Raymond Blanc

Food success comes from £5m spend on local produce, says Devon pub owner

13-Oct-2015 By Nicholas Robinson

A Devon pub owner has claimed part of his business’s success is down to a multimillion pound spend on local produce.

Jamie Oliver drops into Crown pub for lunch

06-Oct-2015 By Nicholas Robinson

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver surprised staff at the Crown in Sevenoaks after dropping in for lunch with friend and television co-host Jimmy Doherty while filming in the area.

Raymond Blanc adds pubs to White Brasserie

26-Nov-2013 By Lesley Foottit

TV chef Raymond Blanc plans to launch a number of pubs over the next year.

New Moon Pub Company plans estate in the north-west

12-Sep-2012

The Cheshire-based business co-founded by former Living Ventures director Paul Newman, plans to grow an estate of 10 sites in the north-west, before looking to exit the business to fund the launch of a new city-centre food concept.

Pilling and Stanley to open at the Courthouse

13-Jul-2011 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report

Restaurateurs Steve Pilling and Simon Stanley are set to open a new restaurant and bar at the proposed Courthouse development in Manchester.

Raymond Blanc looks for talented cooks

20-Feb-2009 By Ewan Turney

World famous chef Raymond Blanc is offering talented cooks the chance to open a restaurant with him. Blanc is looking for couples — married,...

Cream of pub food industry celebrated

25-Nov-2008 By Jo Bruce

Owners and chefs from some of the industry's best gastropubs gathered at the Paradise by Way of Kensal Green, London, for PubChef's Top 30 Gastropub...

Digest

08-May-2008

Blanc's TV winners quit pub The winners of Raymond Blanc's TV series, The Restaurant, have quit the Thatch, in Thame, Oxfordshire. Jeremy and Jane...

The top-10 best ideas for... boosting the bottom line

30-Mar-2006

Ali Carter's innovative approach to running the Bay View Inn, Bude, Cornwall, helped her win the BII's coveted Licensee of the Year Award in 2003. Here she shares some of her best profit-making tips

Rising Star - Michael North

01-Feb-2005

Michael North, head chef and proprietor at the Goose at Britwell Salome, Oxfordshire,has scooped a Michelin star in the Michelin Guide Great Britain...

Slug heeds salt warnings

30-Sep-2004

The SFI Group is launching a new autumn/winter menu in its Slug & Lettuce bars from October. The company is also introducing a low-salt and...