Boulters lock restaurant video

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There a video article here on the new restaurant. Looks very nice inside, although they still haven't been able to sort out a new jetty yet but have been working on it (apparantley is all ready to put in place but their is some legal objection from someone nearby)

you will notice the flow and flood of the river in the background!

maidenhead advertiser video
 
Very interesting. £2½ million. Jeeze they are going to have to take some to get that back along with all their running costs. I wish them luck.
 
Great news, there will at long last be a watering hole between Windsor & Cookham. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Lets hope the jetty is sorted for this season.

Has a menu and prices yet been published?
 
I'm with Byron.

Nice, Handy and all that, but it's going to go down, due to bad timing, unless these people lash out a lot more until the recession subsides....

Shame.
 
Sorry I dont understand I was saying good luck to them? they said the food was simple, the other high class restaurant around there (ok its shut) is the fat duck that serve far from simple food. As its ben said 2.5 mill is a lot of simple food.

So good luck to them I hope they do well
 
Wasn't having a go at you, just some of the threads here saying "but it's going to go down". Support people on the river for crying out loud.

Fat Duck is not the comparison. Clearly not targeting that market. More going after an upmarket Bel & the Dragon. Good luck to them as you say.
 
Ok!

I will give it a go next time I am up that way, if I can moor of course! I dont think I have been on that pontoon since I was five and it was dodgy then!
 
Just a thought, but wouldn't it be an idea to make sure the new owner knows how important a mooring is ?. Sometimes the obvious is only obvious to those that can see it, and in this case it might help them if a few boats called in and told them they would get more if the mooring was improved. If they aren't boaters they won't know how much it matters, or how much difference it could make, so boaters calling in by boat to give the message would probably work if they thought enough would use it
 
It would have to have to have one heck of a lot of moorings to make any difference to their income. Only pubs/restaurants like the Ferry on the Medina make any real income from boaters, and that is due to having enough moorings they actually have a ferry running pretty much full time. I can't see that happening on that stretch of the Thames, even in peak season. It will remain a pub/restaurant used mainly by people who come by land not water.
 
Can't argue with that, much as I might like to /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Always surprises me when people think a place should make an extra effort to cater for a few people, much better to make a place your local by using it all the time, not just when the weather is nice. If the owner has a regular fleet turning up on the door step and spending money, but asking for a better landing, they're more likely to say yes
Regular spender's are the key, not just passing trade once or twice a year /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
Very often, it's the small number of regulars that are the problem in turning a pub/restaurant around. They want things to stay the same. The new manager or landlord, is looking to make the pub profitable. The two are not the same.
 
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It would have to have to have one heck of a lot of moorings to make any difference to their income. Only pubs/restaurants like the Ferry on the Medina make any real income from boaters, and that is due to having enough moorings they actually have a ferry running pretty much full time. I can't see that happening on that stretch of the Thames, even in peak season. It will remain a pub/restaurant used mainly by people who come by land not water.

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Look at that sihthole the Leathern Bottel. They make it quite difficult for Boaters yet do very well because they earn all their income from landlubbers. The Beetle and Wedge would not exist if the relied on the boating trade, although I help them out with moorings on the rare occasion they get several boats booked in as a party.
 
All true however I am both a local and a boater. Am more likely to try it if I can stop there in the boat. Like the place at Bourne End.
 
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.......if I can moor of course! I dont think I have been on that pontoon since I was five and it was dodgy then!

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Also quite shallow I think? You can certainly see the river bed well out into the weir stream from the waiting area below the lock. Significant dredging probably needed and unlikely to be an EA responsibility.
 
Theres plenty of space to moor for free even overnight next to the park just below the lock, done it many times now theres somewhere new to go.
 
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