Penarth restaurant Amici D'Italia has officially closed down

In February this year, the man only known as Eddie, who has a restaurant in Pontypool, opened a new restaurant in Penarth.  

The restaurant on the Penarth Esplanade officially closed this month on Sunday, November 24. 

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Richard Hayward, owner of the building Amici was in, said: "I think it went very well initially. They did really well but then sadly it started to trial off.  

“At that stage you have to try to attract people into the place. Sadly, that did not happen.  

“They had a traffic summer, but they could not operate in the current climate we are in. They were getting the weekends but not the weekdays." Amici closed on Sunday 24th. 

The restaurant Amici D’ Italia

The restaurant on the Esplanade had pizzas, pasta, risotto, steak, fish, and chicken all cooked fresh. 

Eddie had a restaurant in Pontypool, Torfaen and decided to expand with a new restaurant in Penarth which opened on February 18, 2024.

The opening night in February this year (Image: File) The spaces available on the Penarth Esplanade goes quickly, so Amici D’Italia moved in after tapas restaurant Casa De Margarita.

The décor was changed – gone are the mahoganies and reds, and those whiskey barrels… of Casa Di Margarita.  

The restaurant space beneath Beach Cliff Apartments became a modern, crisp, dare we say space-agey, Italian restaurant. 

The restaurant staff stood together at the opening earlier this year (Image: File) A Penarth Times reporter visited the Penarth restaurant on its opening night and tried out some of its food. 

The reporter, who tried several of the dishes said: “It cannot be emphasized enough, the freshness of the dishes!” 

Nearly everything at Amici’s was cooked from scratch, including the bread which the reporter said ‘blew’ him away.

The reporter added this the desert, the tiramisu, was ‘the best he has had’. 

“I have worked a long time in the industry,” explained Eddie at the time. “I know where the key to training is and what staff need to do,” he added back then.