Andreas Christou is a 27-year-old award-winning restaurateur with two Italian eating places in Wales — and later this summer time, he’ll open his newest department in Merthyr Tydfil.
Casa Bianca, which boasts sister eating places in Abergavenny and Monmouth, is anticipated to open on the nook of Glebeland Road and Excessive Road Merthyr Tydfil by late summer time 2022 — offering a brand new lease of life for one of many city’s empty historic buildings.
The brand new enterprise has been made attainable by an funding from the Welsh Authorities’s Remodeling Cities Placemaking scheme, delivered along side Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council.
Proud winners of two Blue Ribbons on the 2022 Good Meals Awards, Casa Bianca is a family-run restaurant chain — which is able to convey a style of southern Italian cooking and flavours to the center of Merthyr Tydfil.
Apart from its excellent meals high quality, service and worth at present eating places, Casa Bianca can be well-known for the massive ‘Instagrammable’ letters which mark its entrance on Frogmore Road in Abergavenny.
With development work now in progress, the Merthyr Tydfil restaurant is anticipated to be equally as visually impactful, full with olive timber rising from the ceiling — offering a dramatic cover for patrons to dine beneath.
Restaurant proprietor, Andreas Christou mentioned:
“We’ve got had nice success with La Piccola in Monmouth and Casa Bianca in Abergavenny — and we hope to realize the identical in Merthyr Tydfil, forward of additional growth throughout Wales.
“Since opening in 2018, Casa Bianca in Abergavenny has developed a very loyal, tight-knit buyer base — lots of whom often journey to dine with us from Merthyr Tydfil.
“In recognition of this, it has been my ambition to open a Merthyr Tydfil department for a while — and I can’t thank the council sufficient for serving to to make it occur. Merthyr Tydfil city centre is growing at an unbelievable tempo and we’re thrilled to be part of it.
“I’ve an awesome appreciation for the Merthyr group’s fixed help and sit up for bringing our enterprise nearer to them.”
Chief of Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, Cllr Geraint Thomas, mentioned:
“It’s nice to see one other fan-favourite restaurant open within the city centre, and I’ve little doubt that Casa Bianca will probably be simply as well-liked right here as it’s in Abergavenny.
“Andreas Christou is the most recent enterprise proprietor to learn from Council funding, together with his private ambition — alongside the numerous different native entrepreneurs we’ve helped — feeding instantly into our long-term masterplan for the city.
“Supporting entrepreneurs on this method is a majorly necessary step in serving to us to additional develop a tradition of nice impartial companies and distinctive food and drinks choices in Merthyr Tydfil — all whereas bringing a newfound goal to empty buildings within the city centre.”
