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Chef Steven Ellis has spent the last decade cutting his culinary chops at some of the UK's top eateries including triple Michelin-starred Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea and Andrew Pern's Star Inn, Harome, North Yorkshire. Daniel Woolfson gets the...
A former iconic music pub’s unconventional list of barred customers has resurfaced as the venue looks set to reopen as food-ledpub.
Craft beer
Craft brewers must work harder to make craft beer more accessible to pub customers if the segment is to experience success akin to that of the States’, US Brewers’ Association president and chief executive Bob Pease has urged.
Football
BT Sport and the BBC have retained the rights to The FA Cup until 2021, extending their shared coverage for another three years.
Consumer trends
British diners are increasingly choosing to eat alone, with more than a third going a whole week without eating a meal in the company of anyone else, new research reports.
The Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) and the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) have joined forces to fight for a reduction in the level of VAT pubs pay and to highlight the tax burden facing licensees.
The Yummy Pub Co is on the hunt for applicants for an unusual new position – 'head of random acts of kindness'.
TECHNOLOGY
Pubs and restaurants are failing to keep up with millennial customers’ demands for mobile payment and loyalty options, research has revealed.
Suppliers
Wholesaler JJ Food Service has been named as one of the most profitable businesses in the UK by The Sunday Times.
Beer
Budweiser has launched twist-off beer bottle caps in what the company claims is a first for the UK pub industry.