Gastropub

Food shortages and inflation hike on the cards

05-Aug-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Operators have been urged to prepare for a spike in inflation and warned about the chance of food shortages.

Calls for pubs to enter Great Roast competition

23-Jul-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

The search for the nation’s best roast dinner is on where prizes include a £3,000 catering voucher, PR support and a photoshoot.

Pubs and restaurants continue to gain market share, driving average spend up

13-Jul-2021 By The Morning Advertiser

According to the latest data from Lumina Intelligence Eating & Drinking Out Panel, the proportion of Brits engaging with restaurants and food-led pubs grew to 58%.

Less than half of pub goers claim calorie labelling would influence food choices

06-Jul-2021 By Stuart Stone

Just 39% of respondents to a recent survey believe that calorie labelling on pub and bar food menus would influence their meal choices when eating out.

Opinion

Caring for customers, caring for your team

17-Jun-2021 By Brendan Padfield, the Unruly Pig, Woodbridge, Suffolk

This pandemic has hit the whole country so hard. Hospitality, as a sector, has perhaps been hardest hit, having been closed for a total of nine and a half months via three lockdowns since March 2020.

Nigel Haworth reacquires the Three Fishes in Mitton

04-Jun-2021 By Joe Lutrario, Restaurant

Former Northcote chef-patron Nigel Haworth has reacquired the Three Fishes in Mitton and plans to take the Lancashire pub to ‘new heights’.

The Lock In Podcast

The Lock In Podcast: Food Glorious Food!

20-May-2021 By Ed Bedington

With indoor reopening now well underway, the Lock In team tackle the subject of pub grub, how the crisis has impacted on offers, the challenges around growing your own chefs, calorie labelling on menus and we ask how sustainable is your pub food offer?...

Retiring Welsh operators to give pub away in raffle

14-May-2021 By Stuart Stone

The husband-and-wife team behind the Raglan Arms in Llandenny, Monmouthshire, have opted to raffle off their fully-stocked pub as they retire from the industry.

Opinion

More than half of food still being wasted at hospitality venues

30-Apr-2021 By Ben Gardner, CEO, Navitas Safety

Ben Gardner, CEO of Navitas Safety, a single destination for digital food safety, explains what the food and hospitality industries can do to reduce food waste and promote a circular food economy.

Opinion

‘Small steps, but good ones’ as pubs reopen for outdoor trading

19-Apr-2021 By Piers Baker, the Sun Inn, Dedham and Church Street Tavern, Colchester, both Essex

The first weekend went really well – we can seat around 75 in the garden and another 36 on the terrace and I'd say both were full from 2pm onwards.

Eyebrows raised as £900 pub bill listed among 'strange' Home Office expenses

30-Mar-2021 By Stuart Stone

The Home Office has moved to explain a series of expenses accrued in 2020, including a £900 outlay at an Oxford gastropub.

Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs

Top 50 Gastropubs 2021 revealed tonight at 7pm

26-Mar-2021 By Top 50 Gastropubs

The Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs will be revealed tonight (Friday 26 March) at 7pm in a live stream from London hosted by the incredible Angellica Bell and Top 50 Gastropubs editor Nicholas Robinson.

Oakman acquires six Seafood sites

09-Mar-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

Hertfordshire-based multiple operator The Oakman Group has acquired six pubs from the administrators of Seafood Pub Company.

Pubs and bars to catch post-lockdown singles on the rebound, says dating expert

11-Feb-2021 By Stuart Stone

Dating expert Karen Mooney explains that despite an uptick in Zoom dates and socially distanced walks, romantic on-trade outings will ‘definitely bounce back’ among those looking to shoot their post-Covid shot.

No pub additions to Michelin star list but trio awarded Bib Gourmands

26-Jan-2021 By Nikkie Thatcher

There were no new Michelin stars awarded to pubs in the latest guide however, three were given Bib Gourmands.

30 years of the Eagle – the UK’s first gastropub

12-Jan-2021 By Nicholas Robinson

Impossible it may seem, yet there is a pub that not only launched a dining genre but has thrived over three decades without deviating from its original concept. The Eagle in Clerkenwell, north London, is the granddaddy of gastropubs and celebrates 30...

Michelin-starred Pony & Trap ‘ain’t closing but changing’

07-Jan-2021 By Nicholas Robinson

Michelin-starred Bristol gastropub the Pony & Trap in Chew Magna is not closing down, but will change its direction this spring, chef-patron Josh Eggleton has told The Morning Advertiser (MA).

How has 2020 changed people and pubs?

‘Seven years of blood, sweat and tears that we have put into our business started to disappear’

30-Dec-2020 By Nicholas Hack, co-chef and owner, the Cadeleigh Arms, Tiverton, Devon

The next in our series of reflections on 2020 in the on-trade, award-winning chef and pub operator Nicholas Hack looks back on a ‘yoyo’ of tiers and lockdowns and building his business on 12 months of shifting sands.

How has 2020 changed people and pubs?

‘When you’re a publican and you’ve retrained as an actress. Just call me Lucky’

18-Dec-2020 By Debbie Baisden, the Rayleigh Arms, Terling, Essex

To kick off a series looking back at a turbulent 12 months in the on-trade, Debbie Baisden, a multi-tasking, performing publican, explains how she is confronting Covid-19 challenges with hopes to continue both her careers in the arts and hospitality.

Kerridge to lead expert panel session on Saving Britain’s Pubs

04-Dec-2020 By The Morning Advertiser

Celebrity chef and pub operator Tom Kerridge is set to follow up the success of his recent BBC series with a live Q&A for the pub sector with a panel of experts.

Covid-19 to hit foodservice sector for more than £44bn

24-Nov-2020 By Stuart Stone

Consumer spend in restaurants and other food-led outlets is forecast to plummet by 57.8% year-on-year as part of a near £200bn drop in spend during 2020.

Top 50 Gastropubs

Foodies’ Favourite Award launched by Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs

23-Nov-2020 By Nicholas Robinson

Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs has launched its first award voted for by consumers in a bid to showcase more of the UK’s deserving gastropubs.

Tom Kerridge: Pubs face huge costs, despite adapting

10-Nov-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

Pubs have constantly adapted and changed in accordance with Government guidelines but at huge cost, celebrity chef and pub owner Tom Kerridge has told The Morning Advertiser.

Grave concerns about Government strategy

06-Nov-2020 By Ed Bedington

The Morning Advertiser’s Ed Bedington spoke to Top 50 Gastropub operator, Brendan Padfield of the Unruly Pig, in Bromeswell, Suffolk, to get his views on the big stories of the past week.

Pubs recognised with AA Rosettes

28-Oct-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

A number of pubs have been awarded accolades in the latest round of AA Rosette Awards, which aim to celebrate dining destinations with the highest quality culinary offerings in the country.

Coronavirus pushes Whiting & Hammond into administration

14-Oct-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

Multiple pub operator Whiting & Hammond entered into administration at the end of last month (30 September), it has announced.

17 gastropubs help raise more than £100k for Estrella Damm NRA Auction

10-Sep-2020 By MA editorial

The Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards Top 100 Auction has raised over £117k for industry charity Hospitality Action.

Estrella Damm NRA launches hospitality charity auction

18-Aug-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

The Estrella Damm National Restaurant Awards has teamed up with chefs, restaurateurs and other industry leaders to create an auction with proceeds going towards helping hospitality.

One in six have failed to fulfil dinner or drinks bookings since lockdown

20-Jul-2020 By Stuart Stone

Though 95% of Brits consider it rude not to let a pub, bar or restaurant know they won’t be making a booking, operators have nonetheless faced a wave of ‘no-shows’ since trading resumed on 4 July.

Little interview

Lockdown-launched farm shop accounts for 25% of pub’s 'Super Saturday' takings

13-Jul-2020 By Stuart Stone

A Hertfordshire pub's chef owner has revealed life after lockdown for a revenue stream launched to serve its local community during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Kerridge slams ‘disgraceful’ no shows

13-Jul-2020 By Nikkie Thatcher

Celebrity chef and pub operator Tom Kerridge has hit out at customers who failed to show at his London venue.