Ozon Thai restaurant plans to open next to popular Hickmans

If you have walked down Windsor Road, you may have noticed the building works next to Hickmans Bar and Restaurant.  

What will the restaurant look like? 

The building is due to have a new lease of and the window front will include lots of plants. 

These plants include two palms, two strelitzias and tree firms in the window opposite the pavement. 

The front view of the property in a proposed sketch (Image: Vale of Glamorgan Council) The cookery school, which will have a patio and herb garden will be on the lower ground floor. 

The restaurant, bar, Kitchen, and toilets will be on the ground floor of the former pub building. 

Where will the restaurant be? 

The new Thai restaurant will be next to the recently new Hickmans Bar and Restaurant on Windsor Road in Penarth.  

It is a short six-minute walk, 0.2 miles away from Dingle Road station and a seven-minute walk, 0.3 miles away from Penarth train station. 

The walking route from the two train stations (Image: Google)

When will it open?

The date of the opening has not yet been confirmed.

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What was the building previously used for? 

The building is the former site of the Pier and Piano pub, the old RAFA club and before that the Conservative Club. 

The planning application 

A planning application submitted by Charles M Willie & Sons (Property) Ltd was approved in May 2024. 

The application was for the projection of an existing single-story extension at the front of the building and construction of a planter area and disabled access ramp. 

It included the conversion of the lower ground floor to an ancillary cooking school for use in connection with the proposed restaurant. 

The planned layout of the building (Image: Vale of Glamorgan Council)

The Hickmans Bar and Restaurant next door 

The building next door to the planned Thai Restaurant is none other than Hickmans which opened on September 27.  

It was transformed from the ‘derelict’ building on Windsor Road, which formerly was occupied by Blockbuster, by local investor Stuart Reid.  

The investor envisaged a restaurant with ‘elegance and a vibrant atmosphere’ for the Penarth audience. 

The Hickmans bar and restaurant during construction (Image: File) He rebuilt the building ‘from the ground up’ alongside Sean Murphy of the newly created Gastro Food Groups. 

The interior design of Hickmans was done by Sarah Raegan from the company Scour Interior Design.  

The new restaurant and cookery Onzon Thai is set to follow in its footsteps as the next building on Windsor Road to be given a new lease of life.