MA300: New Moon Pub Company aims for eight sites within 15 months

The three-strong gastropub chain, which is 22 months old, is set to open its fourth pub the Montgomery, in Eastham village in the Wirral, an Enterprise Inns lease, in just over a week.

The chain is owned by chef David Mooney and former Living Ventures director Paul Newman.  

Mooney told the MA300 event earlier this week: “We are opening another site in 10 days. We are opening another site outside Cheshire. The Montgomery will be a great pub for us.”

This is the groups first move outside its heartland of Cheshire. This is also its third Enterprise lease in addition to the Old Sessions House in Knutsford and the Lord Binning in Kelsall. The Hanging Gate Inn in Weaverham is leased via a private landlord.

The chain is also launching its own beer New Moon ale which will be sold in its four pubs. It has been produced after a collaboration with a local brewer in Knutsford.

Mooney added: “Give us a battered knackered dirty scummy drug invested pub and we will turn it around.

“We will work on it, we will paint it and we will give it the New Moon love and we will make it a success. He said that pub companies are now approaching them to open pubs. “I couldn’t get through the door of Punch two years ago.”