The Steamboat Cookhouse & Pub, Skegness Seafront, Skegness, PE25 3HH

The Steamboat Cookhouse + Pub is a substantial, purpose-built restaurant and bar occupying a prominent seafront location.

Designed in the modern and welcoming Cookhouse + Pub style, the venue provides a relaxed, family-friendly environment with extensive internal dining areas complemented by attractive outdoor seating.

The restaurant is located within a modern Premier Inn, which opened to the public in 2019.

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The Steamboat Cookhouse + Pub occupies a prominent seafront position in the heart of Skegness, one of Lincolnshire’s most established coastal resort towns.

Situated on Skegness seafront, The Steamboat is located within a Premier Inn hotel, and benefits from high levels of year-round footfall generated by tourists, day visitors and local residents. The venue is within a short walking distance of key attractions including Skegness Pier, Pleasure Beach, Natureland Seal Sanctuary and the town’s extensive sandy beach, making it ideally positioned to capture both food-led and wet-led trade.

Skegness remains a popular east coast holiday destination, attracting significant visitor numbers throughout the peak summer season while also serving a substantial local catchment population.

The pub's design is focused on maximised covers, with the following configuration:

- Welcome station upon entrance
- Central bar servery with breakfast station
- Open grill kitchen
- Casual seating near the bar, with a mixture of bar stool and arm chair seating totalling c.00 covers
- Three large dining areas totalling c.155 internal covers, with varied partitions offering flexibility for functions & larger bookings
- Customer WCs

Ancilliary areas include a commercial kitchen, cellar, pot wash, bottle store, cellar, staff facilities and further storage.

The trade fixtures and fittings are included in the purchase price. Certain items bearing corporate identity, brand name, third-party owned or on the excluded list (see “Terms of Disposal” document) may be removed from the property prior to, or shortly after, completion.

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The site shares a large car park with the Premier Inn, with ANPR cameras.

There are 12 picnic benches totalling 96 external covers, located to the front and side.

This represents a rare opportunity to acquire a modern, fully fitted, large-scale licensed restaurant on a prime spot for a major tourist location.

The property offers:

- A turnkey operation, significantly reducing initial capital expenditure
- Continued use as a family & tourist dining venue
- Potential for alternative branded or independent concepts, subject to the necessary consents
- Scope to enhance trade through events, re-branding and menu development

The property is being offered for sale as a going concern. Relevant staffing details are available within the data room for review by qualified parties.

Trading information is available exclusively to qualified buyers via a secure data room. Access is subject to the execution of a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). For further details, please contact the appointed agent.

Monday - Friday: 6:30am - 11pm
Saturday: 7am - 11pm
Sunday: 7am - 10:30pm

Premises Licence.