For Eve Weiler Kanne and Kristy Kate Brooks, whose wine expertise hails from Napa and Central Valley, California, Mallorca is home from home. The two Californians have set up a bespoke wine concierge service called 2Birds Wine Tasting on the island and business is flourishing. Eve’s speciality, as a wine company owner, is sourcing unique…
Category: Hostelry
Pub sale plan U-turn after owner changes his mind
THE owner of the old White Lion at Crays Pond no longer plans to put it on the market despite having said he would. Satwinder Sandhu, who purchased the former Greene King hostelry in 2013, told South Oxfordshire District Council in April that he intended to sell the vacant premises on. He was legally required…
Ben Jonson pub up for sale and could be converted into homes
The Ben Johnson What was the Ben Jonson on Warrington Road at Marus Bridge, is one of the borough’s older hostelry buildings and sits in a prominent position in a densely populated area with few alternatives for drinkers. Formerly run by the late rugby league star Terry Newton, it later fell on hard times and…
The Zane Hotel was a grand and elaborate hostelry
Just over a quarter of a century after the town’s founding, Zanesville was blessed with a hotel on North Fourth Street. According to local historian Norris F. Schneider, in a Times Recorder article dated 5-5-1974, “In 1823 the Frazey Hotel on North Fourth Street entertained stagecoach travelers. (Later) Enlarged and remodeled as the Kirk House,…
Fayre on the Square brings golf, food and drink to Salisbury
WITH golf, cocktails, music and a variety of cuisines to tuck into, fun was had by all as ‘Fayre on the Square’ arrived in Salisbury at the weekend. The summer event launched on Saturday, July 24, and was welcomed into the city centre by hundreds of visitors. The fayre, organised by Salisbury City Council, has…
The Kushaqua: Colonel Church’s ‘mammoth hostelry’ rises on the shoulder of the Helderbergs
Perhaps it was the influence of the comments of an 1881 Albany Evening Journal writer who claimed, “Tourists and summer boarders have flooded to the Helderbergs,” where local homes and hotels were “crowded to their utmost capacity.” It was a puzzle to him why no enterprising man had erected a summer hotel on such a…