Cocktail of the week: Auch-aye-the-blue!

January 25th, 2012 by katie

Every week or so we’ll be bringing you a ‘cocktail special’ which you’ll be able to enjoy at our bar and if you’re feeling brave you can have a go at making it at home too.

This week we give you ‘Auch-aye-the-blue!’

Ingredients:

  • 37.5ml Auchentoshan
  • 12.5ml Mozart Dark
  • 30ml cranberry & blueberry purée – an Urban concoction of cranberry and blueberry, but you’ll be able to mix this up at home too
  • 1 egg white
  • 25ml white gomme

Method:

  • Mix all of your ingredients up together and give them a good shake in a Boston shaker
  • Strain your liquid over cubes of ice into a rocks glass – otherwise known as a short tumbler

All done, enjoy!

If you’d rather we make it for you, just pop in and we’ll help you out ;) x

Cocktail making at Urban Beach

 

Show that special person that you ‘lurve’ them!

January 24th, 2012 by katie

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner now (in three weeks time to be precise!), so we thought we’d better fill you in on what we’re doing for the ‘lurved’ up day.

Join us in our bistro for dinner, where you and the love of your life will be able to enjoy a three course feast, a specially crafted cocktail and tea or coffee to finish. We reckon you’ll be pretty full after all that food, so it’s a good job the beach is only five minutes away for a romantic walk ;)

If you’re looking to charm the pants off someone, then choose to stay with us too and make the most of our dinner bed and breakfast offer for £160 per room. Stay in a beautiful boutique double room of your choice, wine and dine your beau with our special Valentine’s Day menu and enjoy possibly the best breakfast on the planet the following morning. Even the best rooms are available as part of this offer so you can look like you’ve really pushed the boat out.

To make the most of either of these, just give us a call: 01202 301509 and we’ll get you all booked in. Xx

 

You VIP you!

January 19th, 2012 by katie

Some of you might not know that we have our very own ‘VIP’ lunch club! If you’re interested in finding out more, please do read on…

We know that it can be hard to find a place to hold a business lunch meeting, so we thought we’d give you a few incentives to make choosing us a no brainer!

Sign-up to our lunch club and in return for you giving us a couple of your contact details, we’ll give you 20% off of your first lunch bill. Thereafter, every time you come in you’ll be able to make the most of a different lunch offer every month. For example, for the chilly month of January, you’ll be able to enjoy a ‘complimentary glass of mulled wine’ with your food. You’ll be feeling all warm in no time.

As well as offering an incentive every month, our VIP lunch club members can enjoy express service when they eat with us. Just call us (01202 301509), let us know you’re on your way and we’ll get your table all ready. If you’re on a tight deadline, don’t worry, let us know what you fancy eating and we’ll even have it all prepared for your arrival!

So there you go, keep an eye on our website, newsletter and social media pages for all of our VIP offers and if you want to join just ask! X

 

Happy New Year from all of us at Urban Beach!

December 15th, 2011 by katie

Happy New Year!

With just over a week to go until Christmas Day, thoughts are soon going to turn to New Year’s Eve and we’d love you to welcome 2012 in with us!

Join us in the evening for music and dancing. We’ll have:

  • DJ ‘Iggy B’ spinning some tunes – old school, new school, funk, soul, reggae and disco
  • Some cocktail specials to tantalise your taste buds!
  • Early bird dinner sitting – for those of you that want a bit of grub before heading on to get your groove on elsewhere

So grab a few good friends, some dancing shoes and come on down! If you’ve got any questions, just give us a call: 01202 301509 or pop in and ask a member of the team.

Merry Christmas!

Love the Urbans. Xx

P.S: Did we mention entry is free…? ;)

 

Enjoy a ‘Chartreusemas’ at Urban Beach this Christmas!

December 12th, 2011 by katie

Enjoy a Chartreusemas this Christmas!

Want to know how to make this Christmas treat…? Then do read on!

For the liquid… shake

  • 25ml Chartreuse green
  • 25ml Ginger liqueur (Giffard do a fine “Ginger of the Indies” or if you buy us a drink we’ll tell you our secret recipe)
  • 10ml white gomme
  • Double strain into a martini glass

For the foam…

  • 1 free range egg white
  • 25ml apricot liqueur (again Giffard do a great product)
  • 25ml of white gomme

Pour into a shaker and go nuts! This will need a good hard shake as it contains an egg white. Layer the foam on top and you will have a refreshing cocktail to serve at your Christmas bash, just make sure we are invited ;-)

Love the Urban folk x

 

 

 

 

Woollen Scribble at Urban Beach!

December 6th, 2011 by katie

We’re very lucky to have some super talented people working for us at Urban Beach and one of these talented individuals is the lovely Anna Ratcliffe (she’s a Duty Manager). As well as working for us here at Urban, Anna is studying Illustration and Dress Making at uni and she has her very own business called Woollen Scribble – (she’s quite a busy bee then!)

We’re not just telling you about Anna for the fun of it though (although she is really rather fabulous), we wanted to let you know that we’ve got some of Anna’s Woollen Scribble goodies stocked at Urban Beach and we reckon they will make rather good stocking fillers this Christmas.

You’re probably wondering what these ‘goodies’ are now… Well, next time you pop in keep an eye out on our reception desk for Anna’s funky owl and whale badges. Each badge is individually designed and sewn by Anna’s very own hands. And they only cost £5 per badge – what a bargain ;)

With love and festive wishes. X


Live Music Sunday!

November 24th, 2011 by katie

Come in from the cold this coming Sunday evening (November 27th) and visit our little sister, The Urban Reef Restaurant! Snuggle up next to their log burning fire or in one of their squishy booths and tuck into ‘three courses’ (and a cocktail!) all for £20. You’ll also be able to listen to some soulful songs from resident musician, Jon Cotton. The perfect way to end the month!

To book give the guys a call on: 01202 443960 and if you want to get your taste buds watering, take a look at their sample menu under the ‘menus’ tab via: www.urbanreef.com

And if you fancy having a go at making this month’s ‘Sunday night live’ cocktail at home, then have a little look at this recipe…

Urban Rose

How to make an ‘Urban Rose’ – traditionally known as a ‘Rose Gimlet’ -

Ingredients:

50ml gin

15ml rose syrup

2-3 dashes angostura bitters

A dash of lime juice

Pour all of your ingredients into a Boston Shaker (the silver thing that us bar folk use to shake cocktails). Stir in some cubes of ice and strain (using a drink strainer which looks like a little sieve) into a martini glass. To finish it off, we think it looks nice to add a coil of lemon, as pictured ;)

 

A celebration of autumn and winter

November 1st, 2011 by katie

Scarecrows welcome

Join us this Sunday November 5th from 12.30pm to celebrate all that is autumn and winter in our Harvest Festival!

We’ll be out on the deck serving mulled wine, spiced cider and tasty pork rolls (£7 for a roasted pork roll with stuffing and home made apple chutney, dressed mixed salad leaves and chunky chips - yummy!) For those of you with a sweet tooth, we’ll have cakes courtesy of the very lovely baker Kay. She’ll be making apple and carrot cake, and she’ll even be making some toffee apples for the kids – and for the big kids of you out there ;)

Solo artist, ‘One Man Destruction Show’, will be performing throughout the afternoon too. (He’s not quite as scary as he sounds!)

So be sure to wrap up warm and come and join us. We’ll be finished around 6pm so you can go on to enjoy some firework displays too.

Scarecrows welcome. X

 

Enjoy our ‘two courses for £10’ menu

October 31st, 2011 by katie

Now the winter months are coming on you’ll want to find somewhere that’s all lovely and warm to spend some time in, so come and join us for lunch and dinner, cosy up next to our fire and tuck into our ‘two courses for £10’ menu.

We’ll be running this most days and we’ll even give you a soft drink to enjoy with your grub.

To view the full menu click on the menus tab of our website.

We hope to see you soon. X

 

 

Our friend Brad from Atlantis First Aid

October 28th, 2011 by katie

Rather than writing about ourselves all of the time on our blog we sometimes like to tell you about other interesting things – after all we can’t write about us every week, we’d run out of things to say ;) So we had a little think and we thought we’d introduce you to one of our lovely friends who just so happens to be a rather talented chap. Say hello to Brad Marsh!

Brad runs and owns Atlantis First Aid and over the past year we have got to know him fairly well. We met him first in the summer months when he provided some of the team with first aid training and he recently provided us some fire safety training too.

Now we’ll hand you over to Brad and he can tell you some more about himself.

How did you come to set Atlantis First Aid up?

It all started when I went to Uni with the aim of becoming a PE teacher. At that time I was already a lifeguard, swimming teacher and had worked in hotels on functions, so I already knew I loved to teach/train/instruct and give amazing customer service! I also knew I liked to teach in ways that were interesting, fun AND got results.

I put myself on a First Aid and Lifeguard Instructor Course and loved every minute of it. It complimented my sports degree and background and I began to question my PE teacher aspirations. I felt there was much more freedom to use active and realistic training in first aid and it would make more of a difference to people’s lives. I really believed that first aid training as a whole was very dated and needed an injection of fresh, modern and up-to-date training techniques.

I began running first aid courses almost immediately, feedback from customers was brilliant and Atlantis First Aid was born!  Our Personal style is one of professionalism, approachability, informality and honesty.

 

Tell us a bit about the company – what kind of training do you offer?

Atlantis First Aid now aims to be a “one-stop-shop” for all training in small to medium sized businesses. We don’t discount large or corporate customers. In fact we’ve just undertaken training for companies such as Siemens, JP Morgan Chase and Scottish and Southern Energy to name but a few. We just love the personal touch, help, support and advice we feel we can give to smaller businesses. Our range of courses include (almost) all First Aid courses, Fire Awareness and Fire Warden / Marshal courses, Manual Handling Courses of various types and coming soon… Food safety / Hygiene courses! Also, if we don’t personally offer the training you’re looking for, we (usually) know somebody who does it and does it well.

 

So there you have it. We hope you can get a feel for Brad and his company. We definitely recommend him! Take a little look at: www.atlantis-firstaid.com/ and no doubt Brad will be very happy to help :-)

The man himself, Brad Marsh!