Tutukaka has talent!

Our New Wine Select

Well it has been a while since putting fingers to keys, as always much has and much is happening here in Tutukaka and at Oceans Resort Hotel.  Quick run down on the facts.

We have new faces in the team!  As has been said before and will be said again, we are a small, happy and friendly team and welcoming new team members is always a warm experience.  Next time I will introduce you to some of them.



Our new light bar

We have a new Bar and Restaurant layout, with a comfortable Lounge Bar with Big Screen TV to watch the games (tonight is again another night of rugby), an intimate dinning area and a club bar.  In winter you could sit by the fire with a glass of red, in summer sit in the terraced bar and watch the boats coming and going.

We also have something else which is rather exciting, at the moment we are a week away from launching it but will give the readers a fair hint .......... Rumble.




The very talented Mr. Steve Moase

We are preparing for the first weddings of the season, (I still have a very romantic side that just loves our weddings and being apart of such a special day)





preparing for Tutukaka's got talent

Tomorrow we welcome back the youth of Tutukaka in the final of Tutukaka's got talent.  And boy oh boy do we have some talent in the young people around here.  If you have some time tomorrow pop on down around 3pm and watch the final.  We will be posting photo's up of the winners on our website.



Nikki at Tutukaka's got talent

Don't forget that at the end of the month, last Sunday of each month, is the Tutukaka Markets, hosted by Oceans Resort Hotel, rain or shine we sell local to you.






Steve and I look forward to welcoming you

Way to much to be reporting on really and slap on the hand to me for having not been doing so, your emails were read and apologies given.  Now I have the twitch to show off again about where I live and what I do so watch out, polish your glasses, rub the sleep from your eyes, book mark the page and prepare to read.  Fair warning that you may have a tinge of green every now and then whilst reading, this is perfectly normal and will settle down in time.  Jealously is the cause of this and if symptom persist, please see your travel agent or book your stay as soon as possible.:)  Though not contagious it can become debilitating if not seen to.

The winner!

Alan with his winning card. Congratulations!!!

Friday night is always a great night at Oceans Resort Hotel, it is our TGIF night and a chance for us to turn the juke box up, play some pool, eat some food and share a drink.  For some it is the end of the working week and others the start of the real reason we have the working week.

Tonight was of course no exception to the rule, the only difference is we were making the draw for the BBQ to one lucky person.  8pm came around and the bell was rung, which was a lot louder than I anticipated and the juke box turned down.  With the assistance of Hazel we made the draw.  Now there were a lot of cards in there with many guests having drunk their Export Gold, had their card stamped and put into the box.

Craig and James working their magic

It was Alan that won!  YAY.  Alan use to live in an apartment at Oceans Resort Hotel and for a long time was my neighbour.  Then he did what is only natural in Tutukaka brought a boat and moved to the water.  Not to far away from our front door:)  We are very lucky to have locals like Alan and we know it, so to be able to say his name as the winner for the BBQ was a true joy.

Congratulations from the whole team Alan!

Eating in Sweden

So this week Oceans is taking our customers to Sweden, tasting the delights without the airfare, how neat is that!  Again our Chef's did their magic, and it was Craig Estick at the helm tonight.  So again I did my job, as any good manager would, I ordered my dish:)  Well I mean really you do have know your product to sell your product surely we all know that. 

Salmon Entree.  It didn't last long at all

This week there are two dishes from the country of Sweden.  First the entree of Salmon.  I think Craigs exact words to me were, "Did you actually taste that?"  I will admit it was gone pretty fast and it was fantastic!!  The answer was "OMG did I taste that!"

Swedish Meatball dish, oh the shame:)

Then second was the meatballs.  Now being a Mother of two I will have to say that I am pretty good at making spaghetti and meatballs, lets face it, kids love it and it is easy to make and there are no groans and arguments of how much they have to eat before they are able to excuse themselves from the table.  Now being the connoisseur that I am with this dish, I wasn't prepared to give an inch when it comes to the taste, (I have pride in my own work you know).  I can now say thank goodness my children didn't taste Craig's Meatballs!  If that is what they are meant to taste like then I have failed my children's paletts, if that isn't what they are meant to taste like then I would like to start the petition that they should.  Served with Potato and Creamy mustard sauce again there was little time to spend looking at the dish.

Yip we pull it off!  Pfft not even close!  But we are having fun:)

So working the floor and welcoming the guests that came to play and dine was myself and Brent.  Brent has been with Oceans now for about 3 months and is awesome, makes a great cup of coffee and is a valued member of our small team.  Needless to say we rocked the night and made sure we looked the part, the difference is we made the night look good.  I know many will argue that point:)  Our problem is when we googled (thank goodness for google!)  "What is Sweden famous for?" we were listed with many many links to porn sites.  Now keeping in mind that we are family restaurant that simply wasn't going to do, so Bianca (Our Event Manager) came up with the wigs as our tribute to the top 20 links and that was as much of a tribute as they were going to get!  Apart from that it was ABBA playing and some soft candle light instead of electric lighting.  (NEVER under estimate what soft candle light does for your skin!  I felt young again:))

Tomorrow night is the last of Sweden and then we are packing down and preparing to arrive in Italy.  I think (since Brent had to wear a girls wig tonight) ALL staff will have to wear moustaches.  If you agree feel free to email me anytime with your vote.  Also have a look through our game board for a dinner that will suit your taste buds, or do what many are doing and turning up for all of them on either a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday night.  Remember to collect your game cards and save them up to play a game of chance and go in the draw for the Tutukaka Chest at the end.