26-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Little Sauce Company has launched a range of fresh tomato-based and pesto sauces into the foodservice sector. The tomato-based sauces include...
Top foody pubs bag Michelin stars
18-Jan-2010 By James Wilmore
Three top pubs have been recognised for their culinary excellence by gaining Michelin stars in this year's edition of the influential guide....
Appalling" hygiene at pub brings £20k fine for M&B
18-Jan-2010
Mitchells & Butlers has been hit with a £20,000 fine after health inspectors found a "kitchen nightmare" at one of its North London pubs. Frosen...
Essential Cuisine launch new vegetarian gravy to No 1 range
15-Jan-2010
Essential Cuisine has added a vegetarian, gluten-free gravy to its range. No1 Savoury Gravy, is added to the No1 range alongside No1 Beef and No1...
13-Jan-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Shoreditch pub the Fox has a novel take on the January offers — roll dice for your dinner. Score and 8 or over and the food is free.
Get behind British Pie Week 2010
13-Jan-2010
Customers travel from as far away as 70 miles to sample the menu at the Old Farmhouse in Ulverston, Cumbria. Food sales are up 22 per cent on last...
New potato products from Aviko and Brakes
13-Jan-2010
Brakes is stocking four Steam and Fresh potato products from Aviko. The supplier says the potatoes offer a healthy option after the Christmas...
12-Jan-2010 By The PMA Team
Food & Fuel, the operator of ten London gastro-pub headed by former Spirit boss Karen Jones, has seen a rise in turnover and operating profit in...
Heinz launches new foodservice campaign
12-Jan-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
Heinz has launched its biggest combined retail and foodservice campaign for five years. The 'It Has To Be Heinz' campaign will focus on the personal...
Top food prize for Somerstown Coffee House
11-Jan-2010
Les Routiers UK has announced the winners of its annual hospitality awards. Somers Town Coffeehouse in London, which won Gastro Pub of the Year at...
08-Jan-2010 By Jo Bruce
Pub restaurant the Pheasant in Keyston, Cambridgeshire, is runner-up in the finals of Gordon Ramsay's F Word's Best Local Restaurant competition....
Sell More, Save More 3: It's a snack attack
06-Jan-2010
As 2010 gets underway the four must-stock pub categories in the spotlight at our Sell More, Save More pubs are moving ahead. The initial visits to...
Eating out to rise over Xmas, but fall in 2010
16-Dec-2009 By M&C Report
Consumers are set to spend more on eating out in the week before Christmas, but are expected to rein-in their spending in the New Year.
Whitbread shines in the gloom
14-Dec-2009 By Hamish Champ
Whitbread said today its focus on value had helped drive business across its pub restaurant business in recent months, but warned the tough trading...
A different animal
10-Dec-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Geronimo Inns has gone a bit Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on us. In using the hairy one's name, we are of course referring to his penchant for living...
04-Dec-2009 By John Harrington
Locals of a Kent pub have offered to raise funds to appeal "unfair" food hygiene fines for the licensees totalling £10,670. Tenants Fiona and Mark...
Food sourcing and menu planning for 2010
02-Dec-2009
The festive season of 2009 is already a distant memory in the minds of many menu planners. The big decisions for this Christmas should have been made...
Party menus at the pub
02-Dec-2009
With an impressive 15 different sausages, five types of mash and 11 types of gravy on the menu, the Hit or Miss in Stamford, Lincolnshire, is used to...
Put on a charity breakfast - and help save lives
02-Dec-2009
Pubs are being invited to stage their own breakfast event for charity as part of a major campaign aimed at saving lives. Cash raised from meals laid...
25-Nov-2009 By MA Reporter
In PubChef's latest menu watch feature we talk to Sussex chef Simon Goodman about his winning menu. Deep in the heart of the West Sussex...
25-Nov-2009 By Lesley Foottit
The Crown in Whitebrook scooped top prize in Wales' annual True Taste Food and Drink Awards. The privately-owned restaurant is the only one in Wales...
23-Nov-2009 By Becky Paskin, Restaurant
The social trend for ditching "session drinking" for dining at pubs has resulted in the sector gaining the largest share of the eating out market....
Getting equipped
20-Nov-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Gone are the days when you needed a skilled chef and a team of staff for the kitchen to provide a food offer. Gone also are the days when you needed...
Snacks are in the bag
20-Nov-2009
It was the year when the cheese & onion bit back. The flavour, first launched in the UK by Golden Wonder back in the 1960s, has leapt to the top...
Sandwiches and hot drinks: easy money?
20-Nov-2009
Pub menus are getting increasingly sophisticated and diverse, as we have seen elsewhere in this year's Food Report. But there will always be space...
Supplies in their eyes
20-Nov-2009
You've got a great menu, sparkling service and you're offering it up to customers at a price that's good for them and offers you enough margin to...
Pubs price menus to compete, says Food Report
20-Nov-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
How much has the recession impacted on the way pubs run their food business? It's all too easy to point to any change in consumer habits and name...
Menus traditional and modern
20-Nov-2009
So, Fabio Capello likes shepherd's pie and has fallen in love with traditional British culture. If so, the England manager would enjoy a visit to the...
Food sales on the rise
20-Nov-2009
Respondents to The Publican Food Report 2009 have told us how the credit crunch, another dodgy summer, the soaring beer tax and, yes, that old...
Food pubs beat the recession
19-Nov-2009
Food pubs are responding to the recession with a better value-for-money offer and more diverse menus - and growing their sales as a result. The...
19-Nov-2009 By John Harrington
First-time recipients of Best Bar None Awards in Scotland will get free hand-held metal detectors. The news, which was met with a cautious welcome...
18-Nov-2009 By Robyn Lewis
Dublin-based snack company Spudmucker has introduced Boxerchips, a new brand of crisp developed to tap into growth in "posh crisps" and sharing bags.
Food Pub Company of the Year 2009: Whiting & Hammond, Kent
18-Nov-2009
Whiting & Hammond is an independently managed group of pubs in the South East of England with five pubs in Kent and Sussex. The company started...
HQ Food Champion of the Year 2009: Paul Drye, executive chef, St Austell Brewery
18-Nov-2009
Independent family brewer St Austell has 175 pubs, mainly in Devon and Cornwall. The company takes pride in the fact that it sources predominantly...
Chef of the Year 2009: Alex Pallatt, The Fox & Hounds, Eggesford, Devon
18-Nov-2009
The Fox & Hounds is a major local wedding venue, hotel restaurant and bar. It is situated in the heart of Devon where a variety of local produce...
Food Pub of the Year 2009: The Somerset Arms, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire
18-Nov-2009
The Somerset Arms is a food-led Wadworth pub with a main bar, a dining room, a larger dining area and several letting bedrooms. The pub grows its...
Gastro Pub of the Year 2009: The Somers Town Coffee House, Charlton Street, London
18-Nov-2009
The Somers Town Coffee House in London is a unique proposition offering French bistro-style food within a traditional British pub. It has...
Sunday Lunch Pub of the Year 2009: The Eagle at Barrow, Barrow, Lancashire
18-Nov-2009
Butcher Kevin Berkins is no stranger to winning awards, for his sausages as well as his first pub, the Fence Gate Inn. But you never know with that...
Local Food Pub of the Year 2009: Ye Old Sun Inn, Colton, North Yorkshire
18-Nov-2009
Ye Old Sun Inn is a village pub just outside York. Ashley McCarthy has just bought the pub from Enterprise Inns, having leased it from the company...
17-Nov-2009 By Ewan Turney
Breakfast sales at Town & City pubs have increased 479% since the company emerged from the pre-pack administration of Laurel Pub Company in early...
13-Nov-2009 By Martyn Leek, M&C Report
Whitbread, the hotel, pub and coffee-shop operator, could be forced to take back a clutch of Threshers stores in the wake of the collapse of First...
Getting saucy for the festive season
11-Nov-2009
Leather's Smithy was made for Christmas. Built in the 18th century alongside Macclesfield Forest Reservoir at Langley, Cheshire, the stone-built...
Starters and menus push up pub prices
11-Nov-2009
The rising prices of starters and desserts are pushing up the cost of a three course meal in pubs, despite main course prices remaining fairly...
The beginner's guide to food...
05-Nov-2009
Pub food - it ain't rocket science. While thousands of pub chefs would object, Punch food development manager Alan Todd and the hundreds of licensees...
Frozen food comes out on top in fresh taste test
05-Nov-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
Even those with sophisticated palates can't tell the difference between fresh and frozen food, as new research carried out on top chefs has...
20-Oct-2009 By Jo Bruce
Whitbread is giving its 130 Beefeater pub-restaurants a brand refresh with £100,000 being invested in each site in the next two years. The company...
Value offers drive Whitbread's pub business
13-Oct-2009 By Hamish Champ
Beefeater operator Whitbread said its 375-strong pub restaurant business put in a "robust performance" in the first six months of its financial year,...
Sharing at the Slug
09-Oct-2009
The Slug and Lettuce is revamping its menu for the Autumn/Winter season, based on comments from more than 200,000 customers. online. The new menu at...
Orchid boosted by British Food Fortnight
09-Oct-2009
A 'Best of British' approach helped Orchid Group drive a 4 per cent sales increase during British Food Fortnight. The managed pub group made the most...
Spice boys cook up a storm at the Crown
07-Oct-2009
A series of high profile guest chefs at a Northamptonshire pub is putting the business on the culinary map. Last week saw the team from Atul...
