Ellie Ann’s Opens in Southsea

The News, Portsmouth

Gavin Wight and his partner Michelle Smith have opened up their own cafe in Marmion Road, Southsea. Gavin was head chef at The Tenth Hole for 13 years.

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00:00Hi, this is Gavin and Michelle from Allianz Cafe in South Sea. We're opening up today.

00:04It's just going to be your local cafe serving real food for real people.

00:10As much as possible, we're trying to do what we can from scratch, in-house, using local products.

00:17We're going to be changing up the menu quite regularly, hopefully every two weeks from September,

00:22seeing what the customer's like, taking feedback from the customers and incorporating that into the menu.

00:28I hope to become my little community cafe with regular visitors.

00:34Fabulous. So I understand you were at the 10th hole for a long time?

00:38Yes, I was a previous visitor here. I was at the 10th hole for the last 13 years.

00:42Great experience, a lot working with Lucy and Bill down there.

00:46But I just felt that I'd been there for so long, there's only so much that I can do.

00:50And I just felt the time was right to open my own place, which has been a lifelong ambition of mine.

00:56I was going to say, it's always been a dream.

00:58And it's just nice to make my own decisions.

01:00And yeah, I'm really excited and looking forward to what lies ahead.

01:06And my son, who's just 14 at the moment, as soon as I get the work permit sorted out for him,

01:11I really want to get him in the kitchen and be a real family business.

01:15And I understand the cafe's named after your...

01:18The cafe's named after my daughter, Eliane.

01:20Lovely. So tell me some more, you know, what future plans are.

01:25Future plans are, at the moment, we are solely concentrating on Eliane.

01:30We don't want to have a chain, we just want to have one business that has our sole focus.

01:35And just, yeah, just wait and see what the feedback's going to be from the customers.

01:40And incorporating their wishes into what they want to see on the menu.

01:46Fabulous. And lastly, just tell me what your opening hours are, so people can come down.

01:49Opening hours are mainly going to be 9 till 3 at the moment,

01:52until we find what the football's going to be and when the customers want to come here and eat.

01:57Fridays and Saturdays, we will be open until 4.

02:01But again, things are going to be changing as time goes on.

02:05If the customers are here, want us to stay open a bit later,

02:07then we'll be staying open a bit later or opening up earlier.

02:12Okay, so guys, what we're going to be using as well is like Broadway coffee beans.

02:17Spokes into here and these seem to be very nice and we're hopefully going to get them in.

02:21All different ones, we're using Corks and River Tea.

02:24We've got all different private teas in.

02:27One of our companies that we use is Spaniola.

02:30They're absolutely brilliant.

02:32Hopefully we will be going a bit more into Portsmouth so we can use local stuff

02:38and to get things coming to us.

02:41If you do have any ideas for certain things that we can use,

02:44please put it on the Eliane's Facebook page for us so we can have a look and go from there.

02:49So hopefully we'll see you all soon and come and give it a go.

02:53So I'll see you all soon.

02:55Bye bye.

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