I was craving a smash burger and this place hit the spot! They have a variety of burgers to choose…read morefrom and even vegetarian options too. Friendly staff! And great for a quick bite before a concert or game.

Beautiful service from staff, they're not afraid to strike up a small conversation about…read moremiscellaneous things: (One guy has always got some really cool band shirts on). The burgers are great, and friendly for my severe allergies: Nut, Peanut, Lupin. 10/10.

Pretty good BBQ place not far from where I was staying. I was with a large group and they were able…read moreto accommodate the seating. It wasn't busy so that helped but either way accommodating a large group without reservations is a plus in service. The food was delicious and the meats were cooked well. Everyone got their order accurately as well. Top notch

I have looked for decades to find beef brisket better (or even rivaling) the brisket at Martin's…read moreBarbecue in Nashville, TN, having been promised at every restaurant, "the best" of some comparison. I had to come to Cardiff, Wales to find its equal. And, truth be told, Smoke Haus of Cardiff probably uses a higher quality beef! Outstanding, great taste, wonderful sauce, and best I've ever eaten, all fall short in describing the results of this owner's quest in his trek across America to find the best way to present barbecue. He did it! If 6 stars were awarded for a sports bar, this one would get all of them.

Wife and I were recommended this place by our in-laws and it surpassed our expectations. Good food…read moreand cooked to perfection. Im quite fussy on my beef being cooked. Wife isn't a red meat fan so she had the chicken dish and she enjoyed that. Atmosphere inside is beautifully presented. Music in background and nice wooden smoke house type decor. Forgot I was in Cardiff after a few hours. Price of my burger was priced at £14 but when I had a taste and finished my dish, I will be returning for more.

I am pleased to make Gourmet Burger Kitchen my first review on my trip to Cardiff, my latest of…read morecities visited, in the capital of Wales this time, and I hope this place sets the tone for the rest of my stay here as it was a relatively good experience I had here. GBK have 53 stores in the United Kingdom, and as I recall they have 3 stores in Cardiff, the capital of Wales alone, this branch is classed as "The Cardiff Library" branch for some reason and is apart of the St David's mall, and is right next to Wangyama and Carluccio's, rival restaurant chains specializing in different cuisine, being asian fusion and Italian respectively. My server here seemed pretty friendly, and got me sat down quite quick, and made sure I had visited GBK before so I knew the essentials such as ordering at the bar and the cool loyalty scheme with there app which gives you free sides, milkshakes and burgers, for visiting, for example every other visit you get an award, if you visit 3 different branches you get a free burger, if you try all 6 milkshakes, you get a free one, so that is pretty cool. This GBK was quite nice, and cool inside however it was smaller than my local branch in Spinningfields in Manchester, it just seemed nicer with a cooler vibe, due to its location and decoration in Cardiff. I decided to order a Gluten Free Cheese and Bacon burger, with Applewood cheese with some skin on chips, using my free loyalty code on this occasion having ranked up two previous visits on my loyalty card at my local Spinningfields store, and of course I tried a milkshake, working my way up there offer were you try them all for a free one. I was served at the bar by Conor, he seemed pretty friendly, and I did ask him for a few recommendations such as the best cheese, and the best milkshake, and what Applewood Cheese like, and decided to order a banana milkshake and the Applewood Cheese based on his reccomendation. As always, the milkshake taken a while to come and taken much longer than my friend's San Maguel, as well as being priced more expensive than his San Miguel at £4.30, however it did taste fresh and it was very nice, and I did also enjoy it, as I did previously with there lime flavor at their Spinningfields branch, although this wasn't my favorite milkshake at GBK, having preferred the Lime, I still was pleased with the drink and enjoyed it. Moving onto my burger, this also was quite nice however it was abit to overfilled to what I expected, even with some sort of habenero jam and relish, which sadly wasn't very nice, it was the typical gluten free bun GBK use from a bakery in the north of England, which was good to see, and my burger was quite nice, minus the lettuce which it was stuffed with, and it just tasted and even felt hard and low quality, and the habenero jam or relish gave it a horrible taste too and worsened the burger sadly, and I had to scrape this off. My chips were average, they were very hot however the portion just seemed a little small, and it definitley wasn't the best chips I have had from a GBK branch, I regret to report. Overall, this place is quite cool and I am pleased that they helped get my Cardiff trip off with a bang, but sadly I can't help but feel this place has only done enough for a solid three star rating in what is actually a landmark for me being my 300th review which awarded three stars, making three only the second rating I have awarded over 300 times to joining two stars in that case, however don't be confused I am giving this branch of GBK a well deserved three.

Well this isn't no Macdonalds that's for sure. You can actually see the fresh ingredients that go…read moreinto the burgers and taste lots of lots of different flavours. I like having the option of choosing whatever ingredients you want in a burger! I have eaten the most amazing burgers in the world in New Zealand so had very high expectations of GBK, sadly though these burgers are never quite as amazing as they sound on paper and I don't feel they justify the price tag. Luckily they have lots of offers and vouchers so everyone can have a try for cheaper. I'm quite happy they sell New Zealand beer too to wash down my burger, while my boyfriend is a massive fan of the Oreo milkshakes! I like this restaurant more than the Cardiff Bay one, its bigger and feels less plastic and clinical. I say give it ago, just maybe don't expect the best burger of your life.

Apparently, tidy means something very different in British English than it does in its North…read moreAmerican cousin. Because, where I come from, if a veggie burger explodes all over, it is hardly a tidy meal. Not that it wasn't a delicious veggie burger. I was a bit weirded out by the presentation at first. The patty was like a giant piece of hummus. Usually when this is the case, I end up not enjoying the chunks of vegetables inside. It just feels too healthy. But there was enough disguising the vegetables in the toppings (the goat cheese and mayonnaise combination on their Naughty Shepherd was outstandingly good) that all I tasted was a delicious veggie inside that was not quite as good as fake meat but definitely solid and chewy enough to enjoy. Though, again, the pieces did seem to like to fall apart and onto my tray. Most untidy! However, the fries were very solid and adding them to the meal was a relatively good deal. I did still find it a bit expensive for a burger here. But they do run the line between a chippy and a gourmet burger place so paying around five pounds for a burger felt about right. The place is very hard to find, all hidden in an alley. If more people knew where to look for this burger place, they'd have more than a couple of locations I bet. They really are that good.

(4.5 stars) Could see myself eating these burgers all the time, with a side of fries of course…read more Went with the spicy uncle Pedro because I love spicy food and it seemed so different from other burgers. It was, and it was super tasty, but wasn't as spicy as I had hoped. The fries were super crispy and went great with the house bbq sauce.

During my experience here, the food was not as good as I saw on yelp…read more - Fries The fries were as cold as my hands on a snow day. They were rock hard and nearly broke my tooth. - Customer Service The people working here deliberately THREW my food at me as If I was begging for it. Disgraceful.

Five Guys Cardiff has officially been open for two days!…read more Of course it's launch meant I had the perfect excuse to set aside my dried mango and rice paper rolls and indulge in something I secretly wish I could eat EVERYDAY! My boss offered to pay which subsequently encouraged a Five Guys free-for-all. In total 15 Burgers and 1 Hot Dog was ordered. The latter being mine. The Bacon Cheese Hot Dog with Jalapeños. Sliced down the middle, slightly crispy and ridiculously delicious. My only regret is ordering this while in work. I've had to undo the top button of my trousers and am currently attempting to resist the temptation of having a teeny tiny nap behind my computer screen. *pause for huge yawn* Food baby aside the online ordering system is super easy and allows you to arrange a pickup time that is convenient for you. Here, have some random Five Guy Facts before you scroll on... There are over 250,000 possible ways to order a Burger at Five Guys. They only use fresh roll stamped prime beef. There are no freezers in Five Guys locations, just coolers. Nothing is ever frozen. They only use Peanut Oil.

delicious burger, amazing frozen custard and very friendly service (especially the long haired male…read moreemployee, ace- went above and beyond). Thank you!! Get the welshcake ice cream with peanut butter sauce!!!

I was looking for different and unusual places to try in Cardiff since l come here on business…read morequite often, since having worked in America and lived in New York in my younger days I was quite looking forward to trying shake shack as they do have one In New York. Atmosphere. This is a purpose build place in a shopping centre where everything looks new and fresh, but still l think this place lacks in any or much character. First impressions. Two of us came here one evening just to try this place and was met by a very unhappy male member of staff who looked rather like shaggy from Scooby doo. He handed us a menu, if l was a potential customer walking past l wouldn't have bothered going in as all staff looked miserable & depressed. This is still quite a new place and the restaurant area looked rather empty but still that didn't put us off. I saw on their menu that they served ice cream floats so l ordered two root beer ice cream floats. Around fifteen minutes had passed and was told that they didn't even have root beer. Overall not a well run place too many dizzy staff that fail to communicate with exact other.

Hearing how much of a Cardiff institution this place was and being a bit of a burger fan, I had to…read morecheck this place out. A quick glance at the menu looked promising: anywhere that includes burgers with as tongue-in-cheek names as the Bunga-Bunga usually proves a good choice. Service was pretty quick and when my burger came, I wasn't disappointed. Amazingly tender and the gorgonzola sauce on top was heavenly. The chips weren't quite as good, in my honest opinion, halfway between proper chip shop fare and fries without quite committing to either. There was a bit much in the way of lettace too and no other veg. Still, a damn good burger.

I appreciate that they buy local ingredients and for that I don't mind paying bit more for an…read moreaverage burger. I always ordered the classic and it was good. They are really fast and the atmosphere is chill which I like, for someone being anxious in public places this is spot on(dimmed lights, not too loud not too quiet, not too pretentious or too crowded).. I'm not as picky as some folks when it comes to food but I can recognise badly made food-every time I ate here it was decent and chips are great. Minus is that they don't serve coffee and tap water. There's also enough place for strollers/buggies.

So, I wonder what they do at Chicken Cottage? Sounds like a retirement home for the feeble and…read moreinfirm poultry community of Cardiff, doesn't it? Well, sorry to disappoint... but it's a blue and red, plastic-fantastic fast food joint on St Mary Street in the city centre! I don't think I've ever seen anything look quite so different from the name it carries as this place! But, it's an international chain with outlets in London, Paris and NYC and so they must be getting something right! They've got nineteen outlets in London alone. According to Naeem, who works at the St Mary Street, Cardiff branch, the biggest seller is, (somewhat unsurprisingly), the deep fried chicken... so I guess that people tend to think that this is their fotre.

I finally succumbed to the lure of Chicken Cottage a couple of weeks ago now. It was 2am, I was…read morewatching the first episode of Sherlock (Filmed in Cardiff) and spotted the unmistakable Chicken Cottage logo! I then decided I was hungry and realised I had never been. Well Damn you Sherlock because I wish I never bothered. It cost me about a fiver for some spicy wings, a couple of chicken strips (or something like that), chips and a medium drink. The wings were good, but there were only two of them. The chicken strips were really greasy and tasted of nothing in particular. The chips were horrible. My Fanta was alright though! Definitely drunk food though. I won't be going there again, and it was only late night hunger and the fact Chicken Cottage is 2 minutes away that drove me to it. Next time I'll walk the little bit further to Chip Alley.

Cardiff is very quickly becoming my favourite city to discover new coffee. With the very new Little…read moreMan Coffee co it is easy to see why. Just being open around 4 months, the place was recommended to me by my Cardiff friends, and was an ideal place for our large group to meet on a Saturday afternoon. The shop located on a corner with massive windows providing a good place to people watch and enjoy views outside. It is very minimalistic yet very spacious with a large array of vintage furniture which gives it an "established" feel despite being a young coffee shop. I was very impressed with that Little Man are very proud to feature at least two roasters at all times. This day I had a soy latte using coaltown espresso blend and a v60 using the wonderful James Gourmet Coffee from the very knowledgeable staff. I saw Aeropress, Chemex and V60 on offer.. I didn't get a chance to peak at the cakes or if they had a menu but I was very curious to see how they can use this huge space for events in future. Such a great Coffee shop with much potential!

Cardiff seems to have a good scene for independent coffee shops and this one is no exception. A…read morecomfortable, friendly coffee shop with a surprising amount of (quirky) seating and big bright windows. I went straight for their own cold brew coffee (that comes in a lovely little bottle) which was excellent, nice and mellow, leaving me refreshed and suitably caffeinated. I'd expect the hot drinks match the quality. I wish I'd had a little more time to be able to settle in or go back, seems a good place to set up for a few hours, and when I left I wished I could take it back home with me to do just that! I suspect that if I had more of a chance to try everything they have this would get 5 stars.