GREENE KING PUBS ACROSS HAMPSHIRE SET TO REOPEN OUTDOOR SERVICE NEXT MONTH
PUB-CHAIN Greene King will reopen outdoor service at 20 of its managed pubs in Hampshire and 442 pubs across the country next month.
The re-openings will come lockdown restrictions ease on Monday, April 12.
The pubs reopening in Portsmouth are The Baffins in Tangier Road and Spice Island in Bath Square, Old Portsmouth.
In Fareham, the three reopening pubs are The Cuckoo Pint in Cuckoo Lane, The Seagull in Cornaway Lane, and The Silver Fern in Warsash Road.
The Heron in Petersfield Road, Havant, and The Cocked Hat in Privett Road, Gosport, will also reopen.
Customers can book a garden table online from Friday, March 26, although you will also be able to visit the pub outdoors without an advance booking.
The pub chain’s tenant landlords, who run a further 875 pubs across England, will be deciding on an individual basis whether to reopen their outdoor areas.
Greene King chief executive Nick Mackenzie said: ‘It’s great that we can finally open outdoor areas in some of our pubs after such a long period of lockdown.
‘Sadly, we can only open around a third of our estate in April where we have outdoor space that will work and have a chance of being viable, but we know the vital role pubs play in communities and feel it’s important to open as many as we can to help people get back together once again.
‘We look forward to May when we can open many more of our pubs, and the all-important return to normality in June when the restrictions are fully removed, and we can start to rebuild our businesses.’