Kumquat comeback gets big boost via the internet
KUMQUAT, the veggie restaurant which 'died' on Abbeydale Road almost two years ago, has been resurrected as a roving restaurant.
Boss Nicky Harris, who took over from founder Eddie Poole, is hiring rooms in pubs for customers who book via Facebook.
It's already held a Valentines dinner at the Rutland Arms on Brown Street and the next is at the University Arms, Brook Hill, on March 28 for a late Sunday lunch.
She hopes it will be a monthly thing. It's already attracted a waiting list.
But Nicky, currently working behind the bar at the re-opened Gardeners Rest in Neepsend, has tweaked the original veggie and vegan concept.
"There is one meat option for people whose partners are not vegetarian," says Nicky. She is a carnivore but her partner, artist Martin Bedford, is veggie.
She says she missed "doing cheffy things" while working as a cook for a local outward bound-type centre and came up with the roving restaurant.
Why does she think she can succeed this time?
"For the last six months of Kumquat Mae it was fine on Fridays and Saturdays but you still had to cook the food and pay the staff the rest of the week," she says.
"This way we put the menu on Facebook, people choose and we get what we need."
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