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The Giant Peach

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“Hosting dinner parties every day”: A sparkling career in the pub trade

Owain Jones, General Manager at The Fishes Pub, Oxford, explains how he went from part-time waiter to award-winning publican in his career with Peach Pubs. First published by The Caterer. Sitting at the Hampshire Four Seasons collecting my acorn award is one of the greatest moments in my career. But more than that, it is … Continued

The Accidental Winemaker: The Story Behind our Wine of the Month

If you come and eat with us this month (and we hope you will), you’ll notice on your table a bottle of Chateau Domneuve Chardonnay. It’s a fantastic wine: clean, dry, bright and lively, but with some weight. These traits – apart from the weight, I hasten to add – are shared by the winemaker himself. … Continued

’40s Fest Launches Jo Eames Novel ‘Not Only the Good Boys’

It was as though ghosts were walking through the throng at The Fishes on Sunday. Among groups of friends in deck-chairs and children playing Garden Jenga, strolled ladies in tailored dresses with velvet collars, Land Girls and men in uniform. An armoured Dingo Scout car guarded North Hinksey Lane. An Army truck and 1940s taxi … Continued

Wine-flation: The Price of Britain’s Changing Taste

Farewell to welsh rarebit: our changing taste Looking at some old London restaurant menus we were given recently made me realise that if time travel were possible I’d not be spinning the dial back fifty years. Back then, starters really were confined to Orange Juice, Half a Grapefruit or Egg Mayonnaise, even at the finest … Continued