Matsudai Ramen

Name: Matsudai Ramen
Address: Cardiff, GB
Telephone: +442922338282
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Wales's only proper slurp spot. Home kits available for nationwide delivery.
02922 338282

11/09/2026

NEW WAVE RAMEN come down from manchester to take over our kitchen on sunday. 12-8pm, one day only.

they're serving three bowls: *that* tantanmen with slow-cooked lamb shoulder. a cauliflower tantanmen which happens to be plant-based. and a shoyu - classic, refined, utterly delicious. as for snacks - tempura chicken wings with green kosho mayo, pork dumplings with ponzu and chilli crisp, burnt leek with tofu and fried garlic.

if you don't know new wave, where have you been? they started out at mackie mayor, they make and age their own noodles in their own noodle room, and the whole thing is built on the new wave styles coming out of tokyo but with british ingredients. we've popped up at their restaurant a couple of times now and have been trying to make this return leg happen for *ages*.

à la carte on the day. £5 deposit per person, comes off your bill. link in bio to book.

see you sunday x

09/09/2026

seven years ago, in august 2019, i put a post on my personal instagram (i'll post it the caption in the comments) saying i'd basically stopped functioning and was going to go and play: with ramen, and music, and design, and whatever took my fancy really.

and so mastudai was born. i did a friends and family pop-up on sept 30th and a proper public one on the oct 8th, which i was so scared about i needed a couple of levellers before service. then the restaurant opened, so there's another set of birthdays in 2022. we've never picked one and i don't think we will.

this industry is brutal. what you don't see behind all the media stuff and the nice photos of ramen is the summer, when cardiff empties, nobody wants ramen, and you spend three months watching the bank balance nosedive. it's scary, but we've scraped through seven of them now.

places we've loved haven't been so lucky. genuinely brilliant businesses run by people who worked every bit as hard as us. so i'm feeling incredibly grateful this year - the wheels are still on the bus.

and by maths, we've served over 300,000 bowls of the good stuff since we started. bonkers.

the kits are the bit that really gets me. someone i've never met, on a saturday night, in a kitchen i'll never see, cooking something we made in a warehouse in taff's well, as a celebration. it's a privilege, being in people's lives like that. and i'll never take it for granted.

anyway, it's ramen season now. the restaurant's open weds-sat, kits ship next day mon-fri, everything's in the bio.

thanks for seven years of matsudai x

08/09/2026

⚡ the bowl that made manchester fall for is coming to cardiff for one day only.

and his team are driving down from tib lane to take over our kitchen this sunday. every element they serve is made in-house, right down to the noodles, which come out of their own noodle room in manchester.

on the pass: their infamous LAMB TANTANMEN. a vegan TANTANMEN with cauliflower soboro, and their beautifully balanced SHOYU RAMEN. small plates, too. full menu coming later in the week.

playlist picked by of editors, so that's sorted too.

this sunday 13 sept | midday - 8pm
£5 deposit, comes straight off your bill.

BOOK NOW - link in bio 🍜

02/09/2026

🐓 TORI PAITAN KIT IS BACK! 🐓

live on the shop as of this morning.

one of our favourite styles of ramen, tonkotsu's less famous, chicken-y cousin, it gets nowhere near the love it deserves - creamy, deeply savoury, but somehow lighter. chicken dinner turned noodle soup, basically.

in there: a small amount of really high-quality dried seafood for an umami smack in the chops, plus shredded shio koji chicken thighs, menma and nori. pork-free too, which you guys seem to want.

on a previous version of this bowl: "hearty and elegant... a ramen to remember."

👉 link in bio. i won't stop you adding an ajitama egg and some chashu on your way to the till.

28/08/2026

three stars at the great taste awards 2026. the top rating they give, and fewer than 2% of entries get there. wtf!

here's one of our favourite quotes from the judges:

"it's stunning ... as good as it gets." "utterly perfect balance of flavours".

we'll share more judges' quotes over the next few weeks, 'cos some of it is v. lols.

the rayu is on the site now. link in bio.

jc x

20/08/2026

New Wave Ramen (manchester) are taking over our kitchen for one day only 🍜

tokyo styles, seasonal british ingredients, house-made noodles.
13 sept | 12-8pm | £5 deposit (comes off your bill).

expect their infamous lamb tantanmen, a vegan tantanmen, shirunashi mazesoba, plus small plates and their own playlist. maybe you'll get a shio or shoyu too, if you're lucky.

https://www.opentable.com/r/matsudai-ramen-cardiff (scroll down to the event)

who wants that lamb tantanmen as a kit? tell us below 👇

18/08/2026

tsukemen club no.2 (of3) is live!

tori paitan gyokai. chicken and seafood, cooked down ’til it clings. tons of big fat chewy noodles, served room temp. chashu, menma, nori.

noodles into soup, dip, repeat.

one small (tiny!) batch. link in bio 🔗 x

11/08/2026

ryuichi ueno is taking over our kitchen 🇯🇵 x 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

he's the founder of chuka soba hirai in tokyo. tabelog top 100 five years running, two TRY (tokyo ramen of the year) awards in his first year, six years at ramen jiro before that. what a pedigree.

weds 16 - sat 19 september. 5 services / 450ish bowls of incredibly high-quality shio and shoyu ramen, with noodles made in-house. a plant-based bowl too.

£5 deposit per person to book, redeemable against your bill. you'll want to book early on this one.

https://tinyurl.com/matsudai-x-ryuichi (scroll down to experiences)

09/08/2026

"a ramen shop that's one of the most revered and acclaimed in the entire country" jimi famurewa, the guardian.

INTO IT. and here's what it looked like from our side of the pass.

if you missed it, episode two of feed is on the Guardian site now: https://tinyurl.com/feed-guardian-matsudai

(the triple yuzu shio he's eating there is back on the restaurant and kits menus this week)

06/08/2026

we're in episode two of FEED, by Feast, The Guardian's first ever food video series - on renegade ramen, alongside g.neko in colchester and maneki in brum.

it's presented by proper lovely egg jimi famurewa. he had the triple yuzu shio (back on the menu next week) and classic tonkotsu and said it was "worth travelling for."

six years ago this was a misguided pop-up/mid-life crisis, now there's a film about it on the Guardian website. 🤯

full episode here: https://youtu.be/A_UqMrklDSY

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