A restaurant is more than its menu. Ours borrows from Punjabi tandoors and Kerala verandahs, Bombay's Irani cafés and its 1930s jazz ballrooms, the chai stall and the long Sunday table. These are the stories behind 15 High Street, written by the people who cook, pour and play here.
From Leon Abbey's 1935 band and Goan trumpeter Chic Chocolate to today's Indian jazz festivals: the story behind Bombay Jazz, our live Thursday nights with young musicians from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
Read the story →India does not have one Indian cuisine. It has dozens. Our long read walks region by region through the lineage of the menu, from the tandoor to the Tangra wok.
Punjab, Kashmir, Rajasthan, Mumbai, Kolkata, Tamil Chettinad, Kerala, Hyderabad and Indo-Chinese Calcutta. The history behind rogan josh, laal maas, dum biryani, the kathi roll and Hakka noodles, in plain English.
Read the regional traditions →Bombay's hotel ballrooms, Calcutta's Park Street clubs, and now a Thursday on Cardiff High Street. How music and dinner have always shared a room in India, and how we carry that on.
Music · History
Bombay had jazz. Cardiff has Thursdays.
Jazz in India, from 1930s Bombay to today, and the inspiration behind our Thursday nights.
What's On · Every Thursday
Bombay Jazz: two live sets from 7pm
Young musicians from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. No ticket, no cover charge.
The habits that shape the day here: chai at sundown on a Kerala verandah, the long Indian breakfast at the weekend, and a kitchen whose story runs back to Mint & Mustard.
Our story
Same kitchen, new table
The bungalow, the verandah and the Keralan lineage behind Chai St.
Brunch · Fri to Sun
The long Indian breakfast
Kejriwal Benedict, Kerala iddiyappam the slow way, and bottomless masala chai if you settle in.
Chai
From masala chai to Kashmiri kahwa
Sulaimani from the Malabar coast, saffron kahwa from Srinagar, and the rest of the chai list.
Open from twelve, every day, at 15 High Street by Cardiff Castle. Come for chai, stay for dinner, and on Thursdays stay for the second set.