Archives for July 16, 2012

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Phoenix Pub Group sets 120-site target

By John Harrington. M&C Report

Phoenix Pub Group, the newly incorporated umbrella company operating c.80 pubs mostly in south-east England, plans to expand to about 120 sites over three years following a period of churn.

The Big Interview: David Bruce, City Pub Company

By Phil Mellows

For some reason that now escapes me, having carried our desserts across the level crossing, David Bruce and I are eating them off pub crockery balanced on some sort of electrical junction box at Kintbury railway station, eastbound platform, in Berkshire.

Pub Chef Opinion: Local sourcing? That’s so old hat

By Lesley Foottit

It was during the collation of information for the Top 50 Gastropubs 2012 awards that I noticed how many pubs were starting to grow their own veg and raise their own animals for meat.