Waterfront Restaurant. Lapta

Warbabies


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 165

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 16:07

Is it true that Waterfront is closing? If so, why? An excellent eating place, and always busy!!

johntie


Joined: 14/01/2009
Posts: 65

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 17:34

Been closed most lunchtimes for a while, great loss and didn't see Ruth at Lambousa sat market the other week !! Strange days

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 17:40

I have heard this also. It would seem that its closing Sunday. I hope not for Ruth and Tonys sake x

loulou



Joined: 14/05/2008
Posts: 785

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 17:53

yes she is closing due to gordon land owners son

hattikins


Joined: 17/02/2008
Posts: 2793

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 17:53

That would be a real pity, a lovely place, good food, fair prices, lets hope it's just another Cyprus rumour.

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 18:52

When we were over in July, Ruth did not look her self, as she is usually bubbly. Hope that things are ok for her at the Waterfront as she is a wonderful cook. Very reasonable prices, lol

Earlybird


Joined: 28/04/2009
Posts: 816

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 20:25

How sad for them, did they have a contract I wonder? What goes around comes around!

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 20:30

Oh the buggers, well we wont be going there next visit, just hope Ruth and Tony find somewhere else local.



Contracts mean nothing in NC., like wise in GB, there is always a clause some where. lol

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 21:13

This place had everything going for it..... It should have been in the same league as Silver Rocks and Scruples?...... methinks rather too much dabbling from the upper echelons. Please prove me wrong.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 22:01

RE msg 10, Bandwagon: (...) OOPs a t/c and their word where money is involved a bit like turkeys and Christmas. (...)



=> Shame on you. Don't you understand how insulting you are? Are all Brits Gary Robbs?

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 22:19

RE msg 7, bandwagon: (...) I had an email re this, Gordon Kent gave them notice to leave 24 hours as he thinks he can make the money and keep more all the profits !! When Johnny Hawkins was doing his last gig there g k had his accountant there totting up how much was taken !!within a few days tony and ruth told to quit. He has asked the chef to stay !! YET ANOTHER GREEDY T /C have these people no honour and integrity ?? (...)



=> Hmmm. Now that I read your post again I have several reasons to say: Hi Nige! Back in business with malicious posts? Nice try. Who emailed you, Gordon Kent?! Too hard to believe.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 22:32

Hans whoever emailed Nige I find it very very sad knowing the work this lovely family put into it. Just tried to pop into see Ruth but the place was busy so didnt stay. We were offered it before Ruth and Tony but declined the offer. Ruth and Tony brought so much life to the place. Dizzy I have to agree with you saw them Sunday and Ruth was not herself. Im just so very sad for them xx

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 22:40

RE msg 14: Dear Lilly, it is a very good and old habit to check and re-check so called "news" - especially in the case of Northern Cyprus' bulletin boards where rumours and gossip often rule.



Next rumour and not worth to check: "It is true that Guido's will not close down?" But certainly worth to check and re-check: "Is it true that Guido's will close down."



In my opinion many here on this board shouldn't jump to conclusions after just a rumour.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 22:43

Now, interesting: who really knows what going on at the Waterfront? Only first hand news and information please.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 22:47

Hans I agree with you but somehow I think its more than a rumour. Im sad for them as they have worked so hard. That is why I wanted to see Ruth to clarify and to see if they were OK. xx

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 22:47

Are they now homeless? does the business go with accomodation? It has shown on her body language that things were not right over 6weeks ago.

Hope they get another place, and Lilli it is a good job that you did not take up that offer. All the best to them, they will survive I expect, as usually something transpires from something like this.

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 22:51

DC, only first hand news? I thought you were the reporter, not us mere 'laymen'! still love ya xx

TheStonedCrow


Joined: 27/06/2009
Posts: 96

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 22:53

I've been in the game myself in TRNC, Tony Ruth & Amey are what I would call good freinds.



Sorry but if Gorden thinks that the WATER FRONT has taken off because off him he has made a massive mistake.



I've heard that he will reopen within two weeks.



"Gorden" as normall rumours are abound on this fourum please indicate what you plan with regard to the WATER FRONT in the future.



Sorry but I do not think that you will get any ( sorry many ) British customers in the future.



Having said that good luck for the future



TSC

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 22:56

Dizzy No they have accomodation thank God. They are taking a couple of months off Im told but you can guarantee they will be back. They are to good not to. We may be competion but we are friends and I have total respect for thier ability. How are you xx

TheStonedCrow


Joined: 27/06/2009
Posts: 96

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 22:57

Dutch your "awfull but I like you"



Hans that do dishes ect ect

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
14/08/2009 23:05

Lilli I am just fine, over worked, but happy, like most of us ladies.



Hans that do dishes was ages ago The stoned crow, ... green,soft, pliable, and full of bubbles,

stilluvithere



Joined: 03/12/2008
Posts: 765

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 14:39

Have you heard the song, Gordon is a moron, well it must be this Gordon that the song was written for. He has closed down a successful business expecting to fill Ruth's shoes. Not only has he lost the rent from that business he will lose everything as most of the Ruth's customers should boycott the place. The chances of him getting new tenants is very slim after treating Ruth in that shameful way

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 14:46

Sorry to show ignorance, but is Gordon the same Gordon at the Lambousa?

Lambousa Gordon


Joined: 03/11/2007
Posts: 1992

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 15:19

Yes I am the Gordon of Lambousa.



I am perplexed at the speculation the dissolution of the partnership with Ruth and Tony has aroused.



Suffice to say, from some of the comments and somewhat scurrilous remarks made, it is evident that the more vitriolic posters are not abreast of the facts and are speculating at best.



As I consider that this is a private matter between those actually concerned I intend to attempt to keep confidence on this matter.



That said, I consider it particularly cowardly for the poster "Bandwagon" to question both mine and the general mass of my compatriots' integrity while hiding behind anonymity.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 15:26

RE msg 26, Lambousa Gordon: Hear, hear! Well said, Mr. Kent.

stilluvithere



Joined: 03/12/2008
Posts: 765

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 15:30

Gordon, it is obvious from those who go to the waterfront, that Ruth would not want to voluntarily close down a successful business. The instigator must be you. I do however have to agree that not all Turkish Cypriots are of the same ilk

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 15:36

Ah I see, but all these calling of christian names on this site, every one knows every one, lol



Well Gordon, things happen in business, that sometimes are not very welcome, lets hope things settle down, but, and its a big but, folks do follow the people they know, a lesson I learned a very long time ago.



It is in difficult times for all to so lets hope something good transpires for all concerned.

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 15:42

LG

I can understand your defensive stance. I think it's the 'stop digging a bigger hole' one.



It doesn't help me gauge the true situation though, and like a Dragons Den decision whether to invest in you or your business, "I'm out"

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 15:48

Well Im in for Ruth, my Dragons Den decision.

professoregit


Joined: 30/08/2008
Posts: 381

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 16:53

The general concensus is that they were in fact "booted out". The owner has apparently tried to re-employ

Tony's co-Chef. It may get a few tourists from now until the end of the month but the majority of the local expat population will I feel demonstrate with their feet. Can't see the doors remaining open post tourist season unless the other Gordon (Ramsey) turns up for the special "TRNC Kitchen Niightmares" series.

Sure we can expect to see Ruth and Tony opening something new, somewhere soon. Good luck to them

both!

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 17:53

Well I for one will give Gordon the benefit of the doubt and give the Waterfront a try if it does re-open as I was pretty disappointed with the food and service on the one occasion that I did go there in June this year.

mia100max


Joined: 19/03/2008
Posts: 404

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 17:58

I agree, I think customers will vote with their feet & follow Ruth & Tony to any new venture they (hopefully) decide to undertake.

snakes



Joined: 28/10/2008
Posts: 1512

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 19:06

restaurants bars clubs venues !! only as good as the people who run them !!

Turtle


Joined: 28/05/2007
Posts: 2669

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 19:46

Jo Msg34...........I must have been there the same night as you.

Only been once (recommended) in June and found the food very good but the service was awful.



The staff seemed very miserable too

weaze


Joined: 25/02/2009
Posts: 35

Message Posted:
15/08/2009 21:11

way too many evil people on this Island...i think me & gez will be glad to see the back of it.....

TheStonedCrow


Joined: 27/06/2009
Posts: 96

Message Posted:
16/08/2009 01:11

Weaze



Well said, hope we catch up with you BOTH before you depart



XXX



John & Janice (not the mambo now)

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
16/08/2009 01:13

looking at this and jezi think we all will xx How cant these people police this place and claim fuel allowence etc they brag about and drop people in it like this. I am sick to my stomach for Ruth Tony Amy and Jez xxxxxx

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
16/08/2009 01:49

I have just re read my own post Im not suggesting for one minute that anybody dropped Ruth and Tony in it . It was aimed at Jez/ Im still as mad as hell

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
16/08/2009 14:06

Why must these things be dragged all over the internet??? Partnerships, wether they be professional or intimate are nobodies business but the folk that are directly involved...to have this splattered over the forum is just plain spiteful imo!! Business partnerships disolve all the time for copious amounts of reasons...so, even if you have all the facts...which many people don't...keep them to yourselves....you wouldn't want your business or private life hung out to dry on an internet forum, would you???!!!



DD

rigsby


Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 912

Message Posted:
16/08/2009 14:18

Daisy dukes,Its because people like Tony, Ruth,Amey,Jez and familys are well known and liked.

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
16/08/2009 14:19

Well maybe they wouldn't like to have this discussed on the internet either...has anyone asked them??



DD

Tuttut


Joined: 09/12/2008
Posts: 270

Message Posted:
18/08/2009 12:19

Ruth, Amy and Tony, It will be very said to see you go from this resturant as you made it was it is. The food was great the people running it were friendly, helpful and would do anything for you. If what has been put on here is true im very sorry to here this.

As people on here have said you are well known and well liked and im sure if you open something else it will be as good or better.

pinkchilli


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 689

Message Posted:
15/09/2009 14:50

Any news on the Waterfront?



Is it re-opening, will there be a free buffet if/when it does?



Have Ruth & Tony found new premises?



Is Gordon a moron?



It's unbelievable that the REAL reason, whatever it is, has not materialised.

Elliecy


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 153

Message Posted:
15/09/2009 15:50

We have eaten at the Farmhouse and the Waterfront and been disappointed both times, so I'll be interested in trying the food at the Waterfront again under different management. I have no idea why the people involved left, but I personally have always found Gordon to be pleasant and professional and cant see any reason at all why his nationality should be brought in to it, let alone anything else.

I'm sure that there were reasons for this split (which probably only those involved will ever know), but as usual I see people are quick to speculate.

I'm sure if a place is well-run with good food etc, then it will do well regardless. I wish good luck to anyone who opens a business here - it certainly is needed, especially in view of many of the comments that often appear on this board.

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
15/09/2009 15:55

msg 43....probably the reason it hasn't 'materialised' is because it's none of yours or anybodies business to know!!!





DD

pinkchilli


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 689

Message Posted:
15/09/2009 16:09

Daisy Daisy



You are absolutely right.



However, in the "Goldfish Bowl" everyone speculates, EVEN if they are aware of the TRUTH.



To give you an example: If the Waterfront under the old management were selling "Cow Pie" with Whiskas, I'm sure we should be entitled to know. Obviously that was not the reason, but it may just go to prove, when someone wants to know something so desperately, even lies will do.



PS. I have nothing against the previous management, nor Gordon, nor Whiskas!

johnty


Joined: 03/06/2008
Posts: 257

Message Posted:
16/09/2009 10:08

good luck to ruth and tony cant wait for the stumble to reopen.

Heard steve dickenson is taking on the waterfront!!!!!! Dont envie you though. A lot of people were upset with the parting of ruth and tony hope they dont hold that against you steve.

nurseawful



Joined: 06/02/2009
Posts: 5934

Message Posted:
16/09/2009 10:32

Have now heard that Ruth and Tony have not got the Stumble Inn !!! Rumours again so I won't repeat the names of the couple who do allegedly have it just in case it is another rumour.

Kitty Kat Jac


Joined: 18/03/2008
Posts: 230

Message Posted:
16/09/2009 10:45

I have just spoken to Tony and they are opening the Stumble Inn very soon. Cant wait and good luck xx

juliamoons



Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 849

Message Posted:
16/09/2009 10:52

Rumours Rumours Rumours - some good - some sad.

Rogerdoger


Joined: 04/09/2008
Posts: 102

Message Posted:
16/09/2009 12:46

PLEASE ADVISE WHERE THE STUMBLE IN IS?



RD

Rogerdoger


Joined: 04/09/2008
Posts: 102

Message Posted:
16/09/2009 12:54

PLEASE ADVISE WHERE THE STUMBLE IN IS?



There is no smoke without fire if they have been forced out of the Waterfront,the question is WHY!, if they had good customers and a solid clientel, a good following, then maybe they were forced out by greedy individuals, who only saw pound signs in their eyes and think that profit comes before satisfaction of customers and nothing to with the intrest and thought of their customers



RD

jessy


Joined: 04/12/2007
Posts: 289

Message Posted:
16/09/2009 13:09

I beleive they are working towards the 27th september if nothing goes wrong. Being the professionals that they are will not open until everything is right. Good luck to you both and role on the good times again.

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
16/09/2009 20:55

Stumble Inn !! great stuff, cant wait !! the spare ribs are to die for x