Gorge With George

If you’re guzzling down a meal in a back-​to-​basics eatery like Butetown gem Gorge With George, chances are Egon Ronay-​level standards aren’t on your mind. You’ll want a plate of greasy fry-​up delights piled high enough to fill you until dinnertime and won’t be too concerned about trifling worries like calories or recommended daily intakes. Good for you, and you’ll be in luck here, because Gorge With George nigh on demands you get a good feed down you without forking out over the odds. There’s a definite school dinners feel about the furniture but that only adds to the charm in this case. The nearby area’s huge redevelopment might have ensured that in Cardiff Bay you can successfully put a pin in a world map before lunch to decide which international cuisine you fancy. But in Gorge With George, there’s no such messing around. For uncomplicated grub, …George is your man.

Apart from its amusing (albeit slightly off-​putting) name, there’s little to sell this business from the outside: its depressing shop front looks tired and neglected, and the brown sign is old-​fashioned looking. Inside, plastic tables and chairs do little to improve these first impressions — but this is, after all, a greasy spoon.
I’m going to give it a generous three stars, however, because bacon-​loving acquaintances who have tried just about every greasy spoon in the city say this is a pretty good one, and comes highly recommended. It’s cheap, and the food’s cooked well, served quickly, and by friendly staff. You’ll see people from nearby offices there, elderly patrons, and a cross-​section of locals — and they also serve basic café style sandwiches if you don’t fancy a fry up for lunch!

Gorge with George (love that name, by the way) is a charmingly retro café hidden away on West Bute Street. It has that quaint and traditional feel to it, with its plastic tables and chairs and subdued green apple colour schemes.
It’s nothing fancy, but that’s part of this greasy spoon’s charm. My friend and I used to come here often when we worked on Bute Street, and I’ve found it’s the perfect haunt for a substantial breakfast or lunch (beats Tesco for freshness and taste).
Offering a selection of cooked breakfasts, sandwiches, butties, and snacks, Gorge with George caters to everyone from the nearby office workers to local site workers, all who eagerly line up in anticipation for a taste of Gorge.
The best part is: it’s cheap!
Its hideaway location outside of Mermaid Quay means you may forget it’s there, but if you’re ever in the area, whether it’s for a meeting or an errand run, it’s worth stopping by Gorge with George for a filling and tasty bite.

This is a very basic, honest little café thats cheap and cheerful.
Its sells everything you would expect really from a greasy spoon. They do breakfast buns and quite decent sandwiches for lunch.
Its not really the place you’d go for a classy lunch. I don’t think the plastic chairs would go down well for a business lunch. But overall the food is tasty, its quick and cheap.

Great for a Friday lunch when you want something a bit more substantial or just fancing pigging out a little bit. Very basic, plastic tables and chairs, no fancy bits here just plain, honest café food. It’s also really, really cheap!
All sorts of people come in here, from builders from the local site works to office workers at the Wales Millenium Centre.
I was slightly disappointed that they didn’t do chips with gravy though. Grrrr.

A bit of a builders’ café serving breakfast baps to hard-​hatted workers from the building sites nearby. The seats are uncomfortable and it’s not somewhere you’d go to relax. However the food is really cheap, very tasty, not nearly as greasy as you might worry it was going to be, and Gorge With George can be trusted to do you a decent chunky sandwich for lunch, no messing, no problem.