Visitors, staff and patients at Kind Edward VII Memorial Hospital can now relax in the newly refurbished Pink Café while supporting a good cause.

The café, which is run by the Hospitals Auxiliary of Bermuda, was officially opened by Michael Dunkley, the Premier, and Jeanne Atherden, the Minister of Health, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday.

“We did an extensive renovation,” Liz Titterton, the Hospitals Auxiliary of Bermuda president, told The Royal Gazette. “Everything has been spruced up and done over.

“We have also revamped our café menu: it has a lot more specials and favourites.”

Over a three-week period, new floors, tables, chairs, counters and signage were added and the floor space was expanded to include the old gift shop.

Ms Titterton said the café, which is run by volunteers except for four paid kitchen staff, now offered an “open, clean and whole new modern look”.

She added that it was a “really nice place to come to and relax”, and she is hoping that more members of the public will come along to take advantage of the renovated space. Ms Titterton stressed that there was plenty of parking and explained that the proceeds raised by the Pink Café, as well as HAB’s thrift shop The Barn and the HAB Gift Shop, go towards supporting the hospital.

Ms Atherden said she was delighted to tour the café and to “celebrate the exemplary work of the HAB, which has a distinguished and accomplished history supporting the Bermuda Hospitals Board”.