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The Magpie Café
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Published 2021
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“One day a fisherman who had been a school friend of mine came to the kitchen door with a sack full of fresh king scallops and asked if there was anything we could do with them... Since then, local fish and seafood have formed the backbone of our menu and we work closely with nearby suppliers to enable us to serve the finest fresh fish, crabs, lobsters and more.”
It is now nearly 50 years since I walked through the kitchen door of The Magpie Café as a lanky teenager, little suspecting the rollercoaster ride I was in for. In the early years I would just help out at weekends and on my two weeks annual holiday from my other full-time job. In the 1970s The Magpie was a seasonal seaside café open from Good Friday, whenever that fell, until the last Sunday in September. My part-time stints in The Magpie led to it ‘getting in my blood’ and before the end of the decade I had quit my job and committed to a total career change.