04-Mar-2008
A massive 83% of restaurant and bar owners are looking to include more healthy options on their menus. The survey, undertaken ahead of the Northern...
Family focus: Just kidding
03-Mar-2008
FAMILY OCCASIONS make up nearly one third of the eating-out market and almost half of all youngsters admit to being fussy about the food they eat....
Food Excellence Awards Special achievement
01-Mar-2008
Tony Hughes Tony Hughes, who stepped down after a decade as boss of Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) pub restaurant division at the end of last...
Food Excellence Awards
01-Mar-2008
Catering development professionalVince Glouton executive chef, Fuller Smith & Turner Number of pubs: 362 in total; 156 managed. Vince is...
The Eight team
01-Mar-2008
Winners of BBC2 show The Restaurant, Jane and Jeremy Hooper talk pubs, Peach and passion with Lucy Britner Raymond Blanc calls it a pub. Peach Pub...
Jazz Sunday lunches
01-Mar-2008
Where: the Kingsbridge Inn, Totnes, Devon ?.thekingsbridgeinn.co.uk The idea: When restaurateur Mark Annear took over at the Kingsbridge Inn in...
Pub company of the year, branded - winner
29-Feb-2008
Orchid Concepts: Contemporary dining gastropubs, contemporary carveries; freehouse midmarket Two for One including Fuzzy Ed's; Oriental restaurant...
MyNewPub
21-Feb-2008
Three Wheat Heads Inn Thropton, Northumberland Agent: Davey & Co The team behind this pub has completely turned business around since taking over...
13-Feb-2008 By The PMA Team
Mitchells & Butlers is to reverse an experiment that has seen new Vintage openings "unbranded"
22-Jan-2008
Orchid Group has now completed 208 refurbishments in 18 months since it was set up
Sourcing campaign is beefed up
17-Jan-2008
The consumer credit crunch is threatening to stall pubs' efforts to give customers more information about the source of food on the menu.Henry...
Food on the menu for Greene King
18-Dec-2007 By Lucy Britner
Greene King Pub Partners has launched a new programme to help licensees improve their food offering. The Food Store was developed in conjunction with...
06-Dec-2007
Consumers are planning to spend 18% more in pubs and restaurants this Christmas, says Deloitte
Let's change face of food
22-Nov-2007
Nothing, says Andrew Jefford, lowers the standard of pub food more than the dreariness, tedium and mediocrity of the food offer in pub chains As...
MyNewPub
25-Oct-2007
The Cabinet Reed, near Royston, Hertforshire Agent: Davis Coffer Lyons Dawn Aberams took over the Cabinet last week after working there as a general...
Pure and simple
18-Oct-2007
Piers Lyon tells Humayun Hussain about his new chef, new menu and fresh look at the White Hart, in Welwyn Why my food business is a success We have...
17-Oct-2007 By Mark Wingett, M&C Report
The Restaurant Group has acquired pub operator Brunning & Price for £32m
Chris Maclean: pandemonium at the pub
12-Oct-2007 By Chris Maclean
We have just come back from our weekly trip to the cash & carry and the florists. It is always a pleasant trip, except for the cash and carry...
Sam Pedder, head of food at Admiral Taverns
04-Oct-2007
Top tips for success 1. Start with staff. Systems for procedures such as bookings and sittings need to be implemented and explained to every staff...
£1m turnover pub for sale
04-Oct-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
A Surrey gastropub with a turnover in excess of £1m has come on to the market. The Percy Arms is located in the village of Chilworth, three miles...
An inspector calls
01-Oct-2007
Lucy Britner talks pies, passion and high menu prices with Elizabeth Carter, consultant editor of the Which? Good Food Guide
Making it special
26-Sep-2007
IT COULD be you. Although winning a competition in The Publican may not be quite as life changing as seeing your lottery numbers come up, it can...
Sixth opening for London gastropub operators
24-Sep-2007 By Lucy Britner
Gastropub entrepreneurs the Martin brothers are to open a sixth venue next February. Tom and Ed Martin are the team behind The Gun, The Empress of...
FSA consults on food origin labelling
21-Sep-2007
The Food Standards Agency has launched a consultation on food origin labelling which aims to tighten up the rules.While the FSA is mainly targeting...
Cliff-top pub ideal for entrepreneur
20-Sep-2007 By Joe Lutrario joe.lutrario@william-reed.co.uk
A multi-award winning Cornish dining pub has come onto the market with agent Savills. The Halzephron Inn at Gunwalloe, a small fishing village, won...
19-Sep-2007
Ultimate Leisure has announced plans to change its name to Premium Bars and Restaurants
LETTERs
06-Sep-2007
A great deal from Energywatch Something truly wonderful and amazing has happened that I'd like to share with the MA and its readers. Having obtained...
Orchid - first pubco to become a Red Tractor Licensee
03-Sep-2007
The Orchid Group has become the first pub company to become a Red Tractor Licensee.
Diary dates... September
01-Sep-2007
Soil Association Organic Food Fortnight 1-16 September Retailers, pubs and restaurants across the UK are encouraging everyone to try an organic...
Moving from Hell to Paradise
01-Sep-2007
A former executive chef for Marco Pierre White is to head up a new London gastropub. Tim Payne, who was executive chef for Marco Pierre White...
Golf days
01-Sep-2007
Where: The Inn@West End, West End, Surrey, www.the-inn.co.uk The idea: "Anyone for golf?" is a cry that regularly resounds around the inn. Owner...
Fine times
28-Aug-2007
Bob Farrand is the national director of the Fine Food Guild. He talks to PubChef about speciality foods 1. Why should pubs feature speciality...
Serial winner
28-Aug-2007
Merchant Inns chairman Robert Breare is a serial hospitality- industry entrepreneur with a penchant for upmarket foodie pubs. He shares some of his...
Chris Maclean: currying favour
07-Aug-2007 By Chris Maclean
Tonight I've been invited to the opening of the new Indian restaurant in town. This will be the fourth Indian restaurant and joins two Chinese...
Pub goers will pay more for local meat
27-Jul-2007 By Lucy Britner
Consumers are prepared to pay a premium for locally produced meat, according to the Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC).
All day menus: Always open?
12-Jul-2007
It used to be so simple. People had lunch - or in some parts of the UK, dinner - at lunchtime (or dinnertime). They then stopped eating entirely for...
Food for thaw
01-Jul-2007
Michael Herson, MD of market consultancy the Strategy Works, examines how food suppliers have prepared for the smoking ban While licensees may hold...
Sunday special
01-Jul-2007
Mark Taylor looks at how pubs can maximise food trade on one of the busiest trading days Sundays may not be the traditional day of rest any longer,...
Pern sets up speciality food firm
01-Jul-2007
Michelin-starred chef Andrew Pern from the Star Inn at Harome, North Yorkshire, has set up a new speciality food company. Andrew has teamed up with...
26-Jun-2007 By Jo Bruce
A team from Blackpool and the Fylde College have won the Nestlé Toque d'Or 2007 competition. Now in its 19th year, the competition combines...
Sharing takes off
12-Jun-2007
TAKING ADVANTAGE of the flexibility offered by extended pub opening hours hasn't always been as simple for the trade as it might seem.Matching...
Fresh or frozen? What they expect
08-Jun-2007
CONSUMERS HAVE some clear - but probably fairly incorrect - ideas about where they are most likely to find fresh food, when eating out of home....
Slugs: Not just for girls
30-May-2007
It's a warm Tuesday evening in May, and on the big screen Chelsea are ignominiously dropping out of the Champions League at the semi-final stage,...
THE GUV'NOR
03-May-2007
Mike Bell The licensee of Portobello Gold in Notting Hill, west London, bemoans the trade's penchant for a 2pm food curfew Times are tough - if we...
Pub companies reducing food miles makes good business sense
01-May-2007
Reducing food miles and sourcing locally is nothing new for gastropub chefs (uh-oh, don't let Restaurant magazine's editor catch me using that term)....
News digest
01-May-2007
A round-up of the month's pub food news Coping with changing habits Pubs will have to be more innovative with their offer to impress the next...
West country winner
01-May-2007
Mark Taylor talks to fast-expanding Wykeham Inns operations manager Alan Knight Background: The Wykeham Inns group started in 2004, when the...
Location still main driver of pub food choice
24-Apr-2007
Convenience is still the main influence on consumers' choice of when they eat out of home, according to new research.Value for money comes second,...
Pub food mark-up 'too light'
19-Apr-2007
Pubs are being encouraged to be less modest with their profit margins post-smoking ban. With dining out set to increase after 1 July, research...
Evening: extend your food offer
18-Apr-2007
Food in the evening is a slightly trickier problem for pubs than it might seem at first glance. The general assumption is that if a pub serves food,...
