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...
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...
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...
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...
Business Opinion
08-Nov-2007 By with The PMA Team
Whitbread gears up to tackle competition A couple of years ago, executives at Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) were saying that grabbing market...
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...
Business Opinion
01-Nov-2007 By with Andrew Andrea, operations director of Marston
New horizons mean new business models As the industry continues to change and face new challenges, pub companies have to be more flexible and more...
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...
Business Opinion
25-Oct-2007 By with The PMA Team
TRG challenge is the scaling up of B&P That Jeremy Brunning and Graham Price should sell their small but perfectly-formed pub company to The...
Beer and Food Matching: Winter Warmers
24-Oct-2007
AS AUTUMN starts to bite, we've asked our panel to think of meal matches for porter, the classic dark London beer, currently seeing something of a...
Beer and food matching: A curry with CAMRA
24-Oct-2007
Beer and a curry are a classic combination, but the question which has sparked many a poppadom-fuelled debate is exactly which flavours work best...
Business Opinion
18-Oct-2007 By with The PMA Team
Arguments against food get a hearing Reality checks are valuable things, aren't they? You know, grounding ambitious plans in the sub-soil of the...
Taste test
18-Oct-2007
THIS WEEK: Muddlers A fruit and rum cocktail in a bottle Name, 00, job Initially I wasn't keen because it's unlike anything I've tasted before....
MA web users say food is no holy grail
18-Oct-2007 By Andrew Pring andrew.pring@william-reed.co.uk
Morning Advertiser website users have seconded the motion that "Food is not the future", which was debated by operators in Brighton last week. In a...
17-Oct-2007 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report
The Restaurant Group has acquired pub operator Brunning & Price for £32m
Dessert Focus: Keep customers sweet
17-Oct-2007
Longer trading hours and a more diverse range of customers mean pubs are having to keep their offer flexible - and desserts are no exception.With a...
