East & West Midlands
Melissa Price Tilted Wig, Warwick Pub lessee Melissa Price has come a long way in a short time. About 18 months ago, she was happily carrying out...
Archives for January 18, 2007
North West
Sun Hotel & Bar Lancaster, Lancashire Manager Dominic Kiziuk and his team at the Sun Hotel & Bar firmly believe that variety is the spice of...
Pubs paying 'over odds' for insurance
An insurance broker has warned that pubs are paying over the odds for insurance because they are locked into long-term contracts while premiums are...
Wales
Bunch of Grapes Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan The Bunch of Grapes is located in a hard-to -find part of Pontypridd. Despite this drawback, increasing...
Wales
Salt Mermaid Quay, Cardiff When Welsh brewer/retailer SA Brain bought Salt over four years ago, it was an underperforming Scottish & Newcastle...
Football four in a double knot
It's time for a mammoth weekend in the Premiership. This time around, there's not one but two mouth-watering ties. The Premiership's top four feature...
Loose stock valuation guide aims to cut rows
Trade groups have welcomed "long overdue" new guidelines for loose stock valuations when pub businesses change hands. The new code of practice...
Wales
Terra Nova Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Nick Jones and Steve Morris believe the best way for Terra Nova to retain its premium bar status is by constantly...
North East & Yorkshire
Bourbon Leeds, West Yorkshire Competition does not come much tougher for an independent bar operator than being pitched against corporate giants in...
Best bib and tucker
As Carl and Lisa Butler tell Ewan Turney, consistently high-quality local food and beer has helped treble sales at the Hatton Arms in Gretton,...
THE AGENTS
David Morgan Managing Director Cookseys DMP The market is awash with leasehold public houses. There - I've said it! No platitudes about it "being a...
Wales
Craig and Millissia Owen Plough Inn, Aberaman, Mid Glamorgan It was while serving in the forces that Craig Owen met Millissia, who worked in the...
West Country
Goat & Tricycle Bournemouth, Dorset James Blake and Tricia Baldwin have moved cask-beer drinking at the Goat & Tricycle to a new dimension....
Craig looks after Gavin's Deuchars
Licensees of pubs and clubs in Yorkshire shouldn't be surprised if they get paid a visit by England and Yorkshire cricket all-rounder Craig White....
Licensees pull out the stops during floods
Licensees have been pulling out all the stops to keep punters happy as torrential floods caused disruption across the country. Despite flooded...
Punch does the full monty for 2007
The telesales department at Burton-based Punch Taverns has raised an impressive £16,000 for cancer charities with a saucy calendar starring the...
Dump the deals
Last week The Publican launched a new campaign against supermarkets that are using alcohol as a loss leader.We all saw the deals over Christmas - 48...
Hip ways with hops
Richard Fox, author of The Food and Beer Cookbook, looks at ideas for making the most of food and beer on some of the milestone occasions in the year...
East anglia
Rose and Crown www.roseandcrownsnettisham.co.uk Snettisham, Norfolk Jeanette and Anthony Goodrich are proud to boast a website that successfully...
East Anglia
Bird in Hand Gosmore, Hertfordshire Carol Hendry loves gardening. "It's my hobby. I'll spend about one-and-a-half hours every day gardening or all...
East & West Midlands
Bar Sport Cannock, Staffordshire Former amateur boxing champion Scott Murray has delivered a knock-out blow to some of the heavyweights in the...
St George and the flagon
The Irish, French and Americans all do it... so why don't the English? Celebrating your country is sadly neglected in England so the MA is launching a campaign to help pubs encourage consumers to get behind St George's Day on 23 April
Wales
The George Aberbargoed, Mid Glamorgan In the 18 months since trade newcomers Paul Bugler and Nicola Owen were appointed managers of the George, they...
JD Wetherspoon: 'We lost £3m in property link'
The pub company has lodged a writ at the High Court against its former consultant
West Country
Peter and Angela Gatling Merry Harriers, Clayhidon, Devon Peter and Angela Gatling had specific ideas on the type of freehouse they wanted to run....
West Country
Five Degrees West Falmouth, Cornwall The secret of success for hostelries in popular tourist towns lies in maintaining trade when the holidaymakers...
North West
Fly in the Loaf Liverpool L1 Fly in the Loaf illustrates Victorian style, with a mix of ecclesiastical and baroque designs. The building was once...
East & West Midlands
The Wellington Bennetts Hill, Birmingham B2 Nigel Barker believes Birmingham is no longer a "real ale desert" - thanks to the Wellington. Nigel...
Yorkshire & North East
The Bamburgh South Shields, Tyneside A determined real-ale campaign launched by pub manager Graeme Jack two years ago has paid rich dividends for...
East & West Midlands
Fox Inn www.thefoxatsteventon.co.uk Steventon, Oxfordshire Situated between two major science parks employing over 10,000 people, the Fox Inn at...
Wales
Plough Inn Aberaman, Mid Glamorgan Last January, the back garden of the Plough Inn was a rubbish dump with absolutely no facilities even if its...
LETTERs
Massive boss Peter Linacre took pubcos to task last week - and evoked a passionate response. Below, we publish a selection of posts received on our...
Let's enjoy St George's Day
Did you see that State of the Nation poll a week or so ago, the one that showed how bad we feel about ourselves and our country? It made for really...
Pub prices up again in 2007 - Christie's
Pub property prices rose by 8.5% on average last year, and should achieve a similar lift in 2007, says property specialist Christie+Co. The company's...
Football club threatens pub takings
Pompey licensees fear for takings after Portsmouth FC opens a 500-capacity beer tent
South East
Cricketers Arms Eastleigh, Hampshire The biggest challenge for South African-born Jason Schinkel has been keeping lots of different cask beers,...
East Anglia
Brewery Tap Peterborough, Cambridgeshire It says a lot about the Brewery Tap that one of its customers regularly travels from London to enjoy an...
South East
Riverside Tavern Strood, Kent Peter Foreman has seen good times and bad during almost six years of ownership of the Riverside Tavern. Difficulties...
South East
The Swan at the Vineyard Lamberhurst, Kent Vanessa and Sean Arnett aren't exaggerating when they say the beer garden at the Swan is a "massive draw"....
Blackburn hotline prompts underage sales reporting
A telephone hotline has been launched in Blackburn for residents to report licensees who sell alcohol to children. The local council, police and...
Chefs battle for Oliver's pub
Four chefs will battle it out to run Jamie Oliver's pub in a new Channel 4 series. Jamie's Chef is based at the Cock in Beazley End, Essex. Four...
Big rent hike ousts ex-Provence boss
A former Provence pub run by company secretary Peter Kiely has closed after the freehold-owner tabled a demand for a huge rent hike. The Derby pub...
Carlsberg mulls Tuborg roll-out
Carlsberg is in discussions with pub companies about the launch of Tuborg in the UK. The lager is Denmark's best-selling beer and also boasts wide...
Small pubs still a nuisance
Following on from my piece last week about the review of a licence, I have found out that the licensee in question was using the 'small premises'...
Chris Maclean: Back to Ground Zero
For 15 years we ran a very successful village pub. We won all the prizes. The pub traded out of its socks.Then I had a moment of madness.I decided to...
Yorkshire & North East
David and Claire Smith The Princess, Rawdon, West Yorkshire What persuades someone with a lucrative and secure job to throw it away for a life...
Poker a game of chance, court rules
Hopes that pubs would get the green light to legally host poker for money have been dashed after a jury decided it was a game of chance, not pure...
Much at stake for M&B's new steakhouse
A lot rests on the trading success of the Dick Turpin, situated in less-than-inspiring Ilford in Essex. It's a former Beefeater that was converted to...
Wells & Young's buys Courage beers
The PMA Team paul.charity@william-reed.co.uk Wells & Young's Brewing Company (W&YBC) has bought the rights for the production, marketing and...
Smoking decisions are needed now
It seems a long time, but it is now less than six months to the start of the smoking ban in pubs and clubs in England and Wales. Remember that we had...
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Changing the price of drinks QOur pub is the only one for miles around. In a couple of months there is a special event near here, with people coming...
Buyers beware
Property experts predict that the smoking ban will create challenges for the pub trade, but it's not all doom and gloom, reports Tony Halstead The...
North West
Laura Condliffe White Lion, Barthomley, Cheshire Twenty-five year old Laura Condliffe is proof that tender years are no barrier to success. Laura has...
Yorkshire & THE north east
Fox and Hounds www.foxandhoundscarthorpe.co.uk Carthorpe, North Yorkshire For Helen and Vincent Taylor, the central purpose of establishing a website...
London
Rowena Smith Old China Hand, Clerkenwell, London EC1 Turning an Irish boozer into a stylish bar specialising in Asian food might seem ambitious, but...
North West
The Crofters at Holbeck Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria The garden at the Crofters is the pride and joy of licensees Geoff and Maggie Pattinson. The...
The world awaits
There is a vast range of new grape varieties out there just waiting to be discovered. Fiona Sims encourages us to broaden our horizons A couple of...
London
Park Tavern Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey Park Tavern has been on the cask beer lovers' trail ever since Peter McFarlane, wife Jo and daughter Sue...
THE GUV'NOR
Anthony Mears The smoking ban should be viewed as an opportunity to grow trade What does 2007 hold for the trade? Definitely a challenge. Probably a...
Brewers unite over PBD concerns
Regional brewers are rallying together to renew their concerns over Progressive Beer Duty (PBD).A group of nearly 20 brewers, including Adnams and...