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Sunday Opening

Today our bar and restaurant is closed and we are free for a day off.

We have opened the business on a Sundays in the past and enjoyed very good trade; both in the restaurant and for take away. A lot of people are arriving or leaving the Coast on Sundays, so they come to Graham’s Pizzeria for wholesome, freshly cooked food. That way they can leave their kitchen squeaky clean, ready for the next people due to occupy the apt. or villa.
We really used to love opening on Sundays – we’d have a great atmosphere for Sunday lunch, which was usually a sell-out, then we’d close for a siesta and reopen at 7:00 pm for the evening trade.

At times the restaurant would be working flat-out, as the regulars wanted feeding and then on top of that, there would be all the tourists in transit, starving hungry and impatient to eat.

At the end of a Sunday I would have that lovely sensation that all restaurateurs enjoy after a busy night, the unrivaled sensation of stuffing a big pile of cash into my pockets.

We’ve found that much as we love income, a restaurant must close one day a week, to give everybody a break. This is a chance to go off and do something different and then come back refreshed and ready to tackle another week.

As Graham’s restaurant is situated in a commercial center, we like to be open Mon-Fri, to provide an unbroken service for our regular clients. Saturday we have a street market, virtually right outside the bar, so it makes sense to be open for that and then on Saturday nights we are always busy with the restaurant on the terraces and in addition we have all the teenagers with their pocket- money, who come for take away pizzas and burgers.

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