Cinnamon Tree in Cardiff

Lovely food, very friendly staff who accommodated our requests. Great wine selection too! Would recommend and visit again!

Always amazingly consistent and high quality indian take away food. Great restaurant to visit as well. Staff are lovely.

Great restaurant and great food. Staff always friendly too!

Great curry, the staff were very helpful explaining what could be made vegan. Will definitely go back.

I've been going here for 20 years and EVERY meal without exception - sit in or takeaway - has been fantastic. I've never found anywhere that comes close to the Cinnamon Tree for flavour. It really is superb.

Order with confidence - Excellent food as always, beautiful flavours, best Indian in Cardiff 👍

Nice place, service was 5 stars. Prawn on puri starter and nan bread were excellent. Curries not so good,meat was nice and tender but lamb balti was tasteless and a bit watery. Lamb bhuna ok but had better. Maybe we made wrong main course choices. Would try again

Beautiful food and super friendly staff. My wife and I were passing through Cardiff for the night and were delighted to stumble across this excellent little Indian. Highly recommended

Absolutely great service and the food is first class...definitely the best Indian I've had in Cardiff!!

Reality nice Indian restaurant with great foods and great service 👍🏻👍🏻

Staff are really lovely, and the food was 👌

Me and my friends had the most amazing time! The food is lovely and the staff are even lovelier :) I could not recommend this place enough!

The food was good and the service was very greqt But we were the only people in the restaurant at 7pm on a weeknight.

This place never fails to please. Just the smell of the food coming out to different tables was making our mouths water. The locals also were in and out with a constant stream of takeout. They know where it’s at! I’ve been coming here on and off since it opened and it is still one of the greatest restaurants in Cardiff. The prices are extremely reasonable and the place is very well managed, run by old schoolers in the hospitality game who really do things the right way. I just can’t get over how good the place still is after all these years. Restaurants like this, independent, are a dying breed and we need to support them collectively. This place is an absolute gem. If you can walk a little the best shot at parking is at the scout hut car park by llandaff fields. If not, you may find parking down Pontcanna st or nearby.

The first time I ate at this establishment, the popedoms were not fresh or crispy. The meat in the main course was a bit tough, although it tasted good, the service was a bit rushed, but it was a Saturday night. The starter was very nice and tasty.

Disappointing to say the least. Bland, chicken tikka, mushy flavourless dal, watery mango. Lost my custom for good. Noticed standards slipping for a while now but enough.

Popped over to my local restaurant for a takeaway. Lovely food as usual. Staff are friendly and helpful.

We’ve been to the Cinnamon Tree restaurant several times, but as my wife has been diagnosed as coeliac it’s been hard to find somewhere that caters for non gluten dishes. We went there and Ahad was superb . He tried to make a Phuree dish without normal wheat flour as an experiment for my wife and it was very good. Top marks to Ahad and the chefs,they are a credit to the Cinammon Tree! I We would definitely recommend this restaurant as they are so helpful and understanding..

This has been a favourite place for many years, and this visit was every bit as good, if not better, than I remember. The relaxing atmosphere was enhanced by the friendly but unobtrusive approach of staff, all the furnishings and decorations had been carefully chosen to give a feeling of being at ease. The food was exceptionally tasty and a perfect consistency. It had obviously been prepared with the utmost care, with a beautiful balance of different flavours. If I had to suggest an improvement it would be to take more notice of diners once the main course is finished, to ask if they would like more, or wish to leave. Otherwise, a perfect experience.

I had visited the Cinnamon tree a few months ago with friends and everyone had amazing food. When we visited yesterday the food was completely different, no lovely smooth sauce, just thick stodgy stuff with little taste. Very disappointing, no-one enjoyed it.

First time ordering, the food was cold, the order was wrong with an item missing no refund and portion size small for the price, very disappointed as I had high hopes after reading the reviews £30 of my hard earned money wasted, I won't be ordering from here again.

Beautiful food and very quick delivery. Will definitely order again.

Great staff and lovely food. Will be going again!

After giving this place a few tries I can't say I'd recommend it. If you're happy with a generic curry, done to an acceptable standard you could do worse, but there isn't much positive to say. The portions aren't particularly generous considering the prices, and the quality of the meat could be better. I find the menu veers between uber-traditional and strange, with little in between. After ordering two tandoori dishes this past week I think we'll be steering clear of this place. I was served a very small and sorry looking pile of dry chicken, without any onions or peppers, as is customary at most places of this type. I'm rarely too conscious about price, but paying the same amount for a subpar meal as some genuinely excellent alternatives within a half mile radius annoyed me. The staff seem friendly enough, and the location is prime. It has all the makings of a solid restaurant, they just really need to rethink the food.

PROMPT AND FRIENDLY DELIVERY AND STILL PIPING HOT, LOVELY FOOD

Always fantastic, never fails!

Usually a decent curry but this time the poppadom was chewy and the chicken tough. Very disappointing after the long wait time - hopefully a bad day in the office for them and not a sign of falling standards.

Excellent as ever. Best Indian food in Cardiff and the nicest staff too.

Best curry house in Cardiff.Beautiful food lovely staff we love it

Quite aromatic and tasty curry.

Fantastic choice & quality of food delivered. Arrived earlier than expected time. Thankyou!

Food is terrible so bland my dog wouldn't even eat it

We had a fab meal here...very attentive friendly staff. All the dishes were super tasty ...we chose the mildest ones ( coded on the menu as red amber or green chilli depending on the heat). The nan bread was so fresh and delicious. Portions were very ample. It was nice to be asked if we preferred a little pause in between starters and main. I would totally recommend this restaurant in Pontcanna Cardiff. Message to Cinnamon Tree...thank you for a lovely meal! But the outside of the building doesn't look like a restaurant! Maybe it needs to be more lit up somehow? Also when I searched for the menu on google, it took me to the home delivery page and so I got the impression it was delivery only.

Good solid traditional curry’s cooked well. The staff here are extremely professional and polite. Our particular favourites are the Garlic chilli chicken which is bursting with flavour and the shashlik which comes with potato straws. Expect to pay £50-60 for a meal for two including starters and drinks. If you are in the area give this place a try. Not sure if they still make them but their chocolate samosas are fantastic.

Not enough sauce to go with the rice.

We have been here loads of times and the food is consistently good. It was no different in this occasion. There was only a about six of us eating in. A person came in for a takaway and the staff members talked loudly with him about football throughout our meal. For about half an hour! If I had wanted a review of football teams spoken loudly, I would have watched a programme on TV. I’m not averse to a discussion about football but it was very loud and rude in my opinion. Spoilt my evening.

Had another great meal here for me and my boyfriends anniversary. The front of house team are engaging and charming and the food was absolutely fantastic as well.

Popped in and picked up a takeaway. As we were on the campsite in Cardiff. A six minute walk. Excellent service, and the food was great.

The food was very good; it was just spoiled by the hoover coming out at 9.30pm and the restaurant being cleaned immediately we had finished our food! This experience made us feel uncomfortable when the advertised hours of opening were until 10pm.

I seen google review and thought We should give a try this place. To be honest this place was not up to my expectations. So many good Indian restaurant out there. First, food came cold. More like microwave food. We asked keema nan which is very rubbery and barely any keema in there just with colour of mince meat. All other nan was very small and rubbery. My 70 years old mom Couldn’t manage to have those nan just because of elastic texture. A nan should be fresh hot and crisp, not a readymade Asda nan bread with just little bit of hit. Everything else was fine. I don’t recommend this restaurant

Food wasn't the greatest tonight, the keema naan tasted different and the madras was lacking spice. It did get here fast but I wonder if it had anything to do with the food not being on par. Will still continue to order, just hope for that usual goodness next time!

Great service and food. They were also very good for catering with my nut allergy. Highly recommended.

Really poor much better options out there

Nice staff and food is testful.

they managed to squeeze us in at late notice on NYE and we had a really good meal - very tasty. Nice atmosphere and friendly staff

Amazing food , well worth a visit staff are lovely.

Nice place to have a meal but unfortunately our bill was incorrect, which we didn't notice until the morning. Service was reasonable, food was ok & there was plenty of it... would have given more stars had the bill been correct...there wasn't that many people there, so it can't be that hard to get it right.

Amazing food as usual Wouldn’t order from anyone else

A group of nine visited the Cinnamon Tree and we were very well looked after with excellent, attentive service. Nine delicious curries, perfect naans and Kingfisher on draught 👍

We did our homework and booked this fantastic restaurant last night , we were not disappointed , the place was busy we were glad we had booked . extremely nice food , and the staff were attentive and engaging would definitely eat here again .

Great service, great food, great company!

Amazing food and would recommend this place to anyone.

Lovely little Indian, the food was nice and reasonably priced

Poor food and rushed through service. Disappointed based on previous reviews.

Reasonable for such tasty and delicious food

We love the atmosphere and the food was spectacular. The staff are very friendly and very professional. Highly recommend for authentic Bangladeshi food.

Overpriced for low quality meat

مطعم هندي جميل واسعاره جدا مقبولة واكله لذيذ جدا اشكر سعيد على استقباله وابتسامته رجل مسلم محبوب جدا

Flavours of the food were great, especially the sag paneer and chicken tikka masala, but sadly the chicken was really quite tough and dry.

Delicious tasty food with great service and a relaxing atmosphere.

Reasonably priced great tasting food in a lovely part of Cardiff. Seems popular with the locals and the staff are really friendly. The only downside for us is everything felt rushed. No sooner had we finished our starters the mains were brought over. Then they came over three times to ask if we’d finished when we were just having a break. We’d ordered a bottle of red and wanted to relax and take our time with our meal, but we didn’t feel able to. Would definitely visit again though.

Was looking forward to this but the portion size to start was small, much smaller than any other Indians I’ve ordered from! The food arrived cool and the lamb was so tough and still in hard chunks, it was not eaten! Gutted as paid more than I usually would to try this food!

The food wasn’t cooked properly and tasted awful really disappointed as I paid more expecting quality.

Fancied a change from pub food. Visiting daughter who lives locally. The food was amazing, quality and depth of flavour. Best we've had in years. Not the the usual basic Indian meals. Lovely busy atmosphere. I'm sure she will be a regular now. Great friendly service too.

I liked it...good service....nice food...reasonably priced.

Great service and delicious food.

absolutely disgusting do not order from here my food was sour tasted rancid unedible also the customer service was terrible

Family gathering of 12 people,the food was great and the staff wonderful. I have a few food allergies and they were exceptional nothing phased them .

Best Indian in Cardiff. Have yet to sit in but regularly order takeaway as it’s just around the corner. Well priced, is always ready within 20mins, hot, fresh and tasty. Service is always perfect, staff are always very friendly and helpful!

Superb food! First time we’ve had a delivery from Cinnamon Tree. But I’ve eaten there before so knew I wouldn’t be disappointed!

Found this on Google Maps when I was staying close by and looking for an Indian restaurant. Service was ok but I felt they kept rushing me. Also a waiter kept berating another waiter, which is not professional. The kid was only young and doing his best. The chicken shashlik was quite expensive, I don’t usually pay that much money for one, it came out and rather than dish it up yourself from the sizzling plate, which I like, the waiter just took it all of the sizzling plate and piled it on a regular plate, it looked a mess. The chicken didn’t have much taste to it, They even serve it up with a big bowl of red sauce which was weird. Not the greatest Indian I have had

Excellent and delicious food, as always, delivered promptly. Thank you

Nice food. Very fresh and delivered on time. Just a bit too spicy for our palates but would definitely recommend!

Fantastic meal, fish curry was brilliant….

Amazing food every time wouldn’t go anywhere else.

Brilliant meal. Great atmosphere and the menu is interesting. I had a Goan chicken curry which was lovely - it’s promise of a variety of spices and herbs really delivered and was toned down for me as I’m not keen on hot curries. It was super busy even though we went early but we had very fast efficient service. Great place.

Once again Just Eat says ‘your order is on its way’ and invites you to ‘review your meal’ 50 minutes before it actually arrives. Nice tasting curries missing one poppadom and wrong chutneys. Just Wait.

Not the best vindaloo or chicken biryani I've had by a long way

Visited Saturday Night after being recommended by the Hotal I was staying at. Didn't Book but not a problem they found us a table within 5 mins . Food and table service top class will visit again soon

Excellent food Delivered early Highly recommended

First time ordering. Only negative is I ordered mushroom Bhaji and thought it would be similar to onion bhaji but was just mushrooms in a sauce.

Great meal and great hospitality

Belting curry! One of the absolute best I've ever had in my 40-odd years of Indian cuisine appreciation. I'd give it 6 if I could...

I was so excited to be treated to a meal by my son but was simply treated to disinterested staff who made us feel like nothing more than an annoyance as we ordered a take away. Really unexceptional experience a low point of the night. Don't bother - much better restaurants near by.

Delicious food as always delivered promptly. Definitely be ordering again. Many thanks

The first decent Indian food I’ve had in a long time.Instead of all the food just tasting like every other “Indian restaurant”it actually tasted like the chef had thought about what dishes he was cooking. Great food and would recommend the Chef’s dishes.

On the basis the food was just ‘ok’ and I had to pay £4.50 delivery I really don’t think it was worth it. Chips weren’t the best. I wouldn’t order again 🥲

The food was incredible! Delivery service was perfect, friendly and fast - thank you so much!

After a long day of hiking we went here for some good food only to be disappointed. We ordered three vegetarian dishes: Veg Jalfrezi (side), Dal tarka and Paneer tikka masala. None of these were well made and had no balances in spices, veg Jalfrezi...

As always, quality, tasty food.

Food was cold on arrival as well as arriving late. Food came without no curry sauce and was just the chicken chunks. Theres no note to advise that there will be no curry with the chicken. Very disappointed. Wont be using again and strongly advise others to do the same. Offered us a partial refund & apologised for the service as they have been busy, if thats the case then you should only offer the influx of orders you can actually offer.

The Cinnamon Tree was such a wonderful place to visit and I was absolutely astounded by the friendliness and warm welcome of the staff. They were very accommodating in helping choose the food and chilli heat, creating a set of meals for us that were all very tasty (I like very hot chilli-based food and they gauged the heat perfectly). They regaled us with stories and photographs of their homegrown Naga chillies (!) and the best way to prepare and cook with green chillies and that care showed in the food they served. I cannot recommend this place enough, if you are in the area for Indian food, definitely give it a try.

Wonderful place. Great staff make you feel very welcome. Food is delicious and a nice variety for both meat and non meat eaters. Will definitely go again soon

Amazing food delivered quickly

Good service but disappointed in the food. I had missing items and the curry was cold and chewy. Couldn’t even eat it.

Food was very tasteless, small portions for the price paid was expecting a lot better, have tried much better places only bought from looking at reviews, however Indian food is my favourite have tried many, never again

Consistently good food even when busy been eating there for years

Visited last week, three vegetarians and a vegan. Excellent choices for all of us. Fabulous food and wonderful staff. Will return

Fabulous meal here last week. Party of three vegetarians and a vegan. Excellent choices on the menu. The food was delicious and the staff very friendly and nice

Absolutely beautiful food! Bit dubious as not ordered from here before but food was stunning 👍