Croeso.स्वागत.Welcome.
A Welsh kitchen with an Indian heart.
Cegin is a café on Cathedral Road, and Cegin Halfnhalf, a regional Indian street-food pop-up touring Wales. Honest, fresh food from a kitchen with a Michelin pedigree and a home in Cardiff.
One kitchen, two tables.
The same hands cook both. Choose the room you are after, the calm of the café or the buzz of the festival stall.
Cathedral Road · Mon to Fri
The Café
Breakfast baps, daily specials, jacket potatoes and proper coffee. A cosy room inside Transport House, open weekdays.
Step inside
Touring Wales · Spring to Autumn
Cegin Halfnhalf
Regional Indian street food, classical and home-style, from the stall at festivals across Wales.
Follow the stall
From Delhi to Cathedral Road.
Kuldeep trained as a chef in India with the Taj Group of Hotels, then cooked in some of the UK’s finest kitchens — learning from chefs including Alain Roux at the Michelin-starred Waterside Inn, with stages alongside Pierre Koffmann and Eric Chavot.
In 2014 he and Sugandha, a hotel-management graduate who runs front of house, opened Cegin. A small café built on a simple idea: give all the care to the food and the welcome, and never mind the fuss.
Today that same kitchen feeds the weekday regulars on Cathedral Road and travels Wales as Cegin Halfnhalf, cooking the regional Indian dishes Kuldeep grew up with.
“Good honest food, served straight from the heart. Wholesome food for the soul, and for the heart.”
Cegin · Fresh from the kitchen
Made fresh, every day.
From hand-pressed onion bhaji to slow-cooked Welsh lamb roganjosh and a daily changing café board.
Kind words from regulars.
“I eat at the Cegin most lunch times. Its relaxed environment is great. The chicken curry on Wednesday is fab, I've had it about five times and it's 10 out of 10. A great place for a quick bite during lunch.”
“The Cegin Café in the Unite building is a godsend. A lovely café with daily breakfast options, lunchtime sandwiches, toasties, jacket potatoes, and a daily-changing hot meal of the day. All are welcome.”
“Lovely breakfast baps, good value for money.”
“Had a meal in there last week. The food is superb.”
Come and eat with us.
Pop into the café on a weekday, or catch the stall at a festival this summer. Booking the pop-up for an event? We would love to hear from you.