Tapps Micropub, Llandudno

Two Boats off the Llandudno Seafront Today

Tapps is an excellent Micropub in the centre of Llandudno, well worth a visit if you love beer.

It opened in 2017 in a former cake shop. It’s an open plan bar with several tables. One of them is a chess board, which can be transformed into a card or backgammon table. Other board games are available to while away the hours. There’s a small snug at the rear and outside seating at the front.

They serve several real ales of varying types and several cask keg beers. There’s a large selection of bottled beers. They also serve cask ciders; there were ten available when I was there this weekend! The beers and ciders are mainly Welsh. You can order three third-pint glasses of beer/cider on a paddle, delivered to your table. A great way to taste several beers.

To me it’s the best place to drink beer and cider in Llandudno.

I never managed to get any photos of the pub. The outside is difficult to photograph and the photos I took of the inside of the bar were unusable.

First Visit, June 2024

I first visited this pub back in 2024, when I caught the Waverley Paddle Steamer from Liverpool to Llandudno with my friend John. We had four hours to kill, so we spent it here. Drinking some of the excellent real ale. We had to take a lot of care though, it’s a twenty, thirty-minute walk to and from the end of the pier, where the Waverley was berthed. We didn’t want to miss it.

We sat at two padded stools at the end of the bar.

Before we returned to the Waverley, we had to eat. The bar lady said it was OK to eat fish and chips at one of the outside tables, as long as we got rid of the wrapping somewhere else. So, I bought the fish and chips, while John reserved a table. Afterwards we returned to our stools at the end of the bar. The wrappings went in a street bin.

My memory of the pub from back then was OK, but not one of my favourites.

Today’s Visit

After taking photos of Conwy, the seafront and the Waverley Paddle Steamer and all the walking, I came here for a well-earned rest and a couple of pints, well three really. By now my feet were starting to hurt a bit.

The two padded stools at the end of the bar where still there and available, so I sat at one. And necked three pints of the Conway Breweries Welsh Pride bitter (4%), excellent beer at £4.40 a pint. Bliss.

While I was there two people were playing chess at the chess board table. A group of people were tasting beers, brought to them on paddles. The barman was very, very helpful, helping them to choose their beers. Locals were sitting outside, chatting away.

During this trip I changed my mind about the pub, it’s now a firm favourite, even though the place has hardly changed since the last visit. Unless new bars open, or the other micropub (The Cask and Apple) improves, it’s my go to watering hole in Llandudno.

Tomorrow’s Visit.

I also spent some time here on the Sunday, visiting it twice. Once for a quick pint in the afternoon after photographing the Waverley, enroute to The Albion in Conwy. And once in the evening, resting my weary feet after all the walking I’d done this weekend. Both times I sat at the bar on one of the padded stools.

In the evening I sat there for nearly two hours reading Mike Rutherford’s (the Genesis Guitarist) autobiography The Living Years and necking three pints of the Conwy Breweries Welsh Pride. It really is an excellent pint, in my humble opinion. I don’t remember much happening in the pub, I was too busy reading the book.