Daniel Woolfson
- News
Diageo exploring ‘third space opportunities’
Diageo has detailed plans to grow in ‘third space’ outlets that blend hospitality and retail, as well as food delivery apps.
- News
Barrel & Stone eyes rollout to 400 pubs
Barrel & Stone, the pub pizza format, plans to grow its portfolio of partners within the pub trade to 400 in the next three years.
- News
Tootoomoo looks to pubs for growth
Pan-Asian restaurant group Tootoomoo is poised to take its first steps into the pub sector.
- News
Yorkshire inn named UK’s top gastropub
Yorkshire pub the Star Inn, Harome, has been named the best gastropub in the country at this year’s Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs Awards.
NewsHippo Inns takes on GBPA winning pub
Hippo Inns is to take on the Grafton, in Kentish Town, which was named Great British Pub of the Year in 2014.
- News
CAMRA revitalisation proposals revealed
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)’s revitalisation steering committee has published extensive proposals for the organisation, including a historic loosening of its stance on keg beers and increasing its advocacy of “real” cider.
- News
Pearmain Pubs secures sixth pub
Pearmain Pubs, the food-led Surrey pub group run by former Blubecker’s chief Richard Brown, has secured its seventh pub.
- Opinion
On-trade ‘major focus’ for AB InBev
Given the way certain craft brewers talk about Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI), you’d expect the brewing giant’s new(ish) Northern European boss to cut a Darth Vader-like figure.
- News
JDW and Punch push for greater sustainability
JD Wetherspoon (JDW) and Punch have signed up to the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA)’s Food Made Good scheme
- News
Tom Kerridge “in talks to open third pub”
Tom Kerridge is reportedly in talks to take over another pub in Marlow - his third in the town.
- News
L’Ortolan chef to launch own restaurant concept
Elliot Lidstone, currently head chef at London gastropub the Empress in Hackney, is set to open a new restaurant concept in Bristol later this year, MCA understands.
- News
Harvester launches new children’s menu for spring
Harvester, the Mitchells & Butlers-owned chain, has announced the launch of a new children’s menu for spring.
- News
Truscott Arms launches new Born 1983 fine-dining concept
Award-winning London gastropub the Truscott Arms, in Maida Vale, west London, has launched a new fine-dining restaurant called Born 1983 in its upstairs dining room.
- News
BHA: It's 'not the case' all rare burgers are unsafe
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) has responded to claims made about the safety of serving medium and medium rare burgers in the Channel 4 TV show Tricks of the Restaurant Trade this week.
- News
Hill & Szrok to open Old Street pub
The team behind successful London butcher and cookshop Hill & Szrok, in Broadway Market, have announced the opening of their first pub on Old Street.
- News
Harvester donates 5,000 meals to local causes
Harvester, the Mitchells & Butlers-owned chain, has treated a multitude of charities local based near its 230 sites to free Christmas meals
- News
Parliamentary Pub Chef awards finalists named
Eight UK pub chefs have been named as finalists in the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) and All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group’s Parliamentary Pub Chef awards.
- News
St Austell's managed food revenue tops £15m
St Austell Brewery has announced a rise in food sales revenue across its managed estate to above £15m over the last year.
- News
First Galvin Bros pub to launch in Spitalfields
Acclaimed chefs Jeff and Chris Galvin have announced the opening of their first foray in to the pub trade with the opening of ‘Pub de Luxe’ HOP in London’s Spitalfields Market.
- News
Gloucester pub crowned Michelin Pub of the Year 2016
A Gloucester pub has been named Pub of the Year by Michelin ahead of the release of its Eating Out in Pubs Guide 2016 next week