Gastro Pub

Dominic Chapman leaves the Beehive

01-Dec-2023 By Joe Lutrario, Restaurant

Chef Dominic Chapman is moving on from his highly-rated The Beehive pub in Berkshire having sold on the lease to Tangy Treat Ltd for an undisclosed sum.

Three pubs crowned in London’s top 100 restaurants

19-Apr-2022 By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Three gastropubs have been credited in SquareMeal’s list of London’s best 100 restaurants, after they were acknowledged by the Top 50 Gastropub awards at the start of the year.

International Women's Day 2022 - sponsored by Peroni Nastro Azzurro

Top female chefs share success stories for International Women's Day

08-Mar-2022 By The Morning Advertiser

To celebrate women across the on-trade this International Women's Day (8 March), The Morning Advertiser asked top female chefs to share their stories and opinions of gender equality in the sector.

Brasserie Bar Co: ‘The business has never been in better shape’

10-Feb-2022 By Georgi Gyton, MCA

Brasserie Bar Co now has the firepower to accelerate its expansion plans and is keen to use new owner Alchemy’s experience as the backer of The Inn Collection to drive it forward, executive chairman Mark Derry told MCA.

Pandemic taught operators importance of tech, loyalty and adaptability

28-Jan-2022 By Rebecca Weller

The coronavirus pandemic has taught operators the need to be resilient and adaptable, the importance of technology and who could be counted on as loyal friends and customers, according to licensees across the sector.

GBPA Best Chef: Gordon Stott, the Purefoy Arms

29-Sep-2021 By Ed Bedington

This year’s Best Chef title at the Great British Pub Awards was awarded to Gordon Stott of the Purefoy Arms, near Basingstoke in Hampshire.

How I got here: Margriet Vandezande-Crump

18-May-2021 By James McAllister, Big Hospitality

The Belgian co-owner of the Greyhound in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, which was recently named ‘One to Watch’ at the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs, spoke to Big Hospitality to reflect on her career to date.

'We have never been so busy' - how are food pubs finding reopening?

29-Jul-2020 By Emily Hawkins

Operators have shared their experiences of trade with The Morning Advertiser, with some reporting food sales up on the previous year.

The MA Podcast – Ep 4

Fuller's boss Simon Emeny on the future of the pubco

13-Feb-2020 By MA Podcast

In the fourth episode of The MA Podcast, Ed Bedington talks to Fuller's boss Simon Emeny about the pubco's future, threats to the trade and why we should be celebrating success.

Gastropub Unruly Pig scores top service award for second time

28-Jan-2020 By Alice Leader

Suffolk-based gastropub, the Unruly Pig, has bagged Front of House Team of the Year Award at the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs.

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Tanner brothers open to new pubs / JW Lees boss on the trade

03-Jan-2020 By Nicholas Robinson

JW Lees managing director William Lees-Jones gives his view on issues in the pub trade and confirms there are no plans to sell the brewery, following similar sales in the trade this year.

Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs

Hare’s to 20 more years

12-Dec-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

After two decades in the biz and five years at their gastropub the Kentish Hare, chef brothers James and Chris Tanner have a desire to hop into another pub site.

Service is key for couple opening gastropub

28-Oct-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

Following an illustrious career in some of the UK’s most decorated restaurants and gastropubs, husband and wife team Daniel Crump and Margriet Vandezande-Crump are soon to launch their own pub venture.

Maintaining price point key for gastropubs’ future

15-Oct-2019 By Emily Hawkins

Peach Pubs managing director Hamish Stoddart said maintaining accessible prices and competing against the lure of the stay-at-home economy are the biggest challenges for gastropubs.

Two pubs gain Michelin Stars with none lost

08-Oct-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

The 2020 edition of The Michelin Guide has given two gastropubs Michelin stars, bringing the total of star-holding sites to 19.

Kingham Plough sold by Emily Watkins

28-Feb-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

Gastropub the Kingham Plough has been sold by Emily Watkins and her husband and business partner Miles Lampson, having spent 12 years building the iconic award-winning business.

Award-winning freehouse on sale for £900k

11-Feb-2019 By Nicholas Robinson

After 15 years of ownership, husband and wife team Ashley and Kelly McCarthy have decided to sell the Ye Old Sun Inn, Colton, North Yorkshire, for £900,000 to pursue “numerous other business interests”.

Dominic Chapman: ‘I’m done with running 3 or 4 pubs’

12-Sep-2018 By Nicholas Robinson

Elite chef Dominic Chapman will focus on growing his Top 50 Gastropub the Beehive and making it the best it can be.

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.

Gastropubs ‘not killing off pub culture’

15-Jun-2018 By Nicholas Robinson

Gastropubs are providing a boost to society and pub culture, rather than gentrifying a historic British tradition, an author has claimed in her new book.

Anglian Country Inns wins Gastropub of the Year award

19-Nov-2014 By Jo Bruce

Anglian Country Inns' site the Fox at Willian has been announced as Gastro Pub of the Year for England in the inaugural Food Awards England and Wales 2014.

Top food prize for Somerstown Coffee House

11-Jan-2010

Les Routiers UK has announced the winners of its annual hospitality awards. Somers Town Coffeehouse in London, which won Gastro Pub of the Year at...

Gastro-nomics

01-Apr-2006 By Jo Bruce

Their informal atmosphere and fresh food is waving the flag for quality British fare. Jo Bruce salutes the gastro pub My name is Jo Bruce and I am a...

4 The Angel Inn

01-Apr-2006 By David Hancock

Despite southern pretenders to the title, the Angel Inn was the UK's first gastro pub, says David Hancock, though its late, pioneering host didn't...

Celebrity chef profile - Driving ambition

01-Mar-2006

Ed Baines almost gave up cooking to take up car design, but staying in the kitchen paid off. Now, writes Humayun Hussain, he has a gastro pub, two...

Great Pub Chefs - Courage under Fire

01-Feb-2006 By Mark Taylor

In the hot seat - Jonny Haughton What do you think of the gastro pub explosion? "On the whole, it's clear that standards of food and standards of...

In the Hot seat - Michael Maguire

01-Sep-2005 By Mark Taylor

In the hot seat - Michael Maguire

It's time to sing a new song

30-Jun-2005

Gastro pubs have passed their sell-by date, says The Daily Telegraph's pub writer ADAM EDWARDS the next big thing for the licensed trade will be the...

Gastro pub set to go global

14-Apr-2005

by Max Gosney The gastro pub will become a world player this May with the launch of a Geronimo Inns pub at Heathrow airport. Travellers from all...

The Anchor & Hope

31-Mar-2005

Southwark, London, 020 7928 9898 Ownership: Business partners Mike Belben, Jonathan Jones, Harry Lester and Rob Shaw have run the pub on a lease...

A taste of things to come

31-Mar-2005

Pub food is in the hands of innovative operators but what makes a good gastro pub? We ask the top industry experts The operator Nigel Haworth and...

Going gastro

31-Mar-2005

Influential, inspirational and now completely indispensable ­ the gastro pub has transformed the British boozer. Rosie Davenport leads off a special...

Yes

31-Mar-2005

What is a gastro pub? It can't just be a pub that serves food, because many, if not most, pubs do that. But if it's something more than a food pub,...

Great pub chefs - The Graduates

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....

Gastro­ with wine tumblers?

23-Sep-2004

Normally I'd walk away if I saw tumblers on a table masquerading as wine glasses ­ they makeall wine taste like plonk. But this is the Anchor &...

Anchor & Hope is gastro pub of year

11-Mar-2004

The Anchor & Hope in Waterloo, London, has won the Gastro Pub of the Year award at the Tio Pepe ITV London Restaurant Awards. Owners are Jonathan...