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Best Restaurants in Cardiff
214 restaurants analyzed out of 1483 identified · United Kingdom
Cardiff's dining runs neighbourhood by neighbourhood: City Road in Roath is the city's best-known strip for grills and kebabs, Pontcanna holds some of its most consistent kitchens, and the centre around the castle and Wind Street covers everything from a lunch between shops to an occasion table. Cardiff Bay adds waterfront dining along Mermaid Quay. Prices stay largely affordable for a capital city.
Cardiff has 214 analyzed restaurants. Some of the strongest areas for dining are Roath, Castle, Riverside. Top cuisines include East Asian, Mediterranean, American.
Top Restaurants in Cardiff
- Sonder Bar & Bistro A · Modern European, European · Pontcanna
- Heaneys Restaurant A · Modern British, British · Pontcanna
- Let Them See Cake A · Desserts, British · Canton
- Hotpot Spot A · Chinese hotpot, Chinese · Roath
- Don Don YATAI A · Japanese, East Asian · Canton
- Base Camp Indian Kitchen A · Indian, South Asian · Adamsdown
- Bar 44 Cardiff A- · Spanish tapas, Spanish · City Centre
- Thomas, the brasserie A- · Modern European, European · Pontcanna
- The Gwaelod-y-Garth Inn A- · British pub food, British · Gwaelod-y-Garth
- Café du Chat Noir A- · French, Bistro · Riverside
Top Neighborhoods for Dining
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Prices climb noticeably as Grangetown nears the Bay, a shift the rest of the area doesn't share.
Few single streets in Cardiff pack this much cuisine variety into so few doors, prices barely notice.
Roath's Mediterranean and Middle Eastern grills consistently outscore the Cardiff average.
Quality here consistently beats Cardiff's average, across an unusually wide spread of cuisines.
When in doubt about where to eat in Cardiff, the city centre around the castle rarely disappoints.
More road junction than neighbourhood, Gabalfa's own dining identity lives mostly next door in Maendy.
Cathedral Road's kitchens quietly outrate flashier, pricier stretches elsewhere in Cardiff.
Cardiff's student quarter, where pub grub and cheap curries outnumber everything else.
Most of Adamsdown's dining stays casual, but there's more room for a proper night out than expected.
Ely doesn't get dining visitors from across the city, and its restaurants don't seem to mind.
Llandaff punches above its size on quality, tucked a few miles from Cardiff's noisier centre.
East Cardiff's no-frills answer to a pub lunch, priced to match the neighbourhood.
Pentwyn's restaurant scene is built for the neighbourhood that lives there, not for a special trip.
Whitchurch still has the high-street village feel most of central Cardiff gave up years ago.
Tried and True
Grade Distribution
A6 restaurants
A-37 restaurants
B+70 restaurants
B44 restaurants
B-27 restaurants
C+11 restaurants
C12 restaurants
C-5 restaurants
D2 restaurants
Price Distribution
budget31 restaurants
expensive40 restaurants
extremely_expensive4 restaurants
moderate127 restaurants
very_expensive12 restaurants
Cuisine Strengths
- East Asian — 5 restaurants, 4 rated A- or higher
- Mediterranean — 15 restaurants, 4 rated A- or higher
- American — 16 restaurants, 4 rated A- or higher
- Pub food — 40 restaurants, 4 rated A- or higher
- South Asian — 7 restaurants, 3 rated A- or higher
- Pizza — 10 restaurants, 3 rated A- or higher
- Chinese — 9 restaurants, 2 rated A- or higher
- Welsh — 6 restaurants, 2 rated A- or higher
- Indian — 8 restaurants, 2 rated A- or higher
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