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Comment: A year of turmoil

12-Dec-2007

In many respects 2007 was a rollercoaster ride for the pub food industry. The summer in particular hailed the start of a very interesting trade...

Menu matching focus: Back to the Old World:

12-Dec-2007

When a pub is sourcing food as locally as possible, how much sense does it make to ship in wine from the other side of the world?In a sign of just...

Menu Matching focus: Pairing off the pub staples

12-Dec-2007

Forget politics, religion and sport the question that really gets the debate going across the bar is 'what¹s the best crisp flavour?'.And once...

Menu Matching focus: Working the back bar

12-Dec-2007

While spirits and liqueurs are generally regarded as pre- or post-dinner drinks, pubs and their customers may be missing a trick by not serving up...

Pete Robinson: Are opinion polls damaging your pub?

07-Dec-2007

Apparently most of you 'support' the smoking ban, have 'embraced the opportunities' in the legislation, and would hate to see it rescinded. Is that...

Supermarkets admit milk price fixing

07-Dec-2007

Supermarket groups Sainsbury's and Asda have admitted fixing the price of dairy products including milk, cheese and butter after striking a deal with...

Stocks & sauces focus: Just add sauce

03-Dec-2007

At the risk of going over old ground, the different pressures pubs face when creating and delivering a successful menu mean that preparing everything...

Stocks & sauces focus: Small but intrepid

03-Dec-2007

MAKING THE best of limited kitchen space to turn out great pub grub is a situation which many pubs will sympathise with. At the Monk & Minstrel...

Stocks & sauces focus: Brands they know

03-Dec-2007

THE RELATIONSHIP between pub food and the major food brands can be a complex one. While there's no question of customers not knowing exactly which...

Heaven and hell

01-Dec-2007

Lucy Britner discovers what Marco Pierre White protege Tim Payne is making of pub food as head chef of a new London gastropub After spending an...

What's hot

01-Dec-2007

Mark Taylor looks at ingredients currently tickling the tastebuds of gastropub chefs Bath chaps A traditional English delicacy dating back to the...

The call of the wild

01-Dec-2007

Wild foods are on-trend in an increasing number of gastropubs. Alison Daniels goes foraging for more information Consumers often get their first...

Mon£y mak£rS

01-Dec-2007

Alison Baker looks at ideas gastropubs are using to attract tradeBar-snack sharing platters Where: the Cricket Inn, Totley, Sheffield, South...

Channel hopping

29-Nov-2007

Chef-owner Joel Gross, from France's Loire Valley, tells Humayun Hussain why his authentic French cooking is so popular at Froggies at the Timber...

Anchor & Hope is UK's best gastropub

26-Nov-2007 By Lucy Britner

The Anchor & Hope in Southwark, London, has been voted the UK's top gastropub for the third year running. The Top 30 Gastropub Awards is...

Pub cook goes back to school

26-Nov-2007

Pupils at a Devon primary school are learning more about food thanks to Matthew Mason, head chef at the Jack in the Green pub near Exeter.Matthew is...

Pubs fighting for food share

26-Nov-2007

The ban on smoking in UK pubs and bars has not delivered the predicted boom in people eating out at their local, according to exclusive new research...

Marston's licensees celebrate seafood success

26-Nov-2007

A drive by Marston's Pub Company to encourage licensees to offer more seafood has resulted in a host of new dishes on pub menus.Winners of a...

Top tables

26-Nov-2007

Pub owners/managers give tips on customer service. What should you do when a customer complains that a medium steak is too rare?Martha Welch...

Gastropub news digest....

26-Nov-2007

De Bretton Group Fawkes out The de Bretton Group, the Yorkshire-based hospitality business, has bought the Guy Fawkes Hotel in High Petergate, York,...

Virtuous circle for gastropubs

26-Nov-2007

The past decade has seen gastropubs shift identity from a metropolitan oddity to a high- street staple. So mainstream is the gastropub that it's...

Trade Union alleges pub food sweatshops

23-Nov-2007

Food and snacks eaten in some pubs have been prepared in "Dickensian sweatshop conditions" by migrant workers. That is according to trade union Unite...

Pubs warned over rising food prices

22-Nov-2007

Food prices are set to rise as 'the era of cheap food is over', according to the National Farmers Union (NFU).The NFU and other farming bodies have...

Dining Royal style

22-Nov-2007

From the Ritz to the Royal Oak in Cerne Abbas, Dorset, via the Oak Room - Joe Lutrario talks to chef Darran Ridley My background I've been a chef...

Let's change face of food

22-Nov-2007

Nothing, says Andrew Jefford, lowers the standard of pub food more than the dreariness, tedium and mediocrity of the food offer in pub chains As...

Pubs vie for spud accolade

19-Nov-2007

The British Potato Council (BPC) has shortlisted five pub recipes in its 'Great Potato Challenge' competition for 2008. Twelve finalists will battle...

Amoy adds an Eastern touch to pub menus

14-Nov-2007

Aiming to help pubs take advantage of the popularity of Oriental dishes, Heinz has launched a new range of Amoy sauces.The most popular Chinese...

Ramsay Kitchen Nightmares pub set for record week

14-Nov-2007 By Joe Lutrario

The Fenwick Arms, subject of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares show last night, is bracing itself for a record breaking week. Celeb chef Ramsay...

Project Update 9: Food profits up

08-Nov-2007

THE CHAMPIONS' attentions to the food operation at Barcena have really paid dividends this month, with the high street bar achieving record profits...

The Pub Food Awards 2007: The winners

08-Nov-2007

Historic London pub the Grapes has been named Pub of the Year at The Publican Pub Food Awards 2007. Licensee Barbara Haigh, who ran the Limehouse...

Beefed up

08-Nov-2007

Whitbread restaurants MD Mark Phillips is more into steaks than mistakes. Lucy Britner reports It's no secret that Whitbread's pub restaurant brands...

Chris Maclean: Breakfast blaze scare

07-Nov-2007 By Chris Maclean

This morning there was a fire here. Nothing on the scale of the tragedies witnessed recently on television, but enough to scare me.It was an innocent...

Mystery solved

01-Nov-2007

How can a free lunch help pub operators to improve standards of quality and service? Alison Daniels reports

Certified family-friendly

01-Nov-2007

Children in the pub. Licensees, it seems, either love 'em or hate 'em.For every publican welcoming them in through the door (accompanied by their...

Pole position

01-Nov-2007

Lucy Britner looks at how pubs are catering for the UK's increasing Polish community Fancy a plate of bigos and a few kielbasa washed down with a...

An appetite for ale

01-Nov-2007

Lucy Britner meets authors Will and Fiona Beckett to talk beer, food and Scarlett Johansson Most of you are talking about it, some of you are doing...

Openings

01-Nov-2007

Duke of Sussex 75 South Parade, Chiswick, London W4 5LF 0208 742 8801 Who: After eight years as head chef at St John's, in Archway, Chris Payne has...

Critical path

01-Nov-2007

Mark Taylor looks at how to handle the reviewers Love them or loathe them, critics can make or break a pub or restaurant with a single review. People...

Mon£y mak£rs

01-Nov-2007

Alison Baker looks at more business-boosting ideasGerman-style beer festival Where: the Bavarian Beerhouse, London EC1V The idea: Oktoberfest German...

PubChef's round up of what the critic's have penned recently about pub food

01-Nov-2007

The Island College Road, London 0208 960 0693 Zoe Williams, The Sunday Telegraph, 21 Oct You'll think I have something against duck eggs, which I...

A round-up of this month's pub-food news

01-Nov-2007

Restaurant Group acquires B&P The Restaurant Group (TRG), the casual-dining operator of Frankie & Benny's, Chiquito, and Garfunkel's, has...

Foodservice news

01-Nov-2007

A look at what's new in the world of pub suppliers Knorr National Chef of the Year The search is hotting up for the Knorr National Chef of the Year...

Striking service

01-Nov-2007

Richard Fox looks to Spain for service tips The football season is well and truly underway, and if the first few weeks are anything to go by, it...

Top tables

01-Nov-2007

Pub owners give tips on customer service. What should you do when a staff member accidentally knocks a glass of wine over a customer?Tom Kerridge...

Back to the kitchen

31-Oct-2007

CHEFS AND kitchens, as Frank Sinatra might have observed had he been able to make it rhyme, go together like a horse and carriage. Except in pubs,...

In season: Cold weather comfort food

31-Oct-2007

Claire Power, product marketing manager, fresh produce, Pauleys: November is the start of winter vegetables and in particular the parsnip, a...

Welsh pubs team up for Brecon produce

31-Oct-2007

Four pubs in the Brecon Beacons national park will be featuring more local produce on their menus thanks to a new initiative by the park authority.In...