Spud secrets: Top tips for top chips
26-Jan-2011 By Claire Dodd Claire
Forget Valentine's Day. If the way to someone's heart really is through their stomach, then the British are pretty easy. Let me explain. "Chips...
'Rising commodity prices will push up food costs'
21-Jan-2011
The price of a loaf of bread in the shops is to rise again after Associated British Foods, the owner of Kingsmill, warned that profits would be hit...
21-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A Liverpool pub won Town and City Pub Company's 2011 Pie Competition thanks to the help of a regular. Customer and amateur cook Gill Armstrong...
21-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
A number of Whitbread brands have introduced a variety of lower salt soups to their menus. Brewers Fayre, Beefeater Grill and Table Table now offer...
21-Jan-2011 By Jo Bruce
The lucky finalists in the Great British Pub Food Awards' Pub Chef of the Year 2011 competition have been announced. The 34 chefs will compete in...
20-Jan-2011 By The PMA Team
A freehold option lease could unlock the potential in struggling pubs — attracting high-quality licensees who will invest, says The PMA Team,
Pubs urged to back Al Murray in Walkers challenge for Comic Relief
19-Jan-2011 By Matt Eley Matt
Pubs are being given the chance to get behind Pub Landlord Al Murray in his bid to sell more crisps than his comedian colleagues for Comic Relief....
18-Jan-2011 By Gurjit Degun
Admiral Taverns is offering a series of events at Booker branches to help licensees make the most out of serving food. The events will run from...
13-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Almost half of foodservice companies are unaware of major EU legislation in egg production, which could result in their products being banned.
07-Jan-2011 By Jo Bruce
Pub operators have launched a range of January food offers to help drive post-Christmas sales. Town & City Pub Company brand Yates' is offering...
07-Jan-2011 By Lesley Foottit
Tim and Nic Cockburn opened their second gastropub in London's Mill Hill Village at the beginning of December. They took on a lease at the Adam and...
15-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Dining venues have been warned they could be losing trade by using Parmesan cheese in too many dishes. Parmesan is not suitable for vegetarians as...
Snow 'n' ice dents Whitbread's fortunes
14-Dec-2010 By Hamish Champ
'Value' meal deals are continuing to drive customers into Whitbread's pub restaurants, the group said today, but it warned recent bad weather had...
Pub Food: Kitchen not essential
09-Dec-2010
In these difficult times, if you're running a pub it must be reassuring to read all these features and reports telling you that if you get your food...
Top marks for former 'filthiest pub kitchen'
09-Dec-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A pub that was condemned for having the filthiest kitchen in the country is celebrating after scoring top marks from health and safety visitors....
07-Dec-2010 By Phil Mellows
Gastropub entrepreneur Peter Borg-Neal talks to Phil Mellows about cantankerous chefs, pubs that must close and those cheats at M&S.
06-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The chef/owner of the top gastropub in the Morning Advertiser's "Old Speckled Hen" Top 50 Gastropubs 2010 is launching a second cookbook. "Loose...
Pub Food: Eat Seasonably
02-Dec-2010 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
It may well be a white Christmas and we've certainly got the advent calendars out now, so to keep your seasonal food menus as timely and festive as...
Everards crowns Tiger Hero champion
02-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Leicestershire brewer Everards has crowned a budding Yorkshire chef in its Tiger Hero cook off final. Neil Morton from Bakewell impressed judges...
Success for National Game Fortnight
02-Dec-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The organisers of National Taste of Game Fortnight have toasted it as a "huge success". The UK's largest shooting organisation, the British...
There's no such thing as a free dinner...or is there?
01-Dec-2010
A pub has managed to increase its trade, by giving away free meals. The Rose & Crown in East Grinstead, West Sussex, has been offering customers...
01-Dec-2010 By Jo Bruce
Mitchells & Butlers brand Sizzling Pubs is offering customers a free Baileys when they buy a dessert. A range of six £2.99 meals are also on...
Iceland launches pub food range
01-Dec-2010 By Jo Bruce
Iceland is the latest retailer to launch a range of pub food inspired ready meals — it is advertising its "pub Grub" range on TV.
New national food standards scheme launched
30-Nov-2010
A new national food hygiene rating scheme for all food establishments, including pubs, has been launched across Britain. The Food Standards Agency...
26-Nov-2010 By Jo Bruce
Anglian Country Inns has opened a fishmonger at the Fox at Willian, in Hertfordshire, in response to growing demand.
26-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A catering company and arts charity are joining forces to re-open a pub that will cater for art lovers. Caterers Harbour & Jones and the Henry...
Food Made Easy: Cheat eats
25-Nov-2010
Pre-prepared food has a bad image these days. When we hear the word pre-prepared, we immediately jump to the conclusion that it means corners have...
23-Nov-2010 By Jo Bruce
London gastropub operators Tom and Ed Martin are opening a pop up Swedish ski lodge at one of their pubs. The ski lodge at the Well, Clerkenwell,...
19-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Jacquie Pern of the Star Inn at Harome in North Yorkshire speaks to the Morning Advertiser about her victory in the Top50 Gastropub competition.
18-Nov-2010 By The PMA Team
The Morning Advertiser's Top 50 Gastropubs list highlights the amazing progress that pub food is making, says The PMA Team.
Majority of pubs expect food profit boom next year
18-Nov-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Food sales will continue to be a key driver in making pubs profitable in 2011 according to findings in The Publican's Food Report 2010. Around 400...
18-Nov-2010 By Jo Bruce
Claude Bosi, chef-patron at two-Michelin star Mayfair restaurant Hibiscus, is to take on a pub with rooms with brother Cedrick. The Fox &...
17-Nov-2010 By Jo Bruce
The Star Inn at Harome, North Yorkshire, has been named as the number one gastropub in the UK. The gastropub, run by Andrew and Jacquie Pern, took...
'Fat tax 'is best way to cut obesity': Treat junk food like cigarettes'
11-Nov-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
A 'fat tax' on unhealthy foods, restrictions on junk food advertising and better labelling are the most cost-effective ways to cut obesity, a study...
05-Nov-2010 By Jo Bruce
The finalists in the Morning Advertiser's "Old Speckled Hen" Top 50 Gastropubs 2010 special awards have been announced.
04-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Italian premium beer Birra Moretti is again joining forces with TV chefs Giancarlo and Katie Caldesi to back this year's moustache-growing Movember...
03-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
If licensees want to attract overseas tourist trade they should offer a full English breakfast, according to VisitBritain.
03-Nov-2010 By Lesley Foottit
A London pub has won a year's supply of Heinz sachets after submitting the most entries in the Heinz Big Draw competition. To enter, children needed...
03-Nov-2010 By Jo Bruce
The search for British Pie Week's Pub Pie Champion 2011 in association with Jus-Rol and in partnership with the Morning Advertiser is now on.
02-Nov-2010 By Tony Halstead
The already buoyant freetrade sector is predicted to grow over the next few years. Tony Halstead reports. There are approximately 18,000 freehouses...
29-Oct-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Whitbread brand Beefeater Grill offered a steak menu devised by celebrity chef Simon Rimmer during last week's National Steak Week (18 to 24...
28-Oct-2010 By Jo Bruce
Cobra is encouraging pubs to build curry sales with a starter pack that includes recipes and PoS material. With Indian food one of the nation's...
28-Oct-2010 By John Porter
A Leicestershire pub has seen trade boosted by the appearance of its young chef on TV's Masterchef: The Professionals. The success of Stacey Warr,...
High street pubs fall short on service standards
25-Oct-2010 By James Wilmore
High street and community pubs are falling short with their customer service standards compared to food-led destination outlets, research has found....
22-Oct-2010 By Jo Bruce
Pub company Powder Train has opened its second joint venture with Marco Pierre White. The Kings Arms, in Henley Common, near Fernhurst, West Sussex,...
Whitbread reports jump in sales and profits
19-Oct-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Pub and restaurant operator Whitbread has reported a near 30 per cent rise in its pre-tax profits in the last six months. Reporting half year...
18-Oct-2010 By The PMA Team
SA Brain, the brewer and pub operator, is set to reopen the restaurant atop Swansea's £70m Meridian Tower. The Penthouse restaurant, which is...
'Warning over cheap alcohol: Youngsters can get drunk for half the cost of a chocolate bar'
18-Oct-2010 By Matt Eley Matt
Youngsters can get drunk for half the price of a bar of chocolate, a worrying new study has found. Strong cider is available in city centre...
15-Oct-2010 By The PMA Team
Samuel Cooper, a town centre concept trial undertaken by Mitchells & Butlers, is to be discontinued.
Pub's record-breaking 250kg chocolate truffle
15-Oct-2010
A pub in Worcestershire is hoping to have set a new world record for the world's biggest chocolate truffle. Licensee Gianni D'Aniello and head chef...
