Mc Doner’s

The last takeaway saloon on the walk toward Albany Road’s residential end, any business with such a nose-​thumbing name as McDoner’s immediately gets the thumbs up. While Ronald McDonald and his infamously litigious golden arch-​wielding chums might not agree, patrons of next door venue The Globe probably do, perfectly placed as it is for post-​gig nosh. Open later than many competitors in the area, the bog standard food selection won’t win too many nutritional awards. But there are plenty worse takeaways in Cardiff — some of them within sight of McDoner’s loveably bedraggled awning.

They don’t speak too much English at Mc Doner’s fast food and takeaway, which is a shame! It means that I am unable to provide you with a telephone number for this business, and was unable to make myself sufficiently understood in order to glean too much information about the current specials, or what they feel makes their business more outstanding than the plethora of other fast food take-​outs within a minutes walk from theirs.
As far as I can tell, Mc Doner’s is in no way special, but it does seem to open its doors a little earlier than most of the others. Offering the usual fayre in terms of fried chicken, kebabs, burgers, pizza and fish and chips etc, and charging 30 pence for a dollop of mayonnaise, it is however a little more pricey than some of the others, once you’ve added up all of the different costs applicable.
It is also a little bit bigger than the majority of other fast food outlets on this strip, and is always clean and well presented. I’ve not tried the fish and chips, or the chicken curry and chips, (which is cheap at £4.20), but their pizza is good. Prices start at £4.50 for a Margarita, (which they spell Margherita. I believe that this is the correct spelling, or at least the most authentic. so may be they’re not so linguistically challenged?).
Another thing puzzles me though… If the guys at Mc Doner’s aren’t so good at speaking English, who came up with the idea for the name? Surely it wasn’t some happy accident that it appears to be a play on words that alludes to another fast food outlet with a global presence? Has someone been pulling my leg?