Author: gordonfong

Where there’s a wheel, there’s a whey. As James’ new venture, a shop called Parlourmentary, is on the verge of opening, we took the opportunity…

View More James Fowler – the most comprehensive interview so far.

James Fowler, owner of the Larder House, will soon be opening a new shop on Southbourne Grove selling a world of cheeses and meats. Sited…

View More Parlourmentary – cheese and charcuterie

Tiien Thai will be opening in the former site of Da Maria, 65 Seabourne Rd just down from Pokesdown train station. It’s good to see…

View More Tiien Thai coming

This year’s event is happening on Fisherman’s Walk. A free fun day for all the family, which stalls, activities, live music, food and drink. It…

View More Frankenfest 2019

Sunday 29th September sees an event planned for Fisherman’s Walk, from 11am until 4pm. This is an event created by the Sobo Wastebusters on Facebook.…

View More Sobo Eco Fayre

The Southbourne Revival event in July 2019 was a resounding success. The comments from visitors on the day was incredible. The fact that it was…

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It was one Saturday morning where I had visited another coffee shop that had just opened and had hoped to go from there onto Humming…

View More Humming Bear Juice and Coffee

We just had two new coffee shops open along the #sobomile in one week, right at opposite ends to each other. People might say Southbourne…

View More Brown Dog Coffee

It was amazing that members of the community came out on a couple of Saturday mornings to gather around a large table of material to…

View More Sew Bo – community stitch up

There seems to be some activity on the food and drink scene along the #sobomile. We have Brown Dog Coffee opening soon at Southbourne Crossroads.…

View More A few new places opening soon