Food pub aims to repeat success
The award-winning team behind the Bricklayers Arms in Flaunden, Hertfordshire aims to repeat its success at a second food-led pub.
Owner Alvin Michaels has acquired the Hags Head in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, and plans to offer the same menu mix of traditional English and French fusion cooking.
Head chef Claude Paillet, twice winner of the Pub Food Champion title at the Pub Food Awards, moves into the role of executive chef to oversee both pubs.
Alan Bell, chef at the Bricklayers for the past three years, will be head chef at the Nags Head, while David Long, who has been a the Bricklayers for two years, becomes head chef there.
The team at the Bricklayers is also being bolstered with the arrival of Howard Gale, who has worked with Albert Roux for the past four years.
Like the Bricklayers, the Nags Head menu will feature locally sourced food and home-smoked meat and fish.
"We are extremely excited with this new addition in Buckinghamshire," said Alvin. "We feel that there is a lack of quality eating houses within the area, and this is something we want to change."
The kitchen, dining and pub areas at the Nags Head are to be refurbished. The pub is set to reopen in March.
