We Want Plates founder: bad presentation in pubs is "epidemic"
Pubs are by far the worst culprits when it comes to bad presentation of food, according to We Want Plates founder Ross McGinnes.
Archives for August 20, 2015
Urban Pubs & Bars to launch new pizza concept in Hackney
Urban Pubs & Bars, the group led by Realpubs founders Nick Pring and Malcom Heap, is to launch a new pizza concept in London’s Hackney.
New opening
Second site for Southwark licensee
Publican Jim Banks has opened his second London pub - The Grove at Battersea – as an eclectic family-friendly bar.
Chef recruitment crisis
“Fancy chefs don’t want to drop down to our level” - top London pub chef talks chef shortage
The current shortage of skilled chefs and the problems caused by it are “never ending”, according to Jesse Dunford-Wood, chef patron of Parlour, in Kensal Green, London.
Drinks
New world order
The New World Trading Company is putting interesting drinks at the forefront of its offer as the nine-strong group marches into the UK’s city centres. Liquor sales account for 66% of the group’s sales, and Botanist’s Newcastle branch has sold a cocktail...
Live football
Illegal suppliers of Premier League football jailed
The owners of a company which supplied illegal Premier League football to pubs have been jailed for three and a half years.
London
'Iconic' Westminster pub unanimously saved from redevelopment
Westminster’s the Clifton Hotel has been saved from the brink of redevelopment after the council unanimously rejected an application to turn the pub into houses.
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