The couple behind the Double Red Duke in the Cotswolds have doubled up with the opening this week of the Mason’s Arms, across the road in the Oxordshire village of Clanfield. Formerly known as the Clanfield Tavern, the Mason’s Arms is the original name of the old coaching inn, parts of which date from 1610. […]
Revivalist brewer Jamie Allsopp is opening a new pub in Kensington next month, the Blue Stoops, in the next step of his resurrection of Allsopp’s, the brewery named after his seven times great-grandfather Samuel Allsopp. The brewery was founded almost 300 years ago in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire – a world leader in the industry – and […]
An old Dalston boozer, the Marquis of Lansdowne, is to be reopened next week having been transformed into the Marquee Moon, a restaurant and ‘listening bar’ from the team behind nightclub The Cause. Stuart Glen and Eugene Wild, who also run Hackney Wick bar All My Friends and The Greyhound in Peckham, have renovated the […]
Two very different hospitality businesses which share rustic-posh design values, a promise of locally sourced produce and a passion for the porcine are making their first forays into pub ownership. In the Cotswolds, the shabby-chic Pig hotel group founded by Robin Hutson will next month open The Village Pub in Barnsley, outside Cirencester, in the […]
Brothers Olly and Will Oakley have joined forces to launch a pair of revamped 17th-century village pubs with rooms on the fringes of the Cotswolds in Oxfordshire. The Harcourt Arms in Stanton Harcourt, near Witney, and the Plough in William Morris’s village of Kelmscott, near Lechlade, were acquired last year by ex-Wadworth executive Rupert Bagnall’s […]
Glynn Purnell, whose Purnell’s in Birmingham city centre is hailed as the second best restaurant in Britain in the new Harden’s 2022 guide, is to open his first venue outside the city in Henley-in-Arden next month. The Mount by Glynn Purnell is a refurbished historic pub – formerly the Butchers’ Social – on the high street […]
