Lansdowne

Cardiff


With charmingly scruffy rooms sprawling around a central bar painted racing green and festooned with hops, the Lansdowne is esteemed for its food (mains £11 to £13) and for its CAMRA-acknowledged dedication to craft beer and cider. It even runs its own mini beer festival every June.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Cardiff attractions

1. Blackfriars Priory

0.98 MILES

As you're walking through Bute Park, look for the outline of the foundations of 13th-century Blackfriars Priory. It was destroyed in 1404, when Owain…

2. Bute Park

1 MILES

Flanked by the castle and the River Taff, Bute Park was donated to the city along with the castle in 1947. With Sophia Gardens, Pontcanna Fields and…

3. Animal Wall

1.02 MILES

This section of wall on Bute Park's southern edge is topped with stone figures of lions, seals, bears and other creatures. In the 1930s they were the…

4. Gorsedd Stones

1.03 MILES

This stone circle was erected in 1978 when Cardiff hosted the National Eisteddfod. Such so-called gorsedd stones are found all over Wales where…

5. Principality Stadium

1.07 MILES

Also known as Millennium Stadium ('Principality' is the current naming-rights sponsor), this spectacular venue squats like a stranded spaceship on the…

6. Cardiff Castle

1.15 MILES

There's a medieval keep at its heart, but it's the later additions to Cardiff Castle that really capture the imagination. In Victorian times, extravagant…

7. Llandaff Cathedral

1.2 MILES

This venerable cathedral is set in a hollow near the River Taff, on the site of a 6th-century monastery founded by St Teilo. The present building was…

8. St John the Baptist Church

1.25 MILES

A graceful Gothic tower rises from this 15th-century church, its delicate stonework looking almost like filigree. Along with the castle keep, this is one…