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Recommended Eats - Number 73 Waterlooville

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00:00 Hi my name is Jamie and I'm the manager here at number 73 Bar and Kitchen Waterlooville

00:04 and this is a independent unique family-owned restaurant, wine bar, cocktail

00:11 bar, coffee shop. So tell us a little bit about the history you already mentioned

00:15 that it used to be another pub before? So it was originally called the Wellington

00:19 and that's a pub for many many many years and that closed down in about 2016

00:24 and the current owner decided to purchase that building and transform it

00:31 into what it is today a restaurant and wine bar. So what makes it different from

00:36 other bars and restaurants? Well it's unique as it is a one-off and it's

00:42 family-owned and we do strive to have the best in customer care and high

00:49 standards of service. I've got many years experience in looking after customers to

00:53 a high quality. The food is all freshly prepared and it's an independent

00:58 unique menu and we specialize in tapas, main courses, we're very busy for

01:05 breakfast, we can just be a coffee shop so it sort of covers all areas really.

01:09 And how would you describe the culture of this place? I'd say I mean it's

01:15 not quite French, not quite Italian. No I would say sort of a slight

01:20 Mediterranean touch really but as I say it's a cocktail bar, it's a wine bar,

01:26 it's a restaurant, it's a bit of everything really and we are quite busy

01:31 most of the time which is brilliant. Excellent and so what would you say, you

01:37 already mentioned tapas, but what would you say are the other positive issues

01:40 that people go for? We have an excellent chef and a brilliant team in the kitchen

01:46 and the front of house and he does pride himself on fresh local produce wherever

01:51 possible. It's a varied menu specializing in some tapas dishes, homemade pizzas, we

01:57 also do a few off-piste dishes as well so just to keep it a little bit more

02:03 individual but we also do things like burgers which are very popular here.

02:08 And do you have any events or menu changes coming up? So the menu

02:15 changes about every three or four months and in fact it's due to change again in

02:19 a couple of weeks so middle of May. We'll keep some of the staple dishes on which

02:24 are always very popular but also sort of just change very slightly some of the

02:28 other dishes and we always have very busy weekends. Thursday nights is always

02:34 a live music night and that can be brilliant with a great following of

02:38 local customers and then generally Friday, Saturdays and Sundays are

02:42 extremely busy so we're very very lucky. Excellent.

02:46 And actually that actually covers all the questions. Anything that you'd like to add to it?

02:54 No I mean I took over in May 2021 as soon as lockdown was over and we were

03:00 able to reopen so when I took over it was it hadn't been open very long and

03:06 then it was closed due to Covid so it had a bit of a tricky start really

03:10 because it just couldn't really quite get off the ground before it was closed.

03:14 I've got experience for over 30 years working in a local high-quality hotel so

03:20 I've brought a lot of those standards here with the staff training and just the

03:25 way we look after people. We do go out of our way to look after people as much as

03:29 we can and as best as we can.

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