Boath House reopens

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The Auldearn hotel and venue has reopened under new management

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00:00I'm Chris, this is my wife Lois, and we're part of the Bigger Management team.

00:09We're reopening Boathouse as what we imagine it should be.

00:13A place where local people come and share local products, local ingredients, and just

00:18enjoy a place of beauty.

00:20For us it's a community place, a place for family.

00:24It's been phenomenal, we could have never anticipated how many people we've actually

00:28had come through the doors.

00:29It's quite overwhelming to see the support already.

00:37We're a completely new company, but there was a bit of a cloud, so we decided that we

00:41wanted people to know as quickly as possible that we intended this to be reborn as a place

00:47for everyone, and just to meet people, let them answer questions for us.

00:53Just to see what it's all about now, to see that, you know, for us this is a rebirth of

00:57a place that's just special.

01:06We got married here actually, this is why it's special to us, and it's somewhere that

01:11we've always come and for me especially I've always had a feeling of peace whilst I'm here.

01:16When you sit here and you're on your own, it's a special place.

01:23We've had such a positive feedback as well, even from social media, with people commenting,

01:27messaging about how excited they were to come and visit the place, and I think people have

01:32been finally allowed to wander around the house which is also great as well, yeah it's

01:36been fantastic.

01:41The big thing is we're a big team of normal people, you know, that just love what we do.

01:48We've got incredible chefs with Ian and Vivian.

01:53Steve originally bought these premises as a legacy for his family.

01:57The last management group, you know, it didn't work out, but for him the legacy, the love

02:01for the place was always there, and this time he was determined to find a team that would

02:05make it work, and we definitely think the team we've got is that team.

02:10We've got a great foundation to build.

02:13Yes.

02:14Ian and Vivian are incredible chefs.

02:18Even just in the garden kitchen, it's incredible already.

02:24We're really excited to see what they do in the main house with the fine dining element.

02:27Yeah, definitely.

02:28Yeah.

02:29Hi, my name's Ian, I'm the head chef here at Both House.

02:32And my name is Vivian, I'm the sous-chef.

02:34Today we've opened the Garden Cafe, and our whole concept behind this is that we want

02:39it to be accessible for locals, and we want it to be really community-driven, and we want

02:44to have food that's accessible and reasonably priced, and locally sourced.

02:48We very much have two kind of sides to the business, so over here at the Garden Cafe

02:52we want it to be like lunches, and more chilled out and relaxed, people can come here and

02:55have a beer, or they can come here and have a sandwich, and over in the house we'll have

02:58a bit more fine dining, and it'll be very refined food, and we're still talking about

03:05the concept, but we think it's going to be all over fire, open fire, and we're still

03:11going to retain what Both House always has been, you know, a kind of high-end establishment

03:15that is offering food for people that want to celebrate something, or they want to experience

03:20food at that level.

03:21And over here will be a lot more kind of family-driven, people can bring their dogs and their families

03:26and chill out.

03:27That's the plan.

03:28It's a very exciting time, I would say, and we would like to make people happy, and make

03:38sure that we are catering for everybody.

03:40Yeah, and I think we have the real opportunity here to do that, because we have the two outlets

03:46really, you know, having the cafe here that we can do really kind of comfort food, and

03:50over at the house we can do something much more refined.

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