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Celebrate the spud

Celebrate the spud

Let's face it, potatoes are the A-Team of the pub trade's armoury of accompaniments. Other veg have their place, rice and noodles are all very well...

Taste test

Taste test

My first impression of Bud Silver is that they're trying a bit too hard with the labelling. There's too much going on - I prefer something simpler....

Wine

Wine

PubChef looks at why going smaller with wine bottles can be a profitable alternative for licensees

Bullish talk

Bullish talk

It's hard to imagine quite what the food scene would be like today if it wasn't for Stephen Bull - the pioneer of modern British cooking. Mark Taylor went to meet him

A chef in a kitchen

In the know

In the first of a new series challenging chefs

Mathew Shropshall

My fab four - Mathew Shropshall

Mathew Shropshall has been chef/patron of the Royal Oak in Kings Bromley, near Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, for the past seven years. He also...

Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce bottle

Pub chefs win cash share

Female pub chefs have scooped a share of the £11,600 pot of prize money for the 2006 Lea & Perrins WorcesterChef Recipe Competition. Sam...

New products

New products

Unilever Foodsolutions has added to its Knorr portfolio with the launch of Knorr Fine Gravy Granules. Available for both poultry and meat dishes,...

Mushrooms

Magic with mushrooms

The mushroom season is upon us, opening a luscious variety of tastes, textures and colours from the delicate to the pungent. So how about creating a...

Wine school

Wine school

Where: The Albert Arms, Esher, Surrey How it works: Set in the affluent village of Esher, the Albert Arms has been serving good food and fine wines...

Three Fishes

Three Fishes

The Three Fishes arrived on the pub scene two years ago when restaurateurs Craig Bancroft and Nigel Haworth opened the country roadside inn which had...

It's all very fishy

It's all very fishy

There are plenty of worse things to do on a warm summer evening in the middle of the hottest July since records began than enjoy a pint and some...

Pubs get food tax warning

Pubs get food tax warning

By John Harrington

A Wigan tenant has been ordered to pay about £20,000 in backdated VAT payments after tax inspectors re-defined his pub as a "restaurant" following a...

Pub charity walker has support car stolen

Pub charity walker has support car stolen

By Iain O'Neil

A charity walker who is visiting pubs on an epic journey from John O'Groats to Land's End has had his support car stolen. Darren Apps, who is raising...

Enter the Pub Food Excellence Awards

Enter the Pub Food Excellence Awards

If you are a pub company with an excellent food offer then don't miss the chance to enter the Pubchef Food Excellence Awards 2007. This year we have...

The spice is right

The spice is right

Product Trial: Sharwood'sVenue: The Maypole Inn, Hayling Island, HampshireIndian and Asian is one of the UK's most popular food styles, particularly...

Autumn beckons

Autumn beckons

With the sun blazing outside and the promise of more warm weather to come, thinking about autumn seems as mean as Woolworths putting its "back to...

Faster food

Faster food

The fact that, as a nation, we are becoming increasingly ill-disciplined about meal times is potentially a real problem for well-organised publicans....

Property of the week

Trust Nightclub - Friars Gate, Warrington

£ 150,000 - To Let

Friars Gate, WarringtonLocated in the Heart of the Town Centre Nightclub Circuit6AM Licence on Friday & SaturdayClose Proximity to UniversitySeparate Floors AvailablePotential to Split Subject...

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