the destination secured a podium finish from reviewers at The Times<\/a>, who described it as a \u201cgastronomic nirvana\u201d.<\/p>\nTemperatures across the UK soared to 34.8C on Monday (May 25), setting a new May Day record – only for it to be surpassed the following day.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the venue said: \u201cNot only was it a record-breaking weekend for temperatures, but also, for multiple independent traders across the site, it was a record-breaking weekend for business.<\/p>\n
\u201cMany reported record sales on Saturday, then again on Sunday, and then again on Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among those enjoying a surge in demand were brothers Barney and Ross Howard, who operate both Vinnies and Cluck N\u2019 Cow, revealing they went through \u201calmost a tonne\u201d of chips.<\/p>\n
Cluck N\u2019 Cow alone cooked 3,000 beef patties over the course of the weekend.<\/p>\n
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Mark Babins revealed his two businesses Sailbox and The Fish Shack sold more than 500 portions of fish and chips every day<\/p>\n
Brewing Brothers Beachside also felt the impact of the heatwave, with the team describing an \u201cincredible energy\u201d across the seafront.<\/p>\n
Emily Bennett, the eatery\u2019s general manager, said: \u201cWe had trays of fresh dough piled higher than our members of staff and still sold out early on Bank Holiday Monday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we served up more than 400 pizzas every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seafood venues Sailbox and The Fish Shack, owned by Mark Babins, were similarly busy.<\/p>\n
Across the two sites, more than 500 portions of fish and chips were sold every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn our experience, you only really get fish and chips sales like that when there are loads of visitors from out of town, which is great for Folkestone,\u201d Mark added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Both Vinnies and Cluck N\u2019 Cow went through a pallet of chips almost equating to a tonneSimon Robinson says he \u201clost count\u201d of how many bottles of sparkling wine and champagne were sold<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter this weekend, we\u2019re somewhat relieved and delighted our new extension at Sailbox is almost finished to enable us to cater for more weekends like this.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the Lighthouse Champagne Bar, located in the beacon at the end of the harbour arm, staff were kept just as busy.<\/p>\n
More than 500 oysters were shucked in just two days, while bottles of English sparkling wine and champagne were flowing throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n
Simon Robinson, owner operator of the venue, said: \u201cWe lost count of how many bottles of English sparkling wine and champagne were sold.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs is fitting for England\u2019s closest champagne bar to France, our English sparkling wine sales were nearly as high as our champagne sales.\u201d<\/p>\n
Folkestone Harbour Arm bosses said they were delighted with what they described as a \u201crecord-breaker\u201d weekend, adding the destination continues to go from strength to strength as it \u201creinvents the traditional English seaside experience\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tourist hotspot, recently named the third best pier in the country, has celebrated its traders recording their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,2556,59,192,191,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-608993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-folkestone","tag-gb","tag-human-interest","tag-kent","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}