We're delighted to share some very exciting news with you - Nick & Aileen have decided to make Operations Manager Grant Smith a Director of Imperial Hotel. This is the first time ever a non-family member has been promoted to the position and shows the huge amount of trust that they have in him.  Imperial Hotel has been run by the Mobbs family since the early 1930s and Nick & Aileen's...

We had all sorts of things planned to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day on Friday 8 May and all weekend, with a fun 1940s themed dinner and dance with a really special 1940's inspired menu.  But sadly, our weekend break of celebrations and fun was not to be, due to the coronavirus crisis and the hotel being closed. But not everything was cancelled. With a week or so to go, Aileen persuaded...

Nick’s love affair with wine started as an undergraduate at university whilst a student at the Hotel School in Scotland. In his first year, Nick studied the art of wine tasting under a lecturer by the name of Jim Steel. There were 2 lectures per week, part tasting, part theory. He remembers vividly that they were every Tuesday at 11am – it would never happen now! Jim Steel was a veritable...