The 2007 Hall and Woodhouse Tenanted Awards for Excellence, De Vere Grand Harbour Hotel, Southampton.

I attended the Black Tie Dinner with my parents Maurice and Sandra, and my partner Stephanie, as we had been nominated for two awards this year, one for "Best Food Offer" and one for "Best Wine List".

We were also meeting up with a new member of staff, Vicki Barratt, who herself was up for the award of "Best Front of House Person". We are very please to say that Vicki won the Gold Award, and we won Silver in both our categories.

Wednesday was also our first anniversary in the pub so we all felt very pleased with these achievements to date.