Fast-expanding Thai tapas chain Giggling Squid is opening a second restaurant in Cardiff in an investment creating 45 new jobs. Its new venue, at the 150,000 sq ft mixed-use Mermaid Quay scheme in Cardiff Bay, will open next year adding to its only other Welsh venue in the centre of the capital.
Giggling Squid will occupy a 4,800 sq ft terraced unit combining space previously occupied by Bayside Brasserie and Bellini’s Italian restaurants operated by independent restaurateur Babak Arabastani. Mr Arabastani will continue to trade his third Italian restaurant in the scheme – Signor Valentino’s.
The latest letting at Mermaid Quay, owned by Schroders Capital UK Real Estate Fund (SCREF), follows a multi-million refurbishment of the scheme’s public realm.
