New Deli Bistro Opens at Burton Waters

New bistro sails into town

Great news for all you foodies out there! A new bistro championing locally sourced and produced food and drink is opening up on the site of the former Yots Bar and Bistro on Burton Waters.

The Deli Bistro, which specialises in Lincolnshire cheeses, quality meats and home-made cakes and pastries, opened its doors to the public for the first time today (Friday 1st April).

Run by Craig Gollin of Craig Gollin Catering Services and his wife Caroline the restaurant will also have a delicatessen selling local produce and freshly prepared food to take away.

Craig started training as a chef from the age of 17 and has over 13 years’ experience in the industry. Between 2003 and 2008 he worked as a head chef at The Lawn in Lincoln catering for corporate buffets through to banquets of up to 300 people.

Craig set up his own business in March 2008 and has established an allotment where he grows a lot of the produce he uses in his catering business.

Qualified nutritionist Caroline also brings a wealth of food-related experience and is currently working for the Food for Life Partnership as well as lecturing part-time at the University of Lincoln.

Caroline is keen to involve the students and the community in the new business and will be displaying and selling work by local artists as well as furniture maker and recent graduate Sebastian Cox.

Caroline explained: “We launched an art competition and invited students to design a piece of work based on the theme of local and seasonal produce. Everyone who came to our opening party was asked to vote for the piece they liked the best.

“The winner was Faith Wibberley (31) who is studying Illustration and coincidently will be working as a waitress in the bistro! Faith’s work will have exclusivity in the bistro for the next six weeks and we won’t charge her any commission on the pieces she sells.”

Caroline has also enlisted the help of Business Studies and Marketing students to help launch the new bistro and Craig is currently training three apprentices to become chefs. Altogether Craig and Caroline have created 12 new jobs across both their businesses which they’ll be running alongside each other.

The Deli Bistro will be open Monday to Wednesday 10am till 6pm, Thursday to Saturday 10am till 11pm and Sunday 11.30am till 4.30pm and will offer breakfast, lunch, afternoon teas and dinner.

The lunchtime, evening and dessert menus can be found online at www.craiggollincatering.co.uk along with details of how to book.

See you at The Deli Bistro very soon!