Peter Sanchez-Iglesias will open Casa, his new Italian restaurant, on the former site of his Michelin-starred restaurant Casamia in Bristol.

Casa, meaning ‘home’ in Italian, will see Peter and his family return to cooking Italian food - just as they did when they first opened Casamia in Westbury-on-Trym in 1999.

His parents Sue and Paco launched the restaurant and Peter joined the kitchen brigade when he was just 16. This new opening marks the next step for the Sanchez-Iglesias family, who have created celebrated neighbourhood and destination restaurants in Bristol for over 30 years.

Reimagining their much-loved restaurant, Casa will offer a contemporary, accessible, yet refined take on traditional Italian dining, acting as a sibling to Peter’s Michelin-starred Spanish institution Paco Tapas next door.

The 66-cover restaurant will offer a similarly relaxed environment in which to enjoy a menu created by Peter and executive chef Joel Breakwell, who has directed the kitchen at Paco Tapas for the past three years, retaining its Michelin-star since 2019.

Dishes will be made using high quality ingredients from the very best Italian and British producers, working with many of the same local suppliers that the team have partnered with for years.

Casa will open its doors on November 16.