The Old Coastguard - The Gurnard's Head - The Felin Fach Griffin

Happy Saturday. Some final thoughts for the year and pointers for December from us.

Running a hospitality business does seem to be a bit of a hair-raising adventure nowadays, but we wouldn’t miss it for the world. The fundamentals of working in the industry boil down to making others happy and is why we hope more and more people, young and slightly less young, will see it as a place they might want to work in 2023 and join our team, several of whom have been with us for nearly 20 years.

Thank you for all your support over the past 12 months. We wish you the very best for a good Christmas and New Year.

Our EDS Gift Vouchers

As ever, available for any amount, usable at all three of our places and without any real expiry date. We see lots of reasons for buying them: for friends and family, Christmas presents for work or even for funding a planned break with us in 2023. You can now buy them online here: in light of the planned Royal Mail strikes, you may want to pick the online option. If you need to quiz one of us about the detail, drop us an email here and we’ll call you back.

Lunch for Less and other December stuff

The response to our Lunch for Less right across EDS has been a delight. An old fashioned Prix Fixe menu, Monday – Saturday, £20 for 2 courses and £25 for 3. An example right here.

We’ll run it through until just before Christmas and it will return in 2023. For more on our Christmas and New Year plans, including a more glamorous Christmas menu at £35 a head, our Village Feasts and confirmation of our closure dates in January, click below.

THE OLD COASTGUARD

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THE FELIN FACH GRIFFIN

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Independent shops and cafés

We prefer not to be preachy, but if we can urge you in one direction this December, it’s towards independent shops and cafés and away from the company with the smile on its big cardboard boxes and the chains.

These places, in towns around us such as Penzance, Brecon, Monmouth, Newlyn, Hay and Crickhowell, are fighting an asymmetric war against the economics of modern shopkeeping while keeping our high streets alive, their shelves stacked with interesting stuff and making proper coffee with love and care. Please do support them.

2023

What will the new year bring? For those of you who recognise the words Carland Cross for all the wrong reasons, the final link in the A30 will open towards the end of the year, making the South West’s main artery four laned pretty much to within sight of Mounts’ Bay.

Nearer to home, we’ll have our usual January spit and polish in Wales and Cornwall, including our first venture into electric charging points at The Old Coastguard. More on that, and our Lunch for a Fiver, early in the new year.