A new Italian restaurant has opened at the Five Valleys shopping centre in Stroud.
Terra has appointed a team of seven staff to join owners Matteo Conte and Clara Cardillo at the eatery, located in the Sandersons boutique store at the retail hub.
The restaurant, which gets its name from the Italian word for earth, will serve a selection of food and drinks brought to the UK from Rome, where Mr Conte and Ms Cardillo moved from eight years ago.
The couple also own and will continue to run the Non-Solo Pasta unit within the retail complex’s indoor market where they have been operating for the past two years.
A quarter million-pound investment has been used to create a luxurious dining experience at Terra. Guests were welcomed to a special launch evening on Wednesday (June 15).
Ms Cardillo said: “We are passionate about serving exquisite Italian food using the best ingredients we can find to complement our traditional family recipes.
“We’d like to thank from the bottom of our hearts the guests who attended and showed their support for our opening night. We hope to see many of them again soon.”
Simon Bateman, store manager at Sandersons, added: “The new restaurant and bar looks fantastic, we’d like to wish the team at Terra all the very best and look forward to working with them to deliver a fantastic dining experience to our shoppers.”
Terra becomes the latest food offering at Five Valleys, with former finalist of South West chef of the year Josh Ambridge recently opening The Choux Bun Appétit patisserie at the indoor market, home to around 20 artisan producers and street food vendors.
Gloucestershire pizza chain Fat Toni’s Pizzeria is also creating 10 new jobs with the expansion of its restaurant next to the centre's Vue cinema.
The retail facility, formerly called Merrywalks, is located on King Street in Stroud town centre and has undergone a more than £25m programme of redevelopment by South Yorkshire owner and operator Dransfield Properties.
The project’s next stage of development is under way and will include a £6.5m medical centre in the refurbished former Woolworth’s and Poundland building.
Dransfield Properties said it had so far safe-guarded and created 293 jobs at Five Valleys and created 13 new residential apartments in space above the retail units.
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