Farthings add rooms at 36 on the Quay
Chef-restaurateur Ramon Farthing and his wife, Karen, owners of Hampshire's Michelin-starred 36 on the Quay in Emsworth, have expanded their business.
The couple have bought an old fisherman's cottage directly opposite the restaurant and intend to rent out the property's two bedrooms on a bed-and-breakfast basis. The purchase comes just one year after they added four bedrooms to their 38-seat restaurant.
Speaking to Caterer, Farthing said: "The rooms above the restaurant have been pretty much continuously booked since we opened them. Demand has been so amazing that we were pushed into looking at the cottage when it came on the market. We'd have been stupid not to."
The cottage, which the Farthings paid £173,000 for, will be called Cardamom Cottage, carrying on the precedent of naming rooms after spices that the couple established with the restaurant's four bedrooms.
In addition to its two bedrooms, the building has a bathroom, kitchen and sitting room. The cottage also has an original 16th-century wall painting, thought to be of the Mary Rose, Henry VIII's flagship, which sank just outside nearby Portsmouth harbour 400 years ago.
Farthing confirmed that the cottage would be rented out at £120 per night. He added that future plans included offering weekend breaks at Cardamom Cottage with dining out at 36 on the Quay as part of the package. "We need to sit down and do some sums first, though," he said.
