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"Bob was shocked by the new staff uniforms!" |
"Captain of Industry"
Offers to wait on in boxer shorts!
You may not be aware but there are only 2 real "captains of industry" on the Island and I can guarantee it is not one of the usual suspects who a regularly rolled out in front of the press. To qualify for such a prestigious award the successful candidate much collapse in a head whilst holding a drink and not spill a drop, well this is what I have been informed, it also helps that the potential "C of I" is blind drunk whilst this tricky manoeuvre takes place.
On such an evening the other week, one of these “very rare” beasts offered to wait on for a table in his boxer shorts and an apron if each member of the party gave £10 towards a local charity. Now, he might not remember this but I do so if anyone is interested let me know via email.
Minimum donation £200 and it has to be in a private room so we don’t have a mass of uncontrollable ladies in the main restaurant !!
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I Blame the Black Hole !
In an effort to help Guernsey fill its financial black hole we have reluctantly had to raise our bedroom prices. This is the first rise in three years but due to £7,000 per month fuel bills! And staff wanting pay rises (how dare they), I am afraid it is inevitable.
We have, for the last three years, swallowed all of the costs that our suppliers have passed on but we can no longer do this. before I came to Guernsey, I thought monopoly was just a board game but it turns out its not!
New room rates will become affective from May this year and we will continue to offer our weekend break offers as we have previously done.
Room Rates
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Guernsey didn't look so inviting
on "Google Earth" this year |
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"Chris George's Photoshop skills
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Hell's Kitchen - Update
We didn't touch him honest !!
Our Hells kitchen day proved to be a huge success and our willing victim managed to stay the course. Graham turned up on time and looking ready for action in his personalised jacket but something didn’t quite seem right? Perhaps it was the black eye? or maybe the cuts and bruises all over his face?. I have to say at this stage that they had nothing to do with Neil and his team, they didn’t touch him!.
The whole day was a huge success in no small part to Graham who really got stuck in, at one stage he was getting rather intimate with some species or other that I couldn’t even recognise, I think Neil was trying to get the point across that our food is fresh.
We may think of doing another such event, for no other reason than we filled the restaurant with people wanting to see our victim in action !
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I can smell paint?
This place is turning into the Forth Road Bridge! Last year it was new rooms, and the Orangery and this year has started off with decorators and new carpets, new doors and new furniture for the bar. Next month will see the start of refurbishment work on bedrooms we did about 3 years ago. At this rate we will be refurbishing the new rooms in 2009!
We will also be changing our outside furniture to a lighter design ready for the sunshine in the spring. (if you want to buy some teak furniture let me know)
Like any business we try and keep on top of things and we can’t just sit back and not invest. It’s important for us to keep moving forward and hopefully you will benefit from the changes we make.
Sorry about that last bit it sounded far too proffesional to me!
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"Chris was really please with the money saved on unnecessary scaffolding" |
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Neil and Graham play a friendly game of "mine is bigger than yours" |
New Menus !
With March now upon us it was time to look at all our menus and give them the once over. As you may be aware, we already have a monthly lunch and dinner menu but we have also done some fine tuning to our a la carte menu as well.
The only thing we haven’t really changed much is the prices AGAIN so you will be able to get your favourite endangered species at prices that are even better value for money than last year
Odd dishes have had to increase as supply struggles to keep up with demand but after eating ok in the UK recently, I think we offer great value for money (and I’m a Yorkshire man)
The menus can be downloaded from our restaurant section
Restaurant Menus |