Spit & Sawdust
SETTING
Outdoors
WHERE
Cardiff
What it’s like
Skateboarding sessions and coaching at an indoor-outdoor Cardiff skatepark, with a café doing homemade burgers and flatbreads.
This is a skatepark first and foremost, with coaching sessions if your kid has never stood on a board and workshops for the creative side of things too. It sits right on Newport Road, walking distance from the city centre, and there's a bus if you'd rather not park.
The café is doing more than the usual skatepark hot dog. Homemade burgers, chips, flatbreads and bakes, with sauces made in-house, plus a beer garden for the adults keeping half an eye on proceedings. Weekends bring a fuller menu with breakfast pancakes all day, which is the sort of detail that tells you this place takes its food as seriously as its ramps. Weekdays it's counter snacks, simpler and quicker.
It's step-free throughout with an accessible toilet, and dogs are welcome if yours comes everywhere with you. There's an on-site car park and bike parking too, so however you get there you're not stuck. School visits and group bookings both happen here, and birthday parties are clearly a regular thing, so it's not just a drop-in spot for the odd Saturday.
There's no age range spelled out.
Facilities
Need to know
- Parking
- On-site car park
- Food
- Café with homemade food including burgers, chips, flatbreads, bakes and sauces made in-house
- Dogs
- Welcome
- Getting there by bus or train
- Bus from city centre. Walking distance from Newport Road
- Step-free access throughout with an accessible toilet
- Weekend food menu is fuller than weekdays, with breakfast pancakes all day
- There's a beer garden if the adults fancy a pint while the kids skate
- Walking distance from Newport Road, or catch a bus from the city centre
Plan your visit
Do we need to book ahead?
There's no booking link listed, so it's worth treating sessions as something to turn up for, though coaching and group visits may work differently.
Is it suitable for a total beginner?
Yes, there are coaching sessions alongside the general skateboarding and workshops, so it's not just for kids who already know what they're doing.
What's there to eat?
A café with homemade burgers, chips, flatbreads and bakes, all made in-house including the sauces. Weekends add a fuller menu with breakfast pancakes all day, weekdays it's counter snacks.
Is there parking?
There's an on-site car park, and bike parking if you're cycling over.
Can you bring a dog?
Dogs are welcome, so no need to leave them at home.
Do they do birthday parties?
Birthday parties are listed as something they do, along with school visits and group bookings.
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