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Food restaurant wins 1st place in national awards!

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Steve and Alesya from Food collecting our 3 awards.

Steve and Alesya from Food restaurant collecting our three awards.

Food restaurant has been recognised as one of the country’s most loved businesses in The Best of Worthing’s 14 days of love compaign and also holds a prestigious place on the The Best of Worthing Love-O-Meter.

The scale of this year’s campaign was, by quite some margin, the biggest ever, with an average of almost 10 reviews a minute being added across the country during the 14 days of the campaign. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers who voted for us and who made this possible, along with Melanie Peters, Managing Director at The Best of Worthing.

The final results for Food restaurant are:

Most loved restaurant in Worthing and the South East.

2nd most loved fine dining restaurant in the UK.

3rd most loved business in Worthing and across all categories.

Top 100 – 75th most loved business in the UK across 30,000 businesses.

Steve accepting our awards from Bob Smytherman, the Deputy Mayor of Worthing and Melanie Peters, MD of The Best of Worthing

Pop in and see us at Food to see what all the fuss is about or if you would like to book call 01903 227780 and ask to speak to Steve, our Manager.

We look forward to welcoming you soon…

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Splash Awards Night is an Astounding Success

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Proto sponsor the Splash awards

If you didn’t know this, Proto Restaurant Group was the main sponsor of the magnificent Splash Awards evening for the forth year running. This year the event took place on Thursday 17th May at Worthing Dome. The Proto team were on hand to ensure that everyone’s glass was replenished with delicious sparkling wine. Fourteen awards were handed out during the evening to celebrate the best that Worthing and the surrounding area has to offer. Recognising everything from a successful business, through to individuals with a heart of gold. The awards were:

Best Business with Worthing Town Centre Initiative: Winner – Southdown Butchers
Southdown Butchers has been operating their successful business in South Street Tarring for 40 years, offering a wonderful welcoming service to all customers new and old.

Best Friend Award with The Samaritans: Winner – Kyle Burtenshaw
Kyle was nominated by his best friend James Clarke following the unconditional support he received from him following some tough times. He’s always there for James no matter what and always has a smile on his face.

Charity of the Year with Saywell International: Winner – Worthing Churches Homeless Project
WCHP does more than just offered a bed for the night to the homeless of Worthing. They offer life skills and support every step of the way, and have even set up a cycle workshop training clients to become bike mechanics.

Chris Copsey Gold Award with Henry House Hot Pool & Therapy Centre: Winner – Daisy King
Daisy picked up the Gold Award following her endless volunteering in the community. She helps children with special needs at Oakgrove College, Activenture and The Ashdown Club. She volunteers at Chestnut Tree House, works part time in a care home, rows for Worthing Rowing Club and is studying 4 A levels. How does she find the time!?

Courage Award with Adur & Worthing Councils: Winner – Tim Wheeler
In July 2011 Tim tackled an armed robber who burst into their family jewellers on Bath Place, Worthing. To protect his wife and son, who were in the shop at the time, Tim chased the robber off and tackled him to the floor until the Police arrived.

Dad Of The Year with Worthing Extreme Tyres: Winner – Tom Edge
Tom was nominated by his wife Lizzie after they moved to Angmering from the other side of the country and Tom offered to be a stay at home dad to 15 month old Wesley. His hard work and wonderful parenting has not gone unrewarded as he picked up our dad of the Year trophy.

Fundraiser of the Year with Southern Water: Winner – Trish Murrell
Multiple nominations praised Trish for her constant fundraising. She never stops planning, organising or taking part in fundraising ideas and events, all of which benefit local charities or causes in our community.

Lifetime Achievement with Strand Dental
Run by the same family since 1991, The Rose and Crown is one of our few remaining traditional pubs. The amazing home cooked food and huge portions were praised along with the ever changing entertainment and welcoming service. Let’s raise a glass to that!

Mum of the Year with Davison High School for Girls: Winner – Helen Whittle
Helen was crowned mum of the year following her endless and tireless commitment to her ever growing brood (another daughter on the way in a matter of weeks). Through family illnesses and relationship breakups Helen has always been there for her kids.

Pub of The Year with Goring Road Carpet Centre: Winner – The Rose And Crown
Run by the same family since 1991, The Rose and Crown is one of our few remaining traditional pubs. The amazing home cooked food and huge portions were praised along with the ever changing entertainment and welcoming service. Let’s raise a glass to that!

Restaurant of the Year with Kendricks Coffee: Winner – Brio
Sitting pride of place on Worthing’s glorious seafront, Brio was praised for its welcoming atmosphere, incredible menu and selection or traditional Italian cuisine and its attentive staff. You can even enjoy a traditional Sunday roasts while soaking up the sun on the terrace!

Sporting Star with Worthing Leisure: Winner – Lauren Jones
Following an accident at 13 years old, Lauren was paralysed from the waist down. Since 2009 she has played wheelchair tennis with great success, becoming GB Junior number 1 early on and Junior World number 7. Since moving to senior level she looks sure to be in the GB Paralympic Team 2016 and may even make it to London this year!

Sporting Team with Body Shapers of Lancing: Winner – Worthing U7’s Rugby Team
Celebrating a triumphant end to their first ever competitive season, the Worthing U7 Rugby Team were crowned Sussex Champions and have accumulated so much silverware this season that there’s almost enough for a trophy each!

Top Teacher with Northbrook College: Winner – Cora Gillies
Cora Gillies has been teaching at Chatsmore catholic High School for the last 25 years and will now sadly leave in July following redundancies. Her pupils said she was more than a teacher and more like a friend and her presence in the school would be irreplaceable.

Proto Restaurant Group (Food and The Fish Factory restaurants) are extremely proud to be involved in the awards as we feel that it is right to honour and celebrate those people who go the extra mile in our community. There are many great individuals in our area and they need to be recognised.

Phone The Fish Factory and Food now to reserve your table at this group of restaurants who care about you and the community. And the food is pretty good too!

Proto Promo Girls

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Jail Break

Friday, March 16th, 2012

Andy Sparsis during Jail Break Promotion

Proto Restaurant Group owner Andy Sparsis was arrested on 7th March as a charity promotion for the ‘Love Your Hospitals‘ charity. On arrival at Durrington Police custody suite, his bail was set at £1000 and he was placed in the cells. His task, was to phone everybody he knew from local businessmen/women to suppliers, to ask them to donate money in order to raise the bail money required and allow him to be released.

Andy successfully raised his bail limit and more, raising over £2000 for the ‘Love Your Hospitals‘ charity and the new cardiac unit at our local Worthing Hospital. Proto owner Andy was not the only one to be arrested in similar fashion, and his bail money, combined with that of fellow cell mates Julian Church, Darren Crabb and Lee Noakes, over £6000 was raised for the charity, a fantastic effort all-round.

Everybody at Proto Restaurant Group’s restaurants – Food and The Fish Factory (Worthing & Littlehampton) - is extremely proud of Andy and all the continued work he is doing for the charity and we are very happy to be associated with such a worthwhile cause. If you want to read more about the Jail Break, pick up a copy of the Worthing Herald this week for a double page feature on the charitable promotion.

Andy Sparsis, Julian Church, Darren Crabb and Lee Noakes

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Proto Restaurant Group provides favourite places to eat

Friday, November 4th, 2011

It has long been regarded in the local area that Proto Restaurant Group’s restaurants are the top places to eat in Worthing and Littlehampton, but now they have reached the next level!

There was an article in the Evening Standard on 12th October, which talks about Worthing’s growth as a town and how it is stepping out of the shadow of it’s big brother, Brighton. The article goes on to explain exactly why Worthing is such a catch, with fantastic architecture, brilliant schools, great pubs and superb restaurants. Proto Restaurant Group’s two Worthing based restaurants – Food and The Fish Factory – are mentioned as the rated places to eat in town by locals.

Proto Restaurant Group, Food and The Fish Factory are all extremely proud to be doing their bit towards putting Worthing on a map. Proto always likes to get involved with the local community with fundraisers and charity events as we feel that Worthing deserves to be regarded as highly as Brighton as it is such a fantastic town.

Not only are Proto pleased to be mentioned in the article, but they are proud to have restaurants situated in a town on the up! To book a table at any of our restaurants, call us on 01903 227780 (Food), 01903 207123 (The Fish Factory, Worthing) or 01903 715000 (The Fish Factory, Littlehampton).

To read the full article, click here.

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The Fish Factory voted top restaurant

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

The Fish Factory in Worthing has been featured in an article of top restaurants in the UK outside of London. The article, written for Sainsbury’s magazine, features 37 excellent restaurants and eateries around the country, as voted for by their readers.

A quote was included by Jane Blackman, presumably one of the reader’s that voted for Proto Restaurant Group’s restaurant, The Fish Factory:

‘The best fish and chips in the area with amazing service and a huge choice of seafood, as well as veggie options.’
Jane Blackman

Everyone at The Fish Factory and Proto Restaurant Group are extremely proud of this achievement, especially as only four restaurants were selected from the South East, meaning The Fish Factory, Worthing beat off plenty of competition to earn a place in the magazine.

The full article can be found here with The Fish Factory located on the right hand side of page 2 (in the blue box for South East).

If you would like to book a table at The Fish Factory and experience just what is so special about the restaurant, call us on 01903 207123 or come in and visit us on Brighton Road, Worthing.

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Worthing Herald gives accolade to top “Food” restaurant

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Proto Restaurant Group’s Food Restaurant in Worthing was featured in April’s Edition of Simply Sussex – the FREE magazine that comes with the Worthing Herald, Littlehampton Gazette, etc.

Food Restaurant – in New Street, Worthing – was given a fantastic review headlined with “Hungry for some nice food” and we thought we’d share it with you! Below are some extracts from the article.

Food Express Menu

“When you get the last table in a restaurant on a week-day lunchtime, you know it must be doing something right. That was exactly the case at Food in New Street, Worthing, on a recent Friday.
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I went for the steak and frites, a delicious bargain which included a lovely piece of medium-cooked steak, a stack of crispy fries, some fried onions and a yummy blue cheese sauce.
My colleague settled on the house bangers – deliciously meaty local Cumberland sausages with creamy mash “without the slightest hint of a lump”, served with a red wine sauce and caramelised onions.
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Food is tucked away in Worthing, but it’s clear many people have been tracking it down to enjoy its great food. If you haven’t found it yet, you had better get looking.”

To read the full article, click here and view Simply Sussex online. Go to page 18 for the article on Food!

To discover Food for yourself, these, call us on 01903 227780 or come visit us at 6 New Street, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 3BT.

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