Dear Sir,
The Phoenix Club Restaurant is now under new management with a new owner Louise Mclintock.
Louise is well known in the club for her friendly attitude to people as she was one of the club’s bar staff. When the opportunity for the license to the restaurant arose, Louise jumped at the chance to have her own business.
After careful consideration, and taking into account other applicants, the committee decided to award the license to Louise. Her qualifications speak volumes with City & Guilds levels 1,2 & 3 in catering hospitality, food safety & hygiene certificates. Louise has travelled to gain experience, she went to Jersey from 2004 to 2009 to become “chef de partie” in a busy hotel industry.
Louise climbed the ladder to “sous chef”, working in The Cristina, The Somerville and The Golden Sands Hotel, all of which are sister hotels in the Dolan Hotel Chain in the Channel Isles.
If you want fine food in a friendly atmosphere please come along and enjoy the cuisine. Louise opens her restaurant on Sunday 28th Febuary from 12noon to 3pm with lunches served throughout the week at the same times. Eventually her plan is to serve breakfast from 10am to 11.300am and hot sandwiches etc. on Friday and Saturday nights.
News of the club itself is that although we now have almost 1600 members, since pulling away from the Royal British Legion, we still are not getting bums on seats, so to speak, as we had hoped for.
So, come on you new members – pop in, just for one drink, or maybe two, once a week as this would help the club immensely.
Since our last article, where I tried to explain about the Branch being the Royal British Legion and we are a separate club using their name, which we pay for. The branch have now left the building and we are restructuring our upstairs offices, needing the branch office for our own business.
We offered the branch alternative accommodation and also allowed them to sell pint check draws etc. to help their own finances. We have always strived to work with the branch and did not want them to leave and we hope no one believes we kicked them out! They left of their own volition saying, “Head office told us to move because the club has nothing to do with the Royal British Legion anymore”.
They are now in the Workingmen’s Club in a big office with no privacy and The Workingmens Club has nothing to do with the Royal British Legion. We still wish the branch the best of luck for the future and it was regrettable we had to disaffiliate from the Legion organisation, but it was necessary for us to keep our heads above water financially.
Tommy Palmer (Secretary).
