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...In winter, this family-owned restaurant welcomes you with open arms, waiters take your coats and hang your scarves, allowing you to tuck into a vast plate of pasta (be sure to save room for the tiramisu)...
...Website; Directions The Camberwell Arms 65 Camberwell Church Street, London SE5 8TR A south London staple for 10 years, The Camberwell Arms sits quietly on one of its neighbourhood’s main thoroughfares...
...Website; Directions— Janine Gibson, FT Weekend editor The Waterman’s Arms 375 Lonsdale Road, London SW13 9PY South-west Londoners would prefer The Waterman’s Arms be kept a local secret....
...For Matt Todd, who runs the Wonston Arms, an independent pub in the village of Wonston in Hampshire, this crucial period was inspiring as much nervousness as seasonal cheer....
...One sign outside the pub says it has served drinks since 1623. Another inside says the earliest recorded use of the premises as an inn comes from 1772, when it was called The Cooper’s Arms....
...We are meeting at Dean Street Townhouse, a restaurant opened by his friend and Soho House founder Nick Jones....
...Nor is Artfarm’s growth slowing: it acquired the Groucho Club in Soho for £40mn in 2022, and runs the Audley pub in Mayfair and Mount Street restaurant upstairs....
...In 2005, Ogunlesi, then a top banker at Credit Suisse, was summoned to Omaha, Nebraska, by the energy arm of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to study a large takeover....
...Past the Hemingford, a handsome, ivy-covered pub that serves Thai food. Past The Tamil Prince, a South Indian restaurant-cum-pub once known as The Huntingdon Arms....
...This is the equivalent of a harried waiter in a crowded restaurant clearing a table, before ushering you over; a necessary step but it doesn’t mean you’re going to eat imminently....
...From the name of the Fordwich Arms, I had been expecting pub fare and was braced for sausages and mash. I’m pleasantly surprised to learn that it has been upgraded to a Michelin-starred restaurant....
...in her guide to her favourite restaurants worldwide....
...The former is the hard-charging founder of British discount retailer Sports Direct, who once allegedly concluded an epic drinking contest with colleagues by vomiting into a pub fireplace....
...But Lex has some comforting words for those mourning pubs. Not every closure is forever — some open under new management or convert to restaurants. Pub sales are rising too — up 5.5 per cent from 2019....
...They will come to the game, but they will spend their money in a local pub and restaurant if you’re not providing good enough quality,” says Christopher Lee, managing director of the Europe, Middle East...
...But low-priced Indian fare and salacious marketing gimmicks aren’t the only businesses engaged in by the restaurant’s owner, Aman Chourasia....
...Most walks start or finish at a pub....
...Supermarkets do not pay VAT on food sales, while pubs and restaurants pay 20 per cent....
...Nor a pub like The Falcon Inn in Arncliffe, where customers were enjoying pints of bitter on the spill of village green....
...Through Artfarm, the hospitality company they launched in 2014, they look after Manuela restaurant in Los Angeles, the Roth Bar & Grill in Somerset and the Fife Arms in Scotland, a hotel that is home to...
...On the terrace of Mediterra, a Mediterranean-ish restaurant she frequents and describes as her “local pub”, a fountain murmurs as she sweeps off her sun hat....
...There’s a frankly grotty pub up in Finsbury Park which was, until recently, a wholly terrifying Irish/Arsenal boozer....
...The desire to share is understandable: there has always been something mildly depressing about watching TV in isolation, rather like pouring yourself a glass of wine at home while the pub down the road sits...
...in The Blue Posts pub’s cellar....
...As with any good winter walk, pubs are a key attraction, particularly The Lamb at Hindon and, in the latter stages, The Beckford Arms (which has wonderful rooms for an overnight stay)....
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