The Towpath Inn

The Towpath Inn The Towpath Inn
Detroit Pizza Pub On The Canal
Dog-friendly 🐾 | Vegan-friendly 🌱 | Gluten-free 🍕 (in no particular order)

Some things just go together.If you've been meaning to come down and try us - your first pizza is on us. No catch. No co...
13/05/2026

Some things just go together.

If you've been meaning to come down and try us - your first pizza is on us.

No catch.
No commitment.
Just come in, sit down, and find out if we're your kind of place.

Dogs welcome.
First pizza free.
Canal tables are back.

Comment FREE PIZZA and I'll send you the details.

The Towpath Inn. Welsh Pizza Festival. 6th June.Tickets in bio. 👆
12/05/2026

The Towpath Inn. Welsh Pizza Festival. 6th June.
Tickets in bio. 👆

05/05/2026

Barry’s coming to the Welsh Pizza Festival on June 6th. Tiny Rebel Brewery, Newport. Get your tickets before he slices through them too. Link in bio🍕

May is here.The canal tables are back. The courtyard is open. And we're running all the way through to bank holiday Mond...
30/04/2026

May is here.

The canal tables are back.
The courtyard is open.

And we're running all the way through to bank holiday Monday on both the 4th and the 25th.

If you've been waiting for a reason to finally come down - this is probably it.

Book via the link in bio to reserve your pizza base.
Saturdays fill up fast so don't leave it.

And if you haven't been before, people come back for the pizza so your first pizza is on us.
Comment FREE PIZZA and I'll send you the details.

29/04/2026

He said he was the fastest pizza slicer in Wales. We got a timer. Watch till the end to find out if he was right. 🍕
Pizza chefs - think you can beat it? Comment below. We’ll bring the button. 🔴
Newport

We just launched a new website.Most pub websites have a menu, some photos, an opening hours page, and a book a table but...
14/04/2026

We just launched a new website.

Most pub websites have a menu, some photos, an opening hours page, and a book a table button.

Ours gives away a free pizza.

Right there. On the homepage. No catch. No hidden commitment. Just - here's a free pizza, come and find out if we're the place you've been looking for.

That's not an accident. It's the whole point.

We built the website the same way we built the pub. Around the person who's been let down before.
Who wants somewhere worth going to but doesn't want to gamble their Friday night on it.

The free pizza answers that. Not a discount. Not a voucher code for 10% off.
A free pizza. Dine in. Come and decide for yourself.

There's also the full story on there.
Why we only do two pizzas.

Where the Detroit came from.
Why the pub pizza is the one we're most quietly confident about right now.

Worth five minutes of your time if you want to know what this place is actually about.

Link in bio.
Or just comment FREE PIZZA and I'll send you the details directly.

No, this isn't a Sunday lunch menu.It's our Detroit toppings.While someone somewhere is boiling sprouts and arguing abou...
12/04/2026

No, this isn't a Sunday lunch menu.

It's our Detroit toppings.

While someone somewhere is boiling sprouts and arguing about whether the Yorkshire puddings are big enough - we're pulling deep pan Detroits out of the oven with crispy caramelised edges, Chicken Parm, Sloppy José, Sloppy Souvlaki, and our Sloppy Joe.

One Detroit feeds two comfortably. Or a family of four if you need it to.
Can't decide? Half and half. Two different builds on one base.

Veggie options available too.
Vegan cheese on request.

No gravy required.
Although if you bring your own gravy boat - I'll put our tomato and garlic sauce in it for you.

And if you've got a family member who doesn't do deep pan 🤯 bring them anyway.
Their first pub pizza is free. 14 inches of New York style on us.

comment free cheese and ill send the details.
Keep everyone happy.

Open from 12pm today.
Book via the link in bio or just turn up.

Most people are nervous trying somewhere new.96 people weren't in March.They claimed a free cheese pub pizza, came in, s...
31/03/2026

Most people are nervous trying somewhere new.

96 people weren't in March.

They claimed a free cheese pub pizza, came in, sat down and tried it for themselves.

No catch.
No commitment.
No obligation to order anything else.

Here's what they said. ▶

Comment FREE PIZZA and I'll send you the details.

Dine in only

30/03/2026

I'll be honest about why I started this.

There are four pizza makers coming to the Welsh Pizza Festival on 6th June that I'd personally vouch for.

As someone who makes pizza every week and cares probably too much about it, I don't put my name next to anyone I haven't tried and genuinely rated.

So if I'm bringing them to Tiny Rebel and asking you to buy a ticket, you can take that as a pretty good sign.

That's the Welsh Pizza Festival.
Saturday 6th June at Tiny Rebel Brewery in Rogerstone.

Four of the best pizza makers we can find in and around Wales, lined up next to each other, one slice from each.

Paired with Tiny Rebel beer.
Their venue.
Their crowd.

Speaking of which - that reel you just watched?

That's the Towpath Detroit Slice Bar feeding the Tiny Rebel team during their factory shutdown.
When they wanted pizza for their own people, they called us.

That's the kind of company we're keeping on the 6th.
Where else can you get four slices from four great pizza makers with world class beer and DJs running all day?

Day session 11am–5pm.
Evening session 5pm–11:30pm.

Confirmed so far: & The Towpath Inn Detroit Slice Bar. More pizza slingers and some tasty Dj's to be announced.

Tickets are live - link in bio.
Don't sleep on it.
Pizza. Beer. Wales. 🍕🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I’d been staring at Tom’s pizzas on Instagram for months.Finally in 2023 I dragged my son Kai to Bushey, Watford.Didn’t ...
30/03/2026

I’d been staring at Tom’s pizzas on Instagram for months.

Finally in 2023 I dragged my son Kai to Bushey, Watford.

Didn’t expect what happened next.

Tom makes what I think is the best pizza in the UK.

One bite and I knew, that was the standard I wanted to get to.

Whatever that took.

Two years. Three years. Five.

At the time I was making a big decision. Moving from a wood-fired oven in the garden to an electric twin deck, the kind that could handle the volume I needed for the New York (ish) style I was trying to get right.

Wrong oven and you’ve wasted serious money and probably years of progress.

I texted Tom, half-expecting silence.
Or a consulting fee.

Instead my phone blew up.
Oven models.
power specs.
Budgets and one supplier who’d overcharge me.

All of it. Free.

What struck me was how freely he shared it.

I’ve found this across the board with great pizza makers, they’re all remarkably open.

No secrets. No holding back.
And I think I know why.

Because the recipe isn’t the secret.

I’ve got shelves of recipe books at home.

Step-by-step photos.
I Followed them exactly and still turned out rubbish.

Great food doesn’t come from instructions or secret recipes.

It comes from making the same thing hundreds of times and being brutally honest with yourself about where it’s still not right.

My first attempts were disappointing.
I fed them to my family. They were fine.

But I knew fine wasn’t good enough.
So we kept going.

Two pizzas.
Thousands of attempts.

Getting honest about what’s still wrong.

That’s what we’re working on at The Towpath. Every week.

The 14-inch “pub pizza” a New York (ish) style is where it started. Visiting in 2023 is part of why it is what it is today. Cheers Tom 🙏

People now come back to The Towpath for the pizza - Try the first one free.

Comment FREE PIZZA and I’ll send you the details

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49 Main Road
Gilwern
NP70AU

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