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The Isle of Man's longest running restaurant is celebrating a landmark anniversary.
L'Experience, at the bottom of Summer Hill in Douglas, first opened 30 years ago, in March 1981.
Its original owners Tony and Gill Quirk wanted to give the Island a flavour of French cuisine that wasn't just snails and frogs' legs.
In 2009 they sold the business to Michael Murphy who has worked in the restaurant since he was 13.
Mr Quirk says opening L'Experience was a lifelong dream:
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