Owner of storm-hit restaurant vows to get back to business

The owner of a restaurant on Portstewart’s seafront left flooded after storm Franklin hit has pledged to get back to serving food as soon as possible.

Native Seafood and Scran boss Stevie McCarry arrived at work on Monday morning to find the water was 6ft deep at the venue he opened along with his wife Rebecca during the first coronavirus lockdown.

Writing on Facebook on Tuesday, February 22, he said: “We are sorting through all the equipment today to see what’s salvageable but yesterday we managed to save the fish in our fish fridge we keep in the back which is air right.

“Once the electricity switched off, this particular fridge has a fail safe that keeps temperature for a few hours. We managed to get everything out in time and moved across to another fridge off site.

“We don’t want this to go to waste so if anyone wants any cod, hake, haddock, oysters or mussels give us a shout or order on our website.

“The sense of community has been unbelievable and we’ll never forget it. Predicting a big native sesh when we get back up and running whenever that will be “

Stevie and his wife Rebecca, above, started the business during the first coronavirus lockdown and it and proved an immediate hit with locals and visitors alike.