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Food File - Down your local

01-May-2004

PubChef's regular focus on local produce Tracklements, Sherston, Wiltshire. WHO ARE THEY? Tracklements is a Wiltshire-based company producing fine...

Food file - Quick Bite

01-May-2004

Fine Dining by Bernard Matthews has been totally redeveloped, offering caterers a range of new dishes including vegetarian starters, main course...

Food File - Book review

01-May-2004 By Jo Bruce

Gordon Ramsay Kitchen Heaven, published by Penguin Books, £20. Love him or hate him, his recent TV series Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares has got...

Beer and Food - The heat is on

01-May-2004

Camra has announced that 2004 is the year of beer and food and is coming up with beer ideas for all food occasions. This month the organisation...

Euro 2004 - Fast footie food

01-May-2004 By Richard Fox

Swap cutlery and plates for skewers and paper cones and you'll score a winner with those hungry, packed-in Euro 2004 punters, says Richard Fox. In...

Barbie world

30-Apr-2004 By Richard Fox

With the improving weather, let your skills shine outside of the kitchen - and bask in the glory - with a barbecue. Richard Fox reports. There's a...

Craig Wilkinson, is chef/patron at the Bay Horse Inn, Forton

28-Apr-2004

The pub serves 350 to 400 covers a week with an average spend per head around £25 to £30. What is your favourite ingredient at the moment and why?...

Carl Smith's ideas for making the most of pub food

28-Apr-2004

I've been very, very silly. For some reason, I've always had it in my head that "brand" is a dirty word, to be associated (in our industry) with...

Food sales now account for a fifth of pubs' turnover

28-Apr-2004

Booming pub food sales are helping the whole industry to grow, according to two new reports on the state of the pub market.Pub grub sales rose...

Name The Hanging Mariner's Meal

22-Apr-2004

Menu Description: Seafood, including scallops wrapped in bacon, king prawns, butterfly prawns, salmon bites wrapped in breadcrumbs, battered squid...

Grant to RoadChef

22-Apr-2004

Former head of Inn Partnership Martin Grant is to head motorway service-station chain RoadChef. He will succeed John Greenwood, who has been in...

Bar entrepreneur facing hefty tax bill over staff tips

21-Apr-2004

Bar entrepreneur Jonathan Downey has been hit by a hefty tax bill after a misunderstanding over his staff's tips.Mr Downey's Match bar group, which...

Older beef back on menu as BSE fears recede

05-Apr-2004

Meat from older cows could soon be back on pub menus after scientists declared it was safe for human consumption.Fears of BSE spreading to humans...

Food pricing in the spotlight

01-Apr-2004

New laws have come into force surrounding food pricing in pubs, licensees have been warned.The Price Marking (Food and Drink Services) Order came...

Food file - Pub Review

01-Apr-2004 By Sarah Obanye

The General Tarleton Inn Ferrensby, nr Knaresborough. I was expecting great things from the General Tarleton, the baby brother of the much-rated...

Food file - Quick Bite

01-Apr-2004

Emile Tissot has launched a new range of frozen sponge puddings, including syrup sponge and jam sponge. The puddings can be microwaved from frozen...

Seafood - Be cyber seaside

01-Apr-2004 By Richard Fox

Richard Fox looks at seafood and how the internet can help chefs make more from it on their menus. There's a new buzzword in the bizarre world of...

Masterclass - Prawn to be wild

01-Apr-2004 By Jo Bruce

In this month's masterclass, Jo Bruce looks at some innovative ideas for using prawns on your menu. It seems to me that the prawn is suffering from...

Field to fork - Free as a bird

01-Apr-2004 By Richard Fox

In the first of a new series looking at how pubs are using the produce of local suppliers, Richard Fox hangs out with Paul and Janet Talling. There's...

Starters - Menu of the month

01-Apr-2004

Pant Yr Ochain, Gresford, Wrexham STYLE:M Informal, picture-postcard gastro pub. You pick up a menu, which changes daily, and wine list in the bar...

Starters - My favourite ingredient

01-Apr-2004

Michael Bedford, chef-patron, of the Michelin-starred pub the Trouble House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, on……Flour. "I think homemade bread is an...

Starters - TV Dinners

01-Apr-2004

It was obviously someone with genuine insight who thought that the internal workings of a restaurant would make a good backdrop for a sitcom. Alas,...

Wine

01-Apr-2004

Each month former Wine magazine editor Chris Losh will be arming pub staff with ideas for boosting wine sales. Cream of California PubChef's simple...

Beer and Food - Striking success with food matches

01-Apr-2004

Interbrew UK category manager Vikki Balmer offers PubChef readers advice on how to matchbeer and food. She says: "Whether it's wine or beer, when it...

Beer and Food - The Maltsters' charms

01-Apr-2004

Two beer dishes for the price of one this month when Keith Floyd's one-time pub, the Maltsters Arms, on a narrow creek at Tuckenhay near Totnes,...

Beer and Food - Beer and Barbecue Venison

01-Apr-2004

Beer and Barbecue Venison with Roasted Paprika Parsnips Ingredients: 10 175g/6oz (approx) venison steaks 700g/11/2lb Uncle Ben's Texan Barbecue Sauce...

Hygiene is high on list' for diners

01-Apr-2004

A new report claims that 64% of people will not return to eat in a pub if they believe it is unhygienic. The Mori survey, which was carried out in...

The food factor sees outlets in demand

01-Apr-2004

Licensed property agents are increasingly marketing pubs that already enjoy a substantial food business. Miller Commercial, based in Truro, Cornwall,...

Rogan josh lasagne

31-Mar-2004

Preparation…30 minsCooking…45 minsServes…202.25kg Tilda rogan josh saucefour tbsp oilfour onions, finely chopped1.8kg minced beef or lamb400g...

Chefs are happy at work

25-Mar-2004

Chefs are among the happiest workers in Britain, according to a survey by training body City & Guilds. The organisation's "happiness index"...

Wiltshire's Tollgate Inn wins Catering Pub of the Year

24-Mar-2004

Licensees Alison Ward-Baptiste and Alexander Venables have scooped the title of Catering Pub of the Year at the prestigious Publican Awards after...

Paul Morgan is chef/patron at the Hampshire Arms, in Crondal

18-Mar-2004

Where do you get inspiration for your menu from? Out of my head mostly, although there is also some collaboration with my chefs. My wife Gill has...

FSA plans to cut fat, salt and sugar in children's food

18-Mar-2004

Family pubs could be forced to put detailed nutritional information on their children's menus under new proposals to tackle the increasing problem of...

Anchor & Hope is gastro pub of year

11-Mar-2004

The Anchor & Hope in Waterloo, London, has won the Gastro Pub of the Year award at the Tio Pepe ITV London Restaurant Awards. Owners are Jonathan...

Food sales catch fire

11-Mar-2004

The story so far: The Phoenix, a managed Laurel house in Throgmorton Street in the City of London, recently became the capital's first no-smoking...

Atkins pushing up steak prices'

11-Mar-2004

JD Wetherspoon claims it is paying more for its steak due to the worldwide increase in consumption because of the Atkins diet. The company's new...

Wheat's a treat

10-Mar-2004

Hoegaarden started a wheat beer trend in the UK that has grown steadily ever since. Ben McFarland sheds light on this burgeoning beer style.It's been...

Taxman may collect on tips

10-Mar-2004

Publicans of food-led pubs are being warned to tighten up the way they distribute tips or face investigation by the Inland Revenue and a hefty tax...

Threat to pub grub favourites as Prince urges boycott

03-Mar-2004

Cod and chips, a traditional pub food favourite, could become a thing of the past after the Prince of Wales urged consumers to avoid threatened...

St George's Day - Eat, by George!

01-Mar-2004 By Richard Fox

Richard Fox looks at menu ideas for celebrating St George's Day. St George's Day is one of the biggest events in the English pub calendar - well it...

Wine

01-Mar-2004 By Chris Losh

This month former Wine magazine editor Chris Losh looks at ideas for the roast and different white wines for your list. Food and wine matching With...

Food File - New products

01-Mar-2004

Brakes has added three new luxury flavours to its La Cremeria range of premium dairy ice creams. The new Belgian Dark Chocolate & Orange and...

Food file - Pub Review

01-Mar-2004 By Clive Beddall

The Yew Tree Inn Highclere, near Newbury, Berkshire The meal: Lunch The embarrassment etched across the waiter's face was plain for all to see. Well,...