People travel from miles around to sit on its terrace and enjoy some of the best views in all of Swansea, while sipping on a cool glass of wine or champagne. - but now there's even more reason to visit Langland's Brasserie at Langland Bay.
The Gower restaurant, which serves fresh, locally-sourced produce and specialises in seafood, has now unveiled a stunning new look, updating its simple, nautical theme for a fresh, Mediterranean-inspired theme throughout the restaurant and bar area and adding greenery to the outdoor terrace, including rosemary and mint plants in plant pots around the tables.
Owners say they didn't want the venue to lose its charm - and wanted to "still keep a bit of the old Langland Brasserie" - but were looking to modernise the venue to draw more people into the restaurant and attract people to dine inside on-occasion, rather than just staying on the terrace.
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Camelia Fragiacomo, owner of Langland's Brasserie in Langland and St. Elli's Bay bistro in Llanelli, said: "What we've done is enhanced what we have outdoors. The star of this place is the view.
"Most people prefer to sit outside and so we have umbrellas and heaters out on the terrace. We wanted to create a relaxing, comfortable area where people can enjoy a glass of wine or champagne and some sea-food and enjoy the view."
She continued: "And indoors we've added planting and made the bar area a cosier place for people to come in. It used to be that people would come to the bar for a coffee or a cup of tea in the day time, and not use the bar as much in the evening, but now they can have a drink and a snack and spend time in the bar area [on an evening]. Everything in the bar area is new."
Langland's Brasserie attracts locals and visitors to Swansea alike, Camelia said, particularly people who are looking to support an independent business.
"We offer an alternative. Most places now are chains and they offer the same thing, whereas we offer something different," she said.
"We offer fresh seafood and the menu changes, it's seasonal. We change the seafood, the fruit and the vegetables to whatever is in season and everything is cooked fresh. People come here for our monkfish, our Dover sole and our crab, and we also have a specials board."
Camelia has owned the brasserie since 2010 and said many of her regular customers, particularly those who are older, often reminisce about visiting Langland Bay when they were children.
"The history of the place is very important. I've met people these past 12 years [since I took the business on] that have come back to revisit their childhood places," Camelia said.
"That is what really attracts people to this place, it's the good memories that they have at Langland Bay with their family, friends or partner."
With this in mind, Camelia and her team didn't want their new look to ignore Langland's history, so they've kept old pictures and a popular old mural on the wall, to remind people of what the brasserie, and the beach, used to look like.
She explained: "What we didn't want is to completely change it, we've still kept a bit of the old Langland, with old photos on the walls and the old picture [mural].
"In the main restaurant, we've kept some of the sea-theme but now we've got more of [an atmosphere of] a warmer climate.
"There's still that seaside feel about it, but now it's more Mediterranean.
"We've got warm lighting, new planting and greenery and new chairs and booths, it's a really warm feeling here. You feel like you're on holidays."
Bar manager Kieran McAden added: "[The makeover is] very refreshing, it keeps it in-line with what people want to see, while also appealing to the younger generation, looking for something Instagrammable.
"It adds to the setting we're in."
Before the pandemic, the venue offered the occasional jazz evening and Camelia hopes to re-introduce special events soon.
But in the meantime, Langland's Brasserie at Langland Bay (Brynfield Road, Newton) is typically open 10am to 10pm serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and an extensive drinks menu.
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