The Daily Mail will likely soon be publishing vouchers for free sirloin steaks :satisfied:
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The Daily Mail will likely soon be publishing vouchers for free sirloin steaks :satisfied:
Only the Daily Mail could get indignant about a veg*n taking fish off the menu of a restaurant that they'd bought :rolleyes:
yes sorry for posting a Daily Mail article but i had trouble finding another less biased source :rolleyes: ;) i found the tone of the article quite amusing anyway.
Excellent!Quote:
Miss Mills plans to turn the seaside eaterie into a vegan restaurant, believed to be the first in a planned worldwide chain.
Putting my personal feelings aside about Heather, I admire her for wanting to open a world wide chain of vegan restaurants. Maybe she has found her calling in life!
It seems to me that she hasn't actually bought a business, but a building.
So she hasn't taken fish off the menu, nor has she laid off the staff.
I presume the guy couldn't sell it as a going concern. If it had been making a profit, then why would he sell it at all?
This looks good! I hope it opens soon.
Whatever we think about Heather, at least she made a connection and went vegan. No chance of that in a million years for Paul and Linda.
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I will have to pop by when I'm down that neck of the woods! Awesome news though!
i wonder what kind of food it will sell, and how long it will be before it opens? :)
^Could be her recipes she posts at her site: Fajitas, stir fry, Tex Mex chili, potatoes. Just a guess though but they sound yummy.
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I tried looking for more stories about her restaurant from less biased sources and actually stumbled upon the most vitriolic hatred and loathing of her from site after site. Her crime is having the audacity to accept money in a divorce settlement and then not immediately giving it all away to charities, right? And then later, post divorce, when she does donate a million dollars of vegan food to a poor neighborhood in New York everyone is quick to point out "well she only did that to look good" or "well that was really more Paul's money than it was her money". Jeez, world, give her a break! I'm glad at least that when she calls the tabloids on their lies she successfully forces them to retract their falsehoods on several occasions. That rarely happens here in the states.
I hope they'll do a good breakfast.
They were working on the place today when I went past. Hopefully it will open soon.
Since she has rather bizarrely embellished details of her life in the past that the tabloids were only too happy to print when she was with Saint Paul, sorry Sir Paul, it is good to see that when they just make nasty stuff up about her that they do have to retract it eventually. I hope that this new venture signals a more secure feeling of self-worth for her and a growing attachment to veganism in spite of society's trivialities.
I had heard she originally had plans to release frozen vegan foods but she probably realized that would just make people say, "See! See! Just like I told you. She's trying to be just like Linda. That c*#t. She will never be another Linda!"
[This is an amalgam of some of the comments I see written about her at other sites]
^ "But she upset regulars by taking fish off the menu and replacing it with plant-based food."
Um, the place isn't even open yet, right? Maybe that newspaper owns a crystal ball and can see the future.
"At the same time she's expecting flak from some veggies for taking money from the Whopper chain in the first place."
How dare she do business with an omni fast food chain like Burger King. She should have gone with a vegan one instead.....
Oh, wait a minute, that's right, there are none. Never mind.
Go Heather!
Anyone know if this place is any nearer opening yet?
Heather Mills reveals name of new Hove restaurant
7:00am Wednesday 13th May 2009
from http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/43631...ve_restaurant/
Exclusive By Emily-Ann Elliott »
Heather Mills has announced the name of the new restaurant she hopes to franchise around the world.
The Argus can exclusively reveal that Ms Mills’ latest venture called V-Bites will open at Hove Lagoon in July.
Work is well underway at the former The Big Fish cafe and Ms Mills is also planning a number of additional features at the site, including an ice rink in the winter.
Ms Mills also revealed a sneak preview of some of the decor and menus that visitors can expect to see at the vegan restaurant.
She said: “It’s for everybody. It will be very family orientated during the day but it will be for all ages. My grandmother lived here for 38 years so I really want it to be somewhere elderly people can go as well.
“It is going to be really funky, with nice music and ambience and good staff.”
Ms Mills said that each room would have a different feel to it, with one turned into a family creche area where children can play with interactive screens which will teach them about different fruits and vegetables and a dining area which will serve a daily selection of vegan dishes from around the world.
Ms Mills bought The Big Fish cafe for £140,000.
She said: “I have wanted to take over this place for many years. It needed a whole revamp.
“It has been made into a very hip 21st century place.”
Ms Mills said the menu will be affordable and visitors to the nearby park will also be able to buy vegan burgers from a serving hatch.
She said: “I think the food is really going to surprise everyone. Most people’s diet is 70% vegan anyway, as they eat rice, pasta and bread, but they just don’t associate the two.
“What is going to shock people most is the meat replacements. I have been working on them for seven years and they have a real meat taste.”
The restaurant will open from 9am until midnight seven days a week.
Ms Mills added that she plans to franchise the company worldwide.
She said: “We are not going to change the world with just one restaurant.
“What many people don’t realise is that the biggest contribution to global warming is the production of meat and dairy.
“I am not telling people to stop eating meat and dairy altogether. I’m just saying come and try it one day a week, have a nice meal and do your bit for the environment.”
Ms Mills is setting up a Twitter account from Friday which will include restaurant updates. To follow her visit www.twitter.com/heatherofficial See The Magazine in Saturday’s Argus for a recipe for Heather Mills’ Leafy Green and Beefy (Soy protein) Stir Fry.
Sounds very gimmicky, I don't rate it's chances.
It sounds good to me - I hope it's a great success. Can't wait for it to open, I shall visit often.
I think it sounds fantastic, i love the serving hatch idea aswell, sounds like it's going to be fun and appealing.
Thanks for that Gorilla. I look forward to checking it out. (I wonder whether these new mock meat recipes will be all that different from the usual. Would be nice to have some New York quality seitan!)
I'm very excited about V-Bites!
I hope she opens one in Belfast..............I'll be there every night of the week! :)
he-he, i hope she opens one in Orkney, too!.
Wouldn't it be great to have just one place we could go to eat without having to worry?
I hope her restaurants are a success............at least she's doing something!
Woo hoo! Heather's a right Vegan advocate. It's all good :o)
it seems they're aiming to open on 1st July, according to this job advert
Brighton & Hove definitely needs more vegan restaurants.
the 'real meat tasting' mock meats are probably more to encourage non-veg*ns. i expect they'll have other things too. i've been trying to find out more about it but i don't understand Twitter and there's not much else out there yet.
Thanks for keeping us posted Gorilla. (Plenty of us enjoy the Thai buffets with all the mock meat!)
why don't you have your birthday do there, G?