PubChef Awards - Starters and Light Bites
01-Nov-2005 By Natalie Cooper
As the first or possibly the only dish many customers try, pub starters and light bites need to make a great impression. Natalie Cooper reports...
PubChef Awards - Game
01-Nov-2005 By Natalie Cooper
Game is growing in popularity in pubs, with diners attracted by the health benefits and flavours inherent in the meat. This category saw chefs...
PubChef Awards - Beer and Food
01-Nov-2005 By Natalie Cooper
These days, there's a growing trend to accompany food with beer. The intention behind our Beer & Food category was to challenge chefs to create...
Chef's CV - James Rudden
01-Nov-2005 By Tony Halstead
John Rudden's route to the award-winning White Hart comprised spells in the kitchens of numerous pubs and hotels, giving him the perfect grounding to...
Great Pub Chefs - A vision realised - John Rudden
01-Nov-2005 By Tony Halstead
A bleak, run-down pub swathed in mist was not John Rudden's idea of a promising career move. But 10 years on, the White Hart is an expanding and...
Great Pub Chefs - From rags to seafood riches - Clare Mansfield
01-Oct-2005 By Alice Whitehead
Clare Mansfield freely admits she was an appalling cook when she started 10 years ago - so how did the former trainee tailor become an award-winning head chef at a gastro pub in the Highlands? Alice Whitehead finds out.
Battle of the Chefs - Creative Juices
01-Oct-2005 By Natalie Cooper
Using Ocean Spray Cranberry Sauce in a menu that didn't include turkey inspired the chefs at the Baskerville Arms in Lower Shiplake. Natalie Cooper...
PubChef Live - Dish of the day that PubChef Live guests savoured
01-Oct-2005 By Jeremy Hollingsworth
Pot Roast Partridge with Smoked Bacon & Savoy Cabbage Serves six Ingredients 6 oven-prepared partridges 2 litres chicken stock 250ml red wine...
PubChef Awards - Eastern Cuisine
01-Oct-2005 By Natalie Cooper
With pub menus at chains and gastro pubs increasingly showing eastern influences, this category challenged pub chefs to create dishes with a...
PubChef Awards - Seafood
01-Oct-2005 By Natalie Cooper
With growing customer awareness of the health benefits from eating fish, recipes in the seafood cook-off reflected the category's increasing...
PubChef Awards - Young Pub Chef
01-Oct-2005 By Natalie Cooper, Jo Bruce
The PubChef Awards 2006 began by celebrating the talent of some of the country's youngest chefs. Natalie Cooper and Jo Bruce report Our inaugural...
Battle of the Chefs - Adam's winning recipe
01-Sep-2005
Supreme of chicken with Crottin de Chavignol, black olives and sweet potato frites. Method: Dice the Crottin de Chavignol into a bowl. Pit about 20...
Battle of the Chefs - Fuller's full-on fight
01-Sep-2005 By Jo Bruce
Two Fuller's head chefs pitted their skills against each other by working their magic with French goat's cheese. Jo Bruce reports PubChef headed to...
Great Pub Chefs - A Vintage Year - Michael Maguire
01-Sep-2005 By Mark Taylor
The Trengilly Wartha Inn at Constantine in Cornwall has built a reputation for food - and led to the emergence of a thriving wine merchants, which...
Pub Chefs make their mark in contest
01-Sep-2005
Three pub chefs have been highly commended in a competition to find the best dish using Worcester sauce. They are: Chris Bicknell, head chef, of the...
North meets South as chefs trade skills
17-Aug-2005
Top chefs have joined forces with food developers, catering suppliers and farmers to share their passion for quality beef and lamb.Hosted by the...
Incentivise your chef - Viewpoint
01-Aug-2005
Do you think enough incentives are offered to chefs working in the pub industry? Kim Scicluna, Licensee/chef, the Sun Inn, Feering, nr Colchester,...
Incentivise your chef - Stop your chef jumping ship
01-Aug-2005
Keeping a happy team in the kitchen is essential to running a successful food pub. Mark Taylor looks at how pub owners encourage their chefs to stay...
Battle of the BBQs - Chefs on Fire
01-Aug-2005 By John Harrington, Jo Bruce
The heat was on when PubChef staged its Battle of the BBQs competition, where finalists fought for a trip to the US. John Harrington and Jo Bruce...
Great Pub Chefs - Building Business the Hard Way - Brent Castle
01-Aug-2005 By Nigel Huddleston
When the workmen failed to complete his pub extension in time for a wedding booking, chef and owner Brent Castle knuckled down to finish the work...
Westminster's young chefs take Toque d'Or
27-Jul-2005
The team from London's Westminster Kingsway College hopes to follow in the footsteps of Anton Mosimann and Jamie Oliver after being named winner of...
Tomorrow's top chefs await their fate
12-Jul-2005
Young culinary stars from the UK's catering college are awaiting the results of the Nestlé Toque d'Or 2005 competition. The Toque d'Or gives...
Chef's CV - James Rix
01-Jul-2005
Chef's CV - James Rix
PubChef Live - Buy Local, Buy British
01-Jul-2005 By Mark Taylor
That's the message from celebrity chef Phil Vickery whose pub, the King of Prussia, formed the stage for our third PubChef Live. Mark Taylor reports...
Great Pub Chefs - Tasting the country life - James Rix
01-Jul-2005 By Mark Taylor
He wasn't keen on the gastro pub tag, but after moving to a sleepy corner of Hertfordshire, top London chef James Rix found it pulled in the punters...
Award winning chef takes over Wiltshire pub
22-Jun-2005
Pub Food Award winning chef Paul Morgan has opened his new venture, the Shears Inn and Country Hotel in Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire.After five...
Chef's CV - Nigel Ramsbottom
01-Jun-2005
Chef's CV - Nigel Ramsbottom
Battle of the Chefs - Two Cool Cats
01-Jun-2005 By Max Gosney
When the Merrie Harriers' chefs lined up for battle, they were nearly scuppered by a feline adversary. Max Gosney reports on a fishy incident. In...
Great Pub Chefs - Feather in his cap - Nigel Ramsbottom
01-Jun-2005 By Max Gosney
Chef Nigel Ramsbottom realised his dream of buying his own pub, having been won over by the informality of pub dining. But turning a tired business...
Great Pub Chefs - Russian Revolution - Olga & Dag Crawford
01-May-2005 By Alice Whitehead
A tremendous culinary change has swept through an idyllic Scottish isle thanks to a couple's first foray into the gastro-pub scene. Alice Whitehead reports
Battle of the Chefs - Two Pubs go to War
01-May-2005 By Max Gosney
The month's contest becomes a double act as two chefs from two venues vie for the Battle of the Chef crown. Max Gosney reports on the ultimate duel...
Book Review - Masterchef Goes Large
01-May-2005 By Mark Taylor
Book review of MasterChef Goes Large
Wild Thing! - Seafood - The perfect catch for a pub chef.
01-May-2005 By Richard Fox
Wild thing!… you make his heart sing! Richard Fox reveals why one of the few pure and natural resources left is the perfect catch for a pub chef....
Clarity' sought by LGA on price-fixing powers
14-Apr-2005
by John Harrington The Local Government Asso-ciation (LGA) has called for clarification on the powers that councils have to impose minimum pricing,...
Chef Heroes - Culinary Inspirations that have influenced pub kitchens
01-Apr-2005 By Mark Taylor
In our food survey we asked chef's about their biggest culinary inspiration. Here is the top 10 replies that have helped influenced pub kitchens. Mark Taylor reports
Great Pub Chefs - Peter the Great - Peter Robinson
01-Apr-2005 By Mark Taylor
Peter Robinson may be a modest man of few words, but his contemporaries in the world of Cotswold gastro pubs rate him as one of the best. Mark Taylor...
Book review 'Coming Home' - celebrity chef John Burton Race
01-Mar-2005 By Mark Taylor
Celebrity Chef book review
Great Pub Chefs - Cabinet Reshuffle - Paul Bloxham
01-Mar-2005 By Max Gosney
Paul Bloxham turned his back on the city in favour of country life.. and it's not just the now-stunning Cabinet gastro that's changed.
From Prussia with Love: Acclaimed chef and TV star Phil Vickery is ready to launch his venue
01-Mar-2005 By Max Gosney
From Prussia with love After going undercover to pioneer a new pub, acclaimed chef and TV star Phil Vickery is ready to launch his venue. Max Gosney...
Hitting the Clark Mark - Pub Chef of the Year 2005 - Neil Clark
01-Mar-2005 By Max Gosney
Pub Chef of the Year Neil Clark still can't quite believe he's won the award. But his growing army of fans certainly do. Max Gosney reports The first...
Chef's Specials - It's a Wrap
01-Feb-2005 By Paul Smith
This month we feature a favourite recipe of Paul Smith, head chef at the Fountain Inn in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire Lamb Wellington Ingredients...
Battle of the Chefs - Hare Flair - Hare Arms, Norfolk
01-Feb-2005 By Jo Bruce
It's an amazingly close battle as the chefs at the Hare Arms in Norfolk rise to the challenge of using a range of herbs and seasonings. Jo Bruce...
Use your loaf - We ask Pub Chefs for the secrets of their sandwich success
01-Feb-2005 By Richard Fox
We ask pub chefs for the secrets of their sandwich success Knife & Cleaver, Houghton Conquest,Bedfordshire Sandwich: Chargrilled chicken with...
Great Pub Chefs - Soaring High - Matt Tebbutt
01-Feb-2005 By Mark Taylor
Acclaim for his Monmouthshire pub has proved that Matt Tebbutt was right to abandon a career with the RAF. Mark Taylor pays a visit to the...
Michelin-starred hosts plan chain
20-Jan-2005
by Tony Halstead The owners of Michelin-starred Northcote Manor, who recently opened a Lancashire gastro pub, are planning more sites. Partners...
Chef scoops kids' food win
16-Dec-2004
Leading northern chef Nigel Haworth's new pub has been voted as having the best childrens' menu in Britain. The Three Fishes in Mitton, Lancashire,...
TV chef helping Sheps champion Kentish fare
18-Nov-2004
by Max Gosney Brewer Shepherd Neame has teamed up with TV chef Phil Vickery to champion Kentish-grown produce across its south -east pub estate....
01-Nov-2004
Tyrone Knight, 17, dubbed the 'Wayne Rooney of pub chef world', kick's off two category-winning recipes from the PubChef Awards cook-offs with his...
01-Nov-2004
In the first of a new series PubChef asks a panel of four pub chefs to put a range of new products to the test in their kitchens. Anthony Williams -...
01-Nov-2004 By Max Gosney
There are some classic pub dishes, which still earn a rightful place on pub menus. In the final cook-off in the PubChef Awards we challenged our five...
