As first reported by The Bristol Post, the high-profile Redcliffe restaurant has a notice on its website that reads: “At this moment, we are closed for future bookings. If you’re looking to book a restaurant, please check out our sister restaurant, Paco Tapas”.
The note goes onto to say that all vouchers for Casa will be honoured at Paco Tapas, which is located within the same building on Lower Guinea Street.
Launched in 2022 within the space that was once home to Sanchez-Iglesias’s Michelin-starred Casamia, Casa was billed as a re-imaging of the Sanchez-Iglesias family’s original Casamia restaurant in the Bristol suburb of Westbury-on-Trym, which opened in 1999.
Casa was casual in feel but offered relatively high-end food, with dishes including mushroom suppli; potato ravioli with lions mane ragu; tortellini in brodo; steak Florentine; ossobuco; and a tiramisu made using the same recipe that Sanchez-Iglesias’ parents Paco and Sue used in the early days of the restaurant.
Peter and his late brother Jonray cooked at their parent’s neighbourhood restaurant throughout their teens, gradually moving it away from its Italian origins to create one of the UK’s most ambitious restaurants.
Casamia – which moved to The General development in central Bristol in 2016 – closed in 2022 citing rapidly increasing costs.
The Casa team has been contacted for comment.