Hampshire

The Purefoy Arms pub Preston Candover Hampshire to shut

The Purefoy Arms to close for good

By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Award-winning gastropub the Purefoy Arms, Hampshire, will shut its doors permanently at the end of the month due to “unexpected happenings”.

Hampshire business: Ringwood Brewery was sold to Marston's Brewery in 2007

CMBC planning to sell Ringwood Brewery

By Nikkie Thatcher

Carlsberg Marston’s Brewing Company (CMBC) has revealed it is proposing to sell Ringwood Brewery in Hampshire citing the venue’s location being in a residential area makes expansion complicated as part of the reason.

Thanks for the memories: Fallen Acorn Brewery was founded in 2016 (credit: Getty/ Monty Rakusen)

Inflationary costs force microbrewery to shut

By Amelie Maurice-Jones

Hampshire-based brewery Fallen Acorn has been forced to enter liquidation due to the storm of inflation, Covid, and the soaring costs of utilities and material goods.

Finalist info: here's a deeper dive into this year's Stonegate Pub of the Year shortlist

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Meet the finalists for Stonegate Pub of the Year

By The Morning Advertiser

Ahead of the 2022 Great British Pub Awards in a just a few days time, here's the lowdown on the finalists in running to be named Stonegate Pub of the Year.

Final few: find out more about the last six standing in the Greene King Pub of the Year category

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Meet the finalists for Greene King Pub of the Year

By The Morning Advertiser

With the Great British Pub Awards just days away from announcing and celebrating some of the best bars in the business, we take a look at some of the finalist that are in the running to take home some silver. Today it’s the turn of the bars that are competing...

Award nominations: here are the final six contenders in the Star Pubs & Bars Pub of the Year category

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Meet the finalists for Star Pubs & Bars Pub of the Year

By The Morning Advertiser

With the Great British Pub Awards just days away from announcing and celebrating some of the best bars in the business, we take a look at some of the finalist that are in the running to take home some silver. Today it’s the turn of the bars that are competing...

New normal: publicans have said staff are happy to work in face coverings despite sore ears

Face coverings 'right thing to do'

By Emily Hawkins

Publicans have shared their experiences with face masks at their sites, reporting positive reactions from customers and staff.

Fuller's chef wins group awards

Fuller's chef wins group awards

By Daniel Woolfson

Jade Clark, who cooks at the Fisherman’s Haunt, Dorset, has been named Fuller’s Chef’s Guild Scholarship Chef of the Year 2015.

Upham grows pub estate to ten

Upham grows pub estate to ten

By James Wallin

Hampshire-based Upham Pub Group has grown its estate to ten with the acquisition of the Peat Spade in Stockbridge from Miller’s Collection.

Perfect venue: Andrew and Sisi Ryder knew the pub was right for them

Soaring to new heights

By Sheila McWattie

Sisi Ryder, co-licensee at the Phoenix Inn, near Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, tells Sheila McWattie why food and events are all-important. How we got...

Fullers chef's winning dish

Hampshire reveals finest

By Jo Bruce

The head chef of Fuller's pub the Pilgrim Inn, Marchwood, has won a competition to find the Hampshire Dish of the Year. Aaron Pace beat three other...

Internet: useful tool to boost business

Pub food: business boosters

By Jo Bruce

Ideas for driving food sales at your pub including a Spanish night, a music club and using web vouchers. Spanish night Where: the Mill Race,...

Loungers: still growing

Loungers ups expansion

By Gemma McKenna

Bristol-based group Loungers is expanding faster than anticipated, and has just signed a deal on its 17th site. The company, which was founded in...

Fuller's: trimming its tail

Fuller's to sell off six pubs

By Mark Stretton, M&C Report

Fuller's is conducting a tail-trimming exercise of its pub estate, selling six properties from its tenanted division.

Portsmouth targets proxy alcohol sales

Portsmouth targets proxy alcohol sales

By Ewan Turney

Portsmouth Trading Standards has launched Proxywatch to catch adults buying booze for kids. Any adult caught buying alcohol for youngsters could be...

Fish from the farm

Fish from the farm

The Australians, as we know, are not afraid to get stuck in. So it should come as no surprise that when it comes to fish and chips, they choose to...

BarTalk

BarTalk

How was trade over the bank holiday weekend? Alan Dreja Royal Oak Southampton Hampshire It was quiet, as we expected. This is a city-centre pub but...

BarTalk

BarTalk

Has the weather or smoking ban affected you more this summer? Suzie Dreja Royal Oak Southampton Hampshire Yes and yes! They've both been extremely...

Close to home

Close to home

Just how local is local? It's a question pubs are increasingly being asked as consumers become more interested in the credentials of the food on...

Forces step up glass action

Forces step up glass action

By Tony Halstead

Police forces are stepping up their attempts to persuade licensees and pub operators to go plastic. Hampshire police have revealed pubs in...

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