A window table, please…

A window table, please…

When I had my restaurants, it never ceased to amaze me how much people fought over our window tables. All our restaurants had a few windows overlooking water. At Seaton Carew, it was the sea but at the others, it was a view of the 

Dreaming of holidays

Dreaming of holidays

Ever since retiring from the restaurant business over two years ago, I’ve been promising myself to visit my niece who works as a scuba-diving instructor on the island of Bali. One of those jobs for which your own career advisor would give their right arm.  

Not ready to be curried away…

Not ready to be curried away…

Undeterred by the Coronavirus lockdown, the Poolie NON-vegetarian Curry Club who meet a few Thursdays a year for an Indian meal, a few lagers and a lot of Pools banter, decided to attend a virtual meeting, organised by Nick Loughlin through the Zoom App. The