Toby Carvery hits TV screens
19-Mar-2010 By Jo Bruce
Mitchells & Butlers has launched their first TV advertising campaign for Toby Carvery — a £2m campaign.
Local meat sourcing: The Queens Arms rears its own livestock
17-Mar-2010 By Katie Coyne
"Children don't know where meat comes from," says licensee Marilyn Ruberry. "They think milk comes out of a canister, they don't know bacon is from a...
Local meat sourcing: The Thatchers Arms butchers a lamb
17-Mar-2010
They say 'fortune favours the brave'. Butchery is not for the faint-hearted, but there are savings to be made for those willing to dismember their...
12-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Special Achievement Award winner Marston's Inns & Taverns boss Derek Andrew and Pub Chef of the Year Simon Goodman talk to MATV.
Industry gathers for top pub food awards
11-Mar-2010 By Jo Bruce
The Great British Pub Food Awards 2010 take place tonight in London where the PubChef of the year will be announced.
Wetherspoons: 'We want to sell more breakfasts than McDonalds'
11-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
John Hutson, JD Wetherspoon chief executive, said today he wants the managed pub group to ultimately sell more breakfasts than McDonalds. While his...
Unilever Foodsolutions pledges more support for pubs
09-Mar-2010 By Caroline Nodder
Unilever Foodsolutions (UFS) new MD Tracey Rogers has unveiled a new on-trade strategy which will include providing pubs with kits to help them make...
Pay what you want to eat at the pub
09-Mar-2010
A pub has launched a menu with a difference by allowing customers to pay what they think a meal is worth. Steve Howard took over Punch Taverns pub...
08-Mar-2010 By Jo Bruce
Four pub operators are launch members of the Sustainable Restaurant Association, which aims to make sustainability a primary responsibility.
05-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
No rent reviews and cheaper beer — Badger Pubs director Matt Kearsey tells Ewan Turney about the new Hall & Woodhouse tenants' deal.
05-Mar-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Coffee sales are on a high and forecasters expect the market to grow up to 25% and hit the £976m mark by 2014. The research by Mintel shows that...
Whitbread delivers upbeat trading message
04-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Whitbread delighted the City this morning with an upbeat update on trading. Shares in the leisure group rose after it said all its businesses -...
04-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Whitbread's pub restaurants suffered a slow January due to the adverse weather but still continued to grow over the fourth quarter. Its pub...
Inez Ward: Food for thought
03-Mar-2010
This trade is facing the biggest threat that it has ever had the misfortune to witness, the onslaught of the Health Alliance, anti-alcohol lobby or...
Whitbread names easyJet boss as new chief executive
03-Mar-2010 By Hamish Champ
Andy Harrison, currently chief executive of budget airline easyJet, will replace Whitbread chief executive Alan Parker, who is to retire from the...
03-Mar-2010 By Ewan Turney
Whitbread has announced Easyjet boss Andy Harrison will take over as chief executive from 1 September. Harrison will succeed Alan Parker who is to...
Good Food Guide Restaurant of the Year search is on
03-Mar-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The search is on for The Good Food Guide Readers' Restaurant of the Year 2010. Judges are looking for independent businesses including pubs and...
02-Mar-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The first hop from the National Hop Association's (NHA) breeding programme will be tasted this week.
02-Mar-2010 By Jo Bruce
The finalists in the Morning Advertiser's Great British Pub Food Awards' pub company awards have been revealed. The 2010 winners will be announced...
01-Mar-2010 By Peter Coulson
I was pleased to see Tory MP James Brokenshire picking up on my accusations about licensing minister Gerry Sutcliffe, says Peter Coulson.
The Face of British Pie Week 2010
26-Feb-2010
Focusing on being 'a good, honest pub' has made the Goat Major in Cardiff a tourist hotspot for visitors to Wales' capital city. And now tourists and...
25-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Food and drink wholesaler Booker has launched a "Spring Clean" promotion covering everything from vacuums to washing powders until 16 March. There...
25-Feb-2010 By Jo Bruce
Ribble Valley Inns' pub, the Bull at Broughton, near Skipton in North Yorkshire, has won an award in food magazine Olive for best meaty burger. The...
25-Feb-2010 By Jo Bruce
Claude Bosi, chef/owner of two-Michelin-starred restaurant Hibiscus has left the Bell at Yarpole, Herefordshire. The Enterprise Inns tenancy had...
24-Feb-2010 By Jo Bruce
Yates's is offering breakfast for £1 in a promotion run in the News of the World across its 67 outlets.
24-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Food and drink wholesaler Booker is planning a "Meet the Butcher" week from 3 to 10 March where licensees can learn about quality fresh meat. There...
24-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Isle of Skye hotel Kinloch Lodge has added "beer flights" to its Michelin-starred menu. Beer flights are a selection of beers given to customers to...
King's Wark wins Scotland's best pub grub award
24-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The King's Wark in Shore, Edinburgh has won the title of Best Pub Grub at the third annual Scottish Restaurant Awards. The awards, hosted by food...
Warburton re-enters the bagged snack game with new range
19-Feb-2010
Pubs will have the opportunity to stock a completely new range of bagged snacks next month when Warburton, the Bolton-based baker, launches two new...
19-Feb-2010 By Robyn Lewis
Bread brand Warburtons is entering the pub market for the first time with a new range of healthier baked snacks. Backed by a £1m marketing campaign...
18-Feb-2010 By Sonya Hook
Man crisps brand McCoy's is to get a £2m marketing boost in a bid to target football fans this summer. The spend represents a 40% increase in media...
12-Feb-2010 By Gemma McKenna
A Sheffield licensee has accused his local council of damaging his business after publishing an incorrect Scores on the Doors hygiene listing. The...
11-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Food and drink wholesaler Booker has slashed prices on a range of meat and vegetables. Low prices on fifteen meat and eight vegetable products will...
Nescafé coffee and Kit Kat team up
11-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Nestle Professional has announced the launch of its "Perfect Coffee Break" promotion — Nescafé coffee and Kit Kat. Customers who purchase two...
09-Feb-2010 By Emma Eversham, Big Hospitality
Staff at The Goose at Britwell Salome have walked out because of an alleged dispute over turning the restaurant into a pub.
'Titanic' menu celebrates partnership with brewery
08-Feb-2010
A pub is serving up special fare based on the last meal served on the ill fated Titanic - as it celebrates the launch of a new partnership with the...
05-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The George & Dragon near Sevenoaks has scooped Best Gastropub in the Kent Restaurant Awards.
04-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Local authorities will be distributing new hygiene advice leaflets in areas where the Scores on Doors scheme is to be implemented.
04-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The best pubs and restaurants of the North have just two weeks left to get their entries in for 2010's Northern Hospitality Awards. Now in its fifth...
Pub Food Focus: Pancakes - flipping great!
03-Feb-2010
Most of us have that 'thing' that we can neither eat nor drink any more due to completely overdoing it at some point in our lives. For some it's an...
Pieminister offer free pie night for licensees
03-Feb-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
Award-winning gourmet pie-maker Pieminister is offering licensees free pies, gravy, mash and peas to help pubs celebrate National Pie Week which runs...
Research shows value most important when eating out
03-Feb-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
Research conducted into why people recommend somewhere to eat has found that good customer service and value for money tops the bill. The findings...
03-Feb-2010 By Adrian Greaves
National Chip Week runs from 15 to 21 February. Adrian Greaves, associate foodservice director at McCain Foodservice, looks at how pub caterers can...
No fast comeback for eating-out spend
02-Feb-2010
Foodservice sales across Europe are unlikely to return to the same level as as 2007/8 until the end of 2013, according to a major new report....
02-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Oxford pub the Fishes has been named as "the favourite pub" of Greene King head brewer John Bexon. The Peach Pubs venue's reward is a unique beer,...
02-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Tables are now on sale for the Great British Pub Food Awards 2010 at Plaisterers Hall, London on 11 March.
Pubs invited to join beef and lamb push
01-Feb-2010
Pub chefs are being invited to sign up to a new initiative aimed at increasing sales of beef and lamb and underling the meats' quality during the...
28-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Whitbread has announced plans to open 60 pub restaurants and expand its room stock by 13,300 rooms to 55,000 rooms in the next four years.
27-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Malborough Tavern, which was recently awarded a AA rosette, is offering customers 25% off their bill until the end of February. Licensee Joe...
26-Jan-2010 By Jo Bruce
The finalists in the Morning Advertiser's search for the Pub Chef of the Year 2010 have been announced. Thirty four chefs are battling it out to be...
