Pub Food: Eat Seasonably
02-Dec-2010 By Jessica Harvey Jessica
It may well be a white Christmas and we've certainly got the advent calendars out now, so to keep your seasonal food menus as timely and festive as...
Iceland launches pub food range
01-Dec-2010 By Jo Bruce
Iceland is the latest retailer to launch a range of pub food inspired ready meals — it is advertising its "pub Grub" range on TV.
01-Dec-2010 By Jo Bruce
Mitchells & Butlers brand Sizzling Pubs is offering customers a free Baileys when they buy a dessert. A range of six £2.99 meals are also on...
24-Sep-2010 By Jo Bruce
Orchid Group is offering an exclusive two-course menu for over-50s Diamond Club members at its 34 Contemporary Carveries. The company will also...
21-Sep-2010 By Jo Bruce
JD Wetherspoon is extending its afternoon food deal with a new dish — gammon steak, free-range eggs, chips and a cup of tea.
02-Aug-2010 By Jo Bruce
Jo Bruce shares some of the top tips from S&NPC's five alfresco roadshows, which aimed to help lessees drive trade this summer.
30-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Toby Carvery is trialling roast lamb at 16 pubs across the south on Sundays, which could replace pork permanently.
FSA warns pubs on chicken liver cooking
30-Jul-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has warned pub chefs to check that chicken livers are properly cooked following an outbreak of food poisoning.
02-Jul-2010 By Jo Bruce
The UKs largest village has got peachy. Jo Bruce looks at how steak nights, building links with the locals and movies are driving the business The...
10-Jun-2010 By Lesley Foottit
BPEX has launched a new website featuring quality assured pork as well as a new range of recipes to help licensees make the most of the meat.
Sourcing cheap cuts of meat
12-Apr-2010 By Claire Dodd Claire
My food fantasy involves a giant chocolate bar and marshmallows the size of cars. But if you run a busy kitchen your food dream will be a bit more...
09-Apr-2010 By Lesley Foottit
The Lamb at Buckland, Oxfordshire, has been re-opened by new owners — Richard and Shelley Terry and business partner Chris Green.
Local meat sourcing: The Queens Arms rears its own livestock
17-Mar-2010 By Katie Coyne
"Children don't know where meat comes from," says licensee Marilyn Ruberry. "They think milk comes out of a canister, they don't know bacon is from a...
24-Feb-2010 By Lesley Foottit
Tailor Made Steaks (TMS), the pub operator that specialises in steak, has opened a small hotel in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire.
02-Feb-2010 By Ewan Turney
Tables are now on sale for the Great British Pub Food Awards 2010 at Plaisterers Hall, London on 11 March.
Pubs invited to join beef and lamb push
01-Feb-2010
Pub chefs are being invited to sign up to a new initiative aimed at increasing sales of beef and lamb and underling the meats' quality during the...
Essential Cuisine launch new vegetarian gravy to No 1 range
15-Jan-2010
Essential Cuisine has added a vegetarian, gluten-free gravy to its range. No1 Savoury Gravy, is added to the No1 range alongside No1 Beef and No1...
Getting saucy for the festive season
11-Nov-2009
Leather's Smithy was made for Christmas. Built in the 18th century alongside Macclesfield Forest Reservoir at Langley, Cheshire, the stone-built...
Winner of best pub sausage announced
23-Oct-2009 By Claire Dodd Claire
The best pub bangers in the business have fought it out, but there could only be one winner. Kevin Berkins, owner of the Fence Gate Inn in Fence and...
Meat industry backs calls for menu transparency
01-Oct-2009
With the origin of food increasingly important to customers, the red meat industry has backed a call from the British Hospitality Association (BHA)...
Zebra or Camel? Exotic Sunday roasts on offer at Brighton pub
17-Sep-2009
While many pubs offer a choice of Sunday roast in a bid to attract trade, the range on offer at the Victory Inn, Brighton, is hard to beat. Ostrich,...
Seasonal food focus: Summer suppers
19-Jun-2009
Produce harvested in season is fresher and more nutritious and due to its increase in availability, should also lower costs for the pub. Prime Meats,...
Driving new food business: Step outside
04-Jun-2009
Cooking and eating outdoors is a big attraction, and can help pubs to drive trade across the summer. Given that most customers will have grilled a...
Best of British BBQ team head for North America
15-May-2009
The plucky lads of the Best of British BBQ team are once again heading across the pond to take on the world's best al fresco chefs.The team comprises...
Summer special: Better barbecues
01-May-2009
Sausages, burgers, chicken legs. Think you've sorted out your barbecue menu? Think again - is there room for a swordfish steak?While the old...
Summer special: A taste of the season
01-May-2009
Apple Wedges from Lamb Weston are a great way to brighten up summer dessert menus. Made from real apples, dipped in a naturally sweet batter, the...
Chicken overtakes steak on branded menus
20-Apr-2009
Chicken breast has overtaken sirloin steak as the most frequently listed main course item on menus in managed pubs, restaurants and hotelsThe latest...
16-Apr-2009 By Ewan Turney
Chicken breast has overtaken sirloin steak as the most frequently listed main course item on pub menus, according to new research.
Beer and Food Matching: Raise your game
16-Mar-2009
For too many consumers, the immediate, reaction to the suggestion of ordering game is a shudder.For too long, the frankly unpleasant practice of...
05-Mar-2009 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers is set to expand its new-format Pub & Grill offering to 19 O'Neill's. Pub & Grill was trialled in seven O'Neill's...
Pubs urged to be up-front about pork provenance
31-Jan-2009
Pubs can expect increased customer interest in the origins of pork on the menu - and are being urged to come clean about supply sources. The issue...
In Season: Food of love?
29-Jan-2009
Rob Kennedy, trade marketing manager, M&J Seafood: Fresh live oysters are the classic aphrodisiac and feel good food. Oysters are traditionally...
Kebabs - more than 'meats' the eye?
27-Jan-2009
Pub customers are being misled over the contents of their closing time doner kebab, according to a new survey.It's a fact of life that people who...
16-Dec-2008 By Claire Elliott
Diageo has joined forces with premium sausage company Debbie & Andrew¹s to launch a Guinness food range. The range is expected to generate sales...
Pubs pressed to push pork provenance
10-Dec-2008
Pubs are being urged to state the country of origin of all pork dishes and products on menus.The call comes in the wake of the withdrawal of Irish...
Peggy's meat market
09-Oct-2008
had to bar a student last week because he kept making snide remarks about the provenance of my homemade hotpot. The cheek of these kids. Even so, I...
Meat focus: Crafty cuts
09-Oct-2008
There has been plenty of talk in the media over recent weeks about 'light greens' - consumers who have put ethical concerns on the back burner as the...
Back to Basics: Well matched
09-Oct-2008
Have you ever had that feeling where you've missed out on a joke? Where everyone is having the greatest time laughing about it but the joke has gone...
Publican makes her dry sales sizzle
02-Oct-2008
A publican has turned up the heat on her food sales by creating a silly sausages night.Naomi Katze, licensee of the Drayman's Arms in Spalding,...
In Season: Game on
27-Aug-2008
John Martin, Prime Meats marketing manager: Pork is seeing something of a revival in fortunes at the moment, perhaps benefiting from the inflation in...
In Season: Hot in summer
04-Jul-2008
Alan Edmeades, product marketing manager, M&J Seafood: Under-utilised and sustainable, albacore tuna is line caught off the South West Cornish...
Origins brand focuses on quality
11-Jun-2008
The new Origins brand from supplier Fairfax Meadow aims to help pubs source high quality British meat.The brand includes beef, lamb, pork, chicken...
EBLEX is a cut above
13-May-2008
With customer spending down and food prices up, pubs need all the help they can get. EBLEX is aiming to provide some of that support with a new 'cut...
Grill House format unveiled
08-May-2008
Spirit Group has launched a new fresh-food format called Grill House Kitchen, with plans for up to 50 sites. Spirit managing director Andrew Knight...
BBC probe finds pubs' 'local' beef mislabelled
02-May-2008
Pubs may face tighter regulations on labelling meat after a BBC investigation showed beef being mislabelled as 'local' by pubs and restaurants in the...
Summer Menu focus: Simply the best
30-Apr-2008
SUMMER BRINGS with it the promise of warmer, lighter evenings and - if the sun shines - the chance to fire up the barbecue. Sausages are a firm...
30-Apr-2008 By Jo Bruce
Spirit Group, Punch Tavern's managed division, has launched a new concept called Grill House Kitchen, with plans for up to 50 sites. The fresh food...
Taking a bite with the apple
24-Apr-2008
Even though the recent trend has been to serve cider over ice, the time is ripe to match it with something altogether more substantial — like...
Bar Talk
17-Apr-2008
Has the big rise in raw materials meant a review of menu prices? Alan Vaughan Countryman Inn Shipley West Sussex We are having to think about...
My New Pub
17-Apr-2008
The Golden Boar Inn Freckenham, Suffolk Agent: Christie+Co The Golden Boar is set to be a true family business under new owner Vaggy Spyrou. Front of...
