Ollie and I first met at Tretho Lounge in summer 2022. He’d just come back as an Assistant Manager, and I was a Supervisor from Palacio, drafted in for the busy season. We spent countless long shifts and late closes together and became good friends by the end of summer—nothing more. Afterwards, I returned to Palacio, but we kept crossing paths at meetings, helping each other out, and somehow always ending up working together at New Year’s and over the following summers. It was very much a slow burner for two whole years.

Fast forward to April 2024: we realised we hadn’t seen each other properly in ages, so we met for “a rant and a pint” at a pub in Falmouth—not that we called it a date. We kept meeting up, and eventually I asked him out properly at the top of Tintagel Castle. We tried to keep things quiet… until we were spotted by our Ops Manager while walking down the street. I attempted to subtly move Ollie’s arm from around me, but he held tight, stared him dead in the eyes, and winked. Classic.

The rest is history. We’ve bought a house, adopted our little black cat Marmite, and are now both GMs in Cornwall, an idyllic little life full of adventure, all starting back at Tretho Lounge in St Ives.

My boyfriend and I met in Prague back in 2024, but he lived in Telford, and I lived in West Sussex. The weekend after we met, I drove 4 hours to Telford, and he took me to Novello Lounge for our first date, as I am a coeliac and he knew it would be the ideal place for me. I loved it there, and we were able to share food, which I rarely can do!

Fast forward 4 months, and I moved in with him, and ended up with a job working at the Lounge we had our first date in! I’ve been at Novello for over a year now and am loving it, especially seeing the table we had our first date on.