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Lesley and husband Bill continue to put the No ID No Sale message across after the success of the No ID No Sale day.

Beer and Food - A civilised choice

By Richard Fox

Richard Fox looks at how beer with food stretches back thousands of years and suggests some simple ways of using beer in your kitchen. Ambling...

Abroad choice

Abroad choice

Italian and Indian foods are the latest links with beer.We're used to Germans and Belgians telling us to drink their beer with our food but, with the...

SFI's food focus

SFI's food focus

Troubled pub and bar operator SFI Group has appointed award-winning food manager Jason Danciger to take its recovery to the next level.Mr Danciger...

Whisky and food - Fashion passion

Whisky and food - Fashion passion

By Nigel Huddleston

The Edrington Group - owner of the Famous Grouse and the Macallan - is out to get drinkers to look at whisky in a new light. Nigel Huddleston...

Organic - Back to the future

Organic - Back to the future

By Nigel Huddleston

With Britons turning in their droves to the organic way of life, now could be an opportune time to consider the future of your food offering. Nigel...

By being firm on crime Kishor Patel has won the respect of local residents and staff

Michelin guide pubs - Star spangled dinners

By Nigel Huddleston

The stars of the Michelin Guide are just starting to light up the pubs of Britain. Nigel Huddleston reports on the pioneering days of what will...

Masterclass - Chalk & cheese

Masterclass - Chalk & cheese

Forget the ploughman's of yesteryear and bring yours bang up to date. It couldn't be simpler. PubChef - with the help of the British Cheese Board and...

Bob Beatty

Great pub chefs - The Good Life

By Jo Bruce

Swapping the fast lane for a more meaningful existence in the country became an easy decision for pub chef Paul Hackett. It just took a motorbike...

Pictured (l to r): Robert Parfett of Parfetts; Graham Shelley (IMA); Alan Toft (Chairman MSIYS); Jonathan Torr (Makro); Frank Wilmott (TCS Media) and Philip Jenkins (Sugro).

Great diners - Michael Winner

As well as being Michael Winner's most famous celluloid outing, Death Wish might be a metaphor for the movie director's career as a food critic....

Peter Kealy looks to the United States for inspirational ideas that can work in Ireland. His commitment to the deli concept has paid dividends over the years

Wine

By Chris Losh

Each month former Wine magazine editor Chris Losh will bearming pub staff with ideas for boosting wine sales. Barossa style shows the way Of all of...

David Rae

Beer and Food - Beauty fruity

By Susan Nowak

Beer Cook Book author Susan Nowak talks to David Radtke, of the Tin Drum chain in Brighton, about using cherry beer as an ingredient. David Radtke's...

Morton Middleditch

Food file - Pub Review

By Clive Beddall

Johnny Foley's Irish House O'Farrell Street, San Francisco, California. They call this house "the ancient home of good times". And for Irish ex-pats,...

The Premier Group’s Jonathan Romans says retailers need to rethink their approach to stationery

Food File - New products

Masterfoods has launched Dolmio Fagottini, a new frozen, filled pasta. Two varieties are available, All' Arrabbiata and Crema di Formaggio. Trish...

Gordon Hepburn receives an engraved decanter for his years of work to the Guild of Q.

Wine

By Chris Losh

Each month former Wine magazine editor Chris Losh will be arming pub staff with ideas for boosting wine sales. Coping with Carmenère PubChef's new...

Food File - Taste test

Food File - Taste test

PubChef asked customers at Everard's pub, the Coach & Horses in Markfield, Leicestershire, what they thought of Padley's chicken mini joints. The...

Consumers have put meat back on the shopping menu.

Food file - What's up…

Yates Group has launched the first highstreet pub Atkins-style menu. The chain will trial a menu based on the high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet in...

Anthony Sterne makes it his point of duty to source his materials locally

Food file - Pub Review

By Clive Beddall

The Hanging Gate, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire. They say you should never revisit your youth. But then, those were heady days when it was...

Food File - Tools of the trade

Food File - Tools of the trade

Opening Champagne in front of a customer can be a daunting experience, especially if it goes wrong and the cork ends up concussing one of your...

Left to right are Wyn Williams (Procurement Manager, Oriel Jones & Son); Julien Pursglove, (Technical Manager, Sainsbury’s); Huw Davies, Llandre (Member of Dolaucothi Estate), Stewart Wright (Buyer, Sainsbury’s); and Paul Edwards (Managing Director,

Food File - Down your local

PubChef's regular focus on local produce. Shepherds Purse Cheeses Who are they: This family-run company was established in 1989 by Judy Bell, who...

Winners of the British Poultry Council Awards at the House of Commons pictured with James Paice, MP and Shadow Minister for Agriculture, and Chairman of the BPC’s Chicken Breeders and Hatcheries Sector Group, James Hook.

Source spotlight - Clear winner

By Jo Bruce

The cold, clear waters of Norway provide the perfect habitat for producing top-quality seafood. Jo Bruce joined the winner of this year's Norwegian...

Masterclass - Knife and pork

Masterclass - Knife and pork

In a new series PubChef gives you guidance on how to get the best out of different ingredients and how pub chefs around the UK are using them. This...

Retailer Dean Holborn says flowers bought in c-stores are generally distress purchases – and not just by forgetful husbands

Starters - TV Dinners

Betty's Hotpot - Just how soon after her Coronation Street debut in 1969 Betty Williams (formerly Turpin) started churning out Lancashire's home dish is lost in the mists of time.

Beer and Food - Lamb and Hen

Beer and Food - Lamb and Hen

Beer Cook Book author Sue Nowak examines how pub chefs are using beer as an ingredient. Here she takes a look at lamb pie with Old Speckled Hen....

“The focus on the customer has to be our main activity in this flat market”Hans Kristian Hustad, chief executive, Booker

Valentine's Day - Passion on a plate

By Richard Fox

Richard Fox looks at menu ideas for putting your customers in the mood for love. At great risk to my good reputation, I wish to challenge Shakespeare...

Bob Beatty

Snacks - The fast show

Your customers are looking for good food in a hurry. PubChef looks at how pubs can make the most of the snack market. It's not just pub chefs that...

Sonia Young, Editor

Coping with critics - Power hungry?

By Ian McKerracher

Ian McKerracher is owner of the Helyar Arms in East Coker, near Yeovil, Somerset, a former Egon Ronay inspector and former chief executive of the...

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