Online ordering for Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Cardiff

Updated 13 November 2026. This page reads the Food Standards Agency register as it stood on 13 November 2026. It covers the Cardiff council area and names no business. For the area as a whole, see our Cardiff page.

In short: Cardiff has 24 FSA-registered premises with Indian, curry or tandoori in the name, most in CF24 and CF5. A Cardiff Indian restaurant can take direct orders on its own Chefzi page: plans run from £9 to £49 a month per location (ex VAT), commission is 0% ever, and the first month is free with no card.

The register lists 24 premises in Cardiff with "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab" in the business name, 12 of them registered as takeaways and 12 as restaurants or cafés. The most are in CF24 (10), CF5 (5), CF3 (3), CF14 (2). That is 2.0% of the area's 1,190 takeaway, restaurant and café premises, against 2.2% across the UK, so the word is about as common here as in the UK as a whole.

If you run an Indian or Pakistani restaurant here, other premises with the same word in their name are likely to be near you, and a customer scrolling a delivery app may see several of you at once. Your own ordering page is the one place where no rival is listed beside you.

What the FSA register shows for Cardiff Indian and Pakistani names

The method is a name-keyword count, not a census: we count premises whose registered name has one of the words, which misses Indian and Pakistani restaurants trading under other names and includes anything that merely uses the word. The scope is takeaway and sandwich shop plus restaurant, café and canteen premises, and nothing here names a business.

Of the 22 with a numeric rating, 6 (27%) are rated 5 and 3 (14%) are rated 0, 1 or 2. That is a lower share than the 50.0% of all rated takeaways in Cardiff that hold a 5. A further 2 are awaiting inspection, awaiting publication or exempt. A rating is a snapshot of one inspection, and the FSA says so on every record.

Which postcode districts have the most

CF24 holds the most, 10 of the 24 (42%), and the premises sit across 6 postcode districts in all. Where several curry-named kitchens share a district, a short delivery time and a clear minimum order do more to win a repeat customer than a deeper menu.

How Cardiff compares with the council areas next to it

The five nearest council areas by the centre of their food premises, with the same name-keyword count:

Cardiff has more of these names than any of its five nearest neighbours.

Cardiff in the wider picture

Cardiff has 282 takeaway and sandwich shop premises and 908 restaurant, café and canteen premises on the register. On takeaway premises it ranks 61 of 363 UK council areas, and 1 of 22 in Wales. Across all rated takeaways in Cardiff, 50.0% hold a 5 against 54.3% across Wales, and 5.3% are rated 0 to 2 against 5.0%. Cardiff is part of South East Wales, whose page lists every council area there with its takeaway and restaurant counts.

Cardiff Indian and Pakistani names in numbers

Using the ONS estimate of 381,516 residents, that works out at 0.63 Indian and Pakistani-named premises per 10,000 people, compared with 0.64 across the UK, so Cardiff sits close to the national rate. By raw count, Cardiff is 36th of the 363 UK council areas for these names and 1st of 22 in Wales.

The word is most concentrated in CF3, where 6% of the district's food premises carry it, and thinnest in CF14 at 1%. Across the whole area the share is 2.0%.

Inspection dates tell a second story. Of the 24 premises on this list with an inspection date, 46% were inspected in the 12 months to 13 November 2026, against 50% of all takeaway and restaurant premises in the area; the median gap since the last inspection is 12 months against 12.

Population figures are ONS mid-2025 estimates; every other figure comes from the same FSA register pull as the tables above. Small samples move a lot from one inspection to the next, so read the shares as a guide to where the pattern is, not as a verdict on any business.

What this means for your online ordering

• Zones that match the map. The premises are concentrated in CF24 and CF5, so a tight zone around the busiest district with a wider second zone for the rest of Cardiff fits the spread.
• Take cash as well as card. Cash on collection and cash on delivery are on every plan, and card payments are on Plus and Pro.
• Sell the set meal as one item. A meal for two or a family feast can be one menu item with a required choice for each curry, rice and side.
• Take party and office orders in advance. The catering feature lets customers book big orders for a date and time, with the notice you set, in their own section of the menu.
• Put your link where customers already look. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code to every bag (QR kit).

Late-night hot food in Cardiff: what to check

If you sell hot food or drink after 11pm and before 5am, the Licensing Act 2003 treats it as late night refreshment, so you normally need the council's licence. Start from the council's licensing section: Cardiff council licensing (checked 13 November 2026).

For the wider England and Wales rules, read our late night refreshment licence guide. You can set collection and delivery hours independently in Chefzi, which lets your online hours follow your licence conditions. Not legal advice.

How to start

1. Put your menu into Chefzi on a short call with us. We set it up with you and aim to have you live in 24 to 48 hours.
2. Set required choices for the way your customers order, and set your delivery zones by postcode district or radius.
3. Add your ordering link to your Google Business Profile (how) and a QR code to every bag (QR kit).
4. Text your regulars (SMS and email marketing, Plus and Pro) with their permission.

For more, see the Indian restaurant page, the commission calculator and our guide on moving customers from Just Eat to your own site, and the Cardiff location page for every takeaway and restaurant figure in the council area, or all UK locations.

A worked example for a Cardiff Indian restaurant

Treat this as an illustration, not a measurement for Cardiff. No published average order value exists for Cardiff Indian and Pakistani restaurants, so we assume £25, the default in our commission calculator, and a round 30 orders a week. Swap in your own figures.

Suppose 30 orders a week (about 130 a month, £25 each, £3,250 in sales) shift from Just Eat to your own Chefzi link. Just Eat's published rates (read 12 November 2026, details) are 14% with your own drivers and 30% when it delivers, plus VAT. At 14% those 130 orders cost £455 plus £91 VAT, £546 in all; at 30% they cost £975 plus £195 VAT, £1,170.

On Chefzi the same 130 orders carry 0% commission. You pay the flat plan: Plus, which adds card payments, is £22 a month (£19 billed annually) per location, excluding VAT, and it does not change if the month is busier. Card processing charges depend on your payment provider and are not modelled on either side. Orders customers still place through Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats keep paying those apps' commission; the example only covers the ones you move.

What Chefzi does not do

• Delivery: you run your own drivers. Chefzi has no courier integrations.
• No kiosk and no CRM.
• Pre-order lead time is one setting per location, not per dish.
• Marketplace orders still pay the marketplace's commission. Chefzi helps you move regulars across; it does not change what Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats charge.

Sources

• Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open data API (api.ratings.food.gov.uk), authority Cardiff, business types Takeaway/sandwich shop and Restaurant/Cafe/Canteen, name search for "tandoori", "balti", "karahi", "masala", "biryani", "tikka", "curry", "Indian", "Pakistani", "Lahore", "Karachi", "Peshawari" or "Punjab", extract 13 November 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Cardiff council licensing page linked above: https://www.srs.wales/en/Licensing.aspx (opened 13 Nov 2026).
• Chefzi facts and pricing, chefzi.co.uk, read 13 November 2026.