30-Jan-2007
The winner of our prestigious PubChef of the year 2007 is Mark Levy Head chef, the Russell, Ellesborough. Mark Levy Pub facts: Address: The...
30-Jan-2007
Just like the first friendly greeting when a customer arrives in a pub, final impressions count. As the last course of a pub meal, desserts often...
30-Jan-2007
Versatile, healthy and an ingredient that can produce an excellent gross profit, poultry is a popular menu staple for pub chefs. Anthony Williams...
30-Jan-2007
The new Mediterranean category for the PubChef Food Excellence Awards challenged pub chefs to create a main course dish taking inspiration from...
30-Jan-2007
There has been a renaissance of classic British dishes since the rise of the gastropub. Timeless comfort food such as Lancashire hot pot, shepherd's...
30-Jan-2007
Meat dishes make up a substantial part of pub menus, with chefs increasingly experimenting with different cuts of meat. The meat category saw our...
30-Jan-2007
Game is an increasingly popular ingredient with pub chefs. It is seasonal and healthy and growing in popularity with consumers, with game sales...
30-Jan-2007
Beer may have lost its place at dining tables in recent decades but in recent years it has been a culinary comeback kid, taking a rightful place as...
30-Jan-2007
Many pubs use Asian fusion cuisine or specialise in serving great Indian, Thai and Chinese dishes. Matthew CurmiMatthew Curmi Position: Sous chefPub:...
30-Jan-2007
Three 19-year-old pub chefs battled it out to be crowned Young Pub Chef of the Year. The category was open to chefs aged under 21 and our fi nalists had one hour and 15 minutes to create a main course, using the ingredients of their choice. No pre-
Chefs battle for Oliver's pub
18-Jan-2007 By Lucy Britner lucy.britner@william-reed.co.uk
Four chefs will battle it out to run Jamie Oliver's pub in a new Channel 4 series. Jamie's Chef is based at the Cock in Beazley End, Essex. Four...
02-Jan-2007
Pub chefs from all over the UK battled it out in the first cook-off finals of the PubChef Food Excellence Awards chefs' competition this week....
Chefs want action to save cod and chips
19-Dec-2006
Top chefs Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and Antony Worrall Thompson are spearheading a campaign to save classic pub dish cod and chips.As EU fisheries...
Keeping your chef sweet
01-Dec-2006
Lee Watts, head chef and manager of the Inn @ West End, West End, near Woking, Surrey. Head chef Lee Watts is in an unusual position in that he is...
Corin Earland, head chef, the Fishes, North Hinksey, Oxfordshire
01-Dec-2006
A gammon joint was a new challenge for Corin Earland, but he enjoyed devising experimental dishes, including slow-cooked green gammon in Guinness...
John Rudden, chef director, White Hart, Lydgate, near Oldham, Lancashire
01-Dec-2006
Although White Hart chef/ director John Rudden's first attempt at creating a green gammon main course fell rather flat, he was pleased with his final...
New Inn of Michelin fame
01-Dec-2006
The New Inn, Chalkhouse Green Road, Kidmore End, Reading, Berkshire. Tel: 01189 723115. Just five miles from the centre of Reading, the New Inn is...
14-Sep-2006
Carpenters Arms head chef Keith Baker is in his element at the Oxfordshire pub that's run hand in hand with the local farm. The manager of the pub in...
Pub food getting too fancy, says Michelin guide
07-Sep-2006
Some of the country's best food pubs are running the risk of transforming themselves into restaurants, the editor of the Michelin Eating In Pubs...
Pub cooks shine in WorcesterChef contest
03-Aug-2006
The growing influence of pub food in our national cuisine has been spotlighted by the success of two pub cooks in the 2006 Lea & Perrins...
Charity chefs take over pub kitchen
17-Jul-2006
Aspiring chefs are being given the chance to feel the heat of running their own kitchen, as well as raise funds for good causes, by a Kent pub.The...
26-Jun-2006 By Iain O'Neil
Marcus Wareing, of Michelin-starred restaurant Petrus, has said that airline food is better the what is served up in most of Britain's pubs. Wareing...
17-May-2006 By Jo Bruce
The second PubChef Live event of 2006 takes place in South Devon on 3 July - giving chefs the chance to share ideas and get tips from the masters.
Michelin man
01-May-2006 By Fiona McLelland
John Burton Race has won a Michelin star at every restaurant he's opened. Now, Fiona McLelland finds, he hopes to do the same at a gastropub.
01-Mar-2006
Ed Baines almost gave up cooking to take up car design, but staying in the kitchen paid off. Now, writes Humayun Hussain, he has a gastro pub, two...
Great Pub Chefs - Freedom for food!
01-Mar-2006 By Lucy Britner
His unique approach to food saw Adrian Jones described as a 'gastroterrorist' by fellow chef, Richard Corrigan. Lucy Britner talks to the theatrical...
Trade boost for latest pubs awarded Michelin stars
16-Feb-2006 By Lucy Britner
Business is booming for the two pubs most recently awarded Michelin stars. The Hand & Flowers in Marlow, Buckingham-shire, and the Masons Arms in...
Great Pub Chefs - Courage under Fire
01-Feb-2006 By Mark Taylor
In the hot seat - Jonny Haughton What do you think of the gastro pub explosion? "On the whole, it's clear that standards of food and standards of...
Great Pub Chefs - Courage under Fire
01-Feb-2006 By Mark Taylor
Jonny Haughton's favourites Places to eat - "The places are all local to where I used to live in Hammersmith, west London, and they all have the...
Great Pub Chefs - Courage under Fire - Jonny Haughton
01-Feb-2006 By Mark Taylor
Jonny Haughton was on the verge of celebrating 10 years at the Havelock Tavern when fire broke out. Despite such a harrowing ordeal, Mark Taylor...
Battle of the Chefs - Sauce of Inspiration
01-Feb-2006 By Alison Baker
Two chefs from sister inns in West Sussex were in for a saucy time when our latest Ready, Steady, Cook face-off took place. Alison Baker reports...
PubChef Awards - Team
01-Feb-2006 By Jo Bruce
The new team category challenged pub chefs to prove how effective they were in working together to produce a three-course menu. Jo Bruce reports Our...
PubChef Awards - Poultry
01-Feb-2006 By Jo Bruce
Poultry is a versatile and healthy ingredient that can also produce an excellent GP for chefs. The finalists were asked to create dishes that...
PubChef Live - Vickery's views
07-Jan-2006
Phil Vickery's views on various food topics
Chef's CV - Tom Kerridge
01-Dec-2005 By Mark Taylor
Chef's CV - Tom Kerridge
PubChef Live - Mutton's on the button
01-Dec-2005 By Mark Taylor
The mutton revival continues as the meat returns to trade kitchens. It was the focus of attention at this month's PubChef Live. Mark Taylor reports...
Great Pub Chefs - Well in Hand - Tom Kerridge
01-Dec-2005 By Mark Taylor
Tom Kerridge has taken the plunge and opened his own pub. He's worked hard to create the right atmosphere and it certainly seems to have paid off,...
PubChef Awards - Desserts
01-Dec-2005 By Jo Bruce
For diners with a sweet tooth, the dessert section of the menu is probably the one they most look forward to, and our finalists seemed keen to...
PubChef Awards - Meat
01-Dec-2005 By Jo Bruce
Provenance seems all the rage as consumers demand to know more about the source and supply of their ingredients. Nowhere is this better illustrated...
PubChef Awards - Pub Classics
01-Dec-2005 By Natalie Cooper
These dishes have stood the test of time, becoming enduring favourites on the menus of British pubs. To stir things up a bit, our category finalists...
Battle of the Chefs - Top of the Pots
01-Dec-2005 By Alison Baker
Two chefs from a West Sussex inn use French Charlotte and Amandine potatoes in this month's head to head. Alison Baker reports Think of two young,...
Chefs set to face payments probe
01-Dec-2005
by Lucy Britner Customs officers are poised to launch an investigation into 'back-handers' allegedly made to chefs by suppliers. Independent tax...
Top pub chef is Keen as mustard
03-Nov-2005
Pub chef Daniel Keen has been named as Tees Valley's hottest culinary talent in a regional newspaper award scheme.Darren, joint licensee with his...
Pub Chef awards bulletin
03-Nov-2005
Jonathan Furby, landlord/chef of the Linnet in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, won the Starters and Light Bites category with baked pork and mustard tart on...
PubChef Awards - Starters and Light Bites
01-Nov-2005 By Natalie Cooper
As the first or possibly the only dish many customers try, pub starters and light bites need to make a great impression. Natalie Cooper reports...
PubChef Awards - Game
01-Nov-2005 By Natalie Cooper
Game is growing in popularity in pubs, with diners attracted by the health benefits and flavours inherent in the meat. This category saw chefs...
PubChef Awards - Beer and Food
01-Nov-2005 By Natalie Cooper
These days, there's a growing trend to accompany food with beer. The intention behind our Beer & Food category was to challenge chefs to create...
Chef's CV - James Rudden
01-Nov-2005 By Tony Halstead
John Rudden's route to the award-winning White Hart comprised spells in the kitchens of numerous pubs and hotels, giving him the perfect grounding to...
Great Pub Chefs - A vision realised - John Rudden
01-Nov-2005 By Tony Halstead
A bleak, run-down pub swathed in mist was not John Rudden's idea of a promising career move. But 10 years on, the White Hart is an expanding and...
Great Pub Chefs - From rags to seafood riches - Clare Mansfield
01-Oct-2005 By Alice Whitehead
Clare Mansfield freely admits she was an appalling cook when she started 10 years ago - so how did the former trainee tailor become an award-winning head chef at a gastro pub in the Highlands? Alice Whitehead finds out.
