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Award-winning pub unable to serve food after kitchen team walk out

10-Dec-2018 By Robert Mann

An award-winning pub and restaurant has been forced to stop serving pub grub after its kitchen team walked out.

Substantial rises in the price of butter and fish

06-Dec-2018 By Nicholas Robinson

Increased butter prices have resulted in oils and fats costing over 30% more than they did a year ago, while the price of fish is up by 25%, new data from the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index has shown.

Ingredient prices at highest in more than a year

04-Dec-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

Wholesale foodservice prices rose again in October 2018 to reach their highest rate since September 2017, research has found.

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Top 50 Gastropubs 2019 Front of House Team finalists unveiled

04-Dec-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

The 2019 finalists for the coveted Front of House Team of the Year award at next year’s Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs have now been announced.

Harcourt Inns tastes success at Restaurant R200 Awards

04-Dec-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

London-based pub group Harcourt Inns won the Food-led Pub Company of the Year award at last night's (3 December) R200 Awards.

Six chips are an 'ideal portion', says Harvard professor

04-Dec-2018 By Emily Hawkins

Six fries are an ideal portion, according to a Harvard professor who dubbed the food a “starch bomb”. The Morning Advertiser asked UK industry experts if portions served by pubs here were too large.

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Newcomer finalists revealed for Top 50 Gastropubs Awards 2019

30-Nov-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

The finalists for the Newcomer of the Year award at next year’s Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs have now been unveiled.

Diner who suffered from cardiac arrest during meal saved by quick-thinking pub staff

29-Nov-2018 By Robert Mann

An OAP whose heart stopped three times during a Sunday roast dinner was brought back to life with a defibrillator after quick-thinking pub staff rushed to his aid.

Greene King fined £152k for food hygiene failings

29-Nov-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

Pubco Greene King has been hit with a bill of more than £165,000, including a £152,000 fine, after one of its pubs was found to have a slew of food hygiene failings, which could have made diners ‘seriously ill’, according to Newport City Council.

Which foods could put diners over the drink-drive limit?

29-Nov-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

Spicy sauce, olives and orange juice are just three products that contain alcohol and could potentially put diners over the legal drink-drive limit.

Crisp flavour ‘offensive to Welsh people’ withdrawn

28-Nov-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

A crisp brand has removed its Welsh Rarebit flavour following social media users criticising the description of the crisps on the back of the packet.

Pub slapped with zero food-hygiene rating

28-Nov-2018 By Nikkie Sutton

A market town pub has been awarded the lowest food-hygiene rating of zero and its standards were deemed to need major improvement.

4-star rating for pub after hefty fine for health and safety breaches

21-Nov-2018 By Robert Mann

A pub that sold food “unfit for human consumption” has been awarded a prestigious 4-star hygiene rating just 10 days after a court fine.

Pub changes its name to avoid offending vegans

21-Nov-2018 By Robert Mann

A pub has scrapped its long-standing meat-related name dating back to the 1950s – because it might compromise its plan to focus on vegan and vegetarian food.