An acclaimed wine bar and restaurant overlooking Hamble Quay in the Hampshire coastal yachting village of Hamble is for sale. The Key and Bar Du Port are set in a three-storey, grade-II listed Queen Anne property in the centre of Hamble, a historic village and popular yachting haven where, in the late 1980s, sailing soap Howard's Way was filmed. The Key restaurant is renowned for its award-winning cuisine offering à la carte and blackboard menus. Some 80% of the trade is repeat business from the yachting fraternity, local people and day-trippers. The Bar Du Port wine bar and bistro adjoins the Key. Mike Riley and David Woolfall have owned the business for some 10 years and are selling due to new opportunities abroad. They have carried out extensive modernisation and refurbishment and the property boasts internal architectural features such as exposed wood flooring, beamed ceilings, wood panelled walls and large Georgian windows overlooking the river. The business has a reception hall, wine bar, main bar and restaurant on the ground floor, another restaurant on the first floor and two attic rooms on the second floor which are currently used as office space, but could provide owner's accommodation. Behind the property is a landscaped patio garden with barbecue area and outside bar servery. Christie & Co is seeking £250,000 for the remaining eight years of the current lease.
