The Florence Arms

The Florence Arms has been taken over.

Transcript

00:00Hi, can you introduce yourselves?

00:21I'm Chris, one of the new owners of The Florence and I'm Dan, the other new owner of The Florence.

00:28So, tell me why you chose to take over The Florence Arms?

00:33So, myself and Dan have worked with each other for quite some time in various different places

00:39and we've always wanted to do something together.

00:42We've looked at various locations and premises and not all of them have shaped up to exactly what we were looking for.

00:49But as soon as we saw The Florence and we looked round it, we saw the size of the restaurant, the bar, its location

00:55in such a nice area of Portsmouth and the local community is really good round here.

01:00We've met quite a few of them already.

01:02We just thought we really would love to give this a go and get it going as quickly as possible

01:08and it will happen very fast.

01:11So, tell me what your plans are for the future of The Pub?

01:15So, the pub itself, we just want it to be a local hub, somewhere where all the locals and the residents around here

01:22can come and have a drink in the evening in the pub area and also have something to eat if they want to.

01:29We're going to be introducing normal pub things that we do, so quiz nights and things like that and along those lines

01:37and then the restaurant itself, we're just hoping to have that as, try and run that as a restaurant.

01:43Doing classic pub food, just slightly twisted and a little bit, a tiny bit elevated, we're hoping.

01:50And we're doing a classic grill menu as well, so we cook over Japanese coal and applewood in the kitchen,

01:55alongside our traditional ovens.

01:57So, we've got salmon steaks on there, rum steaks, whole woks, racks of ribs.

02:02What else were we putting in there?

02:05The sausages we're putting in there, which we were getting everything from Masters of Portsmouth

02:09and we've got a really great relationship with Paul down there.

02:11He's a fantastic butcher, makes them really good.

02:14He's making a burger to our grind and I'll mix how we want it, the same for the sausages and things like that.

02:19He's butchering down middles of pork for us and whole bits of beef.

02:23So, we've got a great relationship with him and we're really happy that he's been able to supply us

02:28because he's incredibly busy in his own right.

02:30But yeah, so our aspiration is just to bring the pub back to life a little bit

02:35and hopefully the local residents and people south in Portsmouth enjoy what we do

02:41and we're trying to set a target for ourselves of what we would like it to be when we're here service-wise, food-wise.

02:48What beers we would like on and if we can try and live up to our own expectation then hopefully that's the expectation of everyone else.

02:57I think it's really important as well that we get a community feel to the pub.

03:00So, we're going to be all about the people of Portsmouth, the people of South Sea and especially the local residents in the area.

03:06I think everybody's probably missing a local pub around here.

03:09So, I think it's really important that we invite the locals in, friendly to the locals and be a pub just for the local people of Portsmouth.

03:15&

03:24Thank you, guys.