Contents News & Opinion
7 The wealthy look for wellness in their hotel choice, says PoB 8 News in brief The week’s top stories 12 Openings The latest hotels and restaurants
16 Viewpoint Net zero has far-reaching effects, says Compass One’s Barbara Baccellieri
Business
18 The Caterer interview: Jorge De Jesus The Beaverbrook group general manager reveals the levels of luxury in its new Victorian village
24 Smooth sailing How P&O is offering guests fine-dining on the open seas
30 Cover story Abby Lee draws on her family’s cookery in Mambow’s new East London home
Chef 34 Menuwatch Dilsk, Brighton
36 Recipe of the week Beef Wellington from Eater: 100 Essential Restaurant Recipes
Products
38 Product news What’s happening in the world of suppliers
People
40 Minute on the clock Neha Mishra, founder, Kinoya, Harrods Dining Hall, London
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here can be few venues romanticised more than the traditional pub. The image of roaring fires, good company,
great drinks and hearty meals are all the more appealing as we head into the colder autumn and winter months. This great bastion of hospitality is as extolled as much among industry insiders as the wider public, and last week saw the opening of the Devonshire in London’s Soho from Oisín Rogers, Charlie Carroll and Ash- ley Palmer-Watts after a decade of dreaming and deliberation about what made a pub “warm, welcoming and accessible to all” (page 6). Jamie Oliver, in a podcast with the BBC’s Kirsty Young, revealed that if he had his time again, he would eschew the trappings of being a celebrity chef in favour of a “nice life” running a pub with “60 covers, good beers, great wines [and] amazing service”. But, despite its enduring appeal, the number of licensed premises in Britain has dropped below 100,000 for the first time in 20 years. Add to this figures from the Brit- ish Beer & Pub Association, which estimate some 750 pubs are set to close in the first half of 2024 and the picture is far from rosy. It’s no wonder that ahead of the King’s
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Speech this week (see
thecaterer.com for analysis) and the Autumn Statement in two weeks’ time, industry bodies are crying out for support, through measures such as an extension of business rate relief and a duty freeze. Hopefully politicians will take a moment to sit in their local and realise the value of pubs in creat- ing that warm, welcom- ing environments that brings people from all walks of life together.
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