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Chefs cook up maritime treat

Café Cru chefs Simon Wainwright, Mark Dixon and Peter Clarke cooked up a feast at the Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival on September 4^th and 5^th.

Joined by Daniel Smith of The Swan at Ingham, they presented a series of cookery demonstrations using maritime ingredients. The menu included wild Atlantic halibut, pan-seared scallops and roasted cod fillet.

Pictured are Peter Clarke (left) and Simon Wainwright.

Awards delight for Imperial Hotel

There was double delight for staff and management as Great Yarmouth's Imperial Hotel took two top honours in the town's tourist trade awards.

The Imperial was named Hotel of the Year and its self-contained Café Cru took the Restaurant of the Year title in the Greater Yarmouth Tourist Authority Awards.

"We're not used to getting awards. I think we've been around so long and striving to perform at the highest possible level that people tend to take us for granted," said Nick Mobbs, proprietor of the family-run hotel.

"So we were particularly thrilled to receive both awards, judged by fellow members of the tourist authority - professional people in the trade who are perhaps the hardest to please."

The awards come after more than a quarter of a million pounds worth of investment in the business over the past two years and follow its achievement in becoming the town's only AA four-star hotel.

Improvements include the restyled Café Cru, the new-look Bar Fizz and upgrading to bedrooms and other facilities.

"It is often tougher to sustain a hotel at the top level than it is to get it there," said Nick. "I think judges look out for new people or new developments for the awards so it means a lot to us, and is a great tribute to our staff, to be recognised in such a way this time. There was particular praise too for our commitment to customers, quality and training.

"Now we will be inspired to surpass even those high standards. We were delighted to hear a loyal customer say the other day that our food just gets better and better. That is our aim throughout the business."

We are delighted to announance that our receptionist Polly Houghton has given birth to a healthy baby boy called Charlie Payne born on Wednesday 31st March at 7.10am - Mother & Baby are doing well.

We are delighted to announance that our waitress Emma Clarke has given birth to healthy baby boy twins called Ethan 5lb 6oz and Charlie 5lb 11oz born on Saturday 24th April at 3.42pm - Mother & Babies are doing well.

We are delighted to announce that our receptionist Vicky Taylor has given birth to a healthy baby girl called Isabella Mary Taylor born weighing 6lb 9oz on Monday 10th May at 7.58am - Mother & baby are doing well.