Pipe of Port relaunches with new Rat Pack night (From Southend Standard)
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Pipe of Port relaunches with new Rat Pack night
1:00pm Wednesday 17th October 2012 in Echo News
A POPULAR restaurant has been taken off the market and is to be revived as a live music venue.
The Pipe of Port in Southend High Street will host regular Rat Pack style nights kicking off on Friday October 19.
Owners Steve Jones and his business partner and sister-n-law Janet Cliff put The Pipe of Port up for sale in July for £325,000 but have changed tact and instead decided to relaunch.
Steve, who has been at the Pipe for 31 years, said: “Janet had deep reservations about it and not much was happening with the sale.
“We decided it wasn’t such a good idea to sell and thought about what would happen if we stayed. So we’ve decided to hang on in there and since we told people we’ve been really touched. We’ve had 100s of messages of support from customers pleased we’ve changed our minds. It’s really heart warming.”
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Eric Whim
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1:46pm Wed 17 Oct 12
sister-n-law
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Olivia2847
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1:49pm Wed 17 Oct 12
asbo industries inc
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2:44pm Wed 17 Oct 12
Olivia2847
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3:09pm Wed 17 Oct 12
asbo industries inc wrote:Meaning?
should have gone with sewer rat night - bit more topical
Horton
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5:50pm Wed 17 Oct 12
OK, so we are not exactly talking Michelin star cuisine (although it really is pretty good) but at least it has a bit of character and some decent people running it - not the usual Southend 'buy a bar and get rich quick by attracting young binge drinkers' type landlords. I doubt that when I am next there having a few ales that I will be in much danger of having my head stamped on by another customer or of the police raiding the place for drugs. Long live the PoP!
rjsizzler
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5:58pm Wed 17 Oct 12
Muttles
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6:10pm Wed 17 Oct 12
leeharveyosmond
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1:23am Thu 18 Oct 12
Major Incident
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12:29pm Thu 18 Oct 12
leeharveyosmond wrote:Is that the same Sergeant Danny Barnes formerly of the early Police Interceptor episodes (did he transfer to Southend or was he posted?!) who picked up a discarded carrier bag of dog sh1t thinking it was drugs?
Police raid led by Danny Barnes on the back of entirely fictitious allegations of something-or-other in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...
Obviously he still has difficulty telling the difference between the two.
BenfleetBarrel says...
1:28pm Wed 17 Oct 12