ONE OF Reading’s hotspots has rung in the new year with style in the centre of town.
Blue Collar Corner, which hosts a bar and a number of food outlets, celebrated the start of 2023 with a ball– a mirror ball.
The venue hosted a Discorama for its first New Year’s Eve, which saw nine lines of beer from Double Barrelled and special offerings from all four of its street food vendors.
Blue Collar’s Glen Dinning explained the significance of the night and the year as a whole, saying: “On New Year’s Eve we celebrated the final moments of 2022.
“A year that was the culmination of six years of work in getting ourselves to the stage where we could take over a derelict yard and turn it into our first permanent home.
“It’s been six big, messy, stressful years of surviving difficult moments, pandemics, lockdowns, energy price hikes, the cost of living crisis – made special by all of the people that have come out to support us.”
Looking to the future, he said: “We want to see how far we can take this little, independent business – combining the best of street food with local booze and brilliant music, all whilst trying, in our own small way, to make our hometown better in whatever way we can.”
“There will be an announcement from us on this later this month” he explained, “but, in the meantime, we’re off for a rest.”
He said that the weekly markets will return from Wednesday, January 11.
Blue Collar Corner reopens for business on Thursday, January 18, after which it will be hosting a number of events up until late February.
