Chefs

ETM Group's the Gun gets new head chef

29-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

ETM Group site the Gun, Docklands, has announced the appointment of a new head chef.

Celebrity chefs to launch recipe books

25-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Top chefs Daniel Clifford and Colin McGurran are to release recipe books later this year.

Pub chefs in Graduate Awards semi-final

25-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Two pub chefs have been shortlisted for the semi-final of the Craft Guild of Chefs’ Graduate Awards 2015.

Pub chef wins British BBQ Battle and opens fifth pub

25-May-2015 By Jo Bruce

Gareth Finney chef/director of five site pub company Ultimate Entertainment Services, has been crowned overall champion of competition the British BBQ Battle.

Pub chefs in National Chef of Year semi-final

19-May-2015 By Jo Bruce

Three pub chefs are among 40 chefs selected as semi-finalists in the National Chef of the Year 2015 competition, which has previously been won by Gordon Ramsay and Mark Sargeant.

Pub food

Star pubs goes big on food

13-May-2015 By Mike Berry

Star Pubs & Bars will invest £250,000 in the next six months as part of a new food development programme called Star Food.

Video recipe

Video: Tom Kerridge's recipe for pulled pork

13-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Award winning top chef Tom Kerridge, chef patron of double Michelin-starred Greene King lease the Hand & Flowers, Marlow, has shared his own recipe for pulled pork as part of BPEX's Love Pork campaign.

Top gastropub chef appointed Hampshire food tourism ambassador

12-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

James Durrant, chef patron of Top 50 Gastropubs acclaimed site the Plough Inn, Longparish, has been appointed as Hampshire’s first food tourism ambassador.

Prolific Bristol pub chefs could clean up in city’s Good Food Awards

12-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Two award-winning Bristolian pub chefs have been shortlisted as finalists in the Bristol Good Food Awards 2015.

Awards

19-year old pub chef wins award

11-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

A young chef from the Punchbowl Inn, Cumbria, has been named North West Young Chef 2015.

Openings

Award-winning pubco opens first London site

11-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

New World Trading Company is set to open its first London site next month.

Chef who cooked for David Cameron and Jeremy Clarkson takes the helm of Gloucestershire pub's kitchen

08-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Toby Refoy, who cooked for the PM when he was a private chef in Oxfordshire, has been appointed head chef at the Bear Inn, in Bisley.

My Pub

My Pub: Kentish Hare, Bidborough

08-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Celebrity chef brothers Chris and James Tanner opened their first gastropub, the Kentish Hare last year. Chris Tanner tells Daniel Woolfson about the business

Dining out... at the Top 50 Gastropubs dinner in Bristol

07-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Daniel Woolfson travels to Bristol to watch some of the top pub chefs in the country work their magic.

New opening

Knight to the rescue at winery pub

01-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Kent winery Hush Heath Estate has re-opened the Goudhurst Inn, Goudhurst after a major refurbishment with plans to turn the site into a ‘traditional’ pub and inn.

Michelin pub is the Nuts after refurb

01-May-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

A Michelin-starred country pub has re-opened after undergoing a major refurbishment.

Marco Pierre White's Norfolk pubs for sale

29-Apr-2015 By Mark Wingett

Marco Pierre White’s group of four pubs in Norfolk have been placed on the market for sale individually or as a group acquisition.

Kerridge to champion pulled pork

29-Apr-2015 By Jo Bruce

Chef and pub owner Tom Kerridge has been announced as the ambassador of a new campaign for pulled pork.

Four pubs in 40 best restaurants list

27-Apr-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Four pubs have ranked in a list of the 40 best restaurants in Britain according to some of the country’s top chefs, compiled by the Observer Food Monthly.

Training

Nestle Professional Toque d'Or competition crowns winners

22-Apr-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Westminster Kingsway College’s team of hospitality students were announced as winners of the Nestlé Professional Toque d’Or competition last night, the college’s third win to date.

chefs

Pub chef in finals of North West Young Chef 2015

21-Apr-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

A pub chef has qualified for the finals of the North West Young Chef 2015 competition.

Training

People 1st call for chef training promotion

21-Apr-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Skills and workforce development charity People 1st has called on members of the hospitality industry to do their bit to combat falling numbers of new chefs.

operator news

Norfolk duo unleash Animal

21-Apr-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

The owners of an award-winning Norfolk restaurant have bought independent pub group Animal Inns, taking control of the Wildebeest Arms at Stoke Holy Cross, and the Mad Moose on Warwick Street, Norwich.

Chefs

Top 50 Gastropubs chefs to create exclusive menu

20-Apr-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Four top pub chefs who ranked in The Publican’s Morning Advertiser’s Top 50 Gastropubs 2015 are set to put on an eight-course fine dining menu at this year’s Eat Drink Bristol Fashion festival.

PUB chefs

Nominees for Craft Guild of Chefs Awards announced

16-Apr-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Four pub chefs have been shortlisted as nominees for the 2015 Craft Guild of Chefs Awards.

Nestlé Toque d'Or finals: in pictures

16-Apr-2015 By Emma Eversham

Follow the challenges undertaken by the finalists of the Nestlé Professional Toque d'Or 2015 competition in our exclusive photo gallery.

BUSINESS PREVIEW

Mark Sargeant: Duke William pub to be 'accessible to all'

15-Apr-2015 By Emma Eversham

Mark Sargeant is planning for his first pub - The Duke William - to be an accessible and welcoming environment where customers will be able to order 'simple pub food done well' alongside local ales, drinks and bar snacks.

Chefs

Fuller's chef joins City Pub Companies

14-Apr-2015 By Jo Bruce

Pub companies City Pub Company East & City Pub Company West have appointed a new executive chef.

My Pub

My Pub: Jolly Gardeners, Earlsfield, London

10-Apr-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

MasterChef 2010 winner Dhruv Baker talks to Daniel Woolfson about how he and business partners Adam Pomaro, Luke Pomaro and Stephen Robb took the helm at the Jolly Gardeners, in Earlsfield, south London, restoring it to its former glory.

Veteran St John chefs to open "proper London boozer" the Marksman

10-Apr-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Two chefs who previously worked at top chef Fergus Henderson’s acclaimed St John eatery are set to re-launch Hackney pub the Marksman in May.

Pub chefs

Tom Kerridge backs Vote British Food campaign in run up to general election

09-Apr-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Top chef Tom Kerridge has teamed up with the National Farmers Union (NFU) to show his support for British food and agriculture.

Alan Yau’s Duck & Rice 'Chinese gastropub': opening menu revealed

07-Apr-2015 By Jo Bruce

The new menu at Alan Yau’s hotly anticipated new Chinese gastropub has been announced.

Pub owner Sellers to feature in Burger Bar to Gourmet Star

02-Apr-2015 By Jo Bruce

Pub and restaurant owner Tom Sellers is to appear in TV show Burger Bar to Gourmet Star on Channel 4.

EXPERT INSIGHT

Development chef focus

02-Apr-2015 By Nick Hemming

Nick Hemming, St Austell Brewery’s catering development manager, talks sous vide, chef motivation and recommended apps.

Michelin-starred chef Daniel Clifford buys Essex pub

31-Mar-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Clifford, who is chef patron of acclaimed Cambridge eatery Midsummer House, bought the freehold of the Flitch of Bacon, in Little Dunmow, for £300k with an eye to re-opening it in under five months after a £500k refurbishment.

"Local Food Hero" chef takes on Cornish foodie pub

30-Mar-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

An award-winning chef has opened Cornish food pub the St Tudy Inn.

TV chef Colin McGurran re-opens Lincolnshire pub

30-Mar-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

A Great British Menu winning chef has re-opened a Lincolnshire pub that was nearly destroyed by a tidal surge.

Expert Insight

Service award finalist's top tips

27-Mar-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Amelia Thornhill, restaurant manager at Budweiser Budvar Top 50 Gastropubs site the Plough Inn, in Longparish, is currently competing in the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts’ Annual Awards of Excellence. She told Daniel Woolfson about competing in the awards,...

New head chef for Columbo Group site

26-Mar-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Columbo Group pub Paradise By Way Of Kensal Green has appointed a new head chef to oversee the site’s food offer.

Heston pub chef joins Lidl

26-Mar-2015 By Jo Bruce

The former head chef of Heston Blumenthal’s Hinds Head pub has become chef in residence for discount supermarket chain Lidl.

Awards

Pub operators celebrate success in Development Chef Awards 2015

25-Mar-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Five pub companies have been recognised for the quality of their food offers in Restaurant's Farm Frites Development Chef Awards 2015.

Ex-Gordon Ramsay head chef to open Kent Pub

13-Mar-2015 By Mark Wingett

Mark Sargeant, Gordon Ramsay’s former right hand man and former Head Chef of Claridge’s, is to open his first pub, M&C Report understands.

Josh Eggleton of the Pony & Trap opens standalone fish concept the Salt & Malt

09-Mar-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Head chef and co-owner of Michelin-starred gastropub the Pony & Trap Josh Eggleton has opened the restaurant of his new standalone fish & chip outlet the Salt & Malt to the public.

Q&A

The Sportsman: Stephen Harris talks shop

19-Feb-2015 By Daniel Woolfson

Daniel Woolfson talks to the Budweiser Budvar Top 50 Gastropubs winner

Video: Top 50 Gastropubs 2015

19-Feb-2015 By James Evison

The Budweiser Budvar Top 50 Gastropubs 2015 awards, hosted by Tom Kerridge, took place on Monday 26 January at Anglian Country Inns' site, Hermitage Road Bar & Kitchen in Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Trade organisations join forces to tackle chef skills shortage

16-Feb-2015 By Ellie Bothwell

The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA), British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) and Perceptions Group have joined forces to help fight the shortage of pub chefs and improve chef skills for those working in the pub and bar sector.