Chaiiwala opens first Welsh motorway café

A selection of Indian street food at Chaiiwala
Indian street food brand Chaiiwala is continuing to grow (©Chaiiwala)

Chaiiwala has opened an express-format café at Roadchef Magor on the M4, marking the brand’s first motorway location in Wales.

The 320sq ft café is Chaiiwala’s second location in Wales, joining its existing café in Cardiff. The opening follows Chaiiwala’s motorway debut at Watford Gap Services in 2025 and the launch of an enhanced container café at Sandbach Services last month.

The Magor café offers Chaiiwala’s karak chaii, brewed onsite using a blend of seven spices, alongside Wala wraps, all-day breakfast wraps, rice bowls, Bombay toasties, sweet treats and hot and cold drinks.

“We’re delighted to bring Chaiiwala to Roadchef Magor, marking our first Roadchef location in Wales and building on the momentum of our successful openings at Watford Gap and Sandbach,” says Sohail Ali, co-founder of Chaiiwala.

“Travel locations are an exciting growth opportunity for Chaiiwala. They allow us to bring high-quality, affordable Indian street food-style dishes and our world-famous karak chaii to more consumers on the go, while introducing the brand to new audiences.

“With further service station openings planned, Magor marks another important step in the roll-out of our container café format and demonstrates the potential we see for Chaiiwala across high-footfall travel locations.”

The opening is part of Chaiiwala’s partnership with Roadchef and its wider expansion into high-footfall on-the-go locations.

Founded in Leicester in 2015, Chaiiwala has 115 sites across the UK and over 20 in Canada and has said it is targeting 500 global locations over