The Spanish Place

01/02/2025

Come on the cherries

31/01/2025

We are open Monday to Friday 10:00 till 17:00 serving hot and cold drinks, cakes, sandwiches and other treats as well as Idelica’s frozen paella.

We are currently working on expanding our lunch time menu with items that are a little different to the average. Keep watching for more.

In the meantime keep visiting us to get your weekday treats or frozen paella.

You can find us at Unit D1 Platinum Jubilee Business Park, Hopclover Way BH24 3FW

28/01/2025

The signs are out, Baldy is setup and that means we are open!

Frozen paella is the product of the day today. We have all 3 varieties available at £7 per portion or any 3 for £20.

Each portion is a minimum of 380g which is nice and filling for a normal appetite and come ready to reheat at home in time for your dinner. Why not enjoy a bit of Spanish sunshine in the cold winter months!

24/01/2025

This Baldy…..

Baldy is feeling inspired…..

After seeing a piece on most memorable advertising slogans this morning, Baldy decided he would come up with Idelica’s next one.

After a huge amount of painful thought, he has come up with…….

Try Idelica’s tasty Vegetable Paella - give peas a chance.

All in all not bad for an idiot. We would love to see some more ideas. Just to let you all know we are closing early today to celebrate Emma’s birthday. Back to normal from Monday!!

23/01/2025

This is Baldy…..

Baldy is feeling clever…..

As Emma is coming to the office later today, Baldy has been doing her important paperwork to check remaining stock for Fresh Paella Thursday from 5pm to 7pm tonight. After his excellent maths skills were tested to their limit, he used his big boy pen to write out the results all on his own.

Baldy is proud to say that there are 5 portions of seafood paella left and 6 of vegetable paella for this evening. Chicken and chorizo paella is already pre sold. If you want to reserve any of the remaining give Baldy a call on 01425350350. Alternatively if you can brave the weather, pop in for coffee to the Spanish Place and put your order in. When it’s gone it’s gone so leaving it to chance is risky.

Baldy has done a good job.

22/01/2025

This Baldy…..

Baldy is feeling chilly…..

Baldy is not feeling chilly because of a downturn in the weather, rather, Emma asked him to look after the frozen paellas in the Spanish Place. What she meant of course was to let people know that they are available for collection from The Spanish Place, which is open Monday to Friday from 10:00 until 17:00. Whilst you are collecting your frozen paella stock, you could of course grab a fresh tea, coffee or hot chocolate. Perhaps a cold drink and a slice of Burnt Basque Cheesecake. Baldy even has freshly made delicious sandwiches.

What Baldy HEARD Emma say was take care of the frozen paellas. As a result he spent a couple of hours keeping them company in the freezer, chatting to them about what was going on and making sure they didn’t feel left out.

Baldy is an idiot

22/01/2025

Just over 24 hours left to reserve your fresh paella portion this week.

It's after 10am on Wednesday, therefore we have finalised our cooking plans for tomorrow. We have no portions of Chicken and Chorizo Paella left, but as of now (Midday) we do still have 5 Seafood Paella, 6 Vegetable Paella and 7 Burnt Basque Cheesecake portions up for grabs. Order online (link in comment below) or give us call on 01425 350350 up until 5pm tomorrow (while stock lasts).

11/01/2025

Football and paella!

08/01/2025

This is Baldy…..

Baldy is feeling satisfied…..

After discovering how quiet it kept him, Emma put Baldy in charge of changing the very homemade door sign from closed to open each day and back again at 5pm. Baldy was at first assuming that he would be required to put up ribbons to be cut with an oversized pair of (safety) scissors following a formal ceremony each day which, whilst it sounded fun, felt like a bit of a faff. His astonishment at the ease in which he can welcome his customers each day is therefore palpable and he spends many minutes each morning and evening turning the sign back and forth until his appetite is sated.

Baldy is an idiot. Emma is happy for a few moments peace.

The Spanish Place squats in the front of Idelica’s office at Unit D1 platinum Jubilee Business Park, Hopclover Way, BH24 3FW and is open Monday to Friday from 10:00 till 17:00 selling hot drinks, freshly made sandwiches, cakes when available and also is the home of Idelica’s frozen paella. Come and say hello to Baldy and enjoy a lovely weekday lunch or drink at the same time.

23/12/2024

Happy Easter from Baldy…..

Happy Christmas from Emma

Feliz navidad y próspero año nuevo to all our whole Paella family. Thank you to those who have supported us this year, whether buying a portion of Burnt Basque Cheesecake or organising a big celebration, we love each and every one of you!

We are taking a short break from the day to day over the festive period and below are the opening hours over the next couple of weeks. We will be back to normal on Monday 6th Jan, open from 10:00 to 17:00 for you to pop in and load up your freezer with our paella or perhaps to for a coffee and a sandwich. Thursday 9th January will be the first fresh paella of the year - watch this space for more information on that!

Monday 23rd Dec - 12:00 to 14:00
Tuesday 24th Dec - CLOSED
Wednesday 25th Dec - CLOSED
Thursday 26th Dec - AFC Bournemouth Boxing Day match in the fanzone from 12:00 to 15:00 serving our delicious chicken and chorizo paella and patatas bravas as well!!
Friday 27th Dec - CLOSED
Saturday 28th Dec - CLOSED
Sunday 29th Dec - CLOSED
Monday 30th Dec - CLOSED
Tuesday 31st DEC - CLOSED
Wednesday 1st Jan - CLOSED
Thursday 2nd Jan - CLOSED
Friday 3rd Jan - CLOSED
Saturday 4th Jan - AFC Bournemouth match in the fanzone from 12:00 to 15:00
Sunday 5th Jan - CLOSED
Monday 6th Jan - 10:00 to 17:00

Baldy and Emma wish you all a peaceful and happy Christmas, and a prosperous 2025

18/12/2024

This is Baldy…..

Baldy is feeling festive…..

Baldy has been searching the unit far and wide to try and find a festive outfit for this week’s final paella cook before Christmas. After failing to find anything other than the hat supplied by a very generous customer, he got waylaid in a game of Christmas hide and seek. Baldy thought he looked fine and indeed dandy dressed as a Christmas lemon tree, excitedly shouting out to Emma to “come and find me if you think you can”. Baldy was convinced that nobody could see through his clever disguise and was shocked when Emma threw a marker pen at his head, dislodging his ‘outfit’ and revealing his sanctum. Baldy now believes that Emma has a magical hidden eye in order to decipher his fiendish camouflage and is skulking around the warehouse, randomly popping up to scare her whilst shouting “there. You didn’t see that coming did you!”.

Emma is furious…..

Baldy is an idiot…..

12/12/2024

This is Baldy…..

Baldy is working ‘hard’…..

In preparation for today’s Thursday fresh paella, available from 5pm to 7pm either for collection from Idelica’s premises at Unit D1 Platinum Jubilee Business Park or for delivery to the local area (Ringwood, St Ives and St Leonards for now), Emma told Baldy to come up with a plan for deliveries.

Proud that he was able to use his big boy pen rather than crayons, Baldy came up with a perfect way of showing where deliveries could be taken to and how much they would charge. Baldy worked very hard on this. Emma rolled her eyes. Baldy is an idiot.

Once Emma had corrected the work, weekly Thursday deliveries are to be made as follows:

1 - if you want a delivery of fresh paella and/or cheesecake, let us know in advance. This can be anytime from the previous Friday up until 3pm on the day of cooking.
2 - make the order by email ([email protected]) or call us on 01425 350350. Let us know the number you want and a preferred delivery time (between 5:30 and 7:00)
3 - you will receive confirmation of your order and an estimated actual delivery time.
4 - when your paella arrives we will have our card reader with us so that you can pay at the point of delivery (cash also accepted).

If you want to keep it simple just come along to the unit where you will be served your order and even take a seat in our warm waiting area whilst we prepare it for you.

11/12/2024

This is Baldy…..

Baldy is excited…..

In addition to Idelica being open every day at their unit at D1 Platinum Jubilee Business Park, Hopclover Way, Ringwood BH24 3FW serving Spanish treats, drinks and sandwiches to the public, he is now being asked by Emma to deliver their weekly fresh paella to the local area to try and help some of those who want to try Idelica’s amazing paella or cheesecake but can’t get out. Emma has said that if he works hard, she will take him to meet Santa.

Baldy is now thinking about what MEAT Santa looks like - is he just one type of meat cooked tenderly and decorated in a Christmas style or is he in fact a selection of different meaty treats? Baldy is dragging Emma around the supermarket looking at the 3 bird roasts and asking her ‘could this be meat Santa’?. Emma is at the end of her tether. Baldy is an idiot.

06/12/2024

Sorry to anybody who turned up at Greyfriars after about 6pm yesterday hoping for freshly cooked paella. Unfortunately the high winds picked up our gazebo and threw it against the side of the building upside down. The picture of a mangled piece of metal is one of the frame pieces which bent around my head as the wind took it leaving me with a bit of a headache today.

Thank you so much to all those who stopped to help me try and recover as much as I could. We will be back, but may have to rethink where we place the gazebo as we can’t risk this happening ever again.

05/12/2024

Baldy is cooking, Baldy is happy, please come and fulfil his neediness by buying our delicious freshly cooked paella. Perfect for a miserable Thursday evening treat!!

04/12/2024

Greyfriars fresh paella Thursday - this week (5th December). This week, rather than our frozen paella, Baldy will be cooking outside of Greyfriars. As this is a bit of an experiment, he will be doing chicken and chorizo paella only and it will be ready from 5pm. Baldy will be there from 3pm with Idelica’s Spanish Christmas gifts as well. He hopes to see you all!

03/12/2024

What a wonderful Christmas Time we had at Ringwood’s Winter Wanderland on Sunday. Thanks to all those who stopped by and said hello. Thank you even more to those who bought things. We are back at Greyfriars this week on Thursday where we will have our Christmas gift sets ready to collect. As it is an AFC Bournemouth home match (vs Tottenham) on Thursday, we will try something different and be cooking paella there instead of having frozen.

Remember you can collect all of our products from our office at D1 Platinum Jubilee Business Park Monday to Friday from 10am till 4pm. We have a waiting area in the office where you can keep warm whilst we prepare your order. Feel free to phone in advance to arrange a collection time or if you’re feeling adventurous just turn up!