The Flaming Grill pub restaurant chain is encouraging foodies to take up the opportunity to test and vote for the next challenge dish to feature on their menu. Flaming Grill, which has more than 140 pubs across the UK, has launched a Challenge Festival featuring two new mammoth dishes for guests to try and then vote for which dish they’d like to keep. Create-A-Challenge … [Read more...]
100% Christmas with Oakman Inns
The Oakman Inns’ Collection of 13 historic Home County pubs has launched its Christmas Party portfolio under the banner ‘100% Christmas’, together with their ‘House Rules’, dedicated website and booking system. This is the first menu devised entirely by Oakman’s new Chef Director, Ross Pike (pictured above), former co-owner of the multi award-winning British Larder in … [Read more...]
Chestnut Group appoints first Group General Manager
Steve Smith joins the Chestnut Group as its first Group General Manager. Steve has over twenty years of food and beverage experience in the catering and hospitality industry, most recently as General Manager with Sodexo Prestige looking after the St Edmundsbury Collection group of five contracts. Steve brings his broad expertise and knowledge of the hospitality sector to … [Read more...]
Bar Risa on Broad Street rebrands as new concept venue
Bar Risa on Broad Street in Birmingham has rebranded as “6 on Broad Street” following a £1 million investment by operator iNTERTAIN. The ambitious new concept venue will house six individual rooms. In addition to the impressive main bar, there will also be: A ‘Cabana Beach Bar’ serving up fruit smoothies, Sunshine Cocktails and Ibiza classics. A pop room playing tunes … [Read more...]
J D Wetherspoon reports record sales but mixed outlook
J D Wetherspoon has reported Preliminary Results for the 52 weeks ended 26 July 2015, with Chairman Tim Martin reporting “... a year of progress for the company, with record sales and free cash flow”. He continued by addressing the issue of excessive taxes on pubs; and the campaign to lower VAT and lack of support for it by some of the biggest pub companies as well as the … [Read more...]