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 - 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 - 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...
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...
Christmas - Dash of the Day
01-Oct-2005 By Mark Taylor
Christmas food can create a lot of work but, writes Mark Taylor, it's all down to preparation Love it or hate it, Christmas is the busiest time of...
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...
Life in a Pub Kitchen can be hectic - Stress Busters - Scarlo Reina
01-Sep-2005 By Scarlo Reina
Stress Busters - Scarlo Reina
Olympic Theme sees Dan strike gold
01-Sep-2005
Pub chef Dan Welstead of the Farmers in Sevenoaks, Kent, was a member of the winning team in this year's recently-announced Nestlé Toque d'Or...
L'Auberge turns to India in staff recruitment drive
04-Aug-2005
by Tony Halstead Massive Pub Company is scouring India's best five-star hotels to recruit new chefs for its chain of L'Auberge French restaurants....
Rudden wins Craft Guild Award
01-Aug-2005
Pub chef John Rudden has added another string to his extensive culinary bow by winning the Craft Guild of Chefs' Pub Restaurant Chef of the Year 2005...
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...
Refrigeration - Tried and Tested
01-Aug-2005
The Harbour Inn in Southwold, Suffolk, has achieved energy savings, faster customer service and reduced staff costs after installing a VariCool unit...
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,...
Whittome's winner
28-Jul-2005
Having become a millionaire from selling potatoes, Paul Whittome bought the Hoste Arms as a property investment but it soon became a passion. MAX...
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...
Your chance to shine in the PubChef Awards 2006
14-Jul-2005
The search is on for the best pub chefs in Britain with the launch of this year's PubChef Awards. This is the second year of our prestigious awards,...
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 Awards - Why the Awards are a winner
01-Jul-2005
Opinions on why the PubChef awards are a winner "Last year's awards was the first competition I'd entered and I enjoyed the experience. I met some...
PubChef Awards - The Search Begins - will you make the grade?
01-Jul-2005
The hunt is on to find the best pub chefs in Britain in the PubChef Awards 2006. The competition involves an eight month search for excellence, with...
Food pubs buck the trend
09-Jun-2005
by Max Gosney Food pubs basked in a 30% sales boom during May bank holiday, easing fears over a predicted slowdown in consumer spending. Pub chefs...
Robinson's
02-Jun-2005
game plan Game, such asmuntjacs and wild rabbits, makes for European peasant food' fit for a kingat Mike Robinson'sPot Kiln butat lowly...
Chef's CV - Nigel Ramsbottom
01-Jun-2005
Chef's CV - Nigel Ramsbottom
Tricks of the Trade - Secrets of a Good Stock
01-Jun-2005
PubChef asks chefs the secret of a good stock "The most important factor in a good fish stock is the quality of the fish bones. If you start with a...
A branded new approach - Big-name drinks brands can drive food sales at your pub...
01-Jun-2005 By Max Gosney
Big-name drinks brands can drive food sales at your pub, according to a leading drinks supplier. We asked three chefs to list leading spirits brands in their pub menu descriptions - but were they a sales hit? Max Gosney reports
Sandwich Supremo - The Winner of Pub Sandwich of the Year 2005
01-Jun-2005 By Jo Bruce
Earlier this year PubChef launched a competition to find the best pub sandwich in Britain. Jo Bruce reports on the finalists and winner of the Pub...
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...
Tricks of the Trade Making the perfect shortcrust pastry
01-May-2005
Chef's tips on making perfect shortcrust pastry "The trick with shortcrust pastry, as with any pastry, is not to overwork it. It's best to roll out a...
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...
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...
Growth on the Menu - fascinating results of our Food Report Survey
01-Apr-2005
Our food report survey asked licensees for information and their views on the food offering in their pubs. Food will continue to feed the future of...
Day in the life of a gastro pub
31-Mar-2005
With its wine evenings, healthy turnover and a place in the guidebooks, the Bear & Swan in Somerset is a pub to be reckoned with. Mark Taylor...
PubChef goes live
24-Mar-2005
The inaugural PubChef Live event was held last week at the Cock at Hemingford Grey in Cambridgeshire. Finding new menu inspiration can be a tough...
Griffin's a true Brecon beacon
17-Mar-2005
Offering real luxury but doing thesimple things in life well, have made theFelin Fach Griffin a major attraction, despite its remote South Wales...
Spirit to grow Two For One and Chef & Brewer brands
10-Mar-2005
Spirit is to open 50 Two For One and 10 Chef& Brewer pubs this year. The outlets will mainly be converted from sites bought in the Scottish &...
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...
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...
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...
Gastro pubs cut bigger slice of Michelin status
27-Jan-2005
by Max Gosney Pub food has received a major boost after one gastro pub was awarded a Michelin star and 12 other pubs won Bib Gourmands one step...
Nestlé puts catering students through their paces
25-Jan-2005
Pubs wanting first crack at recruiting the cream of the next generation of chefs should be paying close attention to the Nestlé Toque d'Or 2005...
Greg to differ
20-Jan-2005
Greg Nicholl may have the trappings of success, but, as Max Gosney discovered, it's been a hard route to the top Chef-turned-pub-owner Greg...
Marks & Spencer recently launched a range of meals called Ga
18-Nov-2004
The panel: Anthony Williams, head chef, the Williams Arms, Braunton, Devon. Killian Callender, head chef, the Merrie Harriers, Cowbeech,...
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
Age is no barrier to running the kitchen of a top London gastro pub, as Max Gosney finds when he meets chefs Andrew Tyrrell and Stephen Williams....
01-Nov-2004 By Jo Bruce
The sixth category cook-off in the PubChef Awards recognised the talents of rising stars in pub food. Jo Bruce reports. The increase in quality in...
Chef & Brewer hails its best
21-Oct-2004
Paul O'Keeffe, head chef at the Boot & Slipper, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, has been named Chef of the Year in a pub company competition. He beat...
01-Oct-2004 By Jo Bruce and Max Gosney
Our five finalists in the Seafood category cookoff in the PubChef Awards focused on using local ingredients. Jo Bruce and Max Gosney report. Seafood...
01-Oct-2004 By Max Gosney
British venison is the key ingredient as two chefs go head-to-head at the Sherborne Arms in the Cotswolds. Max Gosney reports. The chefs - Name: Lee...
01-Oct-2004 By Clive Beddall
Take one Russian chef and a village inn that has just been reborn to celebrate its links with King Arthur… and you've the makings of a legend....
