Archive for July, 2011

Proto Restaurant Group provides food at Garden Party

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Proto Restaurant Group’s restaurants, Food and The Fish Factory catered for the VIP area of Worthing’s ‘Splash FM Garden Party‘ last weekend. The event, spread over Friday and Saturday involved 6 tribute acts for Madonna, Robbie Williams, Phil Collins, Kylie Minogue, U2 and The Beatles.

Food and The Fish Factory provided all the food, drink and service in the events VIP area, catering for all the performers and event organisers. It was the 10th year running Proto Restaurant Group has been involved in the garden party and it was an absolute pleasure to be involved again.  It required a huge team effort and the brilliant staff from both restaurants in Worthing helped out to make the event a huge success.

Splash FM Garden Party

Splash FM Garden Party

The Garden Party provided 10 hours of live music over two days and is the largest tribute festival on the south coast. The event also took the opportunity to raise funds for the Worthing Churches Homeless Project which is a charity close to Proto Restaurant Group, having celebrated their 20th anniversary at Food restaurant back in May.

Both Food and The Fish Factory are pleased to be involved with such a success for another year and all the staff are already looking forward to next year.

Proto Restaurant Group are always happy to host your party or event at any of their restaurants, so get in touch at Food (01903 227780), The Fish Factory, Worthing (01903 207123) and The Fish Factory, Littlehampton (01903 715000) to get more information or to book a table.

Food restaurant receives facelift!

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

Proto Restaurant Group are pleased to announce the completion of the facelift work that has been going on at Food restaurant in Worthing, West Sussex. Work has been under way for the last few weeks to give Food a fresh look, but don’t worry, we haven’t changed too much of our much loved restaurant.

Andy Sparsis, owner of Proto Restaurant Group had the following to say about the changes:

“Food has kept the same good looking body, same lovely hands and same long legs, but we have had a snazzy new haircut so come in and check us out for yourself! Food is sexier than ever!”

Food Restaurant has had a lovely new inner-refit - come in and see for yourself!

Food Restaurant has had a lovely new inner-refit - come in and see for yourself!

Not only have we changed the physical appearance of the restaurant but we have been making some special changes to the menu making it bigger and better than before! The new menu now includes some more unique and exciting dishes and we have some real treats for you!

Our Starters have been boosted by the addition of our “Berliners Breakfast” – Knockwurst Sausage in a Black Pudding sandwich – and our “Samphire Scallops” – Scallops with garlic samphire sea vegetables. Check out our starters menu for more details along with the full lineup!

Our Main Menu just keeps getting better as well with our “Lobster Polenta Soufflé”, “Louisiana Street Food” and “The Admiral’s Luncheon”. Trust us when we say that descriptions do not do these dishes justice, you have to come in and try them for yourself!

Anyone for Dessert? Try our brand new “Hellenic Desire” for just £7.00 – authentic finger delicacies from the Mediterranean Greek islands, Baklava, gadaifi, gadalabourikou, leguo.

So now that you’ve heard all about the new changes, surely it’s time to come and check them out! Call Food on 01903 227780 to book a table now.

Andy Sparsis rides London to Brighton

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

On Sunday 19th June, Proto Restaurant Group owner, Andy Sparsis took part in the annual London to Brighton bike ride and completed the ride in under 5 hours. The London to Brighton bike ride is a fund raising event for The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and is 54 miles long from Clapham Common to Brighton Beach and has been running with the BHF’s involvement since 1980, raising over £40 million via a combined 650,000 + riders and their sponsors.

All 27,000 participants, whether taking part as a serious cyclist or a novelty entry set out to achieve the common goal of helping raise £4 million towards the BHF’s continued work.

Andy Sparsis, Warren Bagnall and David Camci.

Andy Sparsis, Warren Bagnall and David Camci.

Andy Sparsis entered the ride as part of a team of 5 including Executive Chef from The Fish Factory, Stuart Slevin and team members David Camci, Warren Bagnall and Daryl James.

Everyone at Proto Restaurant Group is extremely proud of the team and the group’s representatives within. It is just another example of the work Andy does for charity and the community having only just launched the Cath Lab Appeal for the ‘Love Your Hospitals’ charity.

To hear all about the bike ride, come in and see Andy and Stuart at The Fish Factory, Worthing by calling us on 01903 207123 to book a table, or visit either of the other two restaurants  where Andy Sparsis is always likely to be by calling us on 01903 227780 (Food) or 01903 715000 (The Fish Factory, Littlehampton).


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