An iconic Llandudno institution on Mostyn Street and lower down on Mostyn Broadway — Forte's serves what many visitors call the best ice cream in Wales, alongside excellent breafast, lunch and dinner classics. In the Broadway branch - ice cream, waffles, crepes, milkshakes can be found, and a cheerful seaside atmosphere that has made it a town landmark for decades.
Forte's Ice Cream Parlour and cafeis one of Llandudno's most enduring and best-loved institutions — a bright, spotlessly kept parlour on Mostyn Broadway and an eatery on Mostyn Street that has been serving visitors and locals for decades. The quality of the ice cream is genuinely exceptional: reviewers from across the UK and further afield describe it as the best they have ever tasted, and the milkshakes attract equally devoted praise.
The menu on Braodway is built around ice cream in its many forms — Knickerbocker Glories, sundaes (Bueno, Reese's, Ferrero Rocher), banana toffee, raspberry ripple, and a rotating range of flavours — alongside crepes, waffles with a range of toppings, and milkshakes. The atmosphere is fun, clean and family-oriented in the best sense: the staff are friendly, the service is efficient and the whole experience is exactly what a seaside ice cream parlour should be.
Google rates it 4.6 and it is consistently among the most recommended sweet-treat destinations in Llandudno. It is not primarily a breakfast venue, but it opens early enough to work as a morning treat stop, particularly after a walk on the promenade, and the crepes and waffles make a perfectly reasonable start to the day by anyone's measure.
Located at 1 Mostyn Broadway, Llandudno. Open daily — check before visiting out of season as hours can vary. A ten-minute walk from The Rosedene. Dog-friendly outdoors.
