Calling ALL vinyl lovers! Sam Foot is having a huge vinyl jumble tomorrow at his wonderful pub The King Street Tavern (click here for map). Expect some fine examples of some beautiful old tunes from back in the day.
He’s putting in listening stations too – gonna be like record shopping used to be!! Kicks off at 12noon, get involved! Beer and food will be served as usual.
We made it down to the popular annual Christmas art fair held at the King Street Tavern on Saturday, the turn out was really good including stalls by the Caravan Gallery, Mikey Ayling, Petting Zoo, the crew from Bonzo and loads more good art, photography, books, prints, jewellery, etc.
Bit of a late promo on this weekends Arts & Crafts Fair at The King Street Tavern. If the last Art Fair is anything to by then this will be yet another huge success. A lovely environment with good people, good music, some afternoon beers and plenty of amazing art work, designs & crafts. A great opportunity to grab some hand crafted goodies.
Poster Design: Spencer
On a miserable, wet and cold day like today you probably want to know that the King Street has a Tuesday supper club tonight and also has a new guest ale, ‘Cocker Hoop’ from the Lake District. Check the supper menu below, sounds amazing:
Moglai curry with chicken or vegetables, both served with spiced rice & black pepper pappads
£6.75
Honey & mustard glazed home baked ham, served with a spring onion potato cake, & a free range fried egg or a Gladys’ May duck egg!
£6.95/7.95
Apple pie or Dark chocolate mousse.
Open from 6pm, food served from 7pm-9pm.
Excellent. Sam, Nicky and the team really pulled out all the stops to provide an amazing dinner for us on Saturday. Due to a pretty epic work hangover I didn’t really take any photos of the spread, but believe me when I say it was exceptional on all counts. Big thanks again and also a congratulatory message to Abi and Mikey on announcing their step in parenthood. All the best and thanks for the Champagne. X
Last Saturdays Art Fair at the King Street Tavern was a huge success. From doors open at Noon there was a busy flow of people all day. There was so much great stuff on offer, but don’t fear if you missed out or couldn’t make it as Sam will be putting on 4 Art Fairs in the coming year. If you pop by this week for a drink check the Christmas Tree as there may well be a few Strong Island presents left.
One of THE best places in Southsea, The King Street Tavern, will be holding an alternative Christmas arts and crafts fair on Saturday 12th December from midday. The fair will feature local artists and artists from further afield, all selling their wears and work. Any artists wishing to get involved please pop in & ask for Sam or email, please note there are limited spaces. There will also be mulled wine & a hearty soup available & some friends playing sofa loafing tunes through the afternoon.
The King Street Tavern have also published their Christmas menu for 1st – 23rd December, as with all of their food it is home cooked & the meat is from award winning butchers Buckwells of Southsea.
Starters.
Homemade pear & parsnip soup.
Smoked mackerel pate served with pitta bread crisps.
Butternut squash, sage & Stilton tart.
Main.
Traditional turkey with bacon wrapped pork & cranberry
chipolata sausage, homemade stuffing, seasonal vegetables
yorkshire pudding & roast potatoes.
Roasted chestnut & cranberry loaf,
red onion gravy, seasonal
vegetables & roast potatoes.
Venison casserole with juniper & tarragon dumplings & a side of Italian Cavelo Nero cabbage.
Pudding.
Chocolate & coffee mousse with biscotti.
Apple & mincemeat pie with clotted cream ice cream.
Roasted mulled pears with brandy cream.
Three courses £21.00 per person. Two courses £17.50.
Pre-booking only, please phone 02329 2873307, email or pop in to book.
This is a quick note to say The Tavern will be closed for a private function Saturday 26th of September (congratulations Mikey & Abi, see you then) which would have been jazz night, sorry for any inconvenience. Jazz will still be on a fortnightly basis next being 3rd october.
Regards, Sam and Nicky Foot
We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:
- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.
- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.
- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!
- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.
- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.
Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.
Righto chaps, it’s time to clean shave your boat race and get that mighty moustache on the grow in support of Movember for The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. For 30 days of November you can help support and raise awareness through selflessly parading your top lip for charity.
You can sign up yourself, as I’m sure many of you already have, or you can join the Strong Island team and seek out sponsorship as a team. Through the Strong Island Movember page you can ask people to join the group, make donations, upload photos and post updates via the MoSpace page, Facebook and Twitter.
Head over to www.mobro.co/StrongIsland if you would like to get involved and grow a Strong Moustache to help raise awareness, or simply head over to www.uk.movember.com and sign up to personally raise money.
The funds raised in the UK support the number one and two male specific cancers – prostate and testicular cancer. The funds raised are directed to programmes run directly by Movember and our men’s health partners, The Prostate Cancer Charity and the Institute of Cancer Research. Together, these channels work together to ensure that Movember funds are supporting a broad range of innovative, world-class programmes in line with our strategic goals in the areas of awareness and education, survivorship and research.
Poster: Tristan Savage
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