Eating out alone can be a daunting prospect, but with a spring in your step and our handy guide in your pocket, the loneliness becomes a tad less crippling! Pro tip: keep looking at your phone. People will assume you’re texting your many friends about your many upcoming dates and not doing Buzzfeed quizzes.
WAHACA
Home to a vibrant atmosphere which is paralleled by the helpful waiting staff. Rather than making you feel alone, they will make you feel part of a group, and don’t isolate you whilst enjoying a meal on your own. Plus there’s tequila. You’re going to need it.
The Hayes, Cardiff
Info: 029 2064 4449 / www.wahaca.co.uk
10 FEET TALL
This trendy tapas restaurant and cocktail bar is a great place to chill out and share a drink with a partner or friends, but if you don’t have any, then at least people will think you’re cool. With a lively atmosphere and regular gigs you can unwind and join in the fun, or put on a brave face and pretend you’re a real person.
10 Feet Tall, 11a-12 Church Street, Cardiff
Info: 029 2022 8883 / www.10feettall.co.uk
JUNO LOUNGE
For those of you who want a more chilled-out vibe, Juno Lounge in Roath provide a warm, friendly environment that kindles the cockles of your cold, cold heart. Juno Lounge is undeniably one of the quirkiest places to eat in Roath, with cosy sofas, candlelit tables and black and white photographs creating that vintage feel. Trick people into thinking you’re a poet.
14 Wellfield Road, Cardiff
Info: 029 2019 8990 / www.thelounges.co.uk
MILGI
Situated on City Road, Milgi provide an all vegetarian menu ranging from beer battered halloumi to butternut squash burgers. Whilst the restaurant may seem slightly eccentric on the interior, this only contributes to the community feel and warm vibes that perpetuate through the course of your time spent there.
213 City Road, Cardiff
Info: 029 2047 3150 / www.milgicardiff.com
FIVE GUYS
If these haven’t worked, you might as well just give up and shamelessly eat a huge burger, and where else for a shamelessly huge burger than Five Guys? If this doesn’t make you feel better, then perhaps a bacon milkshake will help. This is a diner with no pretention, for when there’s just no point trying anymore, and it’s glorious.
The Old Brewer Quarter, St Mary’s Street, Cardiff
Info: 029 2022 1799 / www.fiveguys.co.uk