02/04/2004
Anthony Steen MP to re-open South Hams Beach Cafe
TOTNES MP Anthony Steen is to re-open the East Portlemouth Venus beach café near Salcombe for Britain’s leading al fresco beach café operator.
The re-opening of The Venus Company’s café overlooking the Salcombe estuary follows a £58,000 investment in improvements designed to double its size and improve the facilities for visitors.
Mr Steen will re-open the café with a call on South Hams food producers and suppliers to consider how they can make their products healthier by reducing the salt and fat content in their recipes.
The award-winning Venus Company is already using locally grown and organic products and is working hard on providing healthier options on the menu and purchasing products to reduce the salt content in its menu items.
Mr Steen said: “I have become extremely well aware in the last few years that we are what we eat. For many of us with busy lifestyles, particularly urban dwellers, we tend to eat from supermarket shelves and, by doing so, inadvertently consume far too much salt in our daily diet.
“The good news is that the award-winning Venus Company is extremely conscious to provide visitors to its cafes with healthy, nourishing food, which has a flavour of the West about it. What they can be sure about is what they buy from Venus is the best from the West.”
Managing director Michael Smith said: “We are delighted that Mr Steen has agreed to re-open the East Portlemouth Venus beach café following an extensive redevelopment. The refurbishment programme will improve our ability to provide visitors with an up to date facility capable of providing top quality product and service to residents and visitors to the South Hams.
“We have been particularly careful with this expansion to improve the overall impact the site has on the environment. We consider the re-development of the garden and building is now more sympathetic with the surroundings. All the paint used is non-toxic, the slates are reclaimed material and the grassed area has been laid on top of recycled plastic turf rings which will help protect the turf from erosion.”
The refurbishment of the beach café will enable the Venus Company to significantly improve the service and facilities to the 50,000 visitors to East Portlemouth, many of whom use the foot passenger ferry to Salcombe and the South West Coastal Path. The scheme was designed by Michael Stopher of Kingsbridge.
The work at East Portlemouth Venus beach café also included doubling the number of customer service points and tripling the space available for refrigeration and storage as well as providing a service bay for delivery vehicles.
The garden of the café was extensively re-landscaped and re-planted under the watchful gaze of Jo Stopher of Kingsbridge, who designed the landscape scheme.
The Venus Company has also recently completed landscaping the al fresco dining terraces at its beach cafes at Blackpool Sands near Dartmouth and Bigbury-on-Sea near Kingsbridge.
The re-opening of The Venus Company’s café overlooking the Salcombe estuary follows a £58,000 investment in improvements designed to double its size and improve the facilities for visitors.
Mr Steen will re-open the café with a call on South Hams food producers and suppliers to consider how they can make their products healthier by reducing the salt and fat content in their recipes.
The award-winning Venus Company is already using locally grown and organic products and is working hard on providing healthier options on the menu and purchasing products to reduce the salt content in its menu items.
Mr Steen said: “I have become extremely well aware in the last few years that we are what we eat. For many of us with busy lifestyles, particularly urban dwellers, we tend to eat from supermarket shelves and, by doing so, inadvertently consume far too much salt in our daily diet.
“The good news is that the award-winning Venus Company is extremely conscious to provide visitors to its cafes with healthy, nourishing food, which has a flavour of the West about it. What they can be sure about is what they buy from Venus is the best from the West.”
Managing director Michael Smith said: “We are delighted that Mr Steen has agreed to re-open the East Portlemouth Venus beach café following an extensive redevelopment. The refurbishment programme will improve our ability to provide visitors with an up to date facility capable of providing top quality product and service to residents and visitors to the South Hams.
“We have been particularly careful with this expansion to improve the overall impact the site has on the environment. We consider the re-development of the garden and building is now more sympathetic with the surroundings. All the paint used is non-toxic, the slates are reclaimed material and the grassed area has been laid on top of recycled plastic turf rings which will help protect the turf from erosion.”
The refurbishment of the beach café will enable the Venus Company to significantly improve the service and facilities to the 50,000 visitors to East Portlemouth, many of whom use the foot passenger ferry to Salcombe and the South West Coastal Path. The scheme was designed by Michael Stopher of Kingsbridge.
The work at East Portlemouth Venus beach café also included doubling the number of customer service points and tripling the space available for refrigeration and storage as well as providing a service bay for delivery vehicles.
The garden of the café was extensively re-landscaped and re-planted under the watchful gaze of Jo Stopher of Kingsbridge, who designed the landscape scheme.
The Venus Company has also recently completed landscaping the al fresco dining terraces at its beach cafes at Blackpool Sands near Dartmouth and Bigbury-on-Sea near Kingsbridge.