Craft Beer
Coverage highlights how restaurants, pubs, and bars across the UK are sourcing, promoting, and profiting from craft beer, including brewery partnerships, range curation, pricing strategy, taproom innovation, and consumer demand trends. Reporting offers insights for operators navigating category fragmentation, premiumisation, and the role of craft within broader drinks and experience-led propositions
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Jan- 2020 -9 JanuaryRestaurants
Café Rouge to open ‘world’s first’ cheese-themed hotel
Café Rouge has announced plans to open the “world’s first” cheese-themed hotel in Camden London. Suitably draped in cheese-themed decor, the Cheese Suite includes a cheese hotline delivery service, cheese board games, cheese soap and giant cheese installations. Guests can also expect a plethora of cheese boards and “crackers galore”…
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3 JanuaryPubs and Bars
Brewdog to open its first alcohol-free bar in London
Craft brewer BrewDog has announced it is opening its first alcohol-free bar in Central London. The bar will offer 15 taps of draft alcohol-free craft beer and has expanded its range by introducing two new additions such as a Coffee Stout called ‘Wake Up Call’ and ‘Hazy AF’, which is…
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Dec- 2019 -12 DecemberAdvice
Cheers to that: Five drink trends you need to know about in 2020
As we raise our glasses to a new decade, it is a good time to take stock and consider the huge shift in consumer attitude which has heavily influenced the drinks market and will continue to into the 2020’s. For 2020 and beyond the “tinny” is set to continue to…
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Nov- 2019 -12 NovemberRestaurants
Old Street’s Daffodil Mulligan opens its doors
Daffodil Mulligan has opened its doors on Old Street, marking it the third London restaurant to be launched by chef Richard Corrigan. Corrigan opened the restaurant alongside John Nugent of Green and Fortune, and Tony Gibney of Gibney’s of Malahide. The Irish trio “have over a century of hospitality experience…
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Aug- 2019 -22 AugustPubs and Bars
East Lothian pub reopens following £425,000 renovation
The Seaglass Inn in Port Seton, has reopened following a £425,000 refurbishment by Star Pubs and Bars, it will be run by mother and daughter team Christine O’Brien and Sarah Couch. The overhaul has given the pub a “stylish” contemporary look, created an outdoor area for alfresco eating and drinking,…
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12 AugustPubs and Bars
People Pub Company takes on 8th site with Star Pubs & Bars
The Pub People Pub Company has taken on its eighth Star Pubs & Bars site at Keoghs in Nottingham city centre. The pub will now undergo a £258,000 joint refurbishment which will start on 19th August to transform it into its second Six Barrel Drafthouse, a craft beer and draught…
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Jun- 2019 -7 JuneAwards & Events
Le Cordon Bleu to host first summer festival
On Saturday 29 June, culinary school Le Cordon Bleu London will be hosting its first ever summer festival to give attendees a taste of the range of culinary skills, techniques and knowledge it has to offer. Throughout the day, there will be food demonstrations from well known chefs as well…
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May- 2019 -20 MayBeverages
Nisa launches craft beer range in partnership with EeBriaTrade
Discount supermarket, Nisa has announced it is working with craft beer and cider marketplace EeBriaTrade to launch its first range of craft beer. From this week, over 1,300 of Nisa’s retail partners will be able to order craft beer and cider from more than 100 of the UK’s craft producers…
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14 MayRestaurants
Indian street food venue reveals date for Liverpool opening
Indian street food and craft beer restaurant Bundobust has confirmed it will open its doors to its third site in Liverpool on 24 May. With its other sites in Leeds and Manchester, the Liverpool site sits at 4,000 sq ft with a dedicated bar and food kitchen. The menu will…
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Apr- 2019 -4 AprilBeverages
Brewdog to open first UK craft beer hotel in London
Craft beer company Brewdog has announced plans to open its first UK craft beer hotel in London, following a “successful”opening in Ohio, America. The group is now searching for a location that it can convert into the Doghouse London, and said the hotel will be “packed with so many cool…
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