Meet 1620’s bar Manager Tom Shanley, Tom is 6”4’ (in flats!) and has been developing his skills in the hospitality trade for over 10  years, before joining the team at Bar 1620 this summer.
   

Tom’s favourite cocktail to drink is the iconic Moscow Mule, consisting of vodka, lime juice and ginger beer served in a hammered metal mug and is believed to have originated in the USA during 1940s.  (Vodka wasn't a popular alcohol in America and was generally joked about being a Russian drink. John G. Martin, an alcohol seller,  took a leap of faith and bought a vodka brand in the States but no-one would drink it. One day, while Martin was loitering around upset about his inability to sell the drink, he went up to a bartender at the L.A. bar Cock 'n' Bull and talked to the owner Jack Morgan who faced a similar problem of not being able to sell even a single ginger beer. They decided to come together and mix the two drinks. They then decided on the name Moscow Mule, Moscow because of Americans tendency to associate vodka with Russia, and Mule was added to the name because the ginger beer gave it a real “kick”! They marketed the drink, sales soared, and from then onwards, vodka was accepted as a drink in America.)
   
Tom’s favourite drink to mix up at Bar 1620 is one of their signature cocktails ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ - Jamesons Whiskey, Absolute Vodka, Triple Sec, Lamb’s Navy Rum, Plymouth Gin, Olmecca Tequila, Martini Extra Dry, Orange Juice, Lime Juice, topped with Coke and served in a teapot for 1...or tea for 2 if you like to share!  Just delicious!
   
Tom loves being part of Dartmouth’s volunteer crew for the RNLI Lifeboat, (he’s been seen running from Bar 1620 to a shout along the river embankment, suited & booted, on more than one occasion & fined by his crew accordingly ;-)
   
His favourite thing about living in Dartmouth is being by the water and of course the stunning Dartmouth scenery.  He never tires of it... why would he, it’s one of the most beautiful towns in the world (not that we are biased!)
   
Tom’s favourite creature in the bar is Sid the green parrot 🦜

We are excited to announce that we are opening for business on Saturday 4th July from midday.

​We are putting a number of measures in place to keep you, and our team, safe so you can enjoy yourselves and still feel relaxed. We firmly believe this needs to be a joint effort between our team and our guests, so we urge you to please use maximum common sense to play your part in keeping everyone safe. In return we will be doing the same for you. Importantly, we will not be allowing any of our team members displaying symptoms inside our bar and we would ask you to exercise the same cautionary approach.
 
We will continually be reviewing our systems to ensure you have a safe experience at Bar 1620. This is way is new to us all so please be understanding if things aren’t as simple as they used to be.
 
On arrival we will greet you at the door, where there will be a hand sanitiser station. We will then ask for you to write down a contact number which will then be placed into an envelope, which will have a date and time stamp on it and we will retain this for 21 days. You will be directed to a table, and our menus will be either wipeable (cleaned after each guest has left the table) or single use (please excuse these are not our usual quality menus!)

• We have 8 clearly defined seating areas in Bar 1620 for your safety.
• We will be operating table service each area will be thoroughly sanitised after each customer
• Please do not clear glasses to the bar
• There will be a hand sanitiser on each table for your use
• The toilets will be sanitised regularly
• The men’s toilets will now operate as single occupancy to ensure social distancing guidelines
• We ask you give other customers space when using the bathrooms