New owner at Michelin-starred pub
23-Jul-2007 By Lucy Britner
A new chef patron is poised to continue Michael Bedford's legacy at the Trouble House it Tetbury, Cotswolds. From August, Martin Caws and his wife...
02-Jul-2007 By Jo Bruce
Don't miss the chance to gain the recognition your chef and pub deserve in the PubChef Food Excellence Awards 2008. The search is now on to find the...
Sixteen pub chefs make it to steak pie semi-final
07-Jun-2007 By Lucy Britner
Sixteen pub chefs have made it through to the semi finals of EBLEX's steak pie competition. The first round judging in the National Steak Pie...
01-Jun-2007 By Lucy Britner
A Sussex pub chef has been crowned Britain's best pub barbecuer. Wayne Cortilla, chef at the Royal Oak in Poynings, near Brighton, East Sussex, won...
Competition: calling all young chefs and waiters
25-May-2007 By Lucy Britner
The Restaurant Association has launched its 2007 Young Chef Waiter competition. Chefs and waiters, who have to be 24 years or under on 31 December...
Fuller's to hold chef recruitment days
16-May-2007 By Jo Bruce
Fuller's, the London brewer and pub retailer, is holding two open days as part of a strategy to recruit the best chefs in the industry.
Jamie's chef
01-May-2007
Lucy Britner chats with Aaron Craze six months after he won the tenancy of an Essex pub from Jamie Oliver's Fifteen Foundation xxxx Even Phileas Fogg...
26-Apr-2007 By Lucy Britner
Celebrity pub chef Mike Robinson is to open a game and wild food cookery school. Following the success of his pub - the Pot Kiln in Frilsham,...
Top chefs match food and sherry
18-Apr-2007 By Lucy Britner
Sixteen of the UK's leading chef's have contributed to a new food and sherry matching book. The Perfect Marriage - The Art of Matching Food and...
Cooking title 'at steak'
11-Apr-2007
The English Beef and Lamb Executive (EBLEX) is once again calling for pub chefs to enter to its National Steak Pie Competition.Entries have already...
Back to basics for Michelin chef
02-Apr-2007
Lancashire-born chef Steve Midgely is heading back to his roots after taking over a pub in his native county.After more than a decade working in...
The waiting starts at Chef & Brewer
23-Mar-2007
Spirit Group is to offer table service at all 133 of its Chef & Brewer destination food pubs.Following a successful trial of waiting at table,...
Pubs compete for Michelin chef makeover
28-Feb-2007
Michelin-starred pub chef Tom Kerridge is supporting Calor Rural Pub in the Community Awards by sharing the secrets of his success with the winning...
28-Feb-2007 By Jo Bruce
As BBQs become more popular, this is your chance to become a champion of the grill. We've launched our BBQ competition in association with Heinz.
21-Feb-2007 By Lucy Britner
Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge is supporting the second Calor Rural Pub in the Community Awards by sharing the secret of his success with the...
Gourmet pubs win Michelin accolade
01-Feb-2007 By Lucy Britner lucy.britner@william-reed.co.uk
Four pubs have been awarded Bib Gourmands in this year's Michelin Guide Great Britain & Ireland 2007. The Oak Tree Inn at Hutton Magna,...
Room 101 - the dishes chefs would ban
01-Feb-2007
Pub chefs give us their views on the dishes they want banned from pub menus Adrian Jones executive chef, Spencer Arms, Putney, London Foam. I hate...
31-Jan-2007 By The PMA Team
The PMA Team looks at the gastro-legacy of the pub food innovator - Michael Belben.It's easy to forget that the gastropub, a term universally...
31-Jan-2007
Starters make a first and lasting impression on customers so it is important that pub chefs get their offer right. Our starters and light bites...
31-Jan-2007
Our team category saw four teams of two cooking up a three-course pub menu of their choice. The four teams had to work together to create a starter,...
Charity to help troubled chefs
31-Jan-2007
Trade charity Hospitality Action has launched a new initiative to help companies tackle the number of chefs that are affected by alcohol and drug...
31-Jan-2007
Chefs and food developers celebrate their success after last night's awards.
31-Jan-2007
Finalists developed training materials to support the needs of tenants and lessees looking to introduce or improve their pubs' food offer. Solutions...
31-Jan-2007
This award recognises the pub company that has most successfully developed and delivered a new menu offer in the past year and judges were looking...
30-Jan-2007
The winner of our prestigious PubChef of the year 2007 is Mark Levy Head chef, the Russell, Ellesborough. Mark Levy Pub facts: Address: The...
30-Jan-2007
Just like the first friendly greeting when a customer arrives in a pub, final impressions count. As the last course of a pub meal, desserts often...
30-Jan-2007
Versatile, healthy and an ingredient that can produce an excellent gross profit, poultry is a popular menu staple for pub chefs. Anthony Williams...
30-Jan-2007
The new Mediterranean category for the PubChef Food Excellence Awards challenged pub chefs to create a main course dish taking inspiration from...
30-Jan-2007
There has been a renaissance of classic British dishes since the rise of the gastropub. Timeless comfort food such as Lancashire hot pot, shepherd's...
30-Jan-2007
Meat dishes make up a substantial part of pub menus, with chefs increasingly experimenting with different cuts of meat. The meat category saw our...
30-Jan-2007
Game is an increasingly popular ingredient with pub chefs. It is seasonal and healthy and growing in popularity with consumers, with game sales...
30-Jan-2007
Beer may have lost its place at dining tables in recent decades but in recent years it has been a culinary comeback kid, taking a rightful place as...
30-Jan-2007
Many pubs use Asian fusion cuisine or specialise in serving great Indian, Thai and Chinese dishes. Matthew CurmiMatthew Curmi Position: Sous chefPub:...
30-Jan-2007
Three 19-year-old pub chefs battled it out to be crowned Young Pub Chef of the Year. The category was open to chefs aged under 21 and our fi nalists had one hour and 15 minutes to create a main course, using the ingredients of their choice. No pre-
Chefs battle for Oliver's pub
18-Jan-2007 By Lucy Britner lucy.britner@william-reed.co.uk
Four chefs will battle it out to run Jamie Oliver's pub in a new Channel 4 series. Jamie's Chef is based at the Cock in Beazley End, Essex. Four...
02-Jan-2007
Pub chefs from all over the UK battled it out in the first cook-off finals of the PubChef Food Excellence Awards chefs' competition this week....
Chefs want action to save cod and chips
19-Dec-2006
Top chefs Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and Antony Worrall Thompson are spearheading a campaign to save classic pub dish cod and chips.As EU fisheries...
Corin Earland, head chef, the Fishes, North Hinksey, Oxfordshire
01-Dec-2006
A gammon joint was a new challenge for Corin Earland, but he enjoyed devising experimental dishes, including slow-cooked green gammon in Guinness...
John Rudden, chef director, White Hart, Lydgate, near Oldham, Lancashire
01-Dec-2006
Although White Hart chef/ director John Rudden's first attempt at creating a green gammon main course fell rather flat, he was pleased with his final...
New Inn of Michelin fame
01-Dec-2006
The New Inn, Chalkhouse Green Road, Kidmore End, Reading, Berkshire. Tel: 01189 723115. Just five miles from the centre of Reading, the New Inn is...
14-Sep-2006
Carpenters Arms head chef Keith Baker is in his element at the Oxfordshire pub that's run hand in hand with the local farm. The manager of the pub in...
Pub food getting too fancy, says Michelin guide
07-Sep-2006
Some of the country's best food pubs are running the risk of transforming themselves into restaurants, the editor of the Michelin Eating In Pubs...
Pub cooks shine in WorcesterChef contest
03-Aug-2006
The growing influence of pub food in our national cuisine has been spotlighted by the success of two pub cooks in the 2006 Lea & Perrins...
Charity chefs take over pub kitchen
17-Jul-2006
Aspiring chefs are being given the chance to feel the heat of running their own kitchen, as well as raise funds for good causes, by a Kent pub.The...
26-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Marcus Wareing, of Michelin-starred restaurant Petrus, has said that airline food is better the what is served up in most of Britain's pubs. Wareing...
17-May-2006 By Jo Bruce
The second PubChef Live event of 2006 takes place in South Devon on 3 July - giving chefs the chance to share ideas and get tips from the masters.
Michelin man
01-May-2006 By Fiona McLelland
John Burton Race has won a Michelin star at every restaurant he's opened. Now, Fiona McLelland finds, he hopes to do the same at a gastropub.
01-Mar-2006
Ed Baines almost gave up cooking to take up car design, but staying in the kitchen paid off. Now, writes Humayun Hussain, he has a gastro pub, two...
Great Pub Chefs - Freedom for food!
01-Mar-2006 By Lucy Britner
His unique approach to food saw Adrian Jones described as a 'gastroterrorist' by fellow chef, Richard Corrigan. Lucy Britner talks to the theatrical...
Trade boost for latest pubs awarded Michelin stars
16-Feb-2006 By Lucy Britner
Business is booming for the two pubs most recently awarded Michelin stars. The Hand & Flowers in Marlow, Buckingham-shire, and the Masons Arms in...
