A bar. A café. An art gallery. A chess venue. A table-tennis arena.
Honestly, it depends what day you turn up.
Proper live jazz in the front room. Turn up early if you want a sofa, turn up late if you like standing near the fire looking mysterious.
no tickets. just come.A rotating cast of pop-up kitchens — tapas one week, Cuban the next. Who's cooking right now? Check the sign out front, or ask at the bar. It changes. That's the point.
currently: tapas (probably)We don't just have chess boards — we field an actual team in the West Wales Chess League. Come play. Beginners welcome, hustlers tolerated.
we take the chess more seriously than the decorFill this in and receive your official jazz stage name. Same details, same name, every time — that's how destiny works.
Each week we put a phrase on the board — a headline, a quote, whatever's been annoying us. You rearrange its letters into the funniest reply you can manage.
Rarer letters score more. Use every letter for the FULL BOARD bonus. Top scores go to the judges — and the funniest wins a pint, and your words on the actual sign for a week.
One entry per human per week · closes Sunday midnight · judged on funniness by staff plus one guest judge (this week: the chess club captain) · 18+, there's a pint involved · winner's words go on the real sign, so keep it just about printable
A function room for birthdays, gigs, wakes, launches, club nights, and meetings that deserve better than a Zoom call. Reasonably priced — suspiciously so, according to reviews.
ask us about it before someone else books your date38 Uplands Crescent, Uplands, Swansea SA2 0PG
01792 447360
| Mon–Sun | midday-ish till midnight |
Head up to Uplands. Look for the rusty metal sign with the magnetic letters spelling something that made someone laugh on a Tuesday. That's us. If the letters spell something rude, that wasn't staff. Probably.
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