Ambitious plans for former Grantham pub

The new owner of a former Grantham pub, which was converted to a restaurant some 15 years ago, has ambitious plans for its future.

Inspired by his wife Teresa, Falkland veteran Terry Flowers took over Lupulo – formerly the Malt Shovel Inn, in Westgate – on August 1^st.

Since then, his eatery has been supplying quality dishes in upmarket surroundings, at among the least expensive in town.

Currently, you can eat indoors or outdoors, but Terry, who served on HMS Invincible before becoming an international engineer, has big plans for the future.

He said: “I took over a Portuguese restaurant but we have changed the menu to be 50% English food. A full English breakfast, for example, costs less than £8.

“maybe pick another dish, ham egg and chips or scampi and chips perhaps?. It’s quite an extensive, and inexpensive, menu.

“We have great chefs and serving staff. Everyone is made welcome.”

Terry is keen to make big changes to his new enterprise.

“We have established an outdoor eating area at the front and hope to have UK and Portuguese flags flying there. I also want to restore the Sundial on the neighbouring property which overlooks us.

“We are also working at the back, which we plan to turn into a beer garden with its own bar.

“I am also looking at converting the cellar into a ‘gin palace’. That will have a great atmosphere.”

As a pub, it first opened as the Green Man, then the Blue Man, a name it kept for 150 years.  In the 1980s it became first O’Haughty’s, then the Malt Shovel before becoming first an Italian then a Portuguese restaurant.