Popular chain restaurant Six By Nico is hoping to open its first Welsh branch on High Street in Cardiff, a planning application submitted to Cardiff Council suggests.
The restaurant has branches in London, Manchester and Liverpool, among other places. Its London branch was described in a food review as being “the busiest restaurant on Charlotte Street” where staff were “fobbing off hopeful walk-ins by the dozen”.
The restaurant offers a six-course tasting menu that changes every six weeks and is “inspired by a different memory, place or idea”. Each venue has a special drinks menu curated by the site’s in-house bartenders, meaning no one restaurant has exactly the same drinks menu – although, there will be signature Six by Nico cocktails and classics. It is named after chef Nico Simeone.
The planning application shows that Six by Nico intends on opening at the site of Zizzi restaurant, located at the Old Bank Chambers on High Street.
The application also shows an image of what it intends to look like once opened – on the right side of the door, an antique brass sign is emblazoned with the name Six By Nico, while the large windows will also be decorated by the name. While the tasting menu might suggest a high-end setting, there is no dress code and the restaurant says it wants all of its guests to feel comfortable and relaxed while dining.
Dishes on its current London menu include “Heads or Tails”, consisting of pork jowl, sweet and sour gherkin, jalapeno ox tail with Cep mushrooms and wild garlic, and “What Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg”, which is breast of chicken with egg yolk cacio e pepe, crispy leg, pickled celeriac and roast chicken cafe au lait.
While no opening date has been announced, the restaurant would join a changing food scene in this corner of the city centre, joining the likes of Pasture, Parallel and Maison De Boeuf.
Guardian food writer Grace Dent said when she visited the London restaurant in 2021 that “every single table was full, and a queue of wannabe diners trailed out of the door”. She also said the “menu ranged from quite decent to posh aeroplane food”.
Source: Wales Online
