mostly from Herefordshire's Wye Valley Brewery. Butty Bach premium bitter and the session-strength HPA are the regulars, with one changing guest ale alongside the wine list.
From the kitchen
One flight up, the restaurant carries on — with a balcony over the beach.
First floor
More tables, a terrace, and the view
A second dining room upstairs with its own bar, and the best seat in the building: a terrace and balcony looking straight over Tywyn beach and out to Cardigan Bay.
The first floor is where the Slipway opens up — more tables, a quieter bar than the one downstairs, and doors out onto a sea-view terrace. It's a popular booking for functions and celebrations, with the room and the view to match.
Time a visit for sunset if you can. The window and terrace seats go first, for good reason.
Best table in the house
The terrace and balcony upstairs look straight out over the beach — ask at the bar if you're planning a function or a party, the room is set up for it.
The promenade
The wall it stands on really is Victorian
Marine Parade's sea wall and esplanade were begun in November 1889, the foundation stone laid by John Corbett — the Droitwich MP who'd made a fortune in salt and put some of it into the Ynysymaengwyn estate along this shore. The promenade was extended in 1893, and the villas that followed gave Tywyn its seafront face.
The Slipway has stood on that same stretch of wall since 2016 — a much younger building with a much older view.
Reputation
What keeps people coming back
- A seafront table at sunset, with Tywyn beach stretched out below the terrace.
- A Sunday roast diners rate for its value and its choice of homemade puddings.
- Generous portions across the board, from the minted lamb burger to the rack of ribs, in a candlelit dining room.
- A warm welcome at the bar too — children at the tables, dogs by the taps, regulars on the stools.
Ratings and review counts as publicly listed in 2026 on TripAdvisor and Restaurant Guru; the totals move with every sitting.
Visit
Find the Slipway
Opening hours
| Monday – Thursday | 15:00 – 23:00 |
| Friday – Sunday | 12:00 – 23:00 |
Hours can shift out of season — worth a call ahead, especially on quiet winter evenings.