Great British Pub Awards
Pub Awards: Best Freehouse Winner - The Bull, Ditchling, East Sussex
There is a belief you have to be passionate to successfully run a pub. And they don’t come much more passionate than Dominic Worrall, owner of the Bull.
Archives for September 20, 2016
Great British Pub Awards
Pub Awards: Best Freehouse finalist - The Carpenters Arms, Felixkirk, North Yorkshire
The Carpenters Arms, which nestles in stunning countryside on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors, is the sort of pub you always hope you will stumble on.
PUB CRIME
Sex offender chef 'pulled customer's trousers down'
A chef who pulled a man’s trousers down in the beer garden of a Yorkshire pub has been ordered to sign the sex offenders’ register.
National Pub of the Year
CAMRA names top 16 regional winners in search for Pub of the Year
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has named its top 16 pubs in the country as part of its search for the National Pub of the Year.
Crime
Pub fined £3,500 for serving 'fake gin'
A pubco and a pub manager have been fined after a bar was proved to be selling fake Gordon’s gin.
New products
Wine, beer and pumpkin-spiced Baileys
Top shelf: Pour a glass of Kleine Zalze Bush Vine’s South African Chenin Blanc and be prepared for a ripe pineapple and guava smack in the nose.
Soft drinks
Soft drinks heat up for the winter
Summer will soon be fading and punters are going to be looking for drinks to excite them in the colder, darker months. While the alcohol categories have this covered, soft drinks are often associated with the summer only. Here’s how to keep your soft...
New Moon Co
Paul Newman departs New Moon Pub Co
One of the founders of prominent northern gastropub group New Moon Co has parted ways with the company.
Great British Pub Awards
Pub Awards: Best Freehouse finalist - The Drawing Board, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Sam Cornwall-Jones is a man who likes to have fun and nowhere is that more apparent than in his pub.
Great British Pub Awards
Pub Awards: Best Food finalist - Compasses Inn, Crundale, Kent
The Compasses Inn is everything you would want a remote country pub to be, perfect for fireside boozing in the winter or a luxurious meal after a long summer walk.
Great British Pub Awards
Pub Awards: Best Freehouse finalist - The White Horse Inn, Neatishead, Norfolk
Ricky Malt is a man who likes to take an individual approach to life, to find left-field solutions to problems, to look for non-mainstream products and, where he can’t find them, to create his own.
Great British Pub Awards
Pub Awards: Best Food finalist - The Cornish Arms, Tavistock, Devon
John Hooker’s Devon gastropub, the Cornish Arms, has only been open three years.
Great British Pub Awards
Pub Awards: Best Food finalist - The Globe Tavern, Borough Market, London
The Globe Tavern is a relatively new addition to the pub food world, but is gaining recognition for chef Luke Hawkins’ dedication to using the finest ingredients from Borough Market.
Benchmarking report
Report: Operating costs up as payroll expenses undermine industry growth
Rising operating costs, particularly payroll, threaten to undermine the growth the pub industry, according to the ALMR Christie & Co Benchmarking Report 2016.
Great British Pub Awards
Pub Awards: Best Food Winner - The Freemasons at Wiswell
The Freemasons offers an outstanding dining experience. But despite chef-patron Steven Smith’s high-end culinary credentials, it does not compromise on being a pub.
Future Trends: Spirits
The origins of gin keeps consumers up at night
Gin drinkers are more concerned about where their gins come from than any other attribute, claims the makers of Slingsby.
Sunday roasts
Getting rid of the roast? Sundays wouldn't be the same...
When JD Wetherspoon announced earlier this year it would finish serving Sunday roasts to focus on its core menu offer, reactions from some of the chain’s patrons were borderline riotous
Pubs code
'Don't just shout at me': Paul Newby on the new pubs code
The pubs code is “getting traction”, pubs code adjudicator Paul Newby told the MA500 event in Leeds.
Closure
Another iconic London gay pub closes
An iconic Chelsea pub has become the latest fatality in a long line of the city’s gay venues to have shut down.
Great British Pub Awards
Pub Awards: Best Food finalist - Bunch of Grapes, Pontypridd, Wales
Food at this 19th-century former alehouse is an unexpected delight.
Big Interview
The Big Interview: Greg Mulholland on controversy, Super-ACVs and the pubs code
Taking a five-minute stroll from one pub in Otley to another with the town’s MP, Greg Mulholland, is long enough to bump into three smiling faces of local licensees keen to greet their local politician.
Great British Pub Awards
Pub Awards: Best Freehouse finalist - Dirty Bottles/Ye Olde Cross, Alnwick, Northumberland
Mark Jones is Alnwick born and bred and proud of his roots. He cares about his town and what happens in it.