Trading Gossip

Aug 8 2007 Liverpool Daily Post

THIS week’s award for po-faced pomposity goes to the Restaurant Bar & Grill, in Brunswick Street, Liver- pool. Despite being open for just a few months, it already appears to be getting ideas above its station.

The eaterie was contacted by a Liverpool PR and event organiser who was looking to host a series of lunches to celebrate a new product launch.

Each lunch would comprise a small handful of invited guests and a leading local business person.

Bearing in mind the city’s football heritage and the start of the new season, the organiser wanted to give the events a bit of a footy theme.

She asked the restaurant whether it would be possible to serve sticky toffee puddings for the dessert, some covered in red custard, some in blue.

This modest request was dismissed out of hand. Red custard was possible, it seems, but not blue.

“I don’t think doing that would fit in with our brand,” the organiser was told. Her business will now go to the Racquet Club, in Chapel Street, which is only to happy to oblige.

LIVERPOOL PR boss Dougal Paver offers some interesting insights into his everyday life on his internet blog.

He claims to be the Laird of Lochaber, which apparently comes with a mile of salmon fishing rights on the Spean, and is also a member of the British Association of Shooting & Conservation and the Everton Moaners’ Club.

He basks in the unofficial title of Liverpool’s most networked man but his wife, it seems, is not so impressed.

The blog is simply called “Dougal” and the heading design is curiously similar to a certain web search engine that rhymes with it. Let’s hope a lawsuit doesn’t follow.

WHO said going to church wasn’t cool. St Nicholas Church, in the heart of the business district, is attempting to become more hip and happening in a bid to pull in the punters.

Its Sunday communion service, according to a banner outside, now includes “stunning music” and “intelligent thinking” and is even followed, it states, by drinks in the Lion pub afterwards. They’ve even set up a website, www.sixatnicks.com

“So ancient and so new,” it says. Groovy, man.