Gastro Pubs

Publican Awards 2021

Meet the finalists: Best Food Offer

25-Mar-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

The Morning Advertiser has profiled the operators in the running for the Best Food Offer prize, sponsored by CPL Learning, at the 2021 Publican Awards.

Publican Awards 2021

Meet the finalists: Best Premium Food Offer

25-Mar-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

The Morning Advertiser has profiled the pub companies in the running for the Best Premium Food Offer prize, sponsored by Budweiser Brewing Group UK&I, at the 2021 Publican Awards.

Property round-up

Pubco projects top £10m, Murdoch money to revive Camden stalwart, Top 50 Gastropub on the market

16-Sep-2020 By Stuart Stone

Operators including JD Wetherspoon, Robinsons and Hall & Woodhouse all provided updates on seven-figure pub projects, while Elisabeth Murdoch is reportedly looking to restore Koko in Camden.

#UnitedWeStand

Michelin-starred gastropub chef cooks for NHS

09-Apr-2020 By Nicholas Robinson

Cooking meals for the NHS and Age UK at a charitable organisation during the coronavirus lockdown has helped Sally Abé – head chef of the Michelin-starred Harwood Arms – maintain the daily structure that most hospitality workers need. But she has also...

Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs

How to create an award-winning gastropub

22-Oct-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

After just two-and-a-half years, Liam Dillon – chef-owner of Lichfield’s the Boat Inn – has established an admirable reputation for his Staffordshire gastropub.

Stosie Madi: 'Our location gives us scope to do a lot'

27-Jul-2018 By Nicholas Robinson

The Parkers Arms in Clitheroe, Lancashire, may be off the beaten track, but chef-patron Stosie Madi uses this to her advantage.

Gastropub boom in East Anglia

01-Oct-2007

Pub company Gastro Pubs plans to open 20 food-led pubs in East Anglia in the next five years. The company's second pub, the Compasses in Stansfield,...

I'd rather be sitting in a pub

01-Apr-2006 By Mark Taylor

Giles Coren, The Times restaurant critic, tucks into a debate with Mark Taylor on the gastro-pub phenomenon What are your earliest memories of dining...

Alter Egon

01-Apr-2006 By Jo Bruce

Renowned as a restaurant critic, Egon Ronay's latest guide includes 300 gastro pubs. He talks to Jo Bruce about the sector that he believes has had...

Gastro pubs boom dishes

22-Sep-2005

up a puzzle for City diners by John Harrington The line between gastro pubs and restaurants in London is continuing to blur following the recent boom...

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...

Future gazing with more people in the know

31-Mar-2005

Xanthe Clay, Daily Telegraph cookery writer "Gastro pubs are here to stay ­ as long as they remember their roots, which is serving well-kept beer...

Gastro pubs face planning limbo

31-Mar-2005

by Tony Halstead New planning regulations are threatening to place thousands of gastro pubs into a virtual planners' "no man's land," property...

Are gastro pubs no more than trendy restaurants in disguise?

31-Mar-2005

No What I want today is different from what I wanted yesterday. How I spend my leisure time now has changed markedly from my youthful prime when I...

Gastro pubs hit by storms

20-Jan-2005

Freak "weather bombs" which caused hurricane-strength winds across the north of England and Scotland have devastated trade at several gastro pubs....

Gastro-pub fare on track with GNER

09-Dec-2004

Two of the country's top gastro pubs are getting a burst of publicity across the length of the UK since their menus began appearing in the dining...

M&S joins gastro pub revolution

21-Oct-2004

Marks & Spencer has launched a new range of food inspired by dishes found on gastro-pub menus. The company said the range, called simply...